Years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet--Kipling. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
With this driblet in the tide Herod held Qushmarrah. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Fear]
Edgar noticed that Clyde was wearing a necktie with a driblet design. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
He opened it, and shared the driblet with a few of the old campaigners. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
"I sha'n't care if they don't have a driblet of gravy at supper tonight.". From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
The questions immediately posed to us by this nasty driblet of history are clear: Who was crazy?. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head I: Madness and Murderous Violence] Reference
A driblet of water emerged from the spring to flow along a winding channel and finally trickle down into the chasm. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
It was nothing short of a miracle, an Elf offering to tell him everything without having to coax it out, driblet by driblet!. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [You Should Worry Says John Henry] Reference
It's miles wide, you see, at the entrance, but later on it is split into two by the Hohenhörn bank: then it gets shallow and very complicated, and ends in a mere tidal driblet with another name. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
Gougeon took hold of the prisoner's hand roughly, and bound a new gag under the chin and tightly over the head; he then loosened the mouth gag and turned away, without any interest in the sequel, to pick at a driblet of grease running down the side of the candle. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
They don't know how to do it, except the little driblet of Rhodes men. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]
"I thought you said there was a driblet of water running out at the crevice," remarked Tom. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado] Reference
Therefore, it's a higher hazard which consequences in a minor driblet in your credit score. From Wordnik.com. [All about credit cards] Reference
A thin driblet of short local items occupied a column on the third and fourth pages, a single column of editorial on the second. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Dawn] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Rattler] Reference
They were the more amazed at this when they considered that the shipwright work must necessarily be a mere driblet, altogether unworthy the attention of one so wealthy. From Wordnik.com. [Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Evidently the water gets to the sea, or this valley would be a lake like that in the golden ravine, for although it is but a mere driblet of water now, you can see by the banks that a considerable amount comes down in the wet season. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of the Incas] Reference
I think that the woman in the Scriptures who out of her poverty put her mite into the contribution-box got more happiness out of that driblet of generosity and self-sacrifice than some men in our day have experienced in founding a university. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
Medicine, strange to say, had been declared a contraband of war by the Federals, and the surgeon could spare but a driblet of quinine from his small supply; but he left some, and gave various directions with respect to the possible symptoms that might arise. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Union Scout] Reference
A drop here and a driblet there about nothing at all. From Wordnik.com. [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference
A mere phosphorescence of fate, unintelligent and cold, life a driblet of vanity, and eternity itself a protracted and amplified nothingness. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons for the New Life.] Reference
Hilary gestured facetiously for the narrator: "That's how millions have got to go in this business, and this driblet -- why, I might have lent it, myself, if I'd been here!. From Wordnik.com. [Kincaid's Battery] Reference
I could sell the house in a week, for it's always full and there are always lone women like me with a little driblet of money to exchange for a boarding house -- heaven help us for the fools we are! ". From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Oh, and you-all will like this driblet of reason: “”The market is now convinced that the U.S. and world negotiators will do just about anything to bring Iran to the negotiating table,” said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at vice president of Alaron Trading. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Killed] Reference
Clara has got this driblet of money. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
Even to the driblet of a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
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