Sentence examples for daub from inspiring English sources

Rationally, a coloured daub with no figures or landscape, nothing to identify and interpret, ought to be meaningless: a decoration at best.

And Leigh does explore it as Turner shockingly adds his scarlet daub to the seascape Helvoetsluys as if he were vandalising his own work – until, with targeted panache, he turns the blob into a recognisable buoy.

A ceasefire brokered by the governments of neighbouring countries on December 31st in Ethiopia has yet to be given a starting date.Adding to fears of further mayhem, the "white army", so called because its Lou Nuer tribesmen daub themselves in white ash, is also on the march.

They daub rocks with instructions—"Slow and steady", "Respect nature"—and the names of their battalions.

His pilots learnt to travel with a pot of washable emulsion paint, ready to daub new identification numbers on the fuselages.

Youngsters daub anti-India slogans on walls, yell at Indian police and soldiers to "go home", and hurl stones.In turn its residents have taken a beating.

She snares rabbits, milks cows, eats birds' eggs, and establishes a particular connection with a visiting fox who is both her competitor and, as a clever woodland survivor, the object of Anne's grudging admiration.This is not, however, an unpeopled wilderness; the wattle-and-daub walls of Anne's hut are strung with lost dummies, and joggers occasionally crash bemused into her clearing.

During the Mogollon 1 period, the people lived in small villages of circular wattle-and-daub pit houses, the floors of which were from 10 to 40 inches (25 to 100 cm) below ground level; entrance was usually through tunnels.

While evidence for architecture is not completely clear, it appears that by about 1500 bc there were small villages of wattle-and-daub huts scattered along the shores of the lakes of the Valley of Mexico, with inhabitants subsisting largely on corn bean squash cultivation, supplemented by the meat of game animals and by various aquatic resources.

Compact settlements of wattle-and-daub houses with mat or thatched roofs range in size from 100 to 3,000 inhabitants.

Like several other groups of Southeast Indians, the Natchez built substantial earthen mounds as foundations for large wattle-and-daub temple structures.