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

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

From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe

"You can't smutch the character of Daviess," said Wood.

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry

This love is not so hard to smutch.

From The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by Morris, William

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