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

Rather, it may be, over-much He shunned the common stain and smutch, From soilure of ignoble touch     Too grandly free, Too loftily secure in such     Cold purity.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

I took the glass from him and, examining it with the utmost care, I detected a smutch of yellowish paint upon it, nothing more.

From The Darrow Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood

She was minus the dust-cap and the ruffled apron, but she had a dab of flour on the left cheek, and a smutch of crock on her forehead.

From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

O!" said they, "how sad a smutch on Our clean United Kingdom's 'scutcheon!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir