Theoretically, let it be freely granted, the "driblet method" of amendment is the proper one for both Prayer Book and Constitution, but the fact that the Convention had eyes to see that this was a case to which the maxims of pure mathematics did not apply should be set down to its credit, rather than its discredit.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
"He, with his whole soul-and not a driblet of it as usual-beaming in his eyes faced her on the ottoman.
"Love's Usuries"
Louis Creswicke
But that next day 'twas Sunday, and whiles I was kneeling in the church the powder, the gun, the old man and the money-" Hilary gestured facetiously for the narrator: "That's how millions have got to go in this business, and this driblet-why, I might have lent it, myself, if I'd been here!
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable