I have no fancy for having my good name smirched in that way. From Wordnik.com. [Pillars of Society] Reference
In an impetuous flight of fancy he saw his good name smirched, his practice laid waste. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
"Your good name smirched, your wife attacked, and the wee lass-" The thin line of his mouth clamped tight for a moment, and his stringy throat bobbed once as he swallowed. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Whose foreheads are smirched with the murder-brand. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
Ever the issue is the same: he comes back smirched. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
And threw it on his head, and smirched his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
He wished not to be smirched with the mess of other people. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
But he was not -- smirched with society's remedy for wrong-doing. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
It smirched her face, making wrinkles start to think of appearing. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Her pretty face was smirched with dirt, and her hair was in disarray. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11: The Great Adventure] Reference
She felt sick and tainted, as though the unknown photographer had smirched all her dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]
It sounded like die worst imaginable odor as it blew back Dug's hair and smirched his face. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
Her nice dress was smirched with refuse-colored yuck, and her arms and ankles were scratched. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
"First I took an interest 'cause -- 'cause I thought I loved you, an 'I didn't want you smirched!". From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
In connection with the visit exists a curious document, which has smirched too long the honour of the painter. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
Stunned into speechlessness, King Achardus lifted one smirched silvery gauntlet and stared at the reeking mess. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
So leaving the troubles and temptations of Irvine behind, he carried home a smirched name to his father's house. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Finchley, trying to make something of him in order to spite me, Gilbert, principally, and so getting herself smirched. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
Their perfumed locks were never draggled in the mire of the camp, and their silken hose never smirched but in the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
"Rabbi, Rabbi" to the great man's face -- he turns his back -- and his name is smirched for ever by a witty improvisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
Above them floated the Stars and Stripes, an unstained flag, a glorious flag, a flag that had never been smirched by defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference
Overhead the painted ceiling was smirched with cobwebs and the patina of the furniture was cloudy with layers of dust and disuse. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
He raised his sword none too heartily; his eyes darted involuntarily to his companion's cloaked, blood-smirched body on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
Again, she would persist in wearing her frilled and lace-trimmed petticoats long after their dainty edges had been smirched and blackened. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Our name has heretofore been stainless; we shall keep it so no longer; it will be dragged in the mud, smirched, hissed, disgraced utterly. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
In the waste or use of the scant space between two breaths have lives been lost, souls smirched, the unlimited history of the future turned. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Last night he had cleaned them all, and cleaned them again, as if the oiled rag that wiped all trace of stain from his armour could do the same to his smirched conscience. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Their beautiful plumage was not dimmed or smirched nor their wings broken: they would have been in perfect order for a naturalist's collection; yet they were quite dead and stiff. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
And with your convincing defense Bill's great record is un-smirched. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
And Clara taken by Vernon would be Clara previously touched, smirched. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The Dons seemed to doubt whether the mere contact had not smirched them. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
My heart stopped beating while I listened, for what man hears his honor smirched without wincing?. From Wordnik.com. [Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders] Reference
No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Obama gestured to the workers, who had been shoveling tirelessly and were now smirched with dirt and sweat. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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