A miner's begrimed face. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He saw him step forth from this aching begrimed shell into. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
I only know we fought like fiends, begrimed with blood and dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Imperial cause in war-begrimed Mexico; they went to Cuba, Australia. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Crawling along the dirty, sooty, begrimed floor, he soon located the old cedar chest. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Isaaco's motley company, begrimed with eight months 'travel, came straggling into Sego. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Paul's bloody, dirt-begrimed appearance, it was evident there had been a fierce struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Into it he plunged with all despatch, and emerged more cheerful, as well as less begrimed. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
His face was so haggard from care and so begrimed with powder, that no one recognized him. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Like their horses, all three were thoroughly tired, and their clothes torn and dust begrimed. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
Letting fall his begrimed hand, she draws up the old-fashioned rocking chair, and bids him be seated. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Near the fire stood a smoke-begrimed frying pan in which there was a piece of black meat of some kind. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
Knife in hand, he moved with a panther's fluid grace to the begrimed window half-covered with a dusty rag. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
It was a smoke-begrimed apartment, with tables next to the wall, and rough chairs and benches for the guests. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He sits in an unheated two-room apartment furnished with plastic chairs and begrimed here and there with mold. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq's Quiet Exodus] Reference
"They are all cracked and begrimed," she would exclaim, "as if the child had to do dirty work like a servant!". From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The window, which is lofty and wide, but much begrimed with dirt, contains the only pleasant object in the place. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
She was a neglected-looking little creature; her patched clothing needed repatching, her face and hands were begrimed, and. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
When I left the door next morning I saw striding towards me through the mud a very begrimed and unprepossessing-looking figure. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Two miles off lies the body of the great workshop-city, already stretching its begrimed arms in the direction of the Exhibition. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
So amid much hilarity and giggling Mollie got into the begrimed overalls and proceeded to wriggle her small self beneath the car. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
His face was flushed, his school clothes begrimed and rumpled, and a bruise on his right shin forced a perceptible limp as he walked. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
He was a miner, of course, for he was dressed in mine clothes, and was as begrimed as the sootiest delver of them all, but who was he?. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
A sick child was tossing restlessly in an improvised cradle, which in order to save room was suspended from a hook in the smoke-begrimed ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
This one had clear features, sunburned and begrimed it is true, but with intelligence in his manner; while his gray eyes were keen and penetrating. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol] Reference
Blood was gushing from his nose all over his fine clothes, and his face was so begrimed and gory it would have been impossible to guess it was the dapper. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
By the time the gunnery lieutenant and I reached the ways on which the great seaplane rested, men in overalls, begrimed with oil and dirt, were testing the engine. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
'Forrard on!' and as he shouted he pressed forward down a narrow, dusty aperture towards a chamber beyond where a dim light showed through the begrimed roof above. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
"As to that!" interrupts Tom, doubtingly, and laying his begrimed hand on his burning forehead, while he alternately frets and frisks his fingers through his matted hair. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
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