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

“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

"You can't smutch the character of Daviess," said Wood.

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry

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

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