Every year they bedaub themselves with various bright colored paints for the annual festival. From LearnThat.org.
Though we smile to ourselves, at least ironically, when parasites bedaub us with false encomiums, as many princes cannot choose but do, Quum tale quid nihil intra se repererint, when they know they come as far short, as a mouse to an elephant, of any such virtues; yet it doth us good. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Such things are “but shadowy pretences with which we bedaub each other and repay our mutual debts; but we cannot repay them, but increase rather, the debt owed to that Great Judge who rips our tattered rags from our pudenda and really sees us through and through, right down to our innermost and most secret filth.”. From Wordnik.com. [Montaigne Explains the Birds and the Bees « So Many Books] Reference
Some of the natives had really climbed the baobab, and now they were seen rising on all sides, winding along the boughs like reptiles, and advancing slowly but surely, all the time plainly enough discernible, not merely to the eye but to the nostrils, by the horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub their bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
All this madness yet proceeds from ourselves, the main engine which batters us is from others, we are merely passive in this business: from a company of parasites and flatterers, that with immoderate praise, and bombast epithets, glossing titles, false eulogiums, so bedaub and applaud, gild over many a silly and undeserving man, that they clap him quite out of his wits. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Broune that no one understood her so well as he did, to bedaub Mr. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
Against which he prepares to bedaub him, and swears he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to this day. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
Some tribes paint the face only; others, on the contrary, do not touch that part; but bedaub with colors their arms, feet, and breasts. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
While she stood there, a little boy having in his hand a stick of molasses candy, with which he had contrived plentifully to bedaub his face, came out of the adjoining room, and surveyed her carefully from head to foot. From Wordnik.com. [Poor and proud; or, The fortunes of Katy Redburn, a story for young folks] Reference
In this dress, (still wearing the bear-skin,) they run to the council-house, smearing themselves with dirt, and bedaub every one who refuses to contribute something towards filling the baskets of incense, which they continue to carry, soliciting alms. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Mary Jemison]
Kiechel, writing in 1585, says, "Item, the women there are charming, and by nature so mighty pretty as I have scarcely ever beheld, for they do not falsify, paint, or bedaub themselves as in Italy or other places;" yet he confesses (and here is another tradition preserved) "they are somewhat awkward in their style of dress.". From Wordnik.com. [For Whom Shakespeare Wrote] Reference
Nay, besides these, many societies that make a great figure in the world are reflected on in this book; which caused Rabelais to study to be dark, and even bedaub it with many loose expressions, that he might not be thought to have any other design than to droll; in a manner bewraying his book that his enemies might not bite it. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
They do not mutilate or bedaub their bodies (though the. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
A paint, to bedaub the faces of harlots and thereby turn them into beauties. From Wordnik.com. [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference
A little boy having in his hand a stick of molasses candy, with which he had contrived plentifully to bedaub his face, came out of the adjoining room, and surveyed her carefully from head to foot. From Wordnik.com. [Poor and Proud, or the Fortunes of Katy Redburn: a Story for Young Folks] Reference
That is, she had been allowed, as a reward for looking into Mr Broune’s eyes, and laying her soft hand on Mr Broune’s sleeve, and suggesting to Mr Broune that no one understood her so well as he did, to bedaub Mr. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
Am I, your kinsman and benefactor, a fit person to be juggled out of my commendation and eulogy, and brought to bedaub such a whitened sepulchre as the sophist Milton? ". From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
Am I, your kinsman and benefactor, a fit person to be juggled out of my commendation and eulogy, and brought to bedaub such a whitened sepulchre as the sophist Milton?”. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock] Reference
A sufficiency of pieces of white chalk and red ochre wherewith to bedaub their bodies for their filthy corrobberies. ". From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
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