I sponged them onto the stamps using a sponge dauber. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
I was the ingnu dauber, pale, skinny, almost innocent. From Wordnik.com. [Black Butterfly] Reference
You just paint it on with a kind of a shoe polish dauber. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007] Reference
He used to always tell me to keep my dauber up, no matter what happens. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Pucks stop with Johnson, Lalime] Reference
"Maybe they store them up, like mud-dauber wasps store spiders," Mark said jokingly. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Water]
And you got a good look right there of that dauber that they're using for this experiment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2005] Reference
Now, when the veriest dauber of canvas can send in his work, the whole talk is of genius neglected!. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Grassou] Reference
Cunningham calls Barrett "an indifferent dauber;" rather a harsh term in connexion with this picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832] Reference
Staring at my ink dauber and that line of little circles in the booklet, I stamped my mark on a man's name. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Hillary, I Read the News Today] Reference
But the dauber would have been wrong, for this massive splendor was wanting neither in grandeur nor character. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Now, they finished up the caulk experiment, and now astronaut Suichi Noguchi is actually working with that dauber. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2005] Reference
'It was very nearly my last bath, you irreverent dauber. From Wordnik.com. [The Light That Failed] Reference
And the flowers and the sthrawherries, sure he no dauber is. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads] Reference
Lovely miniature perfume or scent flask with gold washed dauber. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
"Carolus-Duran is only a dauber -- and a half-blind one at that!". From Wordnik.com. [With the Procession] Reference
Greenough, since the dauber of signs is a painter as well as Raphael. From Wordnik.com. [Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")] Reference
Gamelin, an unknown dauber, could expect no mercy from their enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
Pargeter means dauber, plasterer, from Old Fr. parjeter, to throw over. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Indies it sinks to even greater ignominy as a dauber for blacking shoes!. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
With serene audacity, the young canvas-dauber undertook to paint portraits. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
He was not a dabbler in art, not a mere dauber of pigments: he was an ARTIST. From Wordnik.com. [The Hollow of Her Hand] Reference
The dog has spoiled a fine piece of canvas; he is worse than a Harp Alley signpost dauber. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
"Lofty and moral creations don't sell in times like these," gravely replied the old dauber. From Wordnik.com. [His Excellency the Minister] Reference
Then I placed the stencil back over the tree and used a sponge dauber to dab glue onto the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Taylored Expressions] Reference
I shaded around the image with Blush Blossom ink, using a sponge dauber (fits on your finger like a thimble). From Wordnik.com. [Running With Scissors...] Reference
Pelopæus, the Mud-dauber, is now building its earthen cells, plastering them on old rafters and stone walls. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
"I am unknown -- a dauber by instinct, and but lately come to this city -- the fountain-head of all learning.". From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Masterpiece 1845] Reference
` ` O rare-painted portrait! '' exclaimed Rashleigh, when I was silent --- ` ` Vandyke was a dauber to you, Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
"To be sure not, Sir," said Job, calmly -- "I should be but a poor dauber, if my paints washed off with a wet sponge.". From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
'Not so fast,' said the dauber; 'the sign belongs to me, and my brother-artist was only kindly giving me a helping-hand. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852] Reference
It was not the English language, then, that was an instrument of one string, but Macaulay that was an incomparable dauber. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in the Art of Writing] Reference
In Art, if a man chooses to call Raphael a dauber, you can't prove he is wrong; and literary work is just as hard to judge. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
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