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
Rather, it may be, over-much He shunned the common stain and smutch, From soilure of ignoble touch Too grandly free, Too loftily secure in such Cold purity.
From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson
He had been deeply impressed by his wife's warnings against Fanshaw—"a lump of soot, and sure to smutch you if you go near him."
From The Cost by David Graham Phillips
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 Helen Archibald Clarke
"You can't smutch the character of Daviess," said Wood.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable
