begrimes

Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him; native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

Bleak House 2007

Still, such people are base indeed; they fornicate against thee, for they love the transitory mockeries of temporal things and the filthy gain which begrimes the hand that grabs it; they embrace the fleeting world and scorn thee, who abidest and invitest us to return to thee and who pardonest the prostituted human soul when it does return to thee.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

Smoke pervades every house in Cincinnati, begrimes the carpets, blackens the curtains, soils the paint, and worries the ladies.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

The soot of London begrimes every object in the room.

Crowded Out! and Other Sketches 1897

And, turning to the more familiar aspects of the subject, how singular the fact, and how typical of the universality of Christian brotherhood, that He, who ` ` hath made of one blood all nations of men, '' should have also made of the same material the priceless brilliant which adorns the diadem of the prince, and the soot which begrimes the cabin of the humblest peasant!

Religion and Chemistry 1880

Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him; native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him; native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841