How To Use bedaub In A Sentence
- And yet you cannot blame those who stood and pitied you; or, perhaps, essayed to rub you down, and assist you in the recovery of your bedaubed hat. The Small House at Allington
- When the children were brought back dirty, greasy, bedaubed, and so tired that they could hardly hold up their little heads, her indignation knew no bounds, and as she was perfectly fearless.
- And there was nothing personal in this to render it at all embarrassing, for even Tom, whose power of observation was by no means remarkable, knew from the energy with which she did it that she would have fondled any hand, no matter how bedaubed or dyed, that had broken the head of Jonas Chuzzlewit. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
- His clothes was bedaubed with paint.
- While we were deliberating upon what was to be done, a hackney coachman, driving softly along, and perceiving us standing by the kennel, came up close to us, and calling, “A coach, master!” by a dexterous management of the reins made his horses stumble in the wet, and bedaub us all over with mud. The Adventures of Roderick Random
- The selves jostle for prominence in these pages: the mono-browed Neanderthal shoulders aside axe-wielding Homo sapiens; the neurasthenic intellectual trips up the bedaubed aborigine. Excerpt: Any Human Heart by William Boyd
- The bill stabs downward and then emerges bedaubed with damp soil and grasping a small earthworm. Country diary: South Uist
- Boston convention center may laminaria the nonsubmergible titanium of fancied ceruminous speedskater and the bedaubed chlorofucin of tulostomatales. Rational Review
- Kiechel, writing in 1585, says, "Item, the women there are charming, and by nature so mighty pretty as I have scarcely ever beheld, for they do not falsify, paint, or bedaub themselves as in Italy or other places;" yet he confesses (and here is another tradition preserved) "they are somewhat awkward in their style of dress. For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
- Poems that make us love this gaudy, mother-scented, mud-bedaubed language of ours. Mental multivitamin