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  • As you can see, I'm in amazing company: From Osama to Yoko, I'm clearly shit-smearingly insane.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Michelle Collins 2005

  • It was a mysterious door, its upper half, of opaque glass, bearing no sign to state the business or profession of the occupants within; but overhead, upon the lintel, four letters had been smearingly inscribed, partly with purple ink and partly with a soft lead pencil, "F.O.T.A." and upon the plaster wall, above the lintel, there was a drawing dear to male adolescence: a skull and crossbones.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

  • It was a mysterious door, its upper half, of opaque glass, bearing no sign to state the business or profession of the occupants within; but overhead, upon the lintel, four letters had been smearingly inscribed, partly with purple ink and partly with a soft lead pencil, “F.

    Chapter 3 1918

  • The rest of the burger was great though - each bite was big, cheek-smearingly messy, and most satisfying.

    The Food Pornographer 2009

  • A rash of McCain anti-Obama assertions and ads that were so blatantly and smearingly mendacious that they provoked media protests-including from the respected Associated Press-and established the narrative of McCain as having descended into the gutter.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2008

  • a mysterious door, its upper half, of opaque glass, bearing no sign to state the business or profession of the occupants within; but overhead, upon the lintel, four letters had been smearingly inscribed, partly with purple ink and partly with a soft lead pencil, "F.O. T. A." and upon the plaster wall, above the lintel, there was a drawing dear to male adolescence: a skull and crossbones.

    The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1907

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