smirch

One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them.

I am such a blackamoor that I cannot smirch myself."

When she looked at Martin, she seemed to see the smirch left upon him by his surroundings.

So dreadful are his execrations that the frightened lad thrust his fingers into his ear-holes, and ran until the fellow was but a brown smirch upon the yellow road.

His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing.

We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best.

When viewed in the light of formal logic, there is not one thing of which to be ashamed; but nevertheless a shame rises within me at the recollection, and in the pride of my manhood I feel that my manhood has in unaccountable ways been smirched and sullied.

When I had prayed sufficiently to the dead, I cut the throats of the two sheep and let the blood run into the trench, whereon the ghosts came trooping up from Erebus--brides, {89} young bachelors, old men worn out with toil, maids who had been crossed in love, and brave men who had been killed in battle, with their armour still smirched with blood; they came from every quarter and flitted round the trench with a strange kind of screaming sound that made me turn pale with fear.

It was as though the whole of frowning Ilius was being smirched with fire.

Other tribesmen the devil-devil doctors tabooed against eating shark, or handling turtle, or contacting with crocodiles or the fossil remains of crocodiles, or from ever being smirched by the profanity of a woman's touch or of a woman's shadow cast across the path.

So leaving the troubles and temptations of Irvine behind, he carried home a smirched name to his father's house.

The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole and pulled up with a discordant, grinding racket in the smirched twilight of a West-End station.