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

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 Fenn, George Manville

But thou hast valour, dear, too much           For such as this; thou hast grave embassy,           Given with thy birth; would'st thou thine honour smutch           With coward failing?

From A Lover's Diary, Volume 1. by Parker, Gilbert

“I wager you feel all cinders and smutch after such a long ride in the cars.”

From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe

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 Clarke, Helen Archibald