It is up the brook a ways dabbling its toes in the water.
While I wasdabbling my toes, my legs did have longings to go in wading, but I went not in.
One drinks in so much inspiration while one is dabbling one's toes in a willow creek.
All along its edges the willows were dabbling their toes.
Then I went into the kitchen to get the egg-turner to pat the dirt down good around that tomato plant that's been dabbling its toes in the brook and is now planted again.
I think he does remember the days in summer when I did drink in inspirations dabbling my toes by his toes there in the singing brook.
I knew just how they did feel inside while they were dabblingtheir toes in the water.
But while Nero liked to keep up the credit of dabbling in literary pursuits, the choice spirits to whom he looked for his real delight were very different from these graver personages.
A little forbearance, a little calm advice, might have proved a turning point in the life of one who was not yet an abandoned libertine, but rather a shy and timid youth dabbling with his first experiences of wrong.
This has resulted in a dabbling duck breeding population that is much smaller than what the available food supply could support, and in the large-scale development of artificial rearing of mallards for later shooting.
The open season for dabbling ducks is long, extending from 16 August to 31 December, which means that local birds are persecuted almost as soon as birds-of-the-year are able to fly.
This shooting is undoubtedly of importance to dabbling duck populations, which are popular as shooting objects everywhere in Europe.
Their oppressors had better have accused them of dabbling in the black art, for the potent spell still keeps his wits in bondage.
Besides, the very dabbling in literature furnishes harmless topics of conversation; for the not having such subjects at hand, though they are often insupportably fatiguing, renders the inhabitants of little towns prying and censorious.
And the age of adventure is past, in which, a man might grow suddenly rich by dabbling in South Sea stock.
I'll wait for the fire before dabbling with your Anti-Fire-Fly.
They were dabbling in the sand with their spades and buckets, building castles as children do, or playing with their big coloured ball, happy as the day was long.
Dabbling is pitiful, certainly, and weakness has few allies, but let us do justice even to the weak dabblers.
The old man used to get very mad, especially when Ralph began dabbling in post obits, and vowed he'd cut off that hopeful with a shilling, and leave everything to his reverend nephew.
It was, as I said, that I was then dabbling with, not studying, the subject.
He dabbled a good deal in love-making, and his dabbling was prompted partly by the natural pressure of the senses, partly by curiosity.
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergymandabbling in politics.
As soon as we rose on Tuesday morning, Jacko was placed in a canvass bucket, and thrice ducked in the sea; when his yells were caught up by a flock of little Danes dabbling in the water along the shore, who gave shriek for shriek.
We urge upon our readers to refrain from this dabbling in the phenomena of the Astral Plane.
But the occult traditions have it that these two men were victims of their dabbling into certain phases of psychic phenomena, i.
So she sat dabbling her pink feet in the water, quite unconscious of his gravity.
As she stood dabbling her bathing-dress in a pool, Siegmund came over the beach to her.
After dabbling his feet in a warm pool, he returned home.
Helena was seated on a stone, dabbling her feet in a warm pool, delicately feeling the wet sea-velvet of the weeds.
We mean simply that his moral plummet does not sink at all, and that when he pretends to drop it he is simply dabbling in the relatively very shallow pool of the picturesque.
So presently, when he had rested, he flew across the lake in the manner of the moorhen, with his feet dabbling in the water, and landed on the lawn at the other side.
Or when he tried to mount slowly, like the lark, just dabbling the air down with his hands, his hands went through it instead of pressing it below him.
Do you realize that in your ignorant dabbling you have ruined hundreds of propertyowners and taxpayers?
We like to be Heads down, tails up, Dabbling free!
High in the blue above Swifts whirl and call-- We are down a-dabbling Uptails all!
Such an act would furnish the British Government with a pretext for dabbling to some effect in the affairs of the Transvaal Republic.
This evil has many names; it includes all dabbling in the supernatural against the sanction of Church authority, and runs a whole gamut of "isms" from fake trance-mediums to downright diabolical possession.
It has been said that there is more superstition--that is belief and dabbling in these inane practices--to-day in one of our large cities than the Dark Ages ever was afflicted with.
So they pressed back again, jostling and crowding each other, and left an open space before him from which he looked at them with his cunning black eyes, and with one hand dabbling in the cold water of the spring.
He looks a wise boy, and I hope he will keep the secret, or we shall have all the west country here, dabbling in our fountain, and leaving us no rest to either talk or sing.
Some one said to me a short time ago that after my twenty-five years of dabbling in "Psychics," it would be rather shameful were I unable to state any definite conclusions whatever as a consequence.
I would have Spared you the trouble; but had I appeared To take an interest in you, and still more By dabbling with a jewel in your favour, All had been known at once.
His sons--and he had four--are dead, without My dabbling in vile drugs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dabbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
