They went through drab halls and into drab rooms where drab occupants greeted them drably, and Jane ached with the ugliness of it.
"Jane Journeys On"
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
The drably ancient and moth-eaten story with which every unsuccessful gambler seeks to establish an alibi.
"The Heart of the Range"
William Patterson White
The drive that night, though it divided the drably commonplace from the wildly bizarre-though it was the bridge between the ordinary and the outre-has left no impression upon my mind.
"The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu"
Sax Rohmer