I had felt sure that the hand which did the Besmearing was silhouetted clearly against the blackness of its own making.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
His magic rod o'er every lid he draws, His sleep confirming, and with crooked blade Severs his nodding head, and down the mount The bloody ruin hurls,-the craggy rock With gore Besmearing.
"The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II"
Ovid
So saying, he made a pitiable sacrifice of two little innocent kids before an idol of stone, and Besmearing the statue with their blood, it instantly became alive; whereupon the King embraced his brother, and their joy is not to be told.
"Stories from Pentamerone"
Giambattista Basile