"Daubing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consistency to the grease; a very small proportion of tar suffices, but without any at all, a wagon is soon brought to a standstill. It is, therefore, most essential to explorers to have a sufficient quantity in reserve. Tar is also of very great use in hot dry countries for daubing over the wheels, and the woodwork generally, of wagons. During extreme heat, when the wood is ready to crack, all the paint should be scraped off it, and the tar applied plentifully. It will soak in deeply, ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... the use of that instrument, which was one of my country implements; and that the design of it, which was called a knife, and of that other (pointing to it), called a fork, was the one to reduce the food into pieces proper for chewing, and the other to convey it to the mouth without daubing the fingers, which must happen in handling the food itself; and I then showed him what use I put them to, by helping each of them therewith to somewhat, and by cutting a piece for myself, and putting it to my ...
— Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) • Robert Paltock
... kuragxa, maltima. Dark (colour) malpala. Dark malluma. Dark (to become) mallumigxi. Darken mallumigi. Darkness mallumeco. Darling karegulo. Darn fliki. Darning flikado. Dart sago, pikilo. Date (time) dato. Date (fruit) daktilo. Date dati. Dative dativo. Daub fusxi. Daubing fusxo—ado. Daughter filino. Daughter-in-law bofilino. Daunt timigi. Dauntless sentima. Dawn tagigxo. Day tago. Day (a, per) lauxtage. Day (before yesterday) antauxhieraux. Daybreak tagigxo. Daybook taglibro. Daydream revo. Day laborer taglaboristo. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... church have been opened by our Lord himself to the unconscious and unconverted, in diametrical opposition to the principles on which they found their opposition to the established church. Surely it cannot be, that wise master-builders should much longer employ themselves in daubing this papal wall with untempered ...
— The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 • Various
... display the points where Greek found itself in harmony with Australian, and American, and African practice. These points are: (1) mystic dances; (2) the use of a little instrument, called turndun in Australia, whereby a roaring noise is made, and the profane are warned off; (3) the habit of daubing persons about to be initiated with clay or anything else that is sordid, and of washing this off; apparently by way of showing that old guilt is removed and a new life entered upon; (4) the performances with serpents may be noticed, while the "mad doings" and "howlings" mentioned by Plutarch ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang
... drapery, to those who obstreperously exhibit their want of any drapery at all. The chapel is hung with little pictures, dedicated to the Virgin by the honest sailors and peasants, and representing different providential escapes: the wretched daubing of which is somewhat atoned for by the good feeling which placed them there. One of them represents the Virgin appearing to a ship in a storm, with a visage and demeanor which might as well accompany ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes
... solemnly, "I shook in my shoes this afternoon. Didn't you notice the lurid mixture of colors I was daubing on my block? And all because I knew you were having psychic thoughts and I was so afraid you would say what I thought you were thinking and startle Estelle. I wanted so much to know myself just what you were driving at with your watch-chains that I almost ...
— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown
... Malagarazi River, Manyuema country, people of; the El Dorado of the Arabs; sought as slaves, Maganga, Marefu, Marenga Mkali, Masangi, Masika, or rainy season, Matamombo, Mazitu, marauding propensities of, Mbawala, species of antelope, Mbembu, or forest peach, Mdaburu River, Medicine for daubing warriors, Mfuto, Eastern, Mgongo Tembo, or "Elephant's Back," Mgwana, Mikiseh, Mionvu, Mutware of Kimenyi, Mirambo; defeated at Mfuto, Misonghi, deserted village, Mizanza, Mkuti River, Mkuyu, gigantic sycamore, Moero Lake; beauty of the scenery, Mohammed ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... stage-books. Does he buy them by the dozen, from the nearest book-stall—out of that trunk full of miscellaneous volumes, boldly labelled, "All these at fourpence"? And does he then recover them with the bright blue or scarlet that is so dear to him, daubing them here and there with his indispensable Dutch metal? Of course their contents can matter little. Like all the other things of the theatre, they are not what they pretend to be, nor what they would have the audience think them. The "book of the play" is ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... at once, in spite of the daubing Of paint and powder, and she knew me; She drew a quick breath that was almost sobbing And shrank in the shade so ...
— The Kingdom of Love - and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... vision sounds entrancing, monsieur," he said; "but that sort of girl doesn't usually earn her crusts by daubing canvas in the Louvre at so ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... new character which he had assumed, he came every day to the reading-room, tumbling over books and papers, generally carrying one of the former in his hand, affecting an utter disregard of his personal appearance, daubing his fingers with ink, wiping them on the pocket of his coat, and doing numerous other things which he fancied would ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes |
