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

Wash 'em, an' clean your nails with this pin, an' tie that apern back—loose if you want—but wear it you must, or I won't be responsible for no smutch you get on you.

From The Brass Bound Box by Horne, Diantha W.

This love is not so hard to smutch.

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

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)

So she played with them as with puppies that might gambol around her, and fawn before her, but might not smutch her robes with their dirty feet, or get the opportunity to bite her hand.

From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)