driblet

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

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The rest, except for the driblet evacuated by air, return to rear areas aboard transports, which are usually crowded and cannot hope to have the exceptional facilities of a hospital ship.

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Last month Ashokan with a 17-billion gal. driblet in it was declared virtually empty.

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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.

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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.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend