The mullah pounced on the finished letter, pretended to read it, and watched him seal it up, Smudging the hot wax with his own great gnarled thumb.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
There's things in it I don't need to shout about, and anyway I don't fancy Fyles's long nose Smudging the ink on it.
"The Law-Breakers"
Ridgwell Cullum
He rejoiced in his heart to see the snow driving so thickly that the camp window was only a blur of yellow light Smudging the whiteness.
"King Spruce, A Novel"
Holman Day