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)

I took the glass from him and, examining it with the utmost care, I detected a smutch of yellowish paint upon it, nothing more.

From The Darrow Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood

While, under the foot they could not smutch, Lay all the fleshly and the bestial.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

"See what you're doing, Steve!" he cried, pointing at the oily smutch.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Elverson, James