besmear
Example Sentences
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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 H. Bencraft Joly
Put them to fry over a very quick fire in a pan first glased over, with no more Butter melted in it, then just to besmear a little all the bottom of the Pan.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
To foul with a dirty liquid; to besmear.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
The women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
Was it honour and fair play to besmear my mother's name, to throw reflections upon my birth?
From The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking
