Instead of bargaining, as innocent people do, however small the price demanded, he just Dabbed down the money.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Here and there Mavis had of course Dabbed her small prettinesses-blue china and a clock on the mantel-shelf, colored cushions, photographs of the children, views of Rodchurch High Street, the Chase, Rodhaven Pier; and the old and the new, the useful and the ornamental, alike whispered to her of fulfilled desires, gratified fancies, and William Dale.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
He grabbed a filthy piece of blotting-paper and Dabbed it cheerfully over Gordon's name in the book, while the latter smiled at the monument of enterprise himself.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum