Example Sentences

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I was daubing in a friend's chambers when the angel of opportunity came.

From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by Murray, David Christie

Didn't you notice the lurid mixture of colors I was daubing on my block?

From The Spanish Chest by Brown, Edna Adelaide

With the first wash of light he was up from his couch on the hard floor, and was daubing his soul out on scraps, and odds-and-ends, and stolen pieces of rice-paper.

From The Blue Moon by Housman, Laurence

His first business in Crawford's employ was daubing the cabin, which was built of unhewn logs with the bark on.

From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)

With the first wash of light he was up from his couch on the hard floor and was daubing his soul out on scraps, and odds-and-ends, and stolen pieces of rice-paper.

From Moonshine & Clover by Housman, Laurence