Their faces were smudged with the soot and grime that kept falling from the ceiling.
The side-face of the distant prisoner at whom she was now looking with such painful intensity, under the shadow of his cap-brim showed smudged with oil and dust; but his shoulders were broad and straight and his frame tall and lithe.
Then she bought some stamps, affixed them at one of the desks that lined the corridor and smudged them with ink to simulate a postmark.
Mr. Betts turned his head slightly to the left and peered out through a smudged pane as if seeking visual confirmation of the statement before committing himself.
The eclipse of the moon took place on its appointed schedule and was witnessed through opera glasses and triangular fragments of windowpane that had been smudged with candlesmoke.
The time for the post to go was drawing near; he had crossed out and smudged the sheet as he turned it over, dirtied the envelope as he closed it.
The gilt had long ago worn away from the chains so that it alternately gleamed gold or smudged base metal.
He seemed much more aware of the blowing dust in the street, which ruffled and smudged his carefully combed fur.
The windows, as well as the bricks, are very dirty, and you see no sign of life, unless some smudged workman dodges in through a little door.
At this close range it gave her eyes a curiously beautiful appearance--the heavy lashes, the dark-smudged shadows, adding to their size and brilliancy.
It was a perfectly-fashioned face, though when Joan had time to study it, she could see that the colouring was just a little crudely put on and that it had smudged in the shadows under her eyes where the tears had lain.
The ground-colour is pale bluish green, and the eggs are smudged and clouded all over with pale sepia; on the top of the eggs there are a few small spots and streaks of deep brownish black.
The young clerk was now a bedraggled remnant of fashion in the powder- smudged remains of his new doublet.
Mackintosh stooped over the tray resting on the grease-smudged center carpet and pulled a lid from one of the earthen bowls.
Oarsmen began scrambling down the side of the Discovery, a motley host, shoeless and clad only in powder- smudged breeches.
Busy little side-wheeled ferry steamers spanked the waters noisily and smudged the sunset with dark drifting trails of smoke; and ever and anon a rowboat would slip out of shadow to glide languidly with the current.
These embossings and canals formed a complicated and incalculable network, smudged near at hand by bodies and wreckage; dreary and planetary in the distance.
Lena and Aunt Therese were standing close to the scaled walls of the depot, smudged plaster, egg yolk plaster: they were standing side by side, Therese crying.
He saw the lake gleaming, blue as a smudged blueprint.
Moved by a curiosity natural under the circumstances the finder deciphered the smudged and blackened reading that he found upon the two surfaces of the fragment.
When he had read on through to the last ink-smudged line he would reread the accounts of those matters which particularly attracted him on their first reading.
And as he wrote his tears fell on the writing and smudged it.
There was smoke from the direction of Adana that smudged a whole sky-line, and between that and the sea about a dozen sooty columns mushroomed against the clouds.
But there was fear, too, expressed in their manner of riding close together, and in the fidgety way in which they watched the smoke of burning Armenian villages that smudged the sky to our left.
The yellow flame flickered in the smudged chimney of the lantern on the table, a bit of burning wood fell out from the front of the stove and lay smoking on the dirt floor in front of it.
Miss Rathburn had managed to remain immaculate, while their faces were smudgedand streaked with soot and car dust, their hats awry and hair dishevelled.
Very Good' was what was written," agreed Hamilton, thinking of the wavering and smudged pothooks.
Felixstowe smudged his fingers badly with the carbon copy and, after Jacob had appended his signature, stamped and addressed the missive with punctilious attention.
Your private secretary, couple of thou a year, and one of these cadaverous, ink-smudged chaps to do the work.
He took the smudged hand--took it with a hand that trembled--and bent his smudged face so close to it that she must have felt his breath beating on it, hot and quick.
Dick pulled the worn and badly drawn plans from his pocket and then lighted his own candle, indulging in the extravagance of two that he might study the faint and smudged penciled lines.
A tear rolled down Qanya's smudged cheek, and Dworn thought fuzzily, Even spiders can cry.
In the pitiless daylight she was still piquantly beautiful, though her pale face was still smudged with the remnants of her ceremonial make-up and her eyes were veiled, withdrawn.
