smutch

Example Sentences

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Within his dusky arms the wretch he caught, And with smutched lips, fuliginous and hot, Repaid the kiss which he to Christ had given.

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

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Beata's words and feelings are still the dazzling white and pure fresh snow, just as they have fallen from heaven: no footprint and no step of age have yet smutched this splendor.

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“I wager you feel all cinders and smutch after such a long ride in the cars.”

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It is a great mistake to imagine that one can be smutched and the other remain immaculate.

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