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
“I wager you feel all cinders and smutch after such a long ride in the cars.”
From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe
Aye, and the hundred others he had told, and was showing upon his soul a smutch, a smear, a spot for every one!
From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison
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
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
