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

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

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

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 Kemp, Harry

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 Lower, Mark Antony