besmear

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I lose myself in the recollections of my childhood like an old man … I do not expect anything further in life than a succession of sheets of paper to besmear with black.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

Overstain, ō-vėr-stān′, v.t. to besmear the surface of.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

She was about to besmear her face, when lady Feng pleaded: "My dear child, do let me off this time!"

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

He will as surely soil and besmear with sin your moral garments as would contact with the most filthy object imaginable your outer garments.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

There is no arrogance so great as the proclaiming of other men's errors and faults, by those who understand nothing but the dregs of actions, and who make it their business to besmear deserving fames.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert