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
The scheme adopted was, I believe, suggested by Vice-President Howard, as shrewd and cynical a rascal as ever lived in the mire without getting smutch or splash upon his fine linen of respectability.
From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe
In his address to the courteous reader he expresses his apprehensions that “some will smutch his labours with a scorne of his profession.”
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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 Melvin Linwood Severy
Through the smoke and smutch which stained the canvas was seen a gray-haired, saintly woman's head.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
