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Footing but Water, except such Crags or Bosses on which I was laid, and those all besmear'd with Blood, and strew'd with human Bones, and by me lay a Body half devour'd by this Monster, the other Part stunk so as almost poison'd me.
Exilius 2008
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The lance, besmear'd with blood, lies broken in the wound.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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With blood besmear'd, his men return; -- their lord
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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His clothes were tagg'd with thorns, and filth his limbs besmear'd;
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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With, blood besmear'd; the Greeks around him throng'd,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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The man thus equip'd, and attended by 2 or 3 more men and Women with their faces and bodys besmear'd with soot, and a Club in their hands, would about sunset take a Compass of near a mile running here and there, and wherever they came the People would fly from them as tho 'they had been so many hobgoblins, not one daring to come in their way.
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and over-stain'd
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392: First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear'd with blood
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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“With blood besmear'd, and mangled; loud he cry'd, --
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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1167: Heauen knowes they were besmear'd and ouer-staind
madmouth commented on the word besmear'd
And first a dirty smock appeared,
Beneath the arm-pits well besmear'd.
-Jonathan Swift, "The Lady's Dressing-Room"
April 13, 2009