Lexicographical Neighbors of Smirches
Literary usage of Smirches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"The Latin and Greek (smirches were declared to be reunited, and Latin emperors
ruled as conquerors in Constantinople from 1204 to 1261. ..."
2. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"Never since Eve ate the apple Was there such a need abroad For a valiant mind to
grapple With the immemorial fraud— Fraud that smirches fair Brinvilliers ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"... to build a coal-pit, for all the wood has been charred more or less on the
outside, and the soot smirches everybody who has any thing to do with it. ..."
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