I detected a smutch of yellowish paint upon it, nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
"See what you're doing, Steve!" he cried, pointing at the oily smutch. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
"You can't smutch the character of Daviess," said Wood. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett] Reference
Most of the pages from 26 to 81 are verbatim copies of those lurid and blood-smutchd little note-books. From Wordnik.com. [A Happy Hours Command. Specimen Days] Reference
Most of the pages from 712 to 779 are verbatim copies of those lurid and blood-smutch'd little note-books. From Wordnik.com. [Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference
Strether felt HIS character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
They were alert, well-muscled; their faces were streaked with paleness and a black smutch like dancers made up for a masquerade. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
He had been deeply impressed by his wife's warnings against Fanshaw -- "a lump of soot, and sure to smutch you if you go near him.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Miss Billy -- Married] Reference
Wash 'em, an 'clean your nails with this pin, an' tie that apern back -- loose if you want -- but wear it you must, or I won't be responsible for no smutch you get on you. From Wordnik.com. [The Brass Bound Box] Reference
It seemed to give him a claim upon her; to shut the door upon all other possibilities; to smutch the whiteness of her soul and render her unworthy of any man whom she might some day come to love. From Wordnik.com. [The Puritans] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
Prochnow turned on him with a grim tight smile -- a smile that slightly dilated the nostrils of his good firm nose and shifted in ever so small a degree the smutch of black beneath that was slowly advancing to the status of a moustache. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
It is also the thumb that made this paint smutch upon this slip of glass. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
A smutch on her scanty skirt, had held her so long that as soon as she raised her eyes they rested on a high fair drapery by which smutches were put to shame and which had glided toward her over the grass without her noting its rustle. From Wordnik.com. [What Maisie Knew] Reference
Betrays by stain and smutch. From Wordnik.com. [Agamemnon] Reference
To smirch me or smutch me. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference
Betrays by stain and smutch. From Wordnik.com. [The Greek View of Life] Reference
He recks not a bloody smutch. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
The fibre of a soul and smutch. From Wordnik.com. [The Machine] Reference
Were too dull to smutch thy white!. From Wordnik.com. [White Paper] Reference
This love is not so hard to smutch. From Wordnik.com. [The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems] Reference
Which indeed if they don't smutch you. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference
(Near-sighted critics analyse to smutch). From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
Most delicate, as though afraid to smutch. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion A Poetic Romance] Reference
Collied with chimney-smutch! but ah beware!. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
That painter has not with a careless smutch. From Wordnik.com. [More Songs From Vagabondia] Reference
That scorch and smutch all wings that enter. From Wordnik.com. [Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III] Reference
Purified, and his shaggy breast from smutch. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
Which gives you, with a random smutch or two. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
And dismal darkness then doth smutch the face. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Must know no smutch of shame upon his garments. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
Lest any draggletail of mine should smutch them. From Wordnik.com. [Krindlesyke] Reference
And "O!" said they, "how sad a smutch on. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914] Reference
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