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
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 J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
The palm is hardly clean— But here and there an ugly smutch appears.
From The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper
They were alert, well-muscled; their faces were streaked with paleness and a black smutch like dancers made up for a masquerade.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
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
