Lexicographical Neighbors of Besmutting
Literary usage of Besmutting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Youngest Sister by Thomas Carlyle (1899)
"The spacious skylight, which drove Carlyle to despair by besmutting his books
and papers, gave his visitor the abundant light which indoor photography so ..."
2. Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Youngest Sister by Thomas Carlyle (1899)
"... that so famous a literary workshop has been so faithfully depicted for posterity.
The spacious skylight, which drove Carlyle to despair by besmutting ..."
3. The Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller by Friedrich Max Müller (1902)
"... and it is difficult to handle them without besmutting one's hands. But it is
all the more necessary to rescue the old words, to dust them, ..."
4. Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East by East India Company, Frederick Charles Danvers, William Foster (1896)
"I think in disguising yourself in apparel, and to have your hair cut from your
face, and besmutting yourself, and with a burden, then there will be no doubt ..."
5. Glimpses by Sea and Land: During a Six Months' Trip to Europe by Mary L. Evans (1885)
"... the beautiful columns or statuary, is filled, every prominence is gloomily
shrouded over, with this universal besmutting from the accumulation of years. ..."
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