Sidenote: Bass drums louder and faster] Drabs and vixens in a flash made whole!
Look downward and the river throws back its innumerable hues--all the coal tar dyes plus all the duns and drabs of Thames mud.
Bass drum louder) Drabsand vixens in a flash made whole!
Woe worth the hour that I came here; And woe worth him that wrought this gear, A sort of drabs and queans have me blest, Was ever creature half so evil drest?
No, good wife Chat, I would be loth such drabs should blot my name; But yet ye must so order all, that Diccon bear no blame.
He takes existence sadly--too sadly, it may well be; but his drabs and greys provide an atmosphere that is almost inseparable to some of us from our gaunt London streets.
Cards are foolish in this jail, I think, Yet they play for shoes, for drabs and drink.
A sort of drabs and queanes have me blest-- Was ever creature halfe so evill drest?
No, Goodwife Chat, I wold be loth such drabs shulde blot my name; But yet ye must so order all that Diccon beare no blame.
Where hens fall a cackling, take heede to their nest, where drabs fall a whispring, take heede to the rest.
Such Lords ill example doth giue, where verlets[E392] anddrabs so may liue.
If noise ye heare, Looke all be cleare: Least drabs doe noie thee, And theeues destroie thee.
To-day I returned my visits to the Duke's daughters;[40] the insolentdrabs came up to my very mouth to salute me.
Some of the residences, thus frankly proffering friendship to the passer-by, were of wood painted in drabs and dusky reds, with bulging windows which marked the native yearning for the mediaeval, and shingles that strove to be accounted tiles.
A sort of drabs and queans have me blest-- Was ever creature half so evil drest?
No, Goodwife Chat, I would be loth such drabs should blot my name; But yet ye must so order all that Diccon bear no blame.
For this we can give no rule, except that drabs and other "Quaker colors," as they are frequently called, are amongst the most permanent of all colors.
And yet can I beggars thither lead Where they shall, for lumps of bread, Satisfy their desire: Such drabs some there be That require none other fee, Not yet any other hire.
Now shall this glass of Reason soon try me As fair as those drabs that so doth belie me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drabs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
