Seaforth had afterwards a hazy recollection of helping him to twist the strip of fabric about the firm white flesh, and that his hands made red smears on Alton's deerskin jacket when he stooped and lifted him a little.
He was breathless, the horse was smoking, and there were red smears upon its flanks as well as flecks of spume.
What was more portentous, the mossy sod he stood upon was frozen, and there were smears of snow among the straggling firs upon a rather higher ridge.
Soon afterwards the low sun went out, and wisps of ragged cloud crept up from the westwards, while smears of vapour blurred the horizon, and the swell grew steeper.
It then contained a table, a carpenter's bench, and a couple of chairs, and there were still smears of dust upon the uncovered floor.
On the ninth day the bride comes and smears a mixture of curds and sugar on the forehead of each member of the bridegroom's family, probably as a sign of her admission to their clan, and returns home.
At the wedding the bridegroomsmears vermilion seven times on the parting of the bride's hair, and the bride's younger sister then wipes a little of it off with the end of the cloth.
After this ceremony in the great kraal every man goes home to his own kraal, assembles all the members of his family, men, women, and children, and smears them all with the juice of the lerotse leaves.
This latter is most liable to convey infection when the butcher smears it with the knife which he has used to remove tubercular organs.
He left smears like burnt cork on the bark where his shoulders rubbed.
Their pale stems dripped slime, and just there their foliage was blotched and spotted as with smears of flour.
Smears of shell and grit betrayed an intervening meal of oysters.
Should it be taken to one or other of the blue islands in the broad bay, sooner or later it will be discovered nestling cosily in the grotto in which the dyed slime smears it as with pale blood.
The white-barked trees, purified of smears from the sooty fingers of fire, stood out in splendid contrast to a richer, thicker, a flowery undergrowth.
That person who takes a little earth from the horns of a bull of blue complexion, smears his body therewith for three days, and then performs his ablutions, acquires great merits.
He sometimes assumes a form that is rendered white with the ashes he smears on it and is adorned with a half-moon on the forehead.
And you can picture the turbaned Apaches with their frowzy hair and the ugly smears of paint across their grinning faces.
His narrow turban, shred of loin-cloth, and knee-high moccasins merely accentuated his nakedness; they held no more suggestion of clothing than his mass of rusty black hair and the ugly smears of paint across his cheeks.
But the oil smears and the eyes that shone out from under the fair overhanging brows were again almost too young.
When the time comes to have the ban of silence removed, she smears herself afresh with kaolin, prepares a large tray full of food, and accompanied by female friends walks to the dividing line of her camp.
The raucous mile of Cambridge Road I covered many times, strolling from lit window to lit window, from ragged smears of lights to ragged chunks of dark.
It was a night of cold rain, and the pavements were dashed with smears of light from the shop windows.
Unless this precaution is observed, the thin smears and tiny bits about the edges of the dish, which become sour or moldy much sooner than the larger mass, are apt to spoil the whole.
The water, streaked with smears of froth and foam, swirled by, and there was a tumultuous white seething where the flood boiled across the log in the midst of the stream.
Soap or grease smears will cause pitting, as will also too oily under coats.
Despite the best laid plans of the painter carriage linings occasionally get some glaring smears of pigment.
Callista gazed at the flat-faced wall where smears of old writing had been not quite obliterated--for everything in this building was more than a little tired, peevish, ineffectual.
The absence of true membrane and the failure to find diphtheria bacilli in smears taken from the trachea are of aid but are not infallible.
The dingy clouds that veiled the sky were rent, and a blaze of weird, coppery radiance smote the tumbling seas, which changed under it to smears of incandescent whiteness with ruddy gleams in them, and ridges of flashing green.
A sheet of spray temporarily blinded him as he crawled out of the scuttle, and then there was little to be seen but a haze of it flying athwart a gray sea lined by frothy ridges and smears of low-driving cloud.
He wore a blue shirt which fell open at the neck for want of buttons, and jean trousers which were very old and torn, and there were smears of oil and paint on his hands.
Long smears of resinous matter exuded from the rough frame boarding of its walls, and there were shrinkage rents in part of it that let the cool night air in.
His widow smears a little ghi (butter) on each man's shoulder and rubs the place with a small cake which she afterwards gives to him.
The bridegroom takes some red lead and smears the bride's face with it, making a line from the end of her nose up across her forehead and along the parting of her hair.
A married woman has a cloth over her head, and smears vermilion on the parting of her hair and also on her forehead.
At this threatening stage of the discourse, Jo, who seems to have been gradually going out of his mind, smears his right arm over his face and gives a terrible yawn.
Confound the stuff, it won't blow off--smears like black fat!
Then he smears each side of the doorway with the tripe and entrails, and finally throws the rest of the stomach on the roof of his house.
He kills a sheep and smears his chest, his right arm, and his head with the contents of the animal's stomach.
His children are brought to him and he smears them in like manner.
After the cord has been severed, the mother daubs the region of the infant's navel with her saliva, over which she smears castor-oil.
After the Chetti has received his fee, he smears the foreheads of the guilty person and the company with sacred ashes.
The next morning before sunrise, a virgin bathes, and smears cowdung over a part of the house.
Their faces would have made a study for a comic artist, especially Diana's, with smears of duckweed on her cheeks, and her moist hair hanging over her shoulders.
If you get smears on your skirt, you'll never get them off again.
On some, of them were little smears of something dark, something that I dared not touch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
