Drops

Examples

• But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mr. Bhaer saw the drops on her cheeks, though she turned her head away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Lily took no sleeping-drops that night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I shall close this book, and take my full dose--five hundred drops. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Here is a weekly allowance, with a certain weight of coals, drops from the clouds upon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The flag drops and covers the eyes of the animal so that he is at a loss what to do; it is jerked from him and the torment is renewed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Cold drops hung on her fair, lovely forehead. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The brush being dipped into the coloured matter, the comb is passed over the brush in such manner as to cause the paint to spatter the object with fine drops or particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As sold it is invariably too thick for this purpose, and should be thinned by adding several drops of balsam of copaiba to as much ink as may be taken on a salt spoon. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The oranges continue along these rollers until the space between the rollers has widened to the point where each particular size drops into a labeled bin. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I saw her busied for a moment at a little stand; she poured out water, and measured drops from a phial: glass in hand, she approached me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I had a box of chocolate drops, and the picture I wanted to copy, said Amy, showing her mail. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling, replied De Bracy; but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Her name's Brown Molly, sir, and she'll go till she drops. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If all the drops in it were dried up, what would become of the sea? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And then he drops down with his whole weight upon ME! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Professionally he declines and he falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When this vapor meets a cold wind or is chilled in any way, condensation takes place, and a mass of tiny drops of water or of small particles of snow is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The machine operator drops the slabs of gum into a feeding chute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The rain-drops are still falling, large, heavy, and few, said Doctor Manette. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The top of the carriage was up and there were drops of water on the driver's coat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If one holds a cold lid in the steam of boiling water, drops of water gather on the lid; the steam is cooled by contact with the cold lid and _condenses_ into water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Another method, though not so effectual, is to pour a few drops of benzole upon the file and brush thoroughly with a scratch brush. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Here self-defence was impossible, and individual drops stuck into her like the arrows into Saint Sebastian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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