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

You do not ken me for the thing I am: If you but guessed, you’d fling the door wide open, And draw your petticoats about you tight, Lest any draggletail of mine should smutch them.

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

Then after attempting to sanctify the baby—a ceremony wholly imaginary and described with a smutch of revolting coarseness—the sisters send the baby packing back to the Protestant Detectoral Association.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

As an ill coin beneath the wearing touch   Betrays by stain and smutch Its metal false—such is the sinful wight.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

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