driblet

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Suwon and its airfield were lost and Red flanking drives to the east were under way when the first driblet of U.S. ground troops�two battalions of the 24th Infantry Division�reached the zone of battle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Compared with Ted Turner's $1 billion pledge to the United Nations, White's largesse is a driblet.

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But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged.

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Early this year they even managed to ship a driblet of cars into the U.S. itself.

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He, with his whole soul—and not a driblet of it as usual—beaming in his eyes faced her on the ottoman.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis