| 1. | Follow the knave, and take this drab away. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Nearer, I distinguished the green slime of ditches mixing with the pale drab of dried clay and shiny, coaly patches. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 3. | Bumble's coat as they blew open, and disclosed to great advantage his flapped waistcoat and drab plush knee-breeches. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | We lead such drab lives ourselves and keep back so much, we like to see a little Niagara of human emotion occasionally. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 5. | die and drab I purchas'd this caparison and my revenue is th. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | He is everything from a condiment to a cocktail and has the same effect on the average group of more or less drab personalities. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 7. | villain with the sleeve back to the dissembling luxurious drab o. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | 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. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | Stale smoky air hung in the study with the smell of drab abraded leather of its chairs. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 10. | your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, yo. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | 'And the place, the crazy hole, wherever it was, in which miserable drabs brought forth the life and health so often denied to themselves--gave birth to puling children for the parish to rear and hid their shame, rot 'em in the grave. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |