"Smutch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sympathetic spasm, (Beside some spitting that made me sorry) And stood, surveying his auditory With a wan pure look, well nigh celestial,— Those blue eyes had survived so much! While, under the foot they could not smutch, Lay all the fleshly and the bestial. Over he bowed, and arranged his notes, Till the auditory's clearing of throats Was done with, died into a silence; And, when each glance was upward sent, Each bearded mouth composed intent, And a pin might be heard drop ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... celebre. London was in a turmoil over "the Papal abduction." The author sketches it all graphically with a convincing fidelity of caricature. The "Sisters of Misery" triumphed. They retained the baby. Then after attempting to sanctify the baby—a ceremony wholly imaginary and described with a smutch of revolting coarseness—the sisters send the baby packing back to the ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... ready to take him as he was. What was it that had suddenly so cleared up? It was just everybody's character; that is everybody's but—in a measure—his own. Strether felt HIS character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed. The person to whom Chad owed it that he could positively turn out such a comfort to other persons—such a person was sufficiently raised above any "breath" by the nature of ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James
... "You can't smutch the character of Daviess," said Wood. "His name is above suspicion. He performs his duty as United States District Attorney without ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable |
