1 In it was an old woman with a lip full of snuff and a weather-beaten face under a drab sunbonnet, driving a dawdling old mule.
2 Oozing out from every drab wall, she felt a forbidding spirit which she could never conquer.
3 His drab courageous wife drove the wagon, and she helped Kennicott support him as he hobbled up the steps, into the house.
4 Thinking of Hugh's teething all the way, she did not reflect that this store, these drab blocks, made up all her background.
5 drab cottages, artificial stone bungalows, square painty stolidities with immaculate clapboards and broad screened porches and tidy grass-plots.
6 His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
7 Simeon Halliday, a tall, straight, muscular man, in drab coat and pantaloons, and broad-brimmed hat, now entered.
8 But still one little trio was pattering about on tiny feet, alert drab mites, under the straw shelter, refusing to be called in by the anxious mother.
9 She took the little drab thing between her hands, and there it stood, on its impossible little stalks of legs, its atom of balancing life trembling through its almost weightless feet into Connie's hands.
10 But smuts fall and blacken on the drab stucco, that has long ceased to be golden.
11 Well, tea-pot's in there'--he pointed to a little, drab corner cupboard; 'an' cups.
12 He was dressed in a smartly-cut snuff-coloured coat, with large brass buttons; an orange neckerchief; a coarse, staring, shawl-pattern waistcoat; and drab breeches.
13 They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin.
14 Rendered complete by drab pantaloons and a buff waistcoat, I thought Mr. Barkis a phenomenon of respectability.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 15 A terrible, seething welter of ugly life it seemed: not at all the flat drabness it looked from outside.