barbouiller

Vous avez cherché à me barbouiller aux gens de la France.

Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829

Though far unworthy to enter into so learned and political a correspondence, I am employed pour barbouiller une page de 7 pounces et demie en hauteur, et ` a en largeur; and to inform you that we are at Florence, a city of Italy, and the capital of

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757