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An insensitive person will daub with a camel's hair-brush and ultramarine; and a passionate one will paint with mortar and a trowel.

From Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by Ruskin, John

Then at once I will daub with this new paint: but it will not stick.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

We will color; we will paint; we will daub; but in all our daubing we shall be continually peering into nature, and all we do shall be done under the eye of that great teacher.

From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules

Then at once I will daub with this new paint; but it will not stick.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various