Grimed

He stood up, and from the dim rafters, grimed with the smoking of countless heads, where day was no more than a gloom, took down a matting-wrapped parcel and began to open it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This I devoured, standing, grimed with coal-dust, my knees trembling under me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint. ❋ Paul De Denus (2010)

On either side were workingmen's houses, of weathered wood, the ancient paint grimed with the dust of years, conspicuous only for cheapness and ugliness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While I'm not sure that science fiction needs mainstream approval, I can't help thinking that our sales would improve if we weren't grimed with flat-out disdain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But what holds his attention is a man in a dust-grimed tuxedo hurling knives at a woman strapped to a huge spinning wheel. . . ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2010)

The room was a library, obviously rarely used; though volumes lined the walls, they were grimed with dust, as were the velvet curtains that hung across the windows. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2010)

Colored shadows from the square-tiled disco floor flash against finger-grimed black walls. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What with that, the pain of my wound, the terror of the chase and of the bloody slaughter I had witnessed, I was about all in, but now they were all round me, grimed white faces staring curiosity and concern as they gave me Christian spirits-first down my throat, then on my wound, which made me yelp-and patched me up, asking no questions. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Feet were running up the steps, and Grattan appeared, his faced grimed and grinning. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

At least a dozen, by their grimed faces and the safety lanterns which they carried, proclaimed themselves miners. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were intended for wash-faded blue jeans and dusty elbows and knees and hands grimed with rosin from the bat. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

I released it and wiped my hands over my skirt, realizing in the process just how filthy they were, grimed with the dirt of two days of holding reins, with no respite in between for washing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The floor was made from old railroad ties that were grimed black with diesel and creosote and cinders and smoke from prairie fires and anchored to their crossbeams with rusted steel spikes. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

Soot-grimed ambulances passed by constantly, threading their way in and out of the unsteady stream of casualties, bleeding and in their night clothes, being assisted by the paramedics away from the flames. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Enter our humble cottage; but, prithee, take care that my smoke grimed walls soil not thy robes; now wilt thou offer to the gods ❋ Unknown (2008)