| 单词 | smudgy |
| 例句 | Jinny felt herself cutting across the beach alone, carrying her limp bundle beneath the smudgy sky. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Behind smudgy glass hung chocolate bars, licorice whips and lemon drops. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It looked smudgy, so I wiped it with the little gray cloth. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I brought it up next to the smudgy photograph of the dead girl. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He’d drawn the entire thing sort of smudgy, to reflect how he saw her through the curtain of fog around them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I imagined that I was coloring inside the lines of a coloring book, but the pencil was waxy and smudgy and an eye is nothing like a flat sheet of paper. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I told her it was just a pigeon, but she denied it, holding up the smudgy Xerox as proof. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All the vases and baskets were stuffed with broken pens, dried-up gumdrops, sprung paper clips and smudgy erasers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I licked my thumb and wiped at that blackbird tattoo, leaving a smudgy black spot on my hand. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes, her letters go on and on until the ink gets smudgy and I am not always sure what she is talking about. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Two or three small children of various sizes, all pale, with smudgy faces and bare smudgy knees, wobbled along in the shadow of her skirts. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z But the smudgy crags of George Pollucci's features melted away as I peered at them, and resolved themselves into a regular pattern of dark and light and medium-gray dots. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A sea of hovercrafts restlessly prowled the air.The buildings stretched on as far as Matt could see, which wasn’t far because a smudgy brown haze covered everything. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Often there was a deliberate melding of opposing attitudes — the army-style cropped hair and longer bangs, boots versus sandals and dark, smudgy tones lightening to brighter colors. Special Report: Fashion: Skirting the Issue of Gender 2011-06-26T16:53:58Z Her language, like dots of colored light pinging from a smudgy mirrored ball, casts an intoxicating if unsettling glow. Books of The Times: ?Beautiful Thing? by Sonia Faleiro 2012-02-29T22:52:22Z We even had a series of smudgy gray closeups of Julius’s head and organs, like photographs of a poltergeist, to prove it. Julius: The Story of a Premature Birth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The “chains” were smudgy patterns of gray-black on white, tracing that appeared on long, soft dresses, all slashed with an opening on to the upper chest. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z There it was again at the Chanel couture show, where makeup artists painted smudgy black circles around some of the models’ eyes, a look reportedly inspired by 1920s avant-garde art. Smudgy Eye Makeup Makes a Comeback 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z These students also work with Keating in her high-profile and morally smudgy law office, defending those who perhaps don't deserve a defense. TV Picks: 'Transparent,' 'How To Get Away With Murder,' 'Gotham' 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z When the full eclipse took hold, however, the moon darkened, turning a smudgy burnt orange color for many viewers. Buildup to super blood moon eclipses the finale 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The cow and calf are smudgy gray and white, and her great pale horns curve backward, as though blown by the wind. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The prints with color are pretty, but the strongest are larger pieces all in shades of gray and black, except for one’s smudgy silver circles. Review | In the galleries: David X Levine uses pencils to put a new spin on an Old Master 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z She contrasts areas of soft, smudgy color with sketchy gray lines and, occasionally, robust blacks. Review | In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Some on display bear stains from generations of smudgy fingers; some are artful illuminated miniatures. Exhibition Review: ‘In Pursuit of a Vision,’ at the Grolier Club 2012-09-11T21:57:05Z He even recruits Fleet Foxes, who more than a decade ago brought a keening shimmer to roots-friendly indie rock, making music that was epiphanic and smudgy, and a little grating. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z "She didn't want to be made up... she is very nomadic, so her look was no make-up, smudgy eyes, pale skin, very fresh, and the hair like quite messy." Geometric prints, tribal warriors inspire Issa London 2013-02-16T22:32:13Z And what looks from afar like a smudgy, multipanel abstract painting proves to be a sculptural depiction of a military disaster. Finding Common Ground at El Museo del Barrio 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z In "Deathly Hallows 2" a major character transforms into ash, floating in a gray, smudgy sky. 'Potter' closes out franchise with a bang 2011-07-13T15:24:00Z I was behind the wheel and searching for any smudgy outline of land. In the British Virgin Islands I learned to sail — for my father, while there was still time 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes, in bringing a milky gloss to passagework, the results just sounded smudgy. Review: Can a Busy Yannick Nézet-Séguin Do It All? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The colors, however, are more subdued than usual — less flashy, more smudgy and increasingly mixed with bruised purples, murky golds, hazy blacks and sullen browns. Salomon Huerta's paintings push beyond the comfort zone 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z You may hardly believe it, but Mr. Chai was one of the earliest print enthusiasts in New York; he’s still doing smudgy florals and hard-to-describe grids, but so is everyone else. Fashion Review: New York Fashion Week Review: Creatures of the Wind, Richard Chai,Peter Som, Lisa Perry 2012-09-08T00:03:15Z Now performing as Snoh Aalegra, she has settled into a mellower R&B sound better suited to her voice — a smudgy, reserved yet emotive alto that Prince, who mentored her, praised for its “analog” appeal. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The pictures were initially considered warped, smudgy, bitter. Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He had the germ of something, I thought, in a smudgy rose-print dress with a long, asymmetrical hem and semi-sheer shoulders. | Fashion Review: Peter Som, Richard Chai, The Row, Cushnie et Ochs, M. Patmos, Jason Wu, Kimberly Ovitz, Wes Gordon: Fashion Review 2011-09-10T01:07:02Z But the jumpy, smudgy imagery also recalls that of photographs made with extremely long exposures, or with a camera in swooping motion as the shutter is clicked. Review | In the galleries: A former pillar of the fashion world crafts compelling art 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Carl Sandburg Poem Discovered Except for the smudgy typewriter strokes, it reads like up-to-date social commentary: a poem on the fearsome power of a gun. Arts, Briefly: Carl Sandburg Poem Discovered 2013-01-19T01:29:53Z The show also includes three splendidly smudgy charcoal drawings by David Nash that represent the British artist’s tree sculptures. Review | In the galleries: Whimsy rendered starkly, in black and white 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Her hair wasn’t staying put, her glasses were smudgy, her voice was small and scared. Perspective | ‘Gut-wrenching’: What it felt like to watch Ford and Kavanaugh testify 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z There was parched earth and there were smudgy clouds. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z There was some roughness and smudgy coloratura passagework in her singing, moments when she sacrificed clear Italian diction in pursuit of intensity. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z With soft and smudgy yet deliberate mixed-media art that seems at once modern and timeless, Carlin’s warm, nostalgic images find a surprising visual connection between a northern mining region and a sunny southern land. The Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Close to the water, I stumbled on large smudgy prints that looked as if a body had been dragged across the sand. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Speculating on what it’s supposed to mean, each explanation offers a glimpse into that character’s personality — Jane’s smudgy squares, for instance, or Harry’s emperor’s-new-clothes scenario. ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z For whatever reasons, the genial Suite No 3 sounded smudgy and unkempt despite a resplendent polacca finale. Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne festival; BBC Prom 44 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Their delicate fields of blue, mint green, pink, yellow or smudgy white are airy and semitransparent. What to See in New York City Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The cookies had stuck to one another, and when I pried them apart, I was left with smudgy cookies with sad, pink bald spots showing through the coating. Review | Is the new Girl Scout cookie any good? It depends on where you live. 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The aqueous picture, whose smudgy core mingles brown and deep green, memorializes the Lenape natives who once settled the harbor area, and also invokes the recent birth of the painter’s child. Review | In the galleries: Looming impacts of climate change close to home 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “Show Your Hand” memorializes the incident with an artfully smudgy rendering of the athlete and a set of 15 small paintings of the audience at the tournament. Review | In the galleries: Big messages conveyed in close quarters 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z With their smudgy lines and soft colors, the paintings have the contours of realism while also dabbling in abstraction. Alex Katz Is Still Perfecting His Craft 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z A pitch-black background is speckled with thousands of distinct lights, some starlike in their brilliance, others smudgy, and still others smaller than pinpoints. Opinion | The years and billions spent on the James Webb telescope? Worth it. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The lines, made with graphite or silverpoint, waver slightly; the surfaces are often smudgy or blotchy. Review | In the galleries: Caprice and function hang together through the looking glass 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Grid View Photos in bright daylight look fine, and even moderately low light images look good enough for social media, though images in very low light are a smudgy mess of noise reduction. Samsung Galaxy A13 5G review: functional, no-frills 5G 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z When that happens, everything becomes smudgy, details just vanish, and some colors even lose their pop. How bad is Google Photos’ compression anyway? 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z As well as offering mere mortals with smudgy mirrors a sense of relief. 'The fakery is all part of the fun' – the hoax of the mirror selfie 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z On the lip of the country’s famed Andean salt flats, the town looks out to a coarse, sun-baked carpet of crystalline whites and smudgy grey. The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z On first glance, each of Giannakakis’ smudgy, rough-and-tumble panels looks as if it’s been abandoned. Review: Look long but not hard. In Andy Giannakakis' paintings, objects appear and disappear 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He hastily chronicled the couple’s losing their home to wildfires in spare, somewhat smudgy but deftly composed panels. Brian Fies lost his home to wildfire. His graphic memoir shares the brave flight from the flames 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Behind the house, the canyon was a smudgy, levelled field. The Woolsey Fire Engulfs Southern California 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Plus, like everything else, the screen is still all smudgy. RED Hydrogen One review: all hype 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The other was a kind of triangular spindle with a smudgy face painted on both sides, trailing thread from its corners, which I could have sworn I’d seen someplace before. Fiction by Zadie Smith: “Now More Than Ever” 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The reality, for the man or woman in the street, is smudgy images that act as security features on credit cards, passports and an increasing number of banknotes. A better way to make holograms 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z This algorithm is probably smudgy because it tries to do two things - predict victims, and predict shooters; the antecedents must be enormously different between the two. Inside the Algorithm That Tries to Predict Gun Violence in Chicago 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Windows are decorated with the smudgy fingerprints of tiny children with big imaginations. The Hummingbird and the Pine Tree 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Using the best telescopes of the time, scientists had observed that many bright spots on the sky were smudgy. A world without DNA and black holes: The state of science the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But he blinked when he spoke, in nervous flurries, and his interlocutors found themselves staring at a tattoo of a second set of eyes, blue-black and smudgy, that had been inked onto his eyelids. The Teen Killers of the Drug War 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Each scene unfolds like a degraded photocopy of the subsequent one, with details and motivations that will eventually provide clarity appearing initially as smudgy blobs. ‘Duels’: Love and death and vegetable stains 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Some are large and ornately illustrated, with woodcuts and curlicue letters; some are pocket-size and printed on cheap paper with smudgy ink. In Defense of Scrooge 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The cityscape it took of San Francisco at nightfall looks as smudgy as ever. iPhone 6s Camera Test: New Tricks, Marginally Improved Pics 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z "It's usually grey and depressing. Like looking at a smudgy charcoal drawing. You often can't see some buildings," China producer Maria Byrne reported. The wonder of a rainbow in Beijing - BBC News 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Some of Céline’s pale girls wore smudgy liner mainly on the bottom lid, for an effect that was otherworldly, even ugly. Battle Ready: The Symbolism of Black Eyeliner 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Her smudgy rendering is now held up as a profound pop art icon. A Town, if Not a Painting, Is Restored 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z I have one cavil: The publisher, seemingly to economize on black ink, has printed the documents and photographs in such low-definition, smudgy gray that many are unreadable. Books on Science: ‘The Double Helix’ Review - Twists in the Tale of the Great DNA Discovery 2012-11-12T19:35:27Z Its sketching tools include a technical pencil, the cloud effect of smudgy graphite, ink pens, paint and airbrushing for more complex effects. App Smart: To Sketch, to Draw, to Create, With No Pencil in Sight 2012-08-22T22:01:37Z Bruce laughed his assent and remarked to himself that the array of smudgy thumb prints about the collar band was eloquent evidence of the struggle poor Tommy had experienced. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z Whether smudgy and disaffected or strong and defined, it transforms the entire face, making a warrior of any woman. Battle Ready: The Symbolism of Black Eyeliner 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z "A grey-green expanse of smudgy waters grinning angrily at one with white foam-ridges, and over all a cheerless, unglowing canopy, apparently made of wet blotting paper." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Her hair was disheveled, her sleeves rolled back, and her face smudged from her smudgy fingers. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z They have bare heads and feet, and smudgy faces, but dear me! they do look happy! The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z They had shown me countless windmills, scattered along stretches of wind-swept moors backed by lowering skies, cold gray streets, quaint, leanover houses, and smudgy, grimy interiors. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z He had forgotten his smudgy apron, folded and tucked away in the lining of his jacket. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z I am smudgy, and also very hungry, and it is almost seven o’clock,” Marjorie warned. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z "Wasn't Jack a naughty little dog?" he asked, recovering, as he held up a smudgy little face to be kissed. That Little Beggar 2011-05-21T02:00:09.877Z 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 So he hustled and harried Garreth, set him to draw water, hew wood and labor harder than any of the grimy and smudgy kitchen knaves. Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z The young man with the smudgy nose was an author, and George Gilbert had an awful sense of the solemnity of his friend's vocation. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Those lines were mostly blind leads, and full of smudgy, even painful surprises. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z In her hand, Xue clutched the image from the ultrasound, its smudgy white blur confirming the reality — and the good health — of their child. China?s Arranged Remarriages 2010-05-08T12:45:00Z With a stereotype, the liability of smudgy printing is greatly enhanced. From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 "Danced!" he said, lifting his eyes to the smudgy ceiling. Love's Usuries A soft drizzle fell from a yellow, smudgy sky and the streets were covered with a particularly loathsome mud. Years of Plenty The east was a little smudgy because night was approaching. Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal Pudge's glance wandered around the room; it was a look of amused distaste, the look of a grown man observing the smudgy mud play of children. A Feast of Demons The library also commanded a view of the bay and had been decorated by native artists with imitations of the Giorgione frescoes, charmingly pink and smudgy. Ancestors A Novel The skates were sent, and Johnny's mother was eager to see Johnny's smudgy and laborious letter acknowledging "Mr. Robertson's kind present." An Old Chester Secret In a single term Martin had become so passionately one of Berney's that his hatred of Randall's and their smudgy type of success made him quiver with anger. Years of Plenty Nan never liked people to be dull and smudgy with disorderly moods. Old Crow Lay on the color as you will, with a broad, flat brush, or with a loose, smudgy handling; put it on with horizontal strokes, or with criss-cross touches, but never make it a lifeless tone. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors He took most pleasure in a London almanac, on whose smudgy pages he checked off the days. The Story of a New York House The scrap of paper was torn and smudgy and a thumb-print in blood was impressed on one corner. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone All about dirty, smudgy people 126 that you couldn’t forget and who kept springing out on you in the most unexpected places. At the Crossroads It was addressed in an unfamiliar and painful chirography, with the postmark of Portland, Ore., stamped smudgily in its corner. The Plunderer Neither of them had any fear of dirt, and Fan had grown up not merely unkempt, but smudgy. They of the High Trails "Thank you I'm there," mockingly from the other, while tumbling into his bunk in the cabin corner, and pulling away at his smudgy cob pipe after retiring. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska There were not many pictures, and those that there were didn’t seem to Eleanor like pictures at all, they were all so blurry and smudgy,—excepting one of a beautiful lady. Turn About Eleanor God knows, it’s smudgy enough at the best and crooked, but it’s all I can muster. At the Crossroads “Why, if there isn’t Mr. Clark!” she exclaimed, and the smith looked up, grinned, dropped his tongs, and came toward them, wiping his hand on his smudgy apron. The Plunderer His quirly tail was smudgy also; and altogether it was more like the ghost of a pig than a real animal, but Miss Inches said that was the great beauty of the picture. Nine Little Goslings But Mr. Peagrum was quite unperturbed; if anything, his smudgy features wore a look of sombre complacency as he came towards them. The Talking Horse And Other Tales A tear trickled slowly down his hollow, weather-beaten cheek, and Joan put up a smudgy, gentle, little hand to wipe it away. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls “I daresay he is working now in some smudgy old place.” At the Crossroads From eight o'clock till ten the small activities of the town centered chiefly about its tramway terminus, its smudgy station, its three or four moving-picture theatres, and its fetid pubs. World's War Events, Vol. I The first one spoke, reading from a smudgy memorandum book. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Bravely enough the dark, smudgy kitchen, with its scabby walls and its greasy, splintery floor, grew knots of violets. The Rich Little Poor Boy She dabbed her eyes with the corner of her soiled pinafore until they smiled like violets new washed with dew; she wiped the trickling tear-drops from her smudgy China rose cheeks until they bloomed afresh. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls In due course, Mr. Swain tells me, the first drawing was delivered, "and a bad, smudgy thing it was, too, altogether different from the work he almost immediately contributed for the Almanac of that year." The History of "Punch" These she furtively wiped away with her hand, and it is needless to say that this added the finishing touch to the smudgy black and white countenance. Marjorie's Busy Days "That smudgy place does look like a 'G. W.'," asserted Charley, passing the paper over. Gold Seekers of '49 He raised his eyes again to the serenely unconscious profile presented to his view: a very finished profile with nothing smudgy or uncertain about it. The Ffolliots of Redmarley "If this is where the celebrities eat, I don't wonder they're smudgy," she said in an undertone, as they seated themselves at the last vacant table and spread their purchases on its discolored surface. Miss Pat at School His face and hands were smudgy, but his eyes were bright in their rings of smoke and smut. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden And would the sea itself permit vile iron and smudgy coal to speck its immaculate bosom? The Wind Bloweth He looked down into her fair, upturned face and thought that even in the smudgy lantern's glow it looked like the face of some ministering angel. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Dazed by this two-fold attack upon him, Scott took down his smudgy fists and displayed to the intruder's view his smudgy countenance. The Brentons All the same, if I couldn't do better than some of those smudgy celebrities in the modeling room were doing, I'd feel pretty sorry for myself. Miss Pat at School I wish I were seven years old, with a smudgy face and a perpetual sniff. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden The chairman took up a position behind a little red table supporting a water-bottle and smudgy tumbler, while Leslie Walker sat on another chair at the end of it. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Then the eggs are different: blackbirds’ are all smudgy, dingy green; those were beautiful blue eggs, with a few clear spots on one end. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales Scott, his head ostentatiously averted, was gazing at something he had dug up out of his trouser pocket, something concealed within the curve of his smudgy hand. The Brentons What a queer place," said Grace, "and how smudgy the scenery looks! Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls What keeps them at it in the damp dug-outs with the indelible pencil running smudgily over the paper? Thoughts on religion at the front In the preceding four chapters there has been developed, in a clumsy laborious way, a smudgy, imperfect picture of the generalized civilized state of the coming century. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought But he is a charming old fellow all the same, and the only one of the lot who has not grown the least bit smudgy. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Miss Etta lit a smudgy lamp, sniffling as she did so. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Krishna turned the glass one way and another in his hand, letting it catch the sunrise, bend the light around the smudgy fingerprints. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town What a change from the smudgy little lamp-black craft of last November—so much for paint and polish. South with Scott The one I know—a clumsy dauber in a smudgy world.' The Parts Men Play The photos from the one station showed only a smudgy dark object. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects So well she knew this, indeed, that the line between the books she had and hadn't read was, even in her own mind, smudgy and vague, not hard and clear as with most people. Dangerous Ages "Yes, the smudgy places are tears, but only because I am rather weak, and so happy." The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year Yes, and the pages are rather smudgy here and there, but you'll learn to read them some day. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment But the markings are rather more smudgy and rather paler, and there are fewer of the hair-like streaks and hieroglyphics. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 I can now give you positive assurances that you will be quite as safe in my drawing-room as in that smudgy place where you immortalize mediocrity. Madcap "Ah, what news, Sister Euphrosyne!" cried little Aglaia, floating forward, "from the smudgy old earth; Is it beauty, riches, or what?" The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales "Can these smudgy, dirty, evil-smelling creatures compose the dominant race?" is the thought of even the most "loyal" Indian as he moves among the crowd of English workpeople. Essays in Rebellion A little chap just like a boy, with smudgy black mustache,— Yet there was nothing juvenile in Julot the apache. Ballads of a Bohemian In some the markings are pretty bold and blotchy, in others they are small and speckly; in some they are smudgy and ill-defined, in others they are clear and distinct. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 When he had gathered a heap he built a fire,—a smouldering, smudgy fire,—and put a tin pot of water on to boil. Love of Life and Other Stories There were always smudgy shadows under her eyes, and she did not seem able to see any change or any end to her life. To-morrow He replied to Börne's revolutionary scorn of the mere poet, with a poet's fastidious scorn of the smudgy revolutionist. Essays in Rebellion The things that seem so important down in the smudgy, stormswept valley, seem so unimportant as we go higher up the mountain to more important things. The University of Hard Knocks The ground-colour is greenish white; round the large end is a huge, smudgy, irregular zone of reddish brown and inky grey, the one colour predominating in the one egg, the other in the other. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 First, she was not facially remarkable—a smudgy portrait of her would look much like a smudgy portrait of anybody else. A Chair on the Boulevard "I wouldn't give the rappin' o' my finger for a nasty little smudgy, smoky grate fire," she declared rebelliously, thanklessly. The Power and the Glory His face was smudgy—Roxanne wanted to take him into her lap and wipe his nose; other parts in the of his head needed attention, his tiny shoes were kicked out at the toes. Tales of the Jazz Age Covered with dirt, unkempt, dressed in what seemed to be cast-off fragments of all the uniforms under the sun, the two figures stood looking around with broad grins, on their pale and smudgy faces. The Boy Scouts on a Submarine He always had a cloudy, smudgy, slovenly look, like a slate half-washed, that made one feel how nice it would be if he could be scrubbed inside and out with hot water and soap. The Story Hour Ascertaining that the basement boasted a smudgy servant girl, who was to be dispatched for entrées and sauterne, Tricotrin drew up the menu of a magnificent dinner as the climax. A Chair on the Boulevard Inconsequentially, his vagrant mind recalled that, below Miami, the Southern Cross is smudgily visible on the horizon, somewhere around two in the morning. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story There is something very rough and ready about it all, and the new portions print darker and more smudgily than the old, except toward the left, where they have missed ink and indented. In the Days of the Comet Instead you often find unsuitable places for camping with dust and heat in place of cool retreats; instead of the cheerful campfire anticipated, you may work hard to get a "smudgy smouldering fire." See America First One of those smudgy, much-folded school notes of the Tom Sawyer period would be priceless to-day, and somewhere among forgotten keepsakes it may exist, but we shall not be likely to find it. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) In the shop the sickly man was studying his smudgy newspaper, now spread out largely on the counter. Under Western Eyes A wavy ribbon of smudgy brown was drawn uncertainly across the base of the mountains. The Trail of the White Mule How many times I wonder did I look at the smudgy, quivering symbol of the unknown things that were rushing upon us out of the inhuman void, before I rebelled? In the Days of the Comet Joseph was always clean shaven; this youth had a smudgy moustache and a pair of incipient red whiskers. Novel Notes "Whose boy are you?" said old Ma Parker, straightening up from the stove and going over to the smudgy window. The Garden Party and Other Stories |
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