581 examples of dab in sentences

Hang it up dripping for a minute or two, then dab it in a cloth, and iron it quickly with a very hot iron.

No use sending you a little dab of news now and then.

"Did you ever see any thing just like this?" asked Dab.

" "Oysters?" said Dab.

" "I don't know about that," said Dab, staring at the queer, huge, rickety old mass of unsightly wood and glass that Ford was pointing at, after they got ashore.

"Dick," said Dab in an undertone, as they were leaving the market, "you look out, now: you must have as good a time as any of us, or I won't feel right about it.

" "Jes' you sail right ahead, Cap'n Dab.

Dab felt his respect for city boys increasing rapidly, and Dick remarked, "Ef he don't know dis coas' mos' as well as I know de bay!"

Even Dab Kinzer was contented to look without talking; and Dick Lee, although he had not a word to say, found unusual difficulty in keeping his mouth shut.

" Dab Kinzer felt like walking very straight as he followed his "leader," and Dick Lee had to use all the strength he had to keep himself from taking his hat right off when he went in.

There was any amount of glitter and shine, in all directions; and Dab had a confused idea that he had never before believed that the world contained so many tables.

Cap'n Dab couldn't steer t'rough dis yer." The "steering" was well done; and it brought them nearly to the farther end of the great, splendid room, and seated them at a round table that seemed as well furnished as even Mrs. Foster's own.

" Dab Kinzer felt his face flush fiery red; and he was on the point of saying something, he hardly knew what, when Ford looked calmly up into the mahogany face of the mulatto waiter, with, "You refer to my friend from Africa?

" Joe and Fuz were looking as if they were dreadfully ashamed of something; but poor Dick was sitting up as straight as a ramrod, under the influence of a glance that he had taken at the face of Dab Kinzer.

Said he, in reply to an angry remark from Dab Kinzer, "It's all humbug.

Joe and Fuz stood it out, indeed, mainly because they were in some way more afraid of Dab and Ford and Frank than they were of even Augustus.

Their first errand was to the baggage-room; and they were on their way when Dab Kinzer thoughtfully remarked, "Now, Joe, here we've dragged you and Fuz away up here, miles and miles out of your way.

" "But that'll take us right up north to Grantley," added Dab, with a long-drawn breath of expectation.

" "Needn't be afraid of us, I guess," said Ford Foster, with a benevolent and protecting expression on his face; while Dab drew a mental picture of the fair Almira as a sort of up-country copy of Annie Foster.

"Dab," said Dick, "if it was any fellers but them said it, I'd want to go home.

" "Well, yes," said Dab quietly; "but then, that's just it.

" "Is dar really any fun in lyin', do you s'pose, Dab?" "Can't say, Dick.

Dab and his friends saw that valley and village often enough afterwards; but never again did it wear to them precisely the same look it put on that morning, in the growing light of that noble September day.

" Dab was bewildered enough, just then, to wonder how such a weak-minded, malicious old dwarf as had been painted to him, could have managed to get and keep so high a position in so remarkably beautiful a place as Grantley.

"Mrs. Myers will hardly be up so early as this," said Dab.

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