Wash 'em, an' clean your nails with this pin, an' tie that apern back-loose if you want-but wear it you must, or I won't be responsible for no smutch you get on you.
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond
Prochnow turned on him with a grim tight smile-a smile that slightly dilated the nostrils of his good firm nose and shifted in ever so small a degree the smutch of black beneath that was slowly advancing to the status of a moustache.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
She was positively afraid of what she might do to her, and to avoid that, to avoid it with piety and passion, to do, rather, nothing at all, to leave her untouched because no touch one could apply, however light, however just, however earnest and anxious, would be half good enough, would be anything but an ugly smutch upon perfection-this now imposed itself as a consistent, an inspiring thought.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James