"How vile is he that would, with lying tongue, smirch the spotless honour of any maid.

His neighbouring, willy-nilly, Must smirch the Bee, the Lily, Or stain the snow-white flag.

I know not any: I plucked the gay moth from the spider's web; What if my hasty hand have smirched its feathers?

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.

But don Andrés, who smiled scornfully when accused of taking advantage of the chief's influence to drive hard bargains to his own advantage, was not the man to be trifled with if gossip ventured to smirch his friendship with the señora.

For our admirals and captains and bluejackets felt that the Germans had smirched the glory of the fighting men of the sea, hitherto maintained in untarnished splendour by all vanquished captains from the days of Carthage to those of Cervera and Cradock.

It's a weapon that no self-respecting man should smirch his hands with.

One may travel through tenacious seas of it without smirching one's boot-heel.

Olgashe smirched usyour love and minemade" He stopped her lips with kisses, smiling inwardly and thinking of the wisdom of Mrs. Hammond.

You shan't smirch your precious memories....

F.B. 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.

I mean the purity of the upper spiritual atmosphere in which she habitually dwelt; the absolute disseverance of her moral as well as her intellectual nature from all those lower thoughts as well as lower passions which smirch the human soul.

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.

A grimly sweven I dreamt yestreen; I saw thee lie under the hollins green, And through thine heart an arrow keen; And out of thy body a smoke did rise, Which smirched the sunshine out of the skies: