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Good for adding an extra coat, but it will dirty you if you lean against it, if you get too comfortable.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

Captain Marryat’s ’Alas, Poor Jack’! and Turpis Ainsworth’s ‘Guy Fox’:— ‘An animal cunning, unsavoury, small, That will dirty your hands if you touch it at all.’

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

"Come back: you will dirty your stockings," calls out the governess to one of her charges, who has left the footpath to scramble up a bank.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert

"It will dirty the house," puts a stop to many of the operations of the young philosopher; nor is it reasonable that his experiments should interfere with the necessary regularity of a well ordered family.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

If you're afraid," said Priscilla, "that it will dirty your beautiful white trousers, I'll give it a rub-over with my pocket-handcher.

From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.