One day . . ." She paused, rubbing a finger thoughtfully right atop the ink smudge.

Short and stout, with her usually mild round face and an ink smudge on her nose, Ferane was no one's image of a Domani, but the First Reasoner possessed a fierce Domani temper.

Scholars disagree about whether the line turning the r into an n was an inadvertent ink smudge or a deliberate correction by the copyist.

There was an ink smudge on the end of the youth's nose.

Round-faced Eldrith Jhondar, for once not looking vague at all despite an ink smudge on her nose, nodded vigorously.

The card had ten ink smudges.

I went back up to Clementine's room, where she had dug out the old Samantha doll (with an ink smudge across her nose) and was carefully mummifying her with toilet paper.

There's a little ink smudge at the bottom of the page.

Sorry about the ink smudge on your forehead.

In counterfeit notes, the printed lines will be broken and there may also be ink smudges.