Verb (used with object) : to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud. ,to daub plaster on a brick wall. From Dictionary.com.
Where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
Miss Daw started daubing my cheeks clean of blush. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
Like daubing just a spot of color on a drab moth's wing. From Wordnik.com. [Prentice Alvin]
Can't these women look in a mirror when daubing their faces. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
Out of the colliens it took a rise by daubing itself Ni-non. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
'They've been desecrating the graves, daubing paint on the headstones. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Causes]
I was daubing in a friend's chambers when the angel of opportunity came. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
They closed the cracks in some of the cabins by daubing them with red mud. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Cerryl finished daubing grease on the top exposed part of the cart's axle. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
"Oh, you fool," said Hannah, crying openly and daubing her cheeks with a hanky. From Wordnik.com. [Never Come Down]
Woke up at the usual godless hour, pallid dawn daubing the horizon with all. From Wordnik.com. [5 – January – 2010 – The Bleat.] Reference
She dipped her rags into it, daubing off the blood on his face and chest as gently as she could. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
The children were in the kitchen, shirts off, daubing each other's chest and back with watercolors. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994] Reference
I hope that nobody tells Dafydd El that I said this, but I thought this purerile daubing was awful. From Wordnik.com. [The Senedd - Value for Money?] Reference
I jump up to get a washcloth and Henry is still smiling when I get back and start daubing at his lip. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traveler's Wife]
Ginny had a bottle of ammonia out and was daubing each bite on Gillam as he sat on the kitchen table. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994] Reference
For the first time Tunick will be daubing participants 'bodies in paint as a critique of the oil spill. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new exhibitions] Reference
Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?. From Wordnik.com. [Ezekiel 13.] Reference
‘Painting them — daubing them with red paint — and altering the inscription on one of the headstones.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
My Lord, if you examine it over again, it is far from being a gross piece of daubing, as some dedications are. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Pavel drew his knife, cutting the top of his finger and daubing with blood the chicken bone his mother had given him. From Wordnik.com. ['Child 44'] Reference
I can safely say, however, that without any daubing at all, I am, very sincerely — Your affectionate humble servant. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
‘Keep still,’ said Battle, squeezing out more paint and daubing it rapidly and in chunks and lumps on to his canvas. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
"Yes," said Ferdinand, holding his cigar at arm's-length and flicking at the ash with his little finger, "daubing again.". From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
She wrote a fluent hand in Latin and French, but was equally at home daubing a wall in limewash with a hog's bristle brush. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
"There was a lot of men in the boat," said Priscilla from behind the table, where she sat daubing with little energetic grunts. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference
She brought out a crumpled tissue which she pressed to either side of her mouth, daubing up spittle that had gathered as she spoke. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
"I paint a little," was the reply, with an air of modesty which Brown mistook for the bashful half-assertion of some daubing amateur. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
But he was merciful; he was satisfied with daubing a little white spot on my chin and exclaiming, "The cavalry have avenged themselves.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The majority is destroyed by zealous municipal officials who fail to recognise the artistic merit and historical value of daubing on walls. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
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