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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Yet that driblet is enough to lead to the synthesis of the potent stuff.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, the thing is done as far as I am concerned, and I can almost find it in my heart to be sorry that Clara has got this driblet of money.

From The Belton Estate by Trollope, Anthony