smutch

1 Black tree-roots clutched And tore — and soon the snow was smutched Anew; and I lurched babbling on, And then fell down to rest a bit, And came upon another Hell...

2 Have you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it?

3 They’ve put the body in here, it seems to me, for there’s a tiny smutch just against the edge.

4 The Southern aristocrat saw in Jefferson the defender of the sovereignty of his State: the "smutched artificer" of the North gloried in Jefferson as the champion of the rights of man.

5 Now he was free; and lest she be harmed or her name be smutched, however faintly, he would go back to his prison, jesting.

6 Through a peephole in the curtain she admired the auditorium; and it did look surprisingly well by lamplight, with the smutches and faded spots on its bright paint softened or concealed.

7 I bitterly wished that he, if he had a heart, might see her there, bruised in spirit, her little ignorant white soul, searching itself for smutches of the uncleanness it feared.

8 Alone amid the battle-din untouched   Stands out one figure beautiful, serene; No grime of smoke nor reeking blood hath smutched   The virgin brow of this unconquered queen.

9 He always maintained with me a firm but tactful independence; he saw the necessity for the sordid side of politics, but he was careful personally to359 keep clear of smutched or besmutching work.

10 The trees against a darkening curtain of sky had turned to bunches of tangled shadow, the reefs and rocks against the papery white of the sand to smutches and blobs of soot.

11 In his address to the courteous reader he expresses his apprehensions that “some will smutch his labours with a scorne of his profession.”

12 Through the smoke and smutch which stained the canvas was seen a gray-haired, saintly woman's head.

13 But thou hast valour, dear, too much For such as this; thou hast grave embassy, Given with thy birth; would'st thou thine honour smutch With coward failing?

14 Strether felt HIS character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed.

15 O!" said they, "how sad a smutch on Our clean United Kingdom's 'scutcheon!

16 His coat was ripped up the back, his linen collar torn off, and he was deathly pale, with a smutch of blood across his cheek.

17 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.

18 He cursed roundly when he toilsomely climbed the ladder to the freighter's deck, for the rusty sheathing smutched the knees of his trousers.

19 The scheme adopted was, I believe, suggested by Vice-President Howard, as shrewd and cynical a rascal as ever lived in the mire without getting smutch or splash upon his fine linen of respectability.

20 “I wager you feel all cinders and smutch after such a long ride in the cars.”

1 尘垢

grime

2 弄黑

smut colly

3 污点

spot soil fault splash blur smear stigma blemish blot smudge taint slur tarnish fleck sully smut splotch odium smirch moil soilure black mark black pick cloud stain flick grime speck blotch mote mackle maculation mark nite spot

4 污迹

splash smudge smooch work-up

5 污物

soil dirt mud contamination muck filth mire sewerage smut offscourings coprology feculence

6 弄脏

smeary soilage daggle smut daub black spot soil mess dirty stain foul blur contaminate blob puddle pollute grime smudge taint slur defile slop sully blotch smooch splotch muss vitiate befoul discolour colly slubber maculate begrime

7 沾污

smutty sully blot infect