bespattered

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Bespattered with mud and drenched with mire, Nicholas arose from the puddle a sorry figure.

From Frank and Fearless or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent by Alger, Horatio

Bespattered hogs bespatter others, and he who is full of fault finds fault.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)

Bespattered with mud, spat at, driven with his load off the pavement and into the street among the cabs, carts, and tramways, looking death in the eyes every moment—he kept silent.

From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb

Bespattered with mud; filthy in appearance; beards of several days' growth; legs of trousers, and sleeves of coats cut away; bandaged and bloody; we must have presented a truly remarkable sight.

From With The Immortal Seventh Division by Kennedy, Edmund John