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  • To the besmutted picture of Our Lady of Kazan they are ever ready to burn wax and oil; to Truth and Justice they constantly omit the tribute of mere common honesty.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

  • Susan Arnold, the Doctor's fourth daughter, married Mr. John Cropper in 1858, and here, too, in her house beside the Mersey, among fields and trees that still maintain a green though besmutted oasis in the busy heart of Liverpool, that girdles them now on all sides, and will soon engulf them, there were kindness and welcome for the little Tasmanians.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

  • Two colliers, besmutted wretches, plodding homeward from the 'pit' which is half a mile away.

    A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880

  • Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo, at Marseilles, what one besmutted red-bearded corn-ear is this which they cut; -- one gross Man, we mean, with copper-studded face; plenteous beard, or beard-stubble, of a tile-colour?

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Scattered around, and littered upon shake-down beds of straw, some half dozen young besmutted savages, male and female, lay stretched in all positions, some north, others south, without order or decency, but all seeming in that barbarous luxury which denotes strong animal health and an utter disregard of cleanliness and bodily comfort.

    The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

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