bedaubs

The public is astonished into liberality — the scullion eats from those trenchers he scoured before — the footman is admitted into the coach behind which he was wont to stand — and the bricklayer, instead of plastering walls, bedaubs his illustrious partner with the mortar of his praise.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

The literal meaning of this line is, When the death-salve bedaubs

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

His sin bedaubs him, mars all his good impression.

Memories and Studies William James 1876

His sin bedaubs him, mars all his good impression.

Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

His sin bedaubs him, mars all his good impression.

Essays: First Series (1841) 1841

-- The public is astonished into liberality -- the scullion eats from those trenchers he scoured before -- the footman is admitted into the coach behind which he was wont to stand -- and the bricklayer, instead of plastering walls, bedaubs his illustrious partner with the mortar of his praise.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02 Tobias George Smollett 1746

-- The public is astonished into liberality -- the scullion eats from those trenchers he scoured before -- the footman is admitted into the coach behind which he was wont to stand -- and the bricklayer, instead of plastering walls, bedaubs his illustrious partner with the mortar of his praise.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias George Smollett 1746

"Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will be showing it, and so spoil it; like a child that will constantly be showing its fine new coat, till at length it all bedaubs it with its pah hands.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 Various