There the great skyline made her perfect round, Notched now and then by the sea's deeper blue; A smoke-smutch marked a steamer homeward bound, The haze wrought all things to intenser hue.
He threw away the smoke-flap, and in a gully that roared with rapid waters, he washed the smutch from his forehead—the mud of dust and tears.
And as he said the words, a cloud passed across the sun; it was like a smutch of mud across a shining forehead.
Some are worthless little patches, Which indeed if they don't smutch you, 'Tis they're dead before they touch you!
You feed--who would choke did a cobwebsmutch The Age you love so much?
Snuff them as you see there is need; but touch not their snuff with your white fingers; a little smutch on YOU will be seen a great way.
The pan says to the pot: Keep off, or you’ll smutch me.
Not all the waters of the ocean can cleanse the vile smutch of the jailer's fingers from off that little Key.
