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
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 E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
They’ve put the body in here, it seems to me, for there’s a tiny smutch just against the edge.
From Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn
O!" said they, "how sad a smutch on Our clean United Kingdom's 'scutcheon!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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 David Graham Phillips
