(v. t.) To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.
(v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
Example Sentences:
(1) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
(2) With more than 900 participants from 47 different countries, the festival will showcase new poetry from Simon Armitage and former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, talks from the UK's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the former US poet laureate Billy Collins, and events from a wide-ranging list of major names including Jung Chang, Margaret Drabble and Richard Dawkins – fresh from inciting controversy for apparently questioning the merits of fairy tales .
(3) When Simpson suggested there are few sympathetic men in Drabble's stories, Drabble retorted that it was surely true of them both.
(4) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
(5) In her 1963 novel A Summer Birdcage , Margaret Drabble’s narrator Sarah describes a “loathsome flat” in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and an “unspeakably sordid” place in Highgate.
(6) Lionel Shriver is the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin (Serpent's Tail) Margaret Drabble Photograph: Murdo Macleod The Bell Jar is a novel of reckless vitality, and although it's about death, trauma, suicide and madness, it's as exhilarating as its narrator's first mad dash down the ski slope when she manages triumphantly to break her leg in two places.
(7) She herself described her readers as "women and educated men", and expressed "puzzlement" when Margaret Drabble left her out of her 1985 edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
(8) Simpson reflected on the predictability of the "F question" in interviews, and it is one that Drabble will have heard often.
(9) Drabble has touched on her troubled relationship with her mother in various novels, such as Jerusalem the Golden (1967), about a girl who escapes an unhappy home in Northam (a fictional town Drabble has used more than once) to go to university, and most directly in her quasi-autobiographical novel The Peppered Moth (2001), in which she "wrote brutally" about her mother's depression.
(10) (Wesker's friend, Margaret Drabble, once told him that there is never any sex or violence in his plays – and reading this one, you do see what she means.)
(11) Drabble's work has always been characterised by astute social observation, a realism borne out of her admiration for Victorian fiction.
(12) Drabble is now a very youthful 72 (it was her birthday last week).
(13) Drabble held a big party for her 70th birthday a couple of years ago.
(14) Margaret Drabble The most erotic book I ever read was an anonymous novel called L'Histoire d'O , which I think was by a woman called Pauline Réage.
(15) As very young novelists, both wrote books – Drabble's first, A Summer Bird-Cage (1965) , and Byatt's second, The Game (1967) – about rivalrous sisters, which, more than 40 years on, still rankles, at least for Drabble (Byatt apologised for The Game , she says now).
(16) Drabble read Possession because she knew "that would be nothing to do with our family life.
(17) Bernardine's friend Margaret Drabble found the whole to be "frank, courageous and entertaining".
(18) His popularity is reflected in a rash of new books: the lavish RA exhibition catalogue, A Bigger Picture , comes with contributions from Margaret Drabble and Hockney himself, there is a book of conversations with the art critic Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message (both Thames & Hudson) as well as Hockney , a semi-authorised biography of the first half of his life by Christopher Simon Sykes (Century).
(19) Without referring specifically to Drabble's book, she said: "However well you write about your friends or family you diminish them," she said, "and it haunts me."
(20) Margaret Drabble's most recent book is A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman (Penguin Modern Classics) Sarah Churchwell Photograph: PR In 1957, six years before The Bell Jar would be published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, Sylvia Plath mused in her journals: "I could write a terrific novel.
Mud
Definition:
(n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
(v. t.) To bury in mud.
(v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(2) The possible occupational cause of the disease, as more solvents in the mud have the structure of aromatic hydrocarbons is discussed.
(3) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(4) This anterior-like cell preparation contained approximately 80% neutral red-stained cells, none of which carried a surface antigen specific to prespore cells (MUD-1 antigen).
(5) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
(6) Hyflosupercel, Kaolin, and marine mud increased the stability of the enzyme.
(7) Evidence is presented that there is an association between tropical ulcer and exposure to mud or slow moving fresh water.
(8) A Mud(Ap, lac) prophage has been shown to be inserted into the ptsH gene of E. coli.
(9) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
(10) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(11) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.
(12) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
(13) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.
(14) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
(15) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(16) He wrote: “The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
(17) Finally, induced Mud-P22 insertions package more than 100 kb of genomic DNA adjacent to one side of the insertion.
(18) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
(19) Join a guided mud walk from the mainland to one of the islands off the coast.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sisters play in the mud after rare rain at a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.