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

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

The palm is hardly clean—   But here and there an ugly smutch appears.

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William

So she played with them as with puppies that might gambol around her, and fawn before her, but might not smutch her robes with their dirty feet, or get the opportunity to bite her hand.

From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)

Through the smoke and smutch which stained the canvas was seen a gray-haired, saintly woman's head.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various