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It was a time when every imagination was besmeared with the crude colours with which Lamartine had been daubing his Girondins.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

And there they came to a halt, all three, before a rock that someone had been daubing with whitewash.

From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir