Lexicographical Neighbors of Smirching
Literary usage of Smirching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colonel Alexander K. McClure's Recollections of Half a Century by Alexander Kelly McClure (1902)
"smirching THE FAME OF HEROES. Great achievements in war or peace always develop
the desperate struggles of ambition and violence of passion which seek to ..."
2. Colonel Alexander K. McClure's Recollections of Half a Century by Alexander Kelly McClure (1902)
"smirching THE FAME OF HEROES. Great achievements in war or peace always develop
the desperate struggles of ambition and violence of passion which seek to ..."
3. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"The best of the Caroline poets, our maiden"" * chief masters in this quality,
would have been in danger of over-elaborating it, or of faintly "smirching" ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... back and drain the cup Of bitter want in silence, blent with shame At this
base smirching of a Man's good name. Comes, surging up ; " That this ..."
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