smutch

• Through the smoke and smutch which stained the canvas was seen a gray-haired, saintly woman's head The picture of his mother," thought the doctor with a swelling about his heart I saved dese," said a jolly-faced German, extending his two hands; "and dey is all I had when I come from de Faderland to Chicago. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• "Want to have a pretty story against a woman, and to smutch a man, do you? —  The Trespasser, Volume 3
• Given with thy birth; would'st thou thine honour smutch —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• While, under the foot they could not smutch, —  Christmas Eve
• Strether felt HIS character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed. —  The Ambassadors

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