The
begrimed windows rattled incessantly from the passing of elevated trains.
His musket was gone; he was hatless and his face and clothing were
begrimed. Around his neck hung a gold chain and locket.
Here and there a sallow,
begrimed face looked out from a gloomy doorway at the strangers, and increased Eppie's uneasiness, so that it was a longed-for relief when they issued from the alleys into Shoe Lane, where there was a broader strip of sky.
But in his hurry he overlooked a paving-stone in his way, stumbled, lost his centre of gravity, rolled over to a distance of some yards, and only rose again, bruised and
begrimed, after the whole rabble of the Hague, with their muddy feet, had passed over him.
Their tawny features, now all
begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works.
Half savage as the man showed, with no covering on his matted head, with his brown arms bare to between the elbow and the shoulder, with the loose knot of a looser kerchief lying low on his bare breast in a wilderness of beard and whisker, with such dress as he wore seeming to be made out of the mud that
begrimed his boat, still there was a business-like usage in his steady gaze.
Presently I got up and came through the passage here, limping, because my heel was still painful, and feeling sorely
begrimed. I saw the PALL MALL GAZETTE on the table by the door.
A disabled, drunken creature, barely able to preserve her sitting posture by steadying herself with one
begrimed hand on the floor, while the other was so purposeless in trying to push away her tangled hair from her face, that it only blinded her the more with the dirt upon it.
On seeing one so unkempt and so
begrimed with salt water, the others scampered off along the spits that jutted out into the sea, but the daughter of Alcinous stood firm, for Minerva put courage into her heart and took away all fear from her.
Yet notwithstanding all these personal disadvantages; despite his being very weak from heat and fatigue; and so
begrimed with mud and dust that he might have been in a case, for anything of the real texture
His steam-like breathings, usually droll in their effect, were more tragic than so many groans: while from head to foot, he was in that
begrimed, besmeared, neglected state, that he might have been an authentic portrait of Misfortune which could scarcely be discerned through its want of cleaning.
The form was that of a man, miserably clad and
begrimed with smoke, which, perhaps by its contrast with the natural colour of his skin, made him look paler than he really was.
begrimed - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"