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"Smirch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... candle-lit interior, with an orderly waiting, with telephone to ear, and all those rough-and-ready contrivances by which men live who have death forever at their elbow. Here, too, their faces disguised by weeks of beard and grimed with the smirch of war, were burly Russian officers, those adequate and quietly confident men who are the strength and inspiration ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... though I were some worthless sojourner. But go ye and declare my message; I will not take thought of bloody war until that wise Priam's son, noble Hector, come to the Myrmidons' huts and ships, slaying the Argives, and smirch the ships with fire. But about mine hut and black ship I ween that Hector, though he be very eager ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)
... interruption I might have been disposed to make—"you must let me tell you that I exercise some little forbearance in taking this tone at all. No slander has ever touched my reputation, and I do not intend that it shall smirch it now. I have but to say I have been deceived to establish myself in the sight of all who know me. Tell me, sir, if you have ever heard a whisper against my honor. Did ever man or woman breathe a word in your hearing with respect to me ...
— In Direst Peril • David Christie Murray |
Words linked to "Smirch" : defame, libel, denigrate, mar, traduce, smudge, mistake, spot, error, drag through the mud, calumniate, charge, fingermark, fault, splodge, slander, stain, assassinate, inkblot, splotch, asperse, smear, defect, accuse, slur, blot, blotch, badmouth, daub, fingerprint, sully |
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