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"I paint a little," was the reply, with an air of modesty which Brown mistook for the bashful half-assertion of some daubing amateur. Just then the cicerone came forward and announced that the bargain was completed and the room ready for occupancy.
It's interesting to watch a man try to do housework, I've no doubt." "You said something then, Miss Peckham," said Mr. Day, cheerfully, and began industriously daubing the stove covers. "I brought Mrs. Watkins in here to see you, Mr. Day, 'cause I got your welfare and hers at heart," pursued the spinster. That sounded rather ominous, and Mr.
And the result was the artist's utter subjugation; he shuffled, dropped his head, made confused efforts to reply. "Of course I shall do so somehow," he muttered at length. "Have you any other way honest way except by working?" "Very well, then, I'll find work. Real work. Not that cursed daubing, which it turns my stomach to think of."
Aye me, betake thee to thy little brush, 'twere better fitted to thee than a noble sword, thou daubing boy!"
They call his sweet things bitter, and the devil's bitter things sweet; and all this is for want of a broken heart. A broken heart relishes otherwise than a whole or unbroken one doth. A man that has no pain, or bodily distress, cannot find or feel virtue or good in the most sovereign plaister, were it applied to arm or leg; no, he rather says, Away with these stinking daubing things.
I obey her command, and try, without daubing my fingers, to deliver the grain from its nasty coverings; but she, blaming my dullness, snatcht it from me, and skilfully tearing its shells with her teeth, spit the black morsels from her, that lay like dead flies on the ground. How ingenious is poverty, and what strange arts will hunger teach?
They were thankful, too, for knives even of the commonest description, having none but bone ones of their own; and they gloried in daubing their faces with intermingled streaks of charcoal and vermilion. To gaze at their visages, when thus treated, in the little penny looking-glasses is their summit of delight!
In order to sustain the new character which he had assumed, he came every day to the reading-room, tumbling over books and papers, generally carrying one of the former in his hand, affecting an utter disregard of his personal appearance, daubing his fingers with ink, wiping them on the pocket of his coat, and doing numerous other things which he fancied would stamp him a distinguished person.
She looked up at the barn hard by, on a line with the dwelling, with that tenderness which one feels for a thing, not because of its value, but for the sake of possession, for the kinship with the objects that belong to the home. A cat was sitting high in a crevice in the logs where the daubing had fallen out; the moon glittered in its great yellow eyes.
The cracks in the walls are snugly filled with "daubing" and then the walls are covered with heavy gray building-paper, which makes the room very warm, and I really like the appearance. I had two rolls of wall-paper with a bold rose pattern.
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