At the last moment he took another dab with the wet sponge against his swollen left eye.

(She makes a dab with the paper-knife, the wasp escapes.) Most extraordinary!

" Tommy rushed to a looking-glass, and found on his forehead and on each cheek an enormous dab of red paint.

The Careys laughed heartily at this evidence of Mrs. Popham's celerity, while Osh, as pleased as possible, gave one dab with his paste brush and went on: "Maria's blood was up one while, 'cause Mis' Bill Harmon always contrives to git her wash out the earliest of a Monday morning.

She looked fondly down upon him and after a few minutes murmured gently, "Laws, honey, ain't yo' shamed to be so han'some?" Little dabs of powder, Little specks of paint, Make my lady's freckles Look as if they ain't.

Not far to the north in the hard blue sky suddenly appeared a little dab of woolly white.

"I do think he might write from his ranch and acknowledge the money I sent him," she told herself now, neglecting the sand-dabs to stare through the galleon window at the floating seaweed on the tide-dark gold-green kelp, like lost laurel-wreaths torn from the brows of drowned divinities.

The test consisted simply in putting a dab of printer's ink on one of the drumsticks at the very last moment before the séance began.

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

This is God's work; but when yours was growing, it was the devil's turn, and he shaped that little dab on your face and called it a nose.

And arter eight dabs, four to each eye, she began to sob as if her 'art would break.