| 单词 | smirch |
| 例句 | Rip those posters from your wall: 2012 was the year clean-cut got smirched. What cinema showed us in 2012 2012-12-27T07:00:00Z Relying mainly on licenses, built up over the last decade, executives will have to see whether those external partners still want to be associated with a designer whose name has been globally smirched. Galliano Said to Be Headed for Rehab 2011-03-02T14:51:32Z "It's a smirch that never goes away.... If you dedicated yourself to serving the good, how would you cope with that?" 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z What they found was a mostly well-run exercise in civic duty, slightly smirched by honest mistakes quickly rectified — and then buried in an avalanche of fantasy, fever dreams, grifter fiction and “blatherskite.” Opinion | No, the election wasn’t stolen in Antrim County, Mich., either 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Coarse black pepper coats the smirched bark; a thin garnet ring loops just underneath the surface. Newsletter: Essential California Week in Review: Fires erupt across California 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Cohn would not scruple over the smirching of reputations. Opinion | Trump’s radical attack on national unity 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Dorothy had loved a coronet with such fervor that she had been able to abandon everything that could smirch it. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The filth of the streets could not smirch her—outwardly. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z That they, that he should hold her so cheap, deem her so smirched by what had passed, misread her so vilely as to think that she had fallen to this! Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Its very truth—she did not doubt it—smirched her, for she had been stealing the man of such a woman! Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z There was nothing in the rough attire and smirched face of the prisoner to recall the neatly-dressed Van whom Ralph had last seen. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z And looking on all this, the Squire in fancy saw the railroad scoring and smirching and spoiling his beloved acres. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Her own family felt that she was smirched. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z But she was in trouble, she was under a cloud, she was smirched with suspicion; she was certainly no better than she should be. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Reflexion brought conviction that the diabolical woman who, happily, was gone for ever, had, out of sheer spitefulness, smirched her own fair fame without a cause. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z And besides, though money-debts may wait for months without a smirching of the niceties of honour, it is a bad example for the multitude to allow duels to accumulate. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The Seigneurie of Touraine would one and all be smirched with the disgrace, if members of their order were handed over without a struggle to the vengeance of bucolic bumpkins. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Although I represent but a small part of the holy cause of intellectual liberty, even that part shall not be defiled or smirched by a single personality. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z They melted virtue's snow in passion's fire, and in cunning ways entrapped and smirched the innocent and good. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Because I will not offer her a smirched name! The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Scandal had nothing to say against the maid of Domr�my; Judith's fair fame was smirched in nowise by that little supper en t�te-�-t�te with Holofernes. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z There must be much latent good in a selfish man who, to shield his manhood from smirching, will cheerfully abandon flesh-pots. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Not content with wreaking your unfilial spite against your own father who begat you, you must smirch the good name of a lady who has always loaded you with kindness. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z But she is a foreigner, and her rivals have as yet discovered no scandal to smirch her with. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z You seem to think that Joan is smirched because she has been let in, through no fault of hers, for this horrid thing. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z But once his honor was assailed, it was not the nature of that honor to stand so mute that his own character seemed rightly smirched, while justice rested with his adversary. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Yet there was one smirch upon the day’s golden face in the sudden memory of an old woman shrinking away from him with uplifted arm. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z The smirch upon the regiment was likewise a smirch upon that blood and name. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z You have dared to smirch my honour in regard to women: and you have lied. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z The hangings on the walls were ragged, smirched with smoke and dust, fluttering in tatters. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z And therefore, as the love-letters arose from that occasion they ought to be referred to it, and not to a dishonourable wish to smirch her conjugal faith to her husband. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z For generations they had lived in Wortheton, honourable men and women, with an unsullied record which it remained for the present generation to smirch. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z As I came here to-night I passed through men and women, ragged, tattered, and torn, smirched with all manner of uncleanliness, who were hastening towards this house as if towards the millennium. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z It meant almost certain ruin to himself and his prospects, but, if it came, it would be clean ruin and he would feel no smirch. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Some actually with titles, though probably a trifle smirched. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z As she did so her glance fell on it; it was all smirched with blood. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z When his fame was at its height he smirched his reputation by his bad actions. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z Yes, but would she care to marry a man who could only arrive at his inheritance by smirching her good name? Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z An almost incessant volume of polluted and polluting outcries rises to the skies from these dens of sin, smirching and vulgarising the brilliant ideals of a holy festival. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Your favorite writer has smirched the fair figure of childhood in his brutal pictures of boys' life. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z Julie, after a few smirched and blotted copies, got well under way; she had considerable precision in her character, which made a task like this simple. Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z Gossip reigned in the village, carrying Dosia and Lawson up and down its gamut, even reaching the high 202 crescendo of a secret marriage, with the inevitably hinted smirching reasons therefor. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z I hang back and drain the cup Of bitter want in silence, blent with shame At this base smirching of a Man’s good name. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 2011-08-20T02:00:11.307Z I am the heir of a noble house that yields no jot to any Carleton; and my comrade here is a freeman of England with no smirch on his name. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z They would not use certain plain words that must be used in order to express very definite ideas without the feeling that they had smirched themselves by saying such things. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z A singer in a rough amusement place that Betty would consider herself smirched if she entered? The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z The misfortune is that the guilty when at last exposed become notorious; and their infamy spreads abroad, smirching the whole class to which they belong. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z 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. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z There's bluer and better blood across the Atlantic than any of ours, and it isn't smirched. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z "You refuse to see that the shame which shadows a mother's life will smirch her children, and like a deadly gangrene at last eat the heart out of her husband's love?" The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Mysterious creature, with— "Lack lustre eye, and idle wing, And smirched breast that skims no more, Hast thou not even a grave Upon the dreary shore, Forlorn, forsaken thing?" Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z This nettled him; he did not meet her gaze because, though they both had lied, her guilt was white while his was smirched with treachery. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z They heard the tramp of marching multitudes, they saw their country's flag unfurled, those glorious Stars and Stripes, that had never been smirched with dishonor, or gone down in defeat. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Then she saw a dark smirch across his sleeve and brushing it away, asked breathlessly: "Where did you get that?" The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z He held aloft in his hand a copy of a smudgy, dog-eared book, smirched and torn by constant handling. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Now, we both represent friends, and neither of us can suffer them to come out of this matter smirched. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z The dons seemed to doubt whether the mere contact had not smirched them. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z "And I, for one," spoke, for the first time, the silent gray-haired member of the committee, "refuse to smirch my hands with the task." Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z I cannot believe that he would knowingly smirch the memory of his best friend; unless, poor old man, his mind is entirely gone. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z “I would need to be assured that it will not be smirched after my death.” His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z America should read "The Death of Charlemagne" which attempts to glorify a black smirch on American arms and tradition. Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 2011-01-22T03:00:17.567Z He can soil it, but except himself the whole world cannot smirch it. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z It seemed to her that their relationship was irreparably smirched, degraded, by the touch of profane hands.... Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Anger, lust, suspicion, dislike, jealousy smirch not only the souls in which they lie restrained though not conquered, but others that come within the radius of their wide-reaching influence. With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z And my smirched muse answered, wholly in secret: What are apron strings for? John Ashbery: “Puff Piece” 2010-07-05T04:00:00Z The disgraced officer would move heaven and earth to clear 50 his smirched name, and the condition precedent would be the capture of Private Grant and the placing of him in the prisoner’s dock. The Law of Hemlock Mountain There was no appeal from this distorted corpse, smirched with yellow so about the throat and breast, where my uncle's painted hands had gripped him. Idonia: A Romance of Old London Gathering storms which smirch the sky, Burst your bonds, for up on high May I come in? Provocations Others after him had sinned against her casually, counting their behavior no more than a speck of dust in the garbage of human emotion with which she was already smirched. Sinister Street, vol. 2 A haze of tender diaphanous green clung to the boles of the smirched elms, softening the sooty decay that made their antiquity so grotesque and so dishonourable. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Such a man would have emerged, clean-shriven, from the smirching of slander. The Tempering She was evidently quite proud of her handsome daughter and that anything should come up to smirch her name cut her deeply. The Social Gangster He had, said Brant�me, “a soul exceeding smirched,” and, he adds, “by nature he was exceeding craven.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" One thing, one only, I saw with distinctness: The being I loved best was to be harried and smirched, an innocent victim of the folly and malignity of others. The Book of Susan A Novel Even though the Athletics are charged with stealing the signs whether they did or not, it is no smirch on the character of the club, for they stole honestly—which sounds like a paradox. Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside Because, too, she had once saved that life from its threatened smirching, the gratitude which might have been his most treasured sentiment became to him an intolerable obligation. The Tempering But Lady Wychcote's view of the whole matter had left a smirch on what was so clean and fine. Shadows of Flames A Novel She had smirched the great tradition of respectability. Carnival He let his gaze possess her deliberately, noting each stain and smirch, her disordered dress and loosened hair, and pitiful, staring face. Where the Pavement Ends And all these lily-like spires have kept, more or less, their paleness in the smirched and spotted town. London Impressions Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure Sir Thomas felt that the mud of irretrievable disgrace which was bound to smirch Luke de Mountford would in no small measure redound on Louisa too. The Heart of a Woman Some critics have insinuated that Froude took a curious kind of pleasure in smirching the idol. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series God save me from the smirch and smirk of it all!” The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients The honour of his family and people would be smirched. Barclay of the Guides By their light is the smoke seen to be nothing in the world but a sorry smirch. London Impressions Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure No, neither he nor any one else should ever learn aught of her from me; her name should never, if I could help it, be touched and smirched by “the world’s coarse thumb and finger.” The Red Symbol There was great scandal on the verge of exposure here in which her beloved daughter would be irretrievably smirched. The "Genius" And then, back you'll come, all hot and smirched, and your uncle will say, 'What ugly country children are these? The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. She's too good and sweet and pretty a girl to link her life with a man whose name was smirched. Doubloons—and the Girl Ah, Dane, remember the first dim yearning of divided life, and the soils and smirches and frenzies put upon it by the spawn of multitudinous generations. The Kempton-Wace Letters The lepers' hut of old was no such living death of isolation as surrounds an Island girl who has smirched her good name. An Isle in the Water I've smirched my good And noble name—so now I have no name. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature This is one of the most beautiful of all the clerical names, only it has become smirched by common use. The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments His good name will be smirched in no way. Seven Keys to Baldpate Nor are these experiences heart soils and smirches. The Kempton-Wace Letters As he dwelt upon the blasting of his immediate hopes, the smirching of his reputation and the sudden sharp check to the sweeping course of his career, his eyes would burn with hate and anger. The Fate of Felix Brand And when they were gone he had had to do enough to clear his skirts of any smirch of Toryism, and to implant in his own breast a settled feeling of militant Americanism. The Story of a New York House To the southwest, almost in the line of the Susquehanna, he observed a black cloud resting like a smirch of dirt against a clear, blue sky. The Wilderness Fugitives Is it not Christian reputations that are smirched in that Inquisition? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) I do not see the story, told even in these terms, as disgraceful; I do not see my Karen smirched. Tante Nothing is too fine for some devils to appropriate and––smirch. At the Crossroads We wonder if Connecticut Republicans will let Mr. Roraback smirch the party honor unchallenged. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI The fault, she suspected, lay in her, who could not see him in the light without the blemish of circumstance—not his, but circumstance, in whose evil shade he must seem smirched. Love and Lucy It would be another smirch for him, and such a deep one as to obscure him and his chances there forever. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek And it will be to smirch our Karen's name, gnädige Frau. Tante It had one window, which looked riverwards, across whose panes, dust and cobweb smirched, a muslin curtain had been hung by a previous agent, who was reputed to have drunk himself to death. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Only for coolness, courage and prompt decision of Whitley in the Chair discreditable scene would have worthily taken its place among others that smirch pages of Parliamentary record. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 Indeed his red and perspiring face showed a couple of great, black smirches with which he had unknowingly beautified himself. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska Wise eyes, eyes which held a store of wholesome knowledge gleaned from the years in those silent places where her soul had grown without a shadow to smirch its purity. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek Come, my friend, it is no question of saving Karen from smirches; the world will say that it is your duty as an honourable man to marry Karen. Tante Evidently, in their wearer’s eyes, the beautiful frock now so badly smirched and the white gloves which had split asunder in her fall were treasures beyond compute, and Helena herself loved pretty clothes. Dorothy's House Party There are some natures so clear and fine that chance and extremity can put them anywhere—in any company—without taking one whit from their fineness or leaving one atom of smirch. Seven Miles to Arden It is easier to forgive him; there are deceits that smirch the soul of the deceived no less than the deceiver. The Dop Doctor He could do little without smirching that honored name. The Art of Disappearing It seemed the quintessence of human experience, the ecstasy of perfect and enfranchising sorrow, distilled from the shackling, smirching half-sorrows of actual life. Tante Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century With each succeeding month the ignoble foe has smirched himself with new atrocities which yet in the end bring their own terrible retribution. Great Britain at War In connection with the visit exists a curious document, which has smirched too long the honour of the painter. Luca Signorelli ‘Father,’ said he, ‘I know how to keep my word when it doesn’t smirch my honor; I was never an informer—and that’s why I am only a lieutenant.’ An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Will you talk to him, Karen, so that he shall explain why he smirches my love and my sincerity? Tante My business, except the infernal boom days, never was so good as it’s been since I had that time with Carey, and it’s all clean business, too, not a smirch on it. Winning the Wilderness It was a pity, a thousand pities, the child could not have come to them without that smirch. Love of Brothers “I’ll remember the Queen,” said I; and with the envelope smirching my flesh I stepped out, holding my head as high as though my pockets contained something of more value. Desert Dust The smallest error on the part of a servant, the least noise, drew forth words injurious enough to smirch the soul; but nobody replied; to offer excuse would have been to commit another crime. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Then did I see with Horror and Amazement that both his Countenance and his Raiment were all smirched and bewrayed with dabs and patches of what seemed soot or blackened grease. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... He had been so troubled by the smirch upon his name—the cloud that had blighted his young manhood in the great city. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City A man swindler takes a man’s money and makes a fool of him; but a woman swindler takes a man’s money and leaves a smirch on him. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man So shall no foulness, no dark smirch be seen, If laughter show thy teeth their lips between. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura My fair name would have been smirched; my honour dragged in the mire; my present, blighted; my future, ruined; but what did he care? The Mistress of Shenstone Pure as she was it seemed to herself that her mind was smirched. The Son of Monte-Cristo First of all, she hoped to clear her father’s name of that old smirch upon it. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Only a man’s nearest and dearest can help him live down such a smirch; so, Agnes, if my son has been this particular variety of everlasting blank fool, don’t turn against him. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man This experience, it is interesting to add, taught Charles Frohman never to engage stars on whom there was the slightest smirch of scandal or disrepute. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Nothing must smirch Stella's beautiful love for you, Paul. Paul the Courageous So smirched he was, so pitiful a lad That when I saw the teardrop in his eye I gave the nut to him. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 She took up one and tried to wipe it, but succeeded only in making a smirch which she could not wipe off. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls I am poor, but the honour of a wife of a Grävenitz shall not be smirched.' A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Our name has heretofore been stainless; we shall keep it so no longer; it will be dragged in the mud, smirched, hissed, disgraced utterly. The Diamond Coterie "Do you think," she answered quietly, "that a rebel hanged could interest me unless that hanging smirched my kin?" The Reckoning He changed his collar, having detected a smirch, and tried the effect of parting his hair on the side, like Garry Cockrell. The Varmint Your father, though a good man, is a blacksmith; and there is often a smirch on his face when he stoops to kiss you. The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 She felt herself degraded by this man's admiration, smirched by his odious desire. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg How could it escape the contamination that has smirched every other art? On the Vice of Novel Reading. Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. While he himself would have used the smirch as a weapon against his rival, he knew that Bill meant what he said. The Snowshoe Trail So both parties were badly smirched, and the election and its sequel furnished one of the most desperate and disreputable passages in American politics. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The door opened, and, preceded by two or three lackeys, a pompous old gentleman entered, clad in rich robes, a golden crown on his head, and no smirch on his face. The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 Above me a staging held a kitchen chair, some fire pails, and several pots whose sides were smirched with the colors they contained. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle There's not a dollar of his millions that isn't smirched. The Root of Evil This smirch in Harold's life was a question for the two of them to settle between them. The Snowshoe Trail Men won't flirt with draggled girls, smirched with dust, weary with work, and soiled with heat; and especially they will not do so at the rate of a shilling a word. Miss Mackenzie She had bit firmly into her red nether lip, making it all the redder; and then sat down from the unaccomplished feat to look ruefully at the smirched finger tips of her Parisian gloves. At Fault She appeared so free of spirit, so untrammeled, so excellently exalted above all that is weak, craven, smirched by impurity, capable of baseness and deceit! The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Many of the soldiers were hatless, powder smirched, and, oh, so tired! The Blue Birds' Winter Nest He had never tried to embarrass him or smirch his name. The Snowshoe Trail But its perfect hue was smirched with the lateness of the season. The Heart of Unaga She was closely guarded, and evidently ran no risk of smirching her good name by associating with a troubadour student. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers It smirched the charts laid out on the square locker-table below. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Yet the memory of it will always—smirch. Mistress Anne "First I took an interest 'cause—'cause I thought I loved you, an' I didn't want you smirched!" Janet of the Dunes I don’t propose to smirch it at this late day. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Their perfumed locks were never draggled in the mire of the camp, and their silken hose never smirched but in the fray. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death "You think, then, it is my name that should be left with the smirch on it?" she asked dispassionately. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa No slander has ever touched my reputation, and I do not intend that it shall smirch it now. In Direst Peril Already, though I'm as pure as your sister would be, already my being with them has smirched me in everybody's eyes. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Above them floated the Stars and Stripes, an unstained flag, a glorious flag, a flag that had never been smirched by defeat. Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive He preferred to lose any position he was seeking, to let somebody else have it, if he must get smirched in the getting it. Pushing to the Front Ever the issue is the same: he comes back smirched. Browning's Heroines The sea too changed its colour, from the clear steel-blue that it had hitherto worn to the hue of indigo smirched with black. A Pirate of the Caribbees "My love must come on silken wings, With bridal lights of diamond rings,— Not foul with kitchen smirch, With tallow-dip for torch." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 He felt the valley smirched, and his father's worn face angered him when they met. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He must work all the harder to overcome the handicap of a bad reputation, a smirched record. Pushing to the Front And yet the relationship was so high, so frank, so openly avowed, that no breath of scandal has ever smirched it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians There was much rascality developed, and some reputations were smirched, but the disagreement of juries prevented any punishment of the offenders. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis She beheld herself, her bright spring plumage smirched and draggled, all her pinions trailing. Jane Journeys On But George was beyond speech, because he held the honor and credit of the family above his own, and he was ashamed that this smirch had been put upon it. Chapters from My Autobiography I felt an impulse to cry, 'No, no, no,' and to smirch the picture you were painting. The Eternal City In the drama of Job, God is not smirched. A Hero and Some Other Folks The brilliant city had not smirched his soul, but it had helped to form his taste. The Way of Ambition I, too, am anxious that the good name of Yale shall not be smirched by publishing to the world the downfall and disgrace of a Yale student. Frank Merriwell's Reward And when they're too young to have developed the hard outer shell of experience, why, their womanhood is just naked to the searching, smirching tropical sun, and they go plumb crazy. The Plunderer He thus exhorts His followers, “Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture to be smirched and mired with the things of this world, and follow not the promptings of your evil and corrupt desires.” The Advent of Divine Justice And the knight-errant retreats, with drooping crest and smirched armor—a melancholy contrast to the preux chevalier who went forth but now chanting his war-song, conquering and to conquer. Sword and Gown A Novel And Labouchere says that one of the four brothers of Shakespeare used to explain that he wasn't the play-actor who wrote "Hamlet" and "Othello," lest, mayhap, his name should be smirched. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Jacob is a leading citizen and I don't want a jail smirch on him. The Heart's Kingdom Thou must arise forthwith, and strong, thou must Throw off the smirching of this baser dust, Lay by the practice of this later creed, And be thine honest self again indeed. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Her hands and arms were smeared with blood stains, and upon her dress there were smirches of earth and blood. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Rubens refused to plead guilty, even for the sake of sweet liberty, on account of the smirch to the name of the Princess. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters His will was a scandal, and the horror did not only smirch his good name, it reached to hers. Great Possessions And as I would not have her name and mine smirched, I separated myself from her, and she won her plea on the ground of desertion. Contrary Mary Several were already washing the benches, chairs, tables and shirts all smirched with blood and picking up the cradles that had been flung into the street. The Wrack of the Storm Suddenly Brant's memory veered to the girl whose name would be smirched by any blow struck between them, and he forced back the hasty retort burning upon his lips. Bob Hampton of Placer I note the garb succinct Saving from smirch that purity of snow From breast to knee—snow's self with just the tint Of the apple-blossom's heart-blush. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Yes, I guess it is," returned Bert, gazing intently at the distant smirch against the clear blue background of sky; "come along, fellows. Bert Wilson in the Rockies Indeed they had come of the prophetic vision and were therefore entitled to respect in spite of the fact that they had been smirched and polluted by speculators. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy The steel-nosed bullet, even at that close range, had cut clean and spared his face, save for the trickle of red and the smirch of powder burn—such defacement as she could not have endured. Destiny For generations, it has been instilled into the Valerian soldier that his uniform could be smirched only by himself—and stern, indeed, was the judgment of him who ventured to think and do otherwise. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars No need to smirch Uncle's reputation unless it's absolutely necessary. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture to be smirched and mired with the things of this world, and follow not the promptings of your evil and corrupt desires. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh It was an ugly grey, smirched with a colour that bore but the faintest resemblance to animation. Sally Bishop A Romance It was subtle in its wording, but it was from first to last an unforgettable smirching of Enoch's character. The Enchanted Canyon In the waste or use of the scant space between two breaths have lives been lost, souls smirched, the unlimited history of the future turned. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt A power to smirch the names of decent people. The Clarion One does not argue about the matter, or question whether it be smirched or not, nor how it got there. Oddsfish! The musician played several bars, beautiful in themselves, but unconnected; and ever and anon there sounded a discordant note, like a smirch upon a fair picture. Idolatry A Romance Don't let these fellows smirch your name and the name of the Service. The Enchanted Canyon For the smoke and flame of the dragon's breath had smirched and scorched him from top to toe, so that he was no longer white, but thenceforth and forever Blackbird. The Curious Book of Birds To Margaret it seemed terrible that these two young people should be for ever apart—their lives ruined, their social position smirched. The Hoyden Besides, if they "smirched" her character, why did she submit to them complacently when they were originally uttered from the bench by Judge Sullivan in his opinion rendered in her favor? Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State My heart burned, and the smoke of its fire enveloped bride and groom, fouling his yellow beard, and smirching her silvery veil; shutting out heaven from their prayers, and blackening their path before them. Idolatry A Romance No harm shall befall thee, no smirching of thy fair name. The Hawk of Egypt But this particular policeman was quite a new policeman, whose dignity was as delicate and easily smirched as his beautiful shining tunic. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Sailors, he thought; and most of them the dregs of the South Seas, casting their evil glances at this exquisite creature and trying to smirch with innuendo the crystal clearness of her mind. The Ragged Edge She certainly was in contempt of court, but that great provocation was given by going outside the record to smirch her character ought to be taken into consideration in mitigation of the sentence. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State But your treachery has destroyed my hope and smirched the memory of your brothers, whose names are written on the roll of martyrs to their Faith and country. The City and the World and Other Stories Wickedly as his cousin had behaved, Lambert did not wish his memory to be smirched and the family honor to be tarnished by a revelation of the little man's true character. Red Money I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along And never stir assailants Ros. A History of English Prose Fiction It is hard to forgive Nelson for having smirched his own and England's name with atrocities so terrible. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon The action was original; the dress was perfect—the smirched gauntlets and flung-on mantle of the scheming, busy duke, the splendid vestments of the anointed king, the glittering armor of the monarch in the field. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made I might have guessed that she would try to smirch her own name, and the boys through her, if she had the chance. Red Pottage His shifty cousin was now dead and there was no longer any danger that the honor of the family, for which so much had been sacrificed, both by himself and Agnes, would be smirched. Red Money Eventually they so toned down and polished the deed of the little social highwaywoman as to pass her on in the family history with an escutcheon shadowed only, rather than smirched. The Man Thou Gavest She had wandered away amid the complexities and smirch and withering heats of the great world, and she had returned, simple, and clean, and wholesome. A Daughter of the Snows It seemed to her that she could recognize to this extent his chivalrous conduct without smirching her blameless record as an American housewife. Unleavened Bread If people came to accept as true the tale the girl could relate, Tunis' reputation would be smirched utterly in the opinion of all Big Wreck Cove folk. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod "Think you that I—I, smirched and sullied, reeking with plots of murder—am likely to betake myself to the noblest gentleman in France?" Helmet of Navarre Their beautiful plumage was not dimmed or smirched nor their wings broken: they would have been in perfect order for a naturalist's collection; yet they were quite dead and stiff. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 If, on the other hand, such knowledge is obtained from servants and depraved playfellows, her purity of mind must be smirched and injured. Youth and Sex "Rabbi, Rabbi" to the great man's face—he turns his back—and his name is smirched for ever by a witty improvisation. The Jesus of History He knew that if the bolt found lodgment in her heart she would consider herself a thing too low, too smirched, to face her world. Out of the Ashes Associated word: vinaigrette. smile, n. smiling; propitiousness, favor. smirch, n. smutch, discoloration, smooch. smirk, n. simper, sneer. smite, v. strike, buffet; blast, destroy; afflict, chasten, visit. smithereens, n. pl. Putnam's Word Book Each party group became bitter and personal in its attacks upon the other; in our entire political history there have been not more than two or three campaigns so smirched with vituperation and abuse. The Reign of Andrew Jackson Scandal, then, was to touch him with her smirching finger, him the spotless! The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories And to have this pure and exquisite love smirched with the memory of sin and vulgar crime! What Dreams May Come But while the 075 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. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I Into the opposite doorway, smirched with flour and a white pail of it dangling, flashed Mrs. Fischlowitz, breathing hard from her climb. Every Soul Hath Its Song There truly was the fly in the ointment, the abiding smirch on the otherwise radiant surface—as she now hailed it—of this strangely moving fraternal relation. Deadham Hard His neighbouring, willy-nilly, Must smirch the Bee, the Lily, Or stain the snow-white flag. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 And that because you smirch everything you touch. The Secret City Unfortunately, here as everywhere, the sanctuary had been invaded by a numerous army of pedants who smirched by their ignorance and lack of talent the Church's noble and austere attire. Against the Grain To his horror he saw a lean, smirched, ghostly face looking at him in a dazed way, as if out of the blinding shades of death. Overland The old snow near by is blackened and smirched with the smoke of locomotives, and its dulness is grateful to aching eyes. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) She had not been proved guilty, but her skirts certainly had been smirched by rumor. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon When Wilkinson's name was smirched by Burr's conspiracy the Lieutenant likewise fell under suspicion, for it was believed that his south-western trip was undertaken in pursuance of some of Wilkinson's schemes. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 Coarse pleasantries passed, but for a time he writhed in silence, then burst upon them indignantly for their unmanly smirching of a woman's character, and swept out, leaving them a little ashamed. Tommy and Grizel It became smirched with the dust of his face; but she would only have rejoiced, had she known it; his very squalor was precious to her. Overland Not only he, but his country, was to have been smirched by the patronage of these two moral derelicts. The Blood Red Dawn "Bearing aloft a stainless shield That none may smirch without remorse, This management declines to yield To crude displays of force; Yet, since it seems the general wish, Mock-cutlets will be five-pence less per dish." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Their idyl was smirched, the fair robe of Euterpe was trialing in the dust. Madcap Were Helen to appear as witness in a cause célèbre the girl's life would henceforth be shadowed and smirched by an awful memory. From out the Vasty Deep We are hardly able to appreciate the "Last Judgment;" it has been so smirched and blackened by the smoke and dust of centuries. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts It's a weapon that no self-respecting man should smirch his hands with. The Obstacle Race The exterior of the car was a little smirched and stained with the dust of the journey, lying thick in parts, and in others there were a few great splotches of mud plastered on. The Rome Express It was a foul deed to seek to shame me in this ugly fashion, and to smirch the honour of the Queen. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Nobody belonging to me shall be smirched—and just now, too, when we are going to cleanse the whole country of it at last, thank God! Round Anvil Rock A Romance To shun the vile, ignoble crowd, Preferring death to smirch and shame! Poems My own career's just one long brazen smirch of 'em! Alice Adams The pages were of coarse paper, lined blue and red, and they were dog-eared and smirched as though they had been constantly turned over and used. The Rome Express So dreadful are his execrations that the frightened lad thrust his fingers into his ear-holes, and ran until the fellow was but a brown smirch upon the yellow road. The White Company Except for smirches and one inexpressible rent which dawn revealed to Bertie a little later, there were no further injuries, and Billy got in and took his seat quite competently. Philosophy 4 His reputation as a scientist, indeed, is smirched by the newspaper exaggerations, and no doubt he will be more careful in future. Edison, His Life and Inventions A woman with bad habits and bad associations, a woman smirched. Tono Bungay For many of them it will smirch us forever.... Ann Veronica, a modern love story When Davy, with grave emotion, referred to the "pitiful efforts to smirch the personal character of candidates," you could not but burn with scorn of the Victor Dorn tactics. The Conflict But Wyllis Elliot had not married a half-breed, nor been shot in a cowpunchers' brawl, nor wrecked by bad whisky, nor appropriated by a smirched adventuress. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Anyhow, rank like his is not smirched by poverty or trade. Frances Waldeaux I am sorry to say our prisoner still further smirched his record. The Man from the Clouds And I've read, and thought, and guessed, and looked—until MY innocence—it's smirched. Ann Veronica, a modern love story A careless word or two shall easily suffice to smirch your fair fame. The Brown Mask It would not smirch the Gray Seal any—the Gray Seal had been accused of worse than this! The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale I am sorry that there is any smirch on Lisa's birth. Frances Waldeaux And you will make a woman with a 'smirched' name Mistress of Braelands? A Knight of the Nets He must have seen much and experienced much; if his character has in the process become not merely unduly embittered, but perhaps somewhat smirched, these failings may be redeemed by other qualities. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Even after Langdon was gone, the atmosphere of the room still smirched by unholy underplay, thoughts of the girl came to Crane, jostling and elbowing the evil conceptions of his restless mind. Thoroughbreds You see, sir, it was not only the old name that would be smirched—there was the boy to think of, and he had redeemed himself. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale These men have vulgarised an epic, and smirched poetry and painting alike for the sake of a tawdry sensation. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett They revered womanhood; you reverence nothing, and your life smirches your mother's memory. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes "I think that I could not bear to see the whiteness of your wings smirched by a child of mine." he added. The Woman with the Fan I am averse to smirching Falco's memory by going more minutely into detail. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire I tell you it is infamous!—and such a doctrine as that would tarnish the reputation of a hyena and smirch the fair fame of an anaconda. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest The Dons seemed to doubt whether the mere contact had not smirched them. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis If you persist in this course you will lose the respect and esteem of my friend and another man who is politically pure, and who has never smirched his escutcheon with an office. Remarks I will cut off my hair, and put on boy's clothes, and smirch myself brown with walnut leaves; and I will go. Hereward, the Last of the English My nearest and dearest all soiled and smirched! Three Comedies She hated them and felt smirched by their challenges. We Can't Have Everything Every hand but his was black with soot, and his was guiltless of the smirch of Hooniah's pot. Children of the Frost Hubbard was the man selected to pull off the "rough stuff" and at the same time keep the odium of crime from smirching the fair names of the conspirators. The Centralia Conspiracy It is grievous to me, dear Bobus, a man of notorious gallantry, to find that the ladies, after consenting to smirch their rosy fingers with Erebean ink, are among the first who are discarded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 One may travel through tenacious seas of it without smirching one's boot-heel. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Enough of the smirch will stick to prevent that. The House of the Whispering Pines Her first impulse was of decorum--to jerk her skirts about her in seemly fashion and be certain that no smirch adhered to them. The Power and the Glory How vile is he that would, with lying tongue, smirch the spotless honour of any maid. Beltane the Smith They must not get abroad to smirch me. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come We have seen the disappointments that marred that triumph, and the ignoble stain that smirched the ideal of a restored monarchy which he had formed. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 But your garment is smirched With grime and the stain of blood! Perpetual Light : a memorial "I will only ask you, my son, if you have thought how you would smirch her name by such a process of getting possession of her?" The Iron Woman Yet one there was quicker than he, one whose goodly armour, smirched and battered, yet showed the blazon of Bourne. Beltane the Smith Here, unless you would be smirched, it is necessary to walk fast and hold your coat-tails in. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come To do that is to smirch the flag—the one flag of America. The Law of the Land Perhaps it will appear to her that I have become smirched by these pages, and that my character has the aspect of a printer at the close of his day's tasks. A Day of Fate Yes; his honor was smirched, grant it all! grant it all! The Iron Woman Upon the heirs of Carrión is come a mighty smirch. The Lay of the Cid At college you cheated, and you'd smirch a good name in a minute if your own interests could be helped. Miss Gibbie Gault The wallpaper was a fiery red, with huge gold figures in it, well smirched by time, and it covered all the doors. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02 One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 01 So leaving the troubles and temptations of Irvine behind, he carried home a smirched name to his father's house. English Literature for Boys and Girls She could not consult Miss Leigh on the point, without smirching the reputation of Pierce Armitage, the man whose memory was enshrined in that dear lady's heart as a thing of unsullied honour. Innocent : her fancy and his fact It was published in connection with the Hammon divorce proceedings, news of which was exciting comment, and it further smirched Lorelei's reputation. The Auction Block To smirch her, even a little bit, to subject her to seeming disgrace, not only taught her a lesson, but also united them more closely, so he told himself. The Winds of Chance Over and over he rolled on the cobbles, while the smirched flag flew clear of his grasp, and fell on the farther sidewalk. The Unspeakable Perk "I fear that the sludge and slime will sully your bright armour and smirch your plumes, for it will be difficult to hold a footing on those muddy banks." In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce My heart stopped beating while I listened, for what man hears his honor smirched without wincing? Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Perhaps it was because of Lorelei's beauty or her superior ways, or—yes, because of her clean soul that nothing had been able to smirch. The Auction Block She, who always condescended to Miss. French, now lay smirched before her feet, an object of vulgar contempt. In the Year of Jubilee No sooty smother hung above the house-tops and smirched the garden leafage; no tramp of crowds, no clatter of hot-wheel traffic, sounded from the streets hard by. The Whirlpool To me it is smirched and sodden and hateful. The Window-Gazer Do you want to die here in prison, leaving your name tarnished, and smirched with suspicion of crime, when you can live to proclaim your innocence to the world? At the Mercy of Tiberius In an impetuous flight of fancy he saw his good name smirched, his practice laid waste. Australia Felix To pay the price in any other way than by eliminating himself from the equation was to smirch her name, be the ruin of a home, and destroy all hope for the future. The Judgment House She was wiser than she had been a week ago: she refused to hand her past over to him in order that he might smirch it with his thoughts. Maurice Guest Through no fault of his own he was soiled and smirched. The Captives You cannot think so vilely of me as to opine that in my old age I should do aught to smirch the fair fame of the one or of the other. Love-at-Arms So beware of telling thy sire or any other of this matter, lest thy fair fame be smirched, O mistress mine, for 'twill never profit thee to tell folk aught; no, never! The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 He was strong for the Union; so was I. But he would not listen to me with any patience; my loyalty was smirched, to his eye, because my father had owned slaves. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Her surroundings were indescribably depressing: the smirched, steadily retreating snow was leaving bare all the drab brownness it had concealed—all the dismal little gardens, and dirty corners. Maurice Guest Behold, my heart is purer than the plume Upon the stainless pinions of the swan, And thou wilt smirch and stain it with the fume Of all thy hateful lusts Idalian. Helen of Troy Until this time it was a conscience that had never felt a pang or known a smirch. In Defence of Harriet Shelley It entirely lacked that suggestion of austere sweetness which had made it so difficult to reconcile his smirched reputation with the man himself. The Hermit of Far End The whole of the First Empire was smirched with Corsican vulgarity. That Fortune My name is smirched, and only marriage can cover up the stain upon it. The Wanderer's Necklace There would be time enough for Mrs. Jasher's reputation to be smirched when those same contents were made public. The Green Mummy He found no smirch of dirt or dampness. The Red Acorn Was he, who had done nothing, to smirch his own little daughter's life; to smirch his dead brother, their dead mother—himself, his own valuable, important future? Five Tales Close by, Pippin himself was standing, smirched with dirt. Villa Rubein, and other stories His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing. War and Peace By the fates!" he exclaimed, "if there isn't Sibley with a toilet as spotless as he is himself smirched and blackened. A Face Illumined "Why, what now?" says 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. Black Bartlemy's Treasure Later, Edward H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, tried to smirch Roosevelt by accusing him of seeking Harriman's help in 1904, but this charge also was never sustained. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography The womanly woman, seeing her approach, would draw down the parlour blind with a jerk, lest the children looking out might catch a glimpse of her, and their young souls be smirched for all eternity. The Angel and the Author, and others I have no fancy for having my good name smirched in that way. Pillars of Society A marriage founded on a lie—no matter for what purpose!—mustn’t it degrade a woman—smirch her soul for all time? All Roads Lead to Calvary It was as though the whole of frowning Ilius was being smirched with fire. The Iliad She refused to receive dull rich people and smirched people; and only departed from this rule in favor of certain great names of the aristocracy. Beatrix "Learn to respect women, my angel," she said, "and don't smirch the names of the people you rob." Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Where many a life was brought to dust, And many a heart laid low, And many a love was smirched with lust - I raised mine eyes, and, oh! Ban and Arriere Ban The fair name of the city would be smirched. The Financier, a novel For you the laurel smirched, for you the gold, too, Of Magazines; For me the Spirit of Song, unbought, unsold to Pale Priests or Queens! New Collected Rhymes No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original The children of the Presidio school smirched their copybooks under the awful supervision, and poor Paquita, the prize pupil, failed utterly in that marvelous upstroke when her patron stood beside her. Selected Stories of Bret Harte The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole and pulled up with a discordant, grinding racket in the smirched twilight of a West-End station. Tales of Unrest We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best. The Iron Heel Leach had evidently done his task with a thoroughness that Mugridge had not forgiven, for words followed and evil names involving smirched ancestries. The Sea Wolf When she looked at Martin, she seemed to see the smirch left upon him by his surroundings. Martin Eden |
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