"Smirch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face." (As You Like ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... defacement, disgrace, injury, spot, blur, defect, dishonor, reproach, stain, brand, deformity, fault, smirch, stigma, crack, dent, flaw, soil, taint, daub, disfigurement, ...
— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald
... in the tokens and they blooed 'em as above, While Jim-o done the hinvalid 'oom Sammy had to shove. Sez I: "No noble 'eroes what's bin fightin' for their king Should smirch theirselves by doin' this dis- 'onerable thing." But fine old gents 'n' donahs prim They stopped 'n' slid the beans to Jim. You betcher life I let 'im hear just what ...
— 'Hello, Soldier!' - Khaki Verse • Edward Dyson
... morning there passed a church, At ten there passed me by the sea, At twelve a town of smoke and smirch, At two a forest of oak and birch, And ...
— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy
... street at the entrance to Gotham Court, and Detective Finn dug a tunnel of light with his bullseye lantern into the foulness and blackness of that smirch on civilization, a score or more of boys who had been congregated at the edge of the court suddenly plunged back into the obscurity, and we heard the splash of their feet in the foul ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe
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