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  • I have done the make up for my friends getting married, and my own ... but it is fun when a "real" artist can give me a new type of make up... then again, since I have freckles and like them, I don't like foundation and usually everyone dabbs on a lot of that.

    Random Things Amanda 2008

  • Bid my servant get all things ready for a journey to the country: mend my breeches; hire a washerwoman, making her allow for old shirts, socks, dabbs and markees, which she bought of me ...

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Bid my servant get all things ready for a journey to the country: mend my breeches; hire a washerwoman, making her allow for old shirts, socks, dabbs and markees, which she bought of me ...

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

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