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Definition of Drabbled
1. drabble [v] - See also: drabble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drabbled
Literary usage of Drabbled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1875)
"How many persons are in the world as flies that have been caught in some sweet
liquid, that have got out at last upon the side of the cup, drabbled, ..."
2. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"Her dress skirt was gone, her petticoat wet and drabbled, and the waist of her
dress was almost torn from her body. Her hair hung in damp strings; ..."
3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"At first we see only what is uprooted and ploughed in, — the daisy drabbled, and
the violet crushed, — and the first trees planted amid the unsightly ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"... hence applied to the rush basket stuffed, used for kneeling on at church.
Doxy, s. an old wife. " Here comes the old man, with his dosy." drabbled ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... drabbled divinity as that. About the King's follower, the Viscount
Castlewood—orphaned of his son, ruined by his fidelity, bearing many wounds and marks ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"... With drabbled seaweed round its feet; A star-like sail against the sky, Where
sapphire heaven and ocean meet; This, with the waters swirling o'er A ..."
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