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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
drabble .
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Examples
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The very ground the houses stood on seemed weary and drabbled, almost asking for rusty tin cans.
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I picked up his hand, laid the oil-drabbled amulet across his palm, and closed his fingers round it.
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Nothin 'looks pretty then, and it always makes me think o' folks when they've been wearin 'their summer clothes for three months, and everything's all faded and dusty and drabbled.
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It was a long, tiresome walk through the outskirts of the town, where the dwelling-houses were, -- long rows of two-story bricks drabbled with soot-stains.
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Our feet were wet as it was, and the man from Boston was sadly drabbled.
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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 furrows stand dumb and disconsolate, irresolute in leaf, and without flower or fruit.
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She used to come to school with such smooth, clean pantalets, while mine were splashed with mud, drabbled by the wet grass, or all wrinkles from having been rolled up.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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She looked over at his bearish figure, snuff-drabbled waistcoat, and shock of black hair.
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The drabbled plume of my hat swept the water, and I heard Labarthe curse under his breath, and beg me remember that the canoe was laden.
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Isella was found to be a mother; and then the storm burst upon her and drabbled her in the dust as fearlessly as the summer-wind sweeps down and besmirches the lily it has all summer been wooing and flattering.
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