What is "besmeared"

Usage examples of "besmeared".

This grim paw of his, now frozen in the stone just under us, is still besmeared, of course, with his levitative ointment, whose stone-spurning virtues lend, in upper air, the power to stride the sky.

These probably sink down besmeared with the secretion and rest on the small sessile glands, which, if we may judge by the analogy of Drosophyllum, then pour forth their secretion and afterwards absorb the digested matter.

And out comes a figure so unsteady, so besmeared and bedraggled and fouled as to be barely recognizable as Yule.

First, Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears.

There are, finally, the patriots: on the evening of the insurrection, between the Pont-au-Change and the Pont-Marie, the half-naked ragamuffins, besmeared with dirt, bearing along their hand-barrows, are fully alive to their cause.

On the way "they dragged their victims on the ground, pummeled them, trampled on them, spit in their faces, and besmeared them with filth.

It was quite a walk, by mysterious staircases and corridors, from Mrs General's apartment, --hoodwinked by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it, and dungeon-like opposite tenements, their walls besmeared with a thousand downward stains and streaks, as if every crazy aperture in them had been weeping tears of rust into the Adriatic for centuries--to Mr Dorrit's apartment: with a whole English housefront of window, a prospect of beautiful church-domes rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which reflected them, and a hushed murmur of the Grand Canal laving the doorways below, where his gondolas and gondoliers attended his pleasure, drowsily swinging in a little forest of piles.