smutch

Example Sentences

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She hadn’t done anything to me, and the smutch of the mud against her blue gown — the prettiest dress I ever saw.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

As an ill coin beneath the wearing touch   Betrays by stain and smutch Its metal false—such is the sinful wight.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

The scheme adopted was, I believe, suggested by Vice-President Howard, as shrewd and cynical a rascal as ever lived in the mire without getting smutch or splash upon his fine linen of respectability.

From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.

Snuff them as you see there is need; but touch not their snuff with your white fingers; a little smutch on YOU will be seen a great way.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

In his address to the courteous reader he expresses his apprehensions that “some will smutch his labours with a scorne of his profession.”

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony