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

You do not ken me for the thing I am: If you but guessed, you’d fling the door wide open, And draw your petticoats about you tight, Lest any draggletail of mine should smutch them.

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

He had been deeply impressed by his wife's warnings against Fanshaw—"a lump of soot, and sure to smutch you if you go near him."

From The Cost by Phillips, David Graham

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

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

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William