Lexicographical Neighbors of Smudgers
Literary usage of Smudgers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"Old smudgers, who knows more legends than the brothers Grimm, and has killed
incomparably more rats, tells a tale of a dissipated young fellow who, ..."
2. Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk Lore (1859)
"... has still carefully wrapped up in silver paper, beneath the false bottom of
his old chest. NB smudgers is indisputably the biggest liar in our village. ..."
3. Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries" by Robert Conger Pell (1857)
"NB—smudgers is indisputably the biggest liar in our vil lage. WHIPPING-BOYS OF
PRINCES. An allusion to the practice of whipping a young prince by prosy, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Bless you, JMW ! and may you go on fogging away until you are an old fog-ie
yourself, and then retire " Where the smudgers cease from smudging, ..."
5. Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending Life of that Celebrated Sculptor and by John Thomas Smith (1829)
"... agree to the execution of the culprits, the latter three would not be under
the necessity of signing for the rope for two of the Scrubbers and smudgers. ..."
6. Nollekens and his times: A Life of that Celebrated Sculptor and Memoirs of by John Thomas Smith (1829)
"... agree to the execution of the culprits, the latter three would not be under
the necessity of signing for the rope for two of the Scrubbers and smudgers. ..."
7. Recollections and Letters of Ernest Renan by Ernest Renan (1892)
"Ah ! the heroes who have saved their country, I can conceive of it for them ;
but the daubers of canvas, the smudgers of paper, what is there in that for ..."
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