She didn't have time to powder, and she didn't have time to dab on paint, and, besides, she had had no rehearsals.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
From their shabby, whitewashed wattle-and-dab hut on the outskirts of the town the Schoolmaster and Deirdre could watch the twilight dying on the plains and breathe all the fragrance of the trees by the river when they were in bloom.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
If you'll let him have the new book, he'll pay you two hundred pounds down, only as a first dab of the royalties of course, and boom it better than ever, and he guarantees a still greater success, providing it's one half as good.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke