Down below, to fetch the dabs "The Master of the Ceremonies", - George Manville Fenn

Between dabs she was looking down the mountain, with an occasional wave of her puff toward some particularly " striking effect" of fire and sunset and rolling smoke and tall pines seen dimly in the background. "The Lookout Man", - B. M. Bower

They drew together and talked it over, flew down close to the Clubhouse, flew about it in circles, examined it on every side, made even one perilous trip across the roof, the tips of their feet tapping it in vicious little dabs "Angel Island", - Inez Haynes Gillmore

" Good Lord- what-" " I don't suppose this is the original brown paper, nor these the original dabs of black wax," remarked the chief as he produced a pocket pen- knife. "The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation", - J. S. Fletcher