I used to show her all my collections, even the skeleton of a large monkey which stood in a corner behind my bed, and to hold most unchildlike conversations with the little girl; at other times she would communicate her childishness to me; I cooked for her dolls and physicked them after having first carefully bedaubed their faces with the tokens of the measles and I filled her little garden with all sorts of medical herbs from my herborium.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
A narrow doorway, barely wide enough to admit the big body of the woodman himself; two or three small windows, with diminutive panes of glass set in lead; an enclosure of limited dimensions, girt with a flimsy paling-designed for a garden, but grown into a weed bed; a stack of fire faggots; a shed that gave occasional shelter to a scraggy cob; a clay-bedaubed kennel containing a large fierce-looking mongrel-the cross between sheep-dog and deer-hound; these were the principal features in the external aspect of Dick Dancey's domicile.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Peter became pale through the very rouge that bedaubed his face, and sweat, cold as icicles, rained down his temples.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton