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

In his address to the courteous reader he expresses his apprehensions that “some will smutch his labours with a scorne of his profession.”

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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

They’ve put the body in here, it seems to me, for there’s a tiny smutch just against the edge.

From Blind Policy by Fenn, George Manville

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