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Definition of Drivelers
1. driveler [n] - See also: driveler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drivelers
Literary usage of Drivelers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... grim countenance, for he thought, " That which these dotards and drivelers
have been mighty enough to find, shall I not be mighty enough to flee from ? ..."
2. Union Portraits by Gamaliel Bradford (1916)
"He wanted no shirkers, no drivelers, no fuss, no make-believe. He exacted, work,
faithful, earnest, driving work. He was in a sense a severe taskmaster, ..."
3. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1857)
"... and empty drivelers. It is a crack in the foundation which runs through the
whole superstructure, mounts to the dome and endangers all. ..."
4. The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato by Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius (1909)
"All drivelers. Well then, man: do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion,
if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will ..."
5. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"Judge. You confounded bunglers 1 Dir. of Schools. You dirty nightcaps! Char. Com.
You pot-bellied drivelers I (All crowd up to them threateningly.) Bob. ..."
6. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"... by such a celebrated Gaul or Briton, in such a town, in such a year, of such
a century, was sufficient cause for the drivelers of the time—the best ..."
7. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"But we come back from that inquiry with a mournful conviction that feeble hands
now hold the reins of state; that drivelers are taken in as counselors, ..."
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