smutches

The house had been primed that day and there were two smutches of paint upon the glass and two almost identical smutches upon the sill.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

The trees against a darkening curtain of sky had turned to bunches of tangled shadow, the reefs and rocks against the papery white of the sand to smutches and blobs of soot.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

Through a peephole in the curtain she admired the auditorium; and it did look surprisingly well by lamplight, with the smutches and faded spots on its bright paint softened or concealed.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

This crime smutches the chronicle of every invasion.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

I bitterly wished that he, if he had a heart, might see her there, bruised in spirit, her little ignorant white soul, searching itself for smutches of the uncleanness it feared.

Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893

I wished to be blind to her defects, to the stains and smutches with which her surroundings must have sullied her.

The Deluge David Graham Phillips 1889

Through a peephole in the curtain she admired the auditorium; and it did look surprisingly well by lamplight, with the smutches and faded spots on its bright paint softened or concealed.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

a smutch on her scanty skirt, had held her so long that as soon as she raised her eyes they rested on a high fair drapery by which smutches were put to shame and which had glided toward her over the grass without her noting its rustle.

What Maisie Knew Henry James 1879

And hence the Word of God is compared to a glass through which the light doth come, and by which we see not only the beams of the sun, but our own smutches also (2 Chron 30: 18;

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658