His face was grimed with smoke and leaf smuts.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
I'm not good enough for her to even see; but maybe smuts will fall on the whitest snow.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Her eyes looked brighter than ever out of their surrounding smuts, and her hair was all ends, little upright ends that stirred in the draught.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim