(1) Standing before a small mirror on the inside of his door, Marker dipped his comb into a jar of orange blossom water, slicked his lobe-length black hair behind his ears, and wiped a green smirch off the bridge of his nose.

(2) Therefore, who could be ashamed at the smirch of being a distinct and apparently separated branch of the church, if this struggle of not being what others are is necessary to retain Christ?

(3) Away from the sights and Bounds of a great city, with no fear of the smirch from its dusty streets and the weariness from contact with its perspiring crowds, beyond reach of the hum of the too familiar and overfond mosquito, the Summer girl has found a convenient bough from which to swing her hammock.

(4) Corrupt business and politics join hands in Iowa: An expose of how the Associated Packing Co. scandal smirched public officials.

(5) The Germans set a boxcar on fire, which set off a chain reaction of massive explosions that continued until dawn, which revealed a sky smirched with smoke and ash.

(6) With driblets of rust on her hull and at the outset of the anchor cable, she recalled the smirched bathtub of some old hotel.

(7) The family of a murdered man know that their honor is smirched .