Cynical men took them and then wondered why their lives were forever hurt by smirched and bleared life pictures, pictures that stayed in their minds.
The seasoned man winced at the thought of that pure spirit smirched with the stupid and bestial mouthings of the ordinary community.
Their perfumed locks were never draggled in the mire of the camp, and their silken hose never smirched but in the fray.
And indeed they have striven for thy slaughter and exposed thee to disgrace and smirched mine honour among the kings.
Yet one there was quicker than he, one whose goodly armour, smirched and battered, yet showed the blazon of Bourne.
Then Minerva made the suitors break out into a forced 345 hysterical laughter, and the meats which they were eating became all smirched with blood.
They are not as easily smirched as calcimine, but one must frequently shake out of doors, or else change any brush or cloth used for wiping walls.
This last is often not an agreeable arrangement to the eye, but it is better than smirched and dingy pillows.
Mop or broom bag must often be shaken out of the window, otherwise the walls will be smirched or clouded.
For this reason five Democrats, disgusted with Douglas for his attack on the Missouri Compromise, but equally bitter against Abolitionism, stubbornly refused ever to vote for a Whig, above all a Whig smirched by Abolitionist applause.
But while the administration had thus smirched the inception and the whole character of the war with meanness and dishonor, the generals and the army were winning abundant glory for the national arms.
Jim's girl would have felt herself indelibly smirchedby thoughts that Marie gave willing housing to.
It is hard to forgive Nelson for having smirched his own and England's name with atrocities so terrible.
It is quite as likely that the open lands are still under the worn and dusty blanket of snow, smirched with all the litter cast upon it by cross-lot-faring teams, and wintry winds blowing for months from every quarter.
As you wallow on, or perch for a moment's rest on a naked fence-top among the smirched drifts, you envy the crows faring so easily along their aerial paths above you.
Dost think I have not smirched the Marsh pride enough in times past?
It was not that the Sexton's wife had any wish to help this woman, who had smirched the honour of the Waynes, but that she feared the disaster which refusal of such help might bring.
You know that if we fly, my boy is smirchedfor life--and I too.
If men's thoughts smirched women, what an unsightly lot the attractive ones would be!
No matter how low you may have fallen, the God image in you never can besmirched or depraved.
If your laundress returns a piece of smirched linen, or if her work is not quite so well done as it was the last time, don't give her a brutal scolding.
The trees and grass and daffodils had seemed not only beautiful but pleasantly un-smirched by the human story.
I can run down and heat up your chop, if you'll wait.
They hold the title-deeds and you'll see how things are getting on with the deal.
And away trips Sir Rupert and leaves us staring on one another, she proud and gracious in all her dainty finery and I a very hang-dog fellow, my worn garments smirched by the grime of my many hiding-places.
I taking a step towards her; but seeing how she shrank away I paused and, glancing down at myself, saw my clothes all smirched with the blood of the goat.
I bethought me how long and deadly had been this feud of ours, handed down from one generation to another, a dark, blood-smirched record of bitter wrongs bitterly avenged.
The smirched cloth was then removed, and at the laundry all evidence that could convict the real culprit was in due course destroyed.
At Anderton’s Hotel the redoubtable Richard Pigott spent some of the last days of his smirched career, and the smoking-room was the favourite resort of the devoted forger.
The coat of cream-coloured cut velvet that he wore was rent in several places; two of the filigree gold buttons had been wrenched away; his satin pantaloons were smirched with dirt; his handsome face was inflamed and bloated.
The Prince’s proud head sank low; the hot tears welled up and blinded him, then dripped down his cheeks as he considered his smirched chivalry.
Edward the King was old, Edward the Prince was sick and defeated, Philippa the Queen was dead, and English chivalry was smirched by the massacre of Limoges.
Yes, Ollie Chase had her own nobility; the laurel was due her poor, smirched brow, just as much as it was to Joe Newbolt's lofty forehead.
At once the fabric of his hopes collapsed, and his honest attempts to lift Ollie back to her smirched pedestal and invest her with at least a part of her former purity of heart, came to a painful end.
