Which preposition to use with daub

with Occurrences 26%

His face was hideously daubed with paint, which told me more forcibly than words could have done that he was on the war-path.

of Occurrences 15%

There were no feathers, no daubs of paint, which should have been apparent to the touch, and I whispered, with my mouth close to the fellow's ear, while yet pinioning his arms in such a fashion that he could not well move: "Who are you?" "A white man," came the reply, the words sounding thick and muffled because of the squeezing which the speaker's throat had received.

in Occurrences 4%

" "Why?" Mr. Grimm was peering through the inscrutable darkness, straight into her facea white daub in the gloom, shapeless, indistinct.

over Occurrences 2%

They daub over their faces most nastily with grease; and they never keep their beds on account of child-bearing.

to Occurrences 2%

Does it evince a particularly exalted artistic sense to prefer a hideous daub to a Titian or Raphael?

at Occurrences 2%

But what are you daubing at, Edoardo?

on Occurrences 1%

He was leaning against the door of the school-house,a red, flaunting house, the daub on the landscape: but, having his back to it, he could not see it, so through his half-shut eyes he suffered the beauty of the scene to act on him.

for Occurrences 1%

Even a clever actor, when satisfied that he is to receive judgment from an unrefined and uneducated audience, will degenerate and grow slovenly; and from what I have observed of the London stage, I see it is the custom to daub for the galleries, or to creep through the business under cover of a cold, tame mediocrity.

between Occurrences 1%

It works out like this," he pursued, stepping back and studying his daub between half-closed eyes, "the old man had struck ore as usual.

from Occurrences 1%

It is slow work at first; until you have made a name, every one looks critically at your work; when once you have been pronounced a rising artist, every daub from your brush has a good market value.

by Occurrences 1%

Landor, always devoted to pictures, but without much judgment, now added to his collection; Browning in one of his letters to Forster tells how he has found him "particularly delighted by the acquisition of three execrable daubs by Domenichino and Gaspar Poussin most benevolently battered by time".

Which preposition to use with  daub