grimed

He stood up, and from the dim rafters, grimed with the smoking of countless heads, where day was no more than a gloom, took down a matting-wrapped parcel and began to open it.

THE RED ONE 2010

While I'm not sure that science fiction needs mainstream approval, I can't help thinking that our sales would improve if we weren't grimed with flat-out disdain.

MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1) 2009

We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint.

Along the Battlement Paul de Denus 2010

This I devoured, standing, grimed with coal-dust, my knees trembling under me.

Chapter 20 2010

On either side were workingmen's houses, of weathered wood, the ancient paint grimed with the dust of years, conspicuous only for cheapness and ugliness.

CHAPTER I 2010

She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles.

Chapter 2 2010

But what holds his attention is a man in a dust-grimed tuxedo hurling knives at a woman strapped to a huge spinning wheel. . .

Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

The room was a library, obviously rarely used; though volumes lined the walls, they were grimed with dust, as were the velvet curtains that hung across the windows.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

Colored shadows from the square-tiled disco floor flash against finger-grimed black walls.

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They were intended for wash-faded blue jeans and dusty elbows and knees and hands grimed with rosin from the bat.

The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010