The doors had been broken open in advance, and the pulpit wassmeared with filth.
Torches were then made of rope coated with resin or fat, or of sticks or splinters smeared with grease; here the stick resembled the wick of the candle as we know it to-day, and the coating of fat corresponded to the tallow or paraffin.
Rude candles made of oiled rope or of sticks smeared with fat were invented in primitive times, and they continued to be used for thousands of years after men were civilized.
He sat without his coat, his shirt-sleeves liberally smeared with the color-stains of his trade.
Sube gazed searchingly at the lather-smeared occupant of the chair and, recognizing Dr.
After a long absence he came out again bearing in his hand an envelope smeared with enough finger prints to convict the whole underworld, but neatly addressed in typewriting to: miss?
Gorgeously decked chiefs and the club-bearing warriors smeared with indigo halted in the open, leaving a satisfying interval between their position and mine.
I stood awaiting them in a raveled, mud-smeared suit of pajamas which at their best had never been ostentatious.
A filthy scramble left him smeared and disheveled on the summit.
In this greasy rift the air lay thick, as thoughsmeared into a groove.
Now Monna Sidonia stripped herself, and sitting astride of a broomstick on one of the troughs, she smeared herself with the ointment which she had taken from the locker.
Great fatigue ensues, the labourer is drenched with sweat, which mingling with dust becomes a miry crust upon his garments; his face is smeared and covered with white like a baker's, his studio is filled with chips.
Then the girl rapidly undressed, knelt in the trough, and smeared herself.
There were two long narrow piles of wood smeared with tar and sprinkled with powder, which extended from the Ringhiera or rostrum, where stood the Marzocco (the ancient lion of Florence), as far as to the Tettoia del Pisani.
All traces of the hunter are smeared over with the elusive castoreum.
Perhaps on one side of the twine he has left bait--smeared grease, or a bit of meat.
It was soon dyed a dull purple with the blood of the wild bull, and was always smeared with grease.
Then what remained was thrown into corners and willfully soiled and smearedin the most disgusting and nauseating manner.
Through the blood and dust that smeared the unfortunate boy's clothing, I recognized the uniform of a chasseur.
She was conscious of a slice of bread and jam in his hand, and that his mouth and cheeks were smeared with red.
Two kangaroo teeth, and a tuft of emu feathers were tied to the girl's hair, and she was smeared over with grease and red ochre, but was still forbidden to touch food until the morning.
Sometimes it is smeared with red ochre and grease; at other times adorned with tufts of feathers, the tail of the native dog, kangaroo teeth, and bandages or nets of different kinds.
At Encounter Bay, instead of plucking out the hair of the pubes, the incipient beard is pulled out by the roots, and the youth, as at the Murray, is smeared from head to foot with red ochre and grease.
Originally it had been a three-inch poke collar, but it was bent and broken and smeared on one side with a broad patch of dirty brown.
He made a wry face as he again looked at the distorted, smeared countenance.
Lytton's face was covered with blood and some of it smeared on Lynch's cheek.
In Bengal she is worshipped on a piece of ground marked out and smeared with cow-dung.
When the earth has been collected the drum is worshipped and smeared with red lead.
His rude image, smeared with oil and red ochre, meets one somewhere or other in almost every respectable Hindu village.
The place where the oblation is to be made is to be sequestered, facing the south, the land of departed spirits, and smeared with cow-dung.
On the same principle the horns of pregnant cattle are smeared with red paint during an eclipse, because red is a colour abhorred by demons.
In a burst of red abysmal ferocity it was over, except for one wretch who fled screaming back the way the priests had come, pursued by a swarm of blood-dabbled shapes of horror which reached out their red-smeared hands for him.
A quick glance across at the aperture where the stars shone, a glance down at the chest that still blazed open on the blood-smeared altar, and he saw and seized the desperate gamble.
Kim splashed in a noble caste-mark on the ash-smeared brow.
With a yellow-ochre paint cake he smearedthe legs and breast, great streaks against the background of flour, ash, and turmeric.
He smeared it all over with the sticky stuff, until it was as black as a Guinea negro.
The face was robbed of all expression; but it was as pale as wax, and shockingly smeared with blood about one temple.
He smearedhis platter, broke food, and avidly drank a bumper of claret.
He was deathly pale, with great dark stains under his eyes; his ungloved right hand was pressed to his side, and the fingers of it were all smeared with blood that was still oozing and dripping from between them.
Biscuit, not half cuit; everything animal and vegetable smeared with butter and lard.
The foremen testify that he was a great plague to them, and smeared their works with his sticky compound; but, though they all regarded him as little better than a troublesome lunatic, they all appear to have helped him very willingly.
It became manifest that the rug, the table-cloth, the cushions, the jacket, were getting smeared with petrol and burning.
She had not tatted or smeared or hammered a thing.
From smeared china she went to that art in which a woman buys something at a store, pulls out half of it, and calls the remnant drawn work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smeared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
