Then she slid down the wall, leaving a long bright smear on the whitewash.

Two larger patches stretched off in long smears, as if bodies had been dragged away.

There was a long red smear on the tree.

On the envelope that bore my name there was a long green smear of snot.

Cables and surgical gloves were seen outside the house, near two long smears of blood.

Someone had crushed a bluebottle against the glass, making a long smear of dark blood.

The bum fell back against the wall, leaving a long wet smear on the tiles.

The land fell swiftly away from them as they shot forward, the toylike trees becoming a long smear of green.

There was another pool of blood by the wall next to the door, and a long dark smear on the whitewash.

He left a long smear of blood behind him.