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Updated: May 10, 2025
The pages were of coarse paper, lined blue and red, and they were dog-eared and smirched as though they had been constantly turned over and used. The earlier entries were little more than a record of work to do or done. "Jan. 11. To call at Café di Roma, 12.30. Beppo will meet me. "Jan. 13. Traced M. L. Last employed as a model at S.'s studio, Palazzo B. "Jan. 15.
And away trips Sir Rupert and leaves us staring on one another, she proud and gracious in all her dainty finery and I a very hang-dog fellow, my worn garments smirched by the grime of my many hiding-places. "Was this indeed your doublet?" she questioned at last. "It was." "How came it stained with blood?" For answer I shrugged my shoulders and turned away. "Have you nothing to say?"
And thus in her ruin Ypres has found the Glory Everlasting. The struggle of Democracy and Reason against Autocracy and Brute Force, on land and in the air, upon the sea and under the sea, is reaching its climax. With each succeeding month the ignoble foe has smirched himself with new atrocities which yet in the end bring their own terrible retribution.
He was reported to the lodge, and his character bade fair to be smirched so badly that nothing but saltpeter and a consistent life could save it. At this critical stage Mr. Davis, of the Appeal, came to his aid, and not only gave him the support and encouragement of his columns, but told Mr. Sides that he would see that the legislature took speedy action in removing his alcoholic disabilities.
You cannot help the admiring glances, flattering words, and the homage that ever waits on beauty, any more than the marble face the soiling touch of any Vandal hand; but you can prevent your soul from being stained and smirched with vanity and pride." "I never had any one to talk to me in this way," said Lottie, looking demurely down. "Perhaps I should have been better if I had.
This room was very large it might be called immense and it was on the first floor; which means it was in the second story, for in Europe the houses are so high that they do not count the first story, else they would get tired climbing before they got to the top. The wallpaper was a fiery red, with huge gold figures in it, well smirched by time, and it covered all the doors.
The voice of the Divine Herald, proceeding out of the throne of God, declareth: O ye My loved ones! Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture to be smirched and mired with the things of this world, and follow not the promptings of your evil and corrupt desires. The Day Star of Divine Revelation, that shineth in the plenitude of its glory in the heaven of this Prison, beareth Me witness.
You'll come out smirched, and you know it," said Mortimer, gazing intently at her. "Look here, Leila: I didn't come here to threaten you. I'm no black-mailer; I'm no criminal. I'm simply a decent sort of a man, who is pretty badly scared over what he's done in a moment of temptation. You know I had no thought of anything except to borrow enough on my I. O. U.'s to make a killing at Burbank's.
Should she carry with her wherever she went this name which had been so smirched the identity of Sheila Macklin, the ghost of whose past misfortune might rise to shame her at any time the girl could never be happy.
It did not even know wherein the high-priest was better than his guilty brethren; overtaking him, it tripped him up also, and smirched the fringimg of his robe, and filled the golden bells with sand, and his mouth with dust. He and his people were alike in the one thing at least the blood of the Nazarene was upon them all!
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