were dirtying
- past progressive of dirty.
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Once he moved as though to seize at something--the corporal's fingers were not clean, and were dirtying his white collar; he might at least hold it by the edge--but the outstretched hand sank back languidly.
From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz
