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driblet
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Definition:1. A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent.
Burke.
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all this gay attire was no more than decking the victim out for sacrifice, whilst I innocently attributed all to mere friendship and kindness in the sweet good Mrs. Brown; who, I was forgetting to mention, had, under pretence of keeping my money safe, got from me, without the least hesitation, the driblet (so I now call it) which remained to me after the expences of my journey.
John Cleland. Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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The Republic made a great mistake, to my mind, in rejecting the overtures of the Hohenzollern, or responding to them only in driblets.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 4]
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“O, well! Lock everything you can, and keep the key. Give out by driblets, and never inquire for odds and ends,—it isn’t best.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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