Nay, I am afraid some of us have laughed at those who endeavoured to ask our attention to what we called the daubs of the one or the doggerel of the other.
We have an academy here in the painting art, but except that it collects within its walls every year a vaster number of daubs than it is possible for any one ever to see with any degree of comfort, I don't know what particular use it is of.
There was not the smallest prospect of her dreams and visions coming true, any more than, without teaching and without paints, there was of her daubs growing into pictures, and finding places on the line at the Academy and the New.
When you visit me I will show you a landscape in my parlor worth a thousand of the daubspeople rave over.
This cannot be an isolated instance; and there is reason to believe that the reptilian class daubsits garments with similar products.
Those little daubs and shreds and patches we get by copying, are pieces of iron that need to be put into the flame of genius to be molten and then cast in noble forms; otherwise there is no genius.
They are enchanted with the dull and fading daubs of the old masters, and hold in contempt those miracles of art, the paintings of to-day.
She sleeps on a mat, surrounded by a little ridge of rice and paddy, cocoanut and areca palm flowers, and near her head is a copper pot marked with vertical daubs of white.
The pots must be new, and are marked with perpendicular daubs of chunam.
He has previously bathed, and horizontal daubs of sandal paste have been placed on his forehead, breast, and arms.
He generally daubs himself all over, his elbows are in the next person's plate, and he is up to the knuckles in soup and grease.
Those black faces, the great white daubs for the dress, the gloves and the orange flowers, the unfortunate bride in the guise of a Zulu queen, under her wreath which melted into her hair!
When a man wishes to do an injury to another he makes an image of him with clay and daubs it with vermilion and worships it with an offering of a goat or a fowl and liquor.
The couple go round the sacred post, and afterwards the bridegroom daubs the bride's forehead with red lead seven times and covers her head with her cloth to show that she has become a married woman.
He must put a soul into his model, else he cannot call himself an artist any more than the painter can claim the title who only daubs potboilers.
Philippine Islands you will there find all the rocks sticking out of the water and all the little daubs you see on the map eliminated from the equation as wholly unessential to a clear understanding of the problem of governing the Islands.
It is then easier to clean off grease daubs and finger marks left by the athletic blacksmith and his coy young assistant.
If a careless or incompetent workman has badly bedaubed a glass, coat the daubs with oxalic acid.
With a heartless humor he daubs the noses of the sterner sex a cherry red, but paints under the once bright eyes of woman a shade dark as the night in the cave of despair.
Into the two daubs of mud over the perch the male bird (say the Malays) sticks fire-flies to give itself light at night.
If I attempt to select them I shall be tricked and bamboozled into purchasing mere daubs and botches.
There were rude paint-daubs about the posts and roof-beams of the open house-fronts, and here and there they were festooned with gourd vines.
As a child daubs his fingers by rubbing one piece of coat against another (so is a man darkened the more by the tenets of contradictory sastras); but gets them cleansed by washing off his hands from both of them.
Do not plunge yourself like the foolish buffets, in the bog of your relatives and friends; it appears to you as a cold bath for a while, but daubs you with its mud and mire afterwards.
The daubs on the British walls, sentimental St. Bernard dogs and dray-horses with calves' eyes, brought him to a laughing point when he thought of the subtlety of color and line in strange Persian rugs.
It is not easy to get daubs of paint off after they are hard.
You can find daubs of old paint and varnish, sometimes an inch thick, made up in this way of hundreds of layers slapped on before the previous ones were dry, the inside remaining soft in some cases after twenty years.
On the night of the Deothan, when Vishnu wakes from his four months' sleep, lamps are lighted on the cane mill, and it is smeared with daubs of red paint.
He embraces the tree, is for a time tied to it in a peculiar manner with a thread, and he daubs it with red lead.
The latter variety is not infrequently decorated with daubsof red or some similar painting.
The workman daubs the blocks upon the mordant, spreads the pigment even with a kind of brush, and then applies it by impression to the paper.
Hylda Prout handed him a brush, and he pasted down the flap, but with fingers so agitated that he madedaubs with the gum on the envelope, daubs which anyone must notice on examination.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
