Example Sentences

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"The paint looks real dauby when you get close up to her."

From Princess Polly's Gay Winter by Brooks, Amy

The stage was still there and the boxes, and at the back there were miles—they seemed miles anyway—of ancient, crumbling, dauby scenery stacked up and smelling of age and decay.

From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

She looked a clean and clear miniature against the general dauby effect of the English girls—poor though, Miriam was sure; perhaps as poor as she.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller

He had a dauby tumbler of water beside him, and two or three Godey's Lady's Books awaiting his eager brush.

From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

Elijah stood in the door, flourishing a dauby spoon.

From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis