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

But thou hast valour, dear, too much For such as this; thou hast grave embassy, Given with thy birth; would'st thou thine honour smutch With coward failing?

From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Parker, Gilbert

Some are worthless little patches, Which indeed if they don't smutch you, 'Tis they're dead before they touch you!

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

Then after attempting to sanctify the baby—a ceremony wholly imaginary and described with a smutch of revolting coarseness—the sisters send the baby packing back to the Protestant Detectoral Association.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

The palm is hardly clean—   But here and there an ugly smutch appears.

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William