When she heard his call she hastened to the blue wash-basin and began hurriedly to dab her eyes.

'Do you think I would have let my sister marry a slave-dealer?' 'I don't believe a syllable of it,' protested Lady Kirkbank, dabbing her brow with a handkerchief steeped in eau de Cologne.

Putana assumes the form of a sweet and charming girl, dabs her breasts with poison and while Nanda is still at Mathura, comes gaily to his house.

"If I was rich," said Gip, dabbing a finger at the Disappearing Egg, "I'd buy myself that.

He dabbed his forehead with his handkerchief.

His mistress, not liking such rapid movements, and at the same time knowing that remonstrance was in vain, exclaimed, "Hout, Sandy, I'm no dune," and dabbed her fork into the "pattee" as it disappeared, to rescue a morsel.

He dabbed feeble hands at his injuries and examined the result upon his palms.

But his subsequent description of the baiting, with his position, of his legs and arms bent and shortened, till he looked like Bruin on his hind-legs, dabbing his fore-paws hither and thither, as the dogs snapped at him, and now and then acting the gasp of one that had been suddenly caught and hugged, his own capacious mouth adding force to the personation, was a memorable display.

Leith grinned as the scientist dipped his lead pencil into his open mouth so that he would be able to dab down first impressions the moment he turned his thick lenses upon the wonders.

" "I couldn't tell you," ses the gal, just dabbing at'er eyeswith a lace pocket-'ankercher about one and a 'arf times the size of 'er nose.

How he would twirl his dirty brush round and dab down a lump of Prussian blue, imagining it to be sepia, hastily correcting it a moment afterwards with a lump of lake, and then say chuckling to himself: 'By Gode, dat is fine!dat is very nearly a good purple.

Peter stopped, drew forth a handkerchief and dabbed the moisture from his cold face in the meticulous fashion of college men.

What shall I do?" Mr. John De Puyster Hepplewhite, one of the nicest men in New York, who had himself once had a somewhat interesting experience in the criminal courts in connection with the arrest of a tramp who had gone to sleep in a pink silk bed in the Hepplewhite mansion on Fifth Avenue, smiled deprecatingly, set down his Dresden-china cup and dabbed his mustache decorously with a filigree napkin.

Tony flew from the phone to dab powder on her nose.

" "I couldn't tell you," ses the gal, just dabbing at'er eyeswith a lace pocket-'ankercher about one and a 'arf times the size of 'er nose.

But it showed the marks so obviously that, to break up the outlines, he carefully dabbed the steps all over with the flat of his hands.

Ranald came to help her in his quiet, gentlemanly way, dabbing up the thick brown stream with his table-napkin.

Avery turned towards him instinctively, to see him dabbing the table with his handkerchief.

" She naïvely dabbed a tear from her long lashes with the back of her gauntlet.

It was two o'clock when I woke, and, arter a couple o' pork-pies and a pint or two, I sat on a seat in the Park smoking, while she kep' dabbing 'er eyes agin and asking me to come 'ome.

It looked rather bare, and barren, just now, for the furniture was all moved out of place,ranged neatly round the walls, and stacked at the farther end, beneath the gallery where the little man in question, blue of chin, and red of nose, was hovering about it, dabbing little tickets on chairs, and tables,even as Small Porges had said.

Skinny exclaimed, "it's that darned cat againSing Pete goes and dabs butter in the bottoms of the cans and the fool cat sticks his head in trying to lick it out and gets fastened.

Only my duty...." He began to snivel, taking out from his coat a very dirty pocket-handkerchief and dabbing his face with it.