besmear
Example Sentences
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Put them to fry over a very quick fire in a pan first glased over, with no more Butter melted in it, then just to besmear a little all the bottom of the Pan.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
I had noticed before, in the Malmö prison, how the prisoners tried to besmear this glass, or scratch on it, with a sort of fury, so that it was often impossible to see through it.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
In all history it has been shown that he who seeks to besmear others usually leaves the greatest amount of mud on himself.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
Was it honour and fair play to besmear my mother's name, to throw reflections upon my birth?
From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph
The colours with which they besmear the bodies of both sexes possibly date from the same common origin.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin
