How To Use Bedaub In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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His clothes was bedaubed with paint.
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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
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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
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The bill stabs downward and then emerges bedaubed with damp soil and grasping a small earthworm.
Country diary: South Uist
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Boston convention center may laminaria the nonsubmergible titanium of fancied ceruminous speedskater and the bedaubed chlorofucin of tulostomatales.
Rational Review
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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
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Poems that make us love this gaudy, mother-scented, mud-bedaubed language of ours.
Mental multivitamin
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You should have seen us; the verandah was like an Irish bog; our hands and faces were bedaubed with soil; and Faauma was supposed to have struck the right note when she remarked (a Propos of nothing),
Vailima Letters
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His clothes was bedaubed with paint.
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Nay, besides these, many societies that make a great figure in the world are reflected on in this book; which caused Rabelais to study to be dark, and even bedaub it with many loose expressions, that he might not be thought to have any other design than to droll; in a manner bewraying his book that his enemies might not bite it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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They were not yet bedaubed with war paint, but they were as restless as panthers in a cage, and it was only a matter of days when they would whoop and howl with the loudest.
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Having well-nigh stifled his countryman with embraces, and besmeared himself with pulville from head to foot, he proceeded in this manner, “Mercy upon thee, knight, thou art so transmographied, and bedaubed, and bedizened, that thou mought rob thy own mother without fear of information.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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His face was bedaubed with mud.
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Such things are “but shadowy pretences with which we bedaub each other and repay our mutual debts; but we cannot repay them, but increase rather, the debt owed to that Great Judge who rips our tattered rags from our pudenda and really sees us through and through, right down to our innermost and most secret filth.”
Montaigne Explains the Birds and the Bees « So Many Books
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Though we smile to ourselves, at least ironically, when parasites bedaub us with false encomiums, as many princes cannot choose but do, Quum tale quid nihil intra se repererint, when they know they come as far short, as a mouse to an elephant, of any such virtues; yet it doth us good.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The voice and face of his dearest friend and advisor vanished, and Roy proceeded to remove his paint-bedaubed smock and brush his hair, so as to present a somewhat better appearance when the professor arrived.
"The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 1
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This man always impresses me with respect, he is so manly, so sweet-tempered, so faithful, so disdainful of all appearances, excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock bedaubed with the soil of the field, so honest withal, that he always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself.
Uncollected Prose
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These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent.
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The effect is like bedaubing a marble statue with paint.
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His fair locks, which the Russian was used to wash every morning, he was now bidden to bedaub with grease and flour, while he energetically cursed the black spatterdashes which it took him an hour to button every morning.
Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
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All this madness yet proceeds from ourselves, the main engine which batters us is from others, we are merely passive in this business: from a company of parasites and flatterers, that with immoderate praise, and bombast epithets, glossing titles, false eulogiums, so bedaub and applaud, gild over many a silly and undeserving man, that they clap him quite out of his wits.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Her neck was bedaubed with cheap necklace.
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Her skirt was bedaubed with cheap finery.
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Her skirt was bedaubed with cheap finery.
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His face was bedaubed with mud.
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The child's face was bedaubed with chocolate.
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Right before the flash she would kiss him, bedaubing his stoic cheek with bright lipstick.
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Some of the natives had really climbed the baobab, and now they were seen rising on all sides, winding along the boughs like reptiles, and advancing slowly but surely, all the time plainly enough discernible, not merely to the eye but to the nostrils, by the horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub their bodies.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Saxony for having had his room 'bedaubed' by Bendemann!
My Life — Volume 1
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Her neck was bedaubed with cheap necklace.
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Unkempt and disordered, bedaubed with mud that had dried upon him, and with much of his clothing torn to rags, he had but just dropped into his easy – chair, when Mr. Grewgious stood before him.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
