| 单词 | driblet |
| 例句 | The Abbot wiped driblets of water from his patient’s chin. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “A Mandarin tutor came weekly to Whackadoodles to teach us driblets of vocabulary and once in a while a song,” Ari says. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Ivanishvili’s political opponents, however, compare him to a feudal lord, who sprays little driblets of wealth on people to buy their good will. A Love of Trees or a Display of Power? The Odd Park of an Oligarch. 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z She did this about a dozen times, watching the saliva dribble down the pane and speculating with herself which driblet would make the longest journey. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z If there is within reach an ocean of truth, why is it doled out to us in driblets which hardly wet our lips, when we are burning with thirst? Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago 2012-04-18T02:00:15.717Z The party went to pieces at Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas, but its members reached Oregon somewhat in driblets during that year, and the one following. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z The weather soon became most bitterly cold, and as they sailed or rowed toward Fury Beach the sea-water often froze as it fell in driblets on their garments. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z When the critical time was passed, they seemed suddenly to have awakened and to be resolved to rush wilfully by driblets into the open jaws of death. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Regretfully she saw that the boy was preparing to descend and admire his handiwork, because two driblets were still progressing slowly downward, one of which had been her original fancy for the prize of endurance. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Why were driblets despatched to contend with myriads? My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z At market opening to-morrow sell P. S. L. large blocks and repurchase in driblets as price goes down. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z The best of the town trade came from the army and navy, but there were still a few small driblets coming in from the interior. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z Our shouts brought Charon out of his abode; and he ferried us over in driblets. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Even then he lied, shifted, dodged, accused, but one after another his lies were met and overthrown, and at last the miserable story came out in driblets, but the chain was complete. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z Fine promises and a few driblets of men are all we have received;" and on November 13th he writes again: "Perchance we are on the eve of losing Italy. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z There is a progressive ratio in the numbers of a military force: a fact that is too often overlooked: and bringing them up in driblets can only result in their being beaten in detail. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z An army that lands in driblets three months after time is scarcely calculated to succeed against a rival army which has spent that interval in equipping itself for the fray. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z They rarely do, mother says, and the money is usually spent in driblets before you realize it. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z On Firmian's coronation-day he invested twenty-one florins in a watch, with the view of avoiding frittering away his money by driblets; he thought it well to cast an anchor of hope into his watch-pocket. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Now, however, in order to obtain substantial help from taxes instead of mere driblets, the Valois needed a stronger lever than cunning or force. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Her means were all absorbed in paying off the driblets she owed in all directions, but yet there were comparatively large sums remaining. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z As the Company went on to join the line, two more Boers were captured in a farm and taken on, the line arriving at its destination in driblets an hour after dark. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z News of what is going on inside the Chamber escapes by driblets; as soon as a Deputy or a reporter comes out he is button-holed and interviewed. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z From the extremity of the Jardin itself a mere driblet of a moraine proceeds, running parallel to the former, and like it disappearing at the summit of the cascade. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. It had thrown the aeroplane almost on end, and in that manner drained a few last driblets of gasolene from the depleted tank into the feed pipes. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship He, with his whole soul—and not a driblet of it as usual—beaming in his eyes faced her on the ottoman. Love's Usuries With the last driblet of employees from the store a woman cut diagonally through a group and hurried toward Miss Prokes. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Sandili is trying to slip through into the Amatola at one rush, but sending that, he’s sending his chaps through in driblets. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance All that I recollect of him was that he gave us D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation in driblets as if we were rather a superior class of Sunday scholars. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself He was fed by driblets from day to day, and lived from hand to mouth while the siege of Tournai proceeded to the east of him. Malplaquet Charge and charge again, was now the order, but it was done in driblets, without organization and in great disorder. Last Days of the Rebellion The Second New York Cavalry (Harris' Light) at Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House, April 8 and 9, 1865 They never entered Appalachia until after it had been won and settled by a far manlier race, and even then they went only in driblets. Our Southern Highlanders For pity’s sake, let’s have no driblets left that we shall have to be inviting to dinner or to tea. Household Papers and Stories On finding a battle actually in progress, Gates reënforced the troops who were fighting against odds, with driblets of a regiment at a time. Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. The attempt at refection had a poor show of success, its only triumph worth mentioning being the exhibition of a driblet of champagne in milk. When Ghost Meets Ghost It was folly to send troops out in driblets, and spend money in the same way. George Brown One hates to take sweet things in driblets, with a spoon, when the soup-ladle is handy. Phemie Frost's Experiences And in the meantime he was storing up his wealth, not in driblets, dependent upon the seasons for their extent, but in huge sums which were proportionate to the risks he was prepared to run. The Hound From The North Silver Star was 25 and 30 to 1 all over the ring and a friend of Caley's unloaded the two hundred in little driblets so's nobody would get suspicious and cut the price too far. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories A jazz-band will strike up, coughing out the nauseated, retching intervals so stimulating to our feet, and two by two, in driblets, streamlets, and lastly in a volume, the guests will take the floor. The Dust Flower It is not necessary to pour on the water in driblets. All About Coffee Each night she hoped to find the receipts larger, and indeed they did from time to time advance suddenly, only to drop back to desolating driblets the following night. The Light of the Star A Novel Paragot's torrent of words had dried up, and the talk seemed to flow in unsatisfying driblets. The Belovéd Vagabond Men continued to arrive in driblets, from the beginning of December to the first of January. Life in a Tank Some of the lorries were armoured with boiler-plate by the shipbuilding firm at Dunkirk, and new armoured cars began to arrive in driblets from England. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Raging floods in the wet season, and mere driblets in the dry, they are at present denied to the most powerful or shallowest of river steamboats. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government The more confidence increases, the more are even the smallest driblets of capital awakened from their slumbers, and made active and productive. Principles Of Political Economy The full knowledge of these things came in driblets to the refugees gathering at White River Farm, filtering 295 through piece by piece as each party came in. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies No, not so; all he had got to say in that way was like a few driblets from the great ocean of German speculation on kindred subjects by Goethe and others. Stories of Authors, British and American The reënforcing of the firing line by driblets of a squad or a few men has no appreciable effect. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Some others quietly realized their means in like manner by driblets and funded them abroad. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages “I thought you said there was a driblet of water running out at the crevice,”remarked Tom. The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado However, the Home authorities chose to send out their help in driblets, and the same Home authorities were supposed to know how the driblets might be adequately disposed. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 All this comes out in driblets after Nones, and brings us to 1171 A.D., brother Hugh being aged about one and thirty. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England “It is just as well not to tell it by driblets,” Stephen said. With Cochrane the Dauntless The dense columns had shrunk to companies, the companies to driblets, which finally fled westward to the hills, leaving the field white with jibbeh-clad corpses like a landscape dotted with snowdrifts. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan It was this slight overflow which supplied the driblet we had followed up from the cañon below. The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado The tiny garrison, it was true, was receiving reinforcements, but these came in by driblets. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 He had had a hard struggle for a living with money coming in by driblets. Historical Essays And yet this miserable driblet of one in twenty, exhibits in the criminal returns for Lanarkshire an increase of 75 per cent in seven years, or a duplication in ten. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 He opened it, and shared the driblet with a few of the old campaigners. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan For the present the United States sent us an increased quantity of cotton wool, but mere driblets of corn except in seasons of scarcity. William Pitt and the Great War One day he suddenly stopped coming and, although Nan was discreetly silent, in due time it came to old Abe's ears by various driblets of gossip that Nan had refused him. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Now I believe that a thorough mastery of these three books will be worth more to the historical student than any driblets of science that he may pick up in an unsystematic college course. Historical Essays Other men have little rills and driblets of affection for sisters and cousins and aunts, but everything in me went out to you. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 The plank which he had removed now rose a trifle and water was filtering in, all around, in driblets. The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective By driblets, a scrap here and a scrap there, I learned something about his private life. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights In driblets the non-revolting part of this Gaeta army was taken to the eastern shores of the Adriatic, for the purpose of making "incidents" in Montenegro. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 These deep gorges occur, I believe, for the most part in limestone strata; and the effects which the merest driblet of water can produce on limestone are quite astonishing. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Doyle added it from the jug in driblets of about a teaspoonful at a time. General John Regan I can stand a bucketful of feeling drawn out of me, but I hate to let it waste away in a drop here and a driblet there about nothing at all. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow For pity's sake, let's have no driblets left that we shall have to be inviting to dinner or to tea. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 They were a driblet of two hundred thousand such wretches who overran and menaced the city, a product of the dense illiteracy of the time. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette Having landed in driblets and having been reassembled in camp as a whole, the division presently paraded, which made another story deemed worthy of columns upon columns in print. From Place to Place In spite of the watchful British M. P.'s, Ruby Queens and Scissors cigarettes were soon bringing in small driblets of cabbage and onions and potatoes. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Men were coming in driblets from the main street. Oh, You Tex! No oil left, no coal left—if Mars ever had a Carboniferous Age—and no water-power—just the driblets of energy they can get from the sun. Valley of Dreams If it consists in antiquity, where are the ancient gentry?—a remnant of pauper ploughmen rotting on their driblets of land. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette All that day driblets of volunteers arrived at Steens' gate, and at nightfall a party of twoscore from Porthleven, the widow's native village, where it seemed that her conduct was peculiarly detested. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales You see, this doing good to the world by driblets amounts to just nothing. The Confidence-Man The fact is, Mrs Grumbit, I am a merchant and I send very large supplies of home-made articles to foreign lands, and two thousand pairs of socks are a mere driblet. Martin Rattler It would not do to attempt to capture them by driblets, for if a few were pressed, the rest would take alarm and hide away where we were not likely to find them. Hurricane Hurry The driblet of population thus strung scantily along the banks of the vast river seemed as nothing in the mighty forest by which it was surrounded. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette To dole out military appropriations in driblets is to invite disaster and ultimate bankruptcy. Forty-Six Years in the Army She did not, however, at once announce the information she had to communicate, but reserved to herself the pleasure of giving it out by driblets. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea We only obtained this information in driblets; but one thing was certain, the French sloop had got right away, and my father frowned as he thought of his lost silver. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore He scratched and scratched, but the water was exhausted, and only trickled into the legitimate holes by driblets. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War The reenforcing of the firing line by driblets of a squad or a few men has no appreciable effect. Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) The water was treasured like gold and served out in driblets. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People "That driblet is over here to pick out an heiress and fall in love with her because he needs the money," Hep growled as his goat got away in the lead. You Should Worry Says John Henry C. "I should say four or five hundred, sir; they was going by in driblets for the best part of half an hour." On the Heels of De Wet Could driblets of the same stellar knowledge have been here deliberately fed to warring communities? Key Out of Time That illustrates perfectly Grim's way of letting out information in driblets. The Lion of Petra They do not begin by driblets on a hillside, nor can they be traced to a spring. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book In a moment, everything was glowing-hot: driblets of aluminum and silver were running down from the instruments. Flight From Tomorrow In reply to this question, Mr. Hudson told me that at various times they had received in little driblets to the amount of ninety-five pounds, or thereabouts. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) She had it doled out to him in driblets, and allowed no more than would serve for a day and a half's service. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 Wayland poured the last very driblets of water sediments from the skin bag. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The men did not come in a body but by driblets. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" We came to quite a group of villages having food, and remain, as we got only driblets in the last two camps. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi Being certain that the Chinese commanders would attempt to revenge this blow, what driblets of men could be spared have been lent to make the German chain more continuous. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation Half an hour wasted by driblets to-day, would ensure them for the morrow the diversion of an hour or two in coming to the church and returning from it. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster Afterwards, years afterwards, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet, to the Government and tell their children how they had slain the redcoats by thousands. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling He pulled off his boots and stockings, and ran on, conning his footprints and the driblets of sand split ahead from his bare toes. The Ship of Stars When made up in driblets as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) It was moved in driblets, and some details did not reach Buluwayo until September. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans And if raised in driblets, on what will it be spent? Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union But one look at Mr. Soden assured him that he could and that he must, and so, with an agony painful to the spectators, he told the story in driblets. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Fear adds to the waste matter of fatigue little driblets of adrenalin and other secretions which must somehow be eliminated before equilibrium is reestablished. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy But poor driblets of lyrical praise should not be their sole guerdon, I guess. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 The driblets kept on coming, and, one by one, the number of dead on the road was augmented. The Last Shot They arrived by driblets, without any plan of operations, and it was not until August that their battering train left Toulon. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 The fact is, Mrs. Grumbit, I am a merchant, and I send very large supplies of home-made articles to foreign lands, and two thousand pairs of socks are a mere driblet. Martin Rattler Referring to the driblets that had been contributed by Government and the Geographical Society, he proposed that in Bombay they should raise as much as both. The Personal Life of David Livingstone A thin driblet of local items occupied a column on the third and fourth pages, and a single column of editorials ran down the second. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado He would let loose at the proper time to support the infantry attack, when there were enough driblets across the road to make a charge. The Last Shot For I do so strongly feel if one sets out to do good it shouldn't be by driblets, with your name, in full, printed in subscription lists against every small donation. Deadham Hard If the estaminet seems capable of being held, I will signal to you, Sergeant Mucklewame, and you will send your party across, in driblets, not forgetting the Lewis gun. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand "Do you expect to keep me on miserable driblets like that?" Round the Block "I think I've got six hundred and fifty napoleons in my pocket, instead of waiting to get them in driblets from my brother." Mr. Scarborough's Family Official news of importance trickles in in driblets: for the rest, newspaper men, miles from the front, are driven to eke out their dispatches with negligible trivialities. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War These were ridiculously inadequate to the wants of twenty-five hundred people, and food could be issued to them only in driblets quite insufficient to sustain life. Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People One locomotive will swallow a vast quantity of water at once; another must be fed by driblets; no one can say why. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Devil's Dictionary Not blaming me for standing on my own defence against a crew of plunderers, who could suck me dry by driblets? Our Mutual Friend He had also got into debt, and required further assistance to enable him to proceed with their construction; but the Commissioners would only help him by driblets. Men of Invention and Industry I have a little money of my own from my mother's estate, which my father sends me by driblets. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories You are hopelessly bankrupt, and the driblets of aid you solicit will not enable you to stave off ruin. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. A thin driblet of short local items occupied a column on the third and fourth pages, a single column of editorial on the second. The Gray Dawn Of the wounded the last lingering driblets have been brought to hospital here. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy In public as in private business it is much more economic to look payments in the face and make them with our eyes open than to let the money slip away in driblets. Speculations from Political Economy It was the croakers who bought up the supplies, and hoarded them in garrets, and retailed them in driblets, thereby causing the enormous prices which, according to them, foretold the coming downfall. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee The little chapels in the quieter streets were dropping out their driblets of people and the lights in the church windows were being extinguished one by one. The Christian A Story Here, on the other side, is an intermittent flow, sometimes in scanty driblets, sometimes in painful drops, sometimes more full and free on the pastures of the wilderness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The answers were to be addressed to her newspaper agent, who was instructed not to forward them to her in driblets, but deliver them all together. Fan : the story of a young girl's life Here he is going to be beaten off at Dover; and then, I suppose, at the next port; and so forth, till the whole season is wasted, and the ships and men lost by driblets. Hereward, the Last of the English The electors will better stand a crushing blow than coercion by driblets. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 The remainder of the amount was given in driblets. A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States I had slept by driblets as opportunity offered. The Yeoman Adventurer At present, it is being administered by driblets, as if it were a potent medicine, "a few drops to be taken occasionally in a teaspoon." Science & Education To-day it was here, giving a good account of itself against tremendous odds, spending itself in driblets to give the Allies a chance to get up. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front She tied the ships to harbour by supplying the stores in driblets. Sea-Power and Other Studies "It doesn't seem to me," Kendrick pointed out, "that more than driblets can be expected from anywhere, except, of course, the greatest source of all, Canada and the United States." The Profiteers As Saffron, he realized the money by driblets—turned his securities into notes, his notes into gold. The Secret of the Tower With all the coxswain's skill, and the oarsmen's technique, the passage of the surf was a lively one, and little driblets of water marked the trail of the officers as they shuffled up the beach. The Mystery We received, in driblets, small supplies of the regulation wagons, some droves of unbroken mules, some ordnance stores, and a fair amount of clothing. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 These were all, except 400 Canadians who arrived in driblets, some while the battle was actually going on. The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm He sat at his desk, occupying himself as best he could with the driblets of work which came to him. Psmith in the City This might well be called the method of study by driblets. How to Study and Teaching How to Study Editorial embarrassments are increased, however, by the difficulty of finding these intellectualized old Americans who have drifted away from the old magazines and are being painfully collected in driblets by the weeklies and the reviews. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism But they came in by driblets, and most of them were drunk. The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 No, Gwendoline," he said slowly, drawing his words out by driblets, so as to prolong her suspense, "I oughtn't to have mentioned it at all. What's Bred in the Bone Smoke could hear the metallic strike and hack of the knife and occasional driblets of ice slid over the bulge and came down to him. Smoke Bellew However, the thing is done as far as I am concerned, and I can almost find it in my heart to be sorry that Clara has got this driblet of money. The Belton Estate I suppose you prefer theft on a small scale, stealing by driblets. File No. 113 Day after day passed, and the ammunition was only returned in driblets, after constant and most urgent demands. Ismailia Now and then a batch of men were put into khaki which arrived at the quartermaster's stores in driblets. At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. A man, no doubt, may live at Pau on driblets; may pay his way and drink his bottle of cheap wine, and enjoy life after a fashion while reading Galignani and looking at the mountains. The Last Chronicle of Barset It is these little driblets, distributed among too many, that do the harm. Howards End It is these little driblets, distributed among too many, that do the harm.� Howards End The final driblets of his fortune had gone into his last adventure in the Great Gobi Desert from which he had never returned. The Sleuth of St. James's Square Supplies, too, came for a long time by daily driblets instead of in bulk; this is now all remedied, and I hope to start on Tuesday. Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Volume 2 The wretched, for the first time, discover an issue: they dash through it, at first in driblets, then in a mass, and rebellion becomes as universal as resignation was in the past. The French Revolution - Volume 1 If the cook is of a frugal mind, and wills you to eat driblets, driblets you shall eat, under one shape or another. Gala-days Afterwards, years afterwards, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet, to the Government, and tell their children how they had slain the redcoats by thousands. Soldiers Three - Part 2 "I sha'n't care if they don't have a driblet of gravy at supper tonight." Hiram the Young Farmer It appears that Burle only paid him in driblets and had got himself into a muddle—a confusion of figures which the devil himself couldn't disentangle. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola Why this decay by driblets; why not a decay en masse? The World Set Free Why, if this bubble hadn't broken now," he said, tearing the letter he had written into fragments and moodily casting them away, by driblets, "how could I have gone abroad? Bleak House |
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