| 单词 | draggle |
| 例句 | He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal’s club had bruised him. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z White flowers whirled like snow and her draggled hair streamed back from her face as she squinted against the draft. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “We had to grow,” Alexandra hissed as she propped herself against the terminal, her dark hair a curtain draggling before her as she hung her head. An AI video game moderator goes rogue in "Machine of Loving Grace" 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The mammoth is waist high, with a pelt of dirty-blond fur that hangs in tangled draggles to the dirt. Thomas Pierce: “Shirley Temple Three.” 2012-12-17T05:00:00Z A shower of rain obliterated most of those labels, and left the figures themselves in a reduced and draggled condition. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The inn was, in fact, the worst in which I had stopped--the maid draggled and dirty, and smelling of the stable; the company three boors; the floor of earth; the windows unglazed. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z The bare-armed girl who brought it to me, and in whom my draggled condition seemed to provoke feelings of a different nature, lugged up a round table to the fire. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Torn by bullets, draggled and wet as it was, the wretched handkerchief was borne in triumph to the French consulate, and of course there was no more to be said. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z I protest that I can read none of these books without feeling as if my soul had been in the rain, draggled, muddy, miserable. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Eventually he pounced upon a dusty, draggled little volume, and went off proudly with it beneath his arm. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Doubtless he was comparing her draggled sacque and unpowdered hair with the anticipated splendours of his bride. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The parrot was getting its feathers sadly draggled in the rain and the poor bird soon presented a wet and woebegone appearance. Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z He expressed surprise at the wet and draggled condition of his patient, felt his pulse, examined his heart, and sat back with his brows knitted in thoughtfulness. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z His beams, falling aslant through a gap in the cliffs, strike upon the draggled form on the sand; it stirs slightly, stretching itself as a leaf uncurls. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Their majesties were still residing at the Tuileries, but how draggled was the royal ermine! The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z "I think that I looked more respectable in that," she said with a laugh, "than in this draggled white frock." A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z Her sails are draggled in the brine That gladdened late the skies, And her pendant that kiss'd the fair moonshine Down many a fathom lies. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z I had seen too often the draggled, filthy, sexless creatures drink makes of women in London, and 'Enrietter was worth a better end. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z It was a very forlorn and draggled Peggy which he laid upon the bank, but she was game to the last. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z Don't desecrate the verb to love by draggling it more than it has already been draggled through all the grammars of every European language. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z She was almost as pretty as Aunt Katie, though she was in a draggled wrapper more showy than tidy, and she seemed fretful and disposed to blame Charlotte on general principles. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z Thou base born mass of insolence and dirt, With all the will, but not the power to hurt; Whose shallow brain each empty line reveals— Art thou worth draggling at our chariot wheels? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z From thence, without giving herself Time to change her Stockings, she went, wet and draggled as she was, into a Coach, where Mrs. Misset and Mr. Gaydon had the Honour to sit with her. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z A more draggled and disreputable-looking pair of children it would have been impossible to find. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z "Are you all right?" she cried, and although he made no direct reply, he contrived a vague gesture toward the draggled ball of yellow fur at his side. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z The wind was insufficient to fill the lower sails, and the canvas hung from the mast, limp and dilapidated as a draggled ball-dress. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z He had imagined that a woman hated to feel draggled and untidy, and he was willing to own that in his case fatigue usually tended towards shortness of temper. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z When he spoke it was in a voice thin and trailing, as though draggled by the Weariness of the Ages. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The dog also looked very draggled and miserable and had evidently had enough of the voyage. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z He crossed to the cattle's drinking shallow Firmed up with rush and the roots of mallow, He wrung his coat from his draggled bones And romped away for the Sarsen Stones. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z I was so draggled and my boots so covered with mud that I was rather ashamed to cross the big hall of the hotel when I came in. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z But, alas! she, and all the stupid world beside, see nothing in them but some draggled ribbons. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z You'll be draggled up to your chin, if you walk; put in case you haven't got your umbrella, and your pattens. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z The Jackal turned, whining impatiently, and was going to curl himself up under the tree trunk, when suddenly he cowered, and looked up through the draggled branches at the bridge almost above his head. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z With draggled pink stuck close to skin, The Squire leaned from bank and hauled His mired horse's rein; he bawled For help from each man racing by. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z All had taken scalps, and sat late at our fire to hoop and stretch them, and neatly plait the miserable dead hair that hung all draggled from the pitiful shreds of skin. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z He looked all wet and draggled and wretched, quite a little mop of a robin. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z There was no wind, not a breath, but the dew lay heavy on the moss, on the green heather and stunted shrubs, and draggled the snow-white plumes of the lovely cotton grass. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z They knocked vigorously, and the door was finally unfastened by a draggled little girl of about eleven. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z It was one of those draggled days, common at the end of March when a garden looks at its worst. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z Jack Skehan's flock was untouched, but Dinny Purcell had left his ewes in a field adjoining the wood, and a young lamb lay torn and draggled upon the grass. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z You and your clothes both coming in so draggled like at night. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Nor are they ever weary of gazing at the ‘pelican of the wilderness’ as the showman describes it—a mournful bird with draggled feathers standing by the entrance, a traditional part of his stock-in-trade. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z At five o'clock we secured a splendid pair of badgers, which we bore home on aching backs, followed by our gallant little team of draggled and dirty terriers. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z But oh! what a pitiful, dirty, draggled lot they were. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z While there is life in bird or beast they will struggle from the death-play blindly, but the Collared Buck lay placidly still with the rain draggling his fur and his eyes staring. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z She was tired, draggled, and altogether different to her real self, and, strange to say, there was also a curious hunted look in her eyes for which I could not account. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z The woman with her burden had moved away—a draggled figure in the rain. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z She was still asleep when, aroused by the baying of his dogs, Don Luis peered down from the upper patio upon their draggled figures. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z They were dirty and draggled, like a corps marching across a battle-field to dig a hopeless ditch. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z They were all draggled and wet, and crowded into the burrow for shelter, for the brook had risen and drowned them out of their homes. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Wet and draggled from his dip in the stream, he cut a sorry figure clinging among the branches, while Billy, mad with rage, jumped and yelped down below. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z He had a pinched, half-growling expression, was draped in a light, draggled overcoat, and carried an umbrella, the ribs of which hung loose around the stick. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z Edged with draggled grass, still others hung down from the trees, writhing darkly in the wind that had sprung up in the last hour. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Then the Bishop went on, his soiled and draggled company following him, the cart lying helpless in the cart track behind them. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z The farmer's wife, a mountain of rosy kindliness, stared curiously at the pale frightened face before her, and up and down the draggled dress. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z The lawns reek with moisture, and the Malmaison roses are pale and draggled. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z Wet and draggled, he looked every inch a gentleman—in Gideon’s suit of worn velveteen he looked one still. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z The especial scene she had in mind, I think, was that draggled procession of shrieking fishwives which escorted the king and his family in from Versailles. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Half an hour later the Bishop came from Bishop's Court at the head of a draggled company of men, and his face was white and hard. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Pinckney's first glance took in, perhaps, the fact that her black skirt was torn and draggled, and her black bodice in startling contrast to her white face; but that could have been all. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z It had begun to rain, and the visitor, his jacket-collar turned up, was wet and draggled. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Ten such bulky insects now foraged busily for grubs within the ancestral home, while the founder of the colony had grown draggled and wingless with the passing of time. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z It was not naked nor barefooted, but it wore cheap clothes that were tawdry when new, and speedily became faded, discoloured, dusty, and draggled. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Shall I tell you about Papa's book, finally refused by every single publisher, come back battered and draggled to be galvanized by me into fresh life in an English translation? Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z They seemed caricatures of humanity—scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z The trees that lined the roadway were shrouded in a draggling vapour. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z The ancient and draggled concierge of the underground dwelling was at her post when the wave of army ants swept over her. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z But the general effect of pitiful evasions, of unavoidable meannesses, of draggled heroics and tortuously insincere explanations confirmed him in his aversion from this labyrinthine trouble of extraneous love.... Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z She was a very worthy old body, and not so frightfully ugly as she looked in her bathing-costume, with her draggled clothes and weather-beaten bonnet, but was a quiet respectable-looking old woman. A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel 2011-01-22T03:00:18.233Z And as he spoke he looked down sadly at the long wet tails of his coat as they draggled dripping behind him. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z The tidy, new suits, in which they had gone on shore, were torn and draggled, and old-drunks were upon nearly all of them. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Burl strutted on the edge of the cliff, a silly little pink-skinned creature with an oily fish slung about his neck and a draggled fragment of a moth's wing about his middle. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Rain and hail and distant thunder were his portion, a choppy sea and a boat packed with a draggled party from the Polytechnic, returning home. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z There hung drying above the fire on a clothes' line a wet skirt, which still steamed, and near it a draggled rag, which was the light cotton blouse she had been wearing that day. The Undying Past He looked sadly draggled and worn; his face was bruised, his clothes limp and stained, and alas, he was alone! Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies How long would it be before the lawn was once more unkempt and draggled? The Valiants of Virginia Burl uttered a cry and—ran full tilt into the thick stalk of a blackened and draggled toadstool. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z She lay coiled, closer than before, in a draggled heap. Into the Primitive They may have been old almshouses, but there was no sign of habitation, and they seemed abandoned to chattering sparrows whose draggled nests were everywhere visible in the ivy. Sinister Street, vol. 2 I felt strangely sad and forlorn as I dropped, draggled and tired, into a chair. Life on the Stage At the gate of the Rosewood lane stood a mailbox on a cedar post and she paused to fish out a draggled Richmond newspaper. The Valiants of Virginia But no sponge was to be found, and it rapidly grew worse; Edith's skirts were damp and draggled. Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 Though conscious, both were draggled and bruised and beaten to exhaustion. Into the Primitive Two babies ran, tumbled, screamed and shouted, and all the many-coloured ducks, the ducks with red bills, the ducks with draggled feathers, the ducks in grey and brown, chattered beneath the sun. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary The five acres looked very bare and thistly, and the rain was dripping heavily from a shivering, half-dead cypress on to a draggled, long-haired grass plot. Man and Maid It is perfectly distressing to me to witness the draggled, drudged, mean look of the mass of individuals, especially of the women, that one meets in the streets of London and other purely English towns. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 No more of such a sorry draggled god for her. Carnival Miss Leslie slowly thrust a slender little foot just beyond the hem of her draggled white skirt. Into the Primitive Then the land of peach blossom spread its draggled wings abroad and rejoiced. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Are they prettiest when they come through the wet and dirt safe and neat; or when their draggled dress is plastered to their backs by a shower of rain? Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend While Mr. Beckley, with Anderson's aid, and with sundry others looking on, carefully counted over the wet, draggled, yet still good contents of the package thus found, there came a rattle of wheels. The Auto Boys' Mystery His jaw jutted through the sandy fairness of his draggled beard. Stalemate And Marietta rose to his mind, and he pictured her toiling drearily along, her dress draggled, her garments dripping. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Certes!" said the good King Arthur, soon as he had breath to speak, And had wiped the dust from off his draggled beard and pallid cheek, "Certes! Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Our friends reached home about daylight, tired, draggled, disgusted, and drunk. The History and Records of the Elephant Club “And his ears,” said a fourth, “all draggled and bleeding!” A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Among the feathers twisted in it, draggled now, he saw a spray—surely an Aerides! but bluish-red, unlike any species known. The Woodlands Orchids The bowl is broken, I haven't much fruit to show, and I am all stained and draggled. Susanna and Sue Almost hidden by the dull leaves of the cedars, was a draggled looking pony, saddled, with the reins trailing on the ground. The Vision of Elijah Berl There were ballerine in draggled pink tarletan petticoats and low white bodices that made their bony necks and brawny arms still browner by contrast. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. So the bees go by in murmurous bands, Drowsily wand'ring to happier lands Where the lilies draggle the bank. Blooms of the Berry The atmosphere was steamy, too, for we were a drenched and draggled lot. The Red Symbol In spite of the draggling wet and clinging mud, the country people were out in force; but their gapes, their nudges and whispers, were as little to him as the falling rain. Checkers A Hard-luck Story There were coats of many patterns and stages of dilapidation, telling the same story of former finery, draggled through the injurious grime of a thousand camps and marches. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign Presently somebody noticed the dingy, stubby, draggled tramp steamer over which the Invaders' craft had hovered. The Invaders She had suffered at the hands of mankind, and her plumage was in a terribly draggled state; and clothes have as much to do with self-respect in the feathered world as in our own. Upon The Tree-Tops Under its power the draggled clots that once were flowers lift, fluff out, bud and bloom as does the magic plant under the potent spell of the sorcerer of the Far East. Old Plymouth Trails The old Third stood near me, his eyes all bloodshot, the crease in his cheek working, his dyed moustache all draggled, his breath—Humph! Aliens The second man, the civilian, rode in, wet and draggled, forty seconds later. Miss Cayley's Adventures So, presently, having removed Bonny’s draggled coat from the still drowsy child, Glory placed her charge at the extreme back of the bed and lay down herself. A Sunny Little Lass The intruders were rescued in an extremely torn and draggled condition from the indignant statesmen who had fallen upon them by tardy but decisive police.... The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Glancing along it for sight or warning of the runners, I spied, at two gunshots’ distance or less, a milestone with a splash of white upon it—a draggled placard. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) There she was, living among all the draggled, dirty seaport crowd, and yet the seafaring men that took their drinks from her believed she was straight. Aliens A Crocodile—the blunt-nosed, ford-haunting Mugger of the Ganges—draggled herself before the beasts, lashing furiously to right and left with her tail. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II Her shoes were muddy, and the hem of her skirt draggled, for, high as she had held it in her heavy tramp, it had become splashed by the pools in the soft highway. The Bondboy He squinted his draggled left eye at Chadron, as if he was taking aim, while he waited for a reply. The Rustler of Wind River She was an ugly little old woman in a battered straw hat and a shabby old jacket, though the day was warm, and a faded print skirt that was draggled with mud at the hem. The Camerons of Highboro Every article of this costume was draggled, shabby, soiled, and much of it tattered. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper Like draggled fly's legs, What can you tell of the flaring moon Through the oak leaves? Some Imagist Poets An Anthology In fact, the steamboat looked like a draggled rooster with no fence or cart to hide under. Phemie Frost's Experiences Then Mrs. Sparsit, drawing her draggled shawl over her head to hide her face, followed, boarded the same train, and hastened to tell the news of his wife's elopement to Bounderby in London. Tales from Dickens She spread out her hands in dismay, and looked down at her draggled mud-stained skirt, her little feet, one shoeless and both covered with mud and slime. Robinetta Her boots are strong, and her dress is warm—the petticoats cut short to prevent them from draggling in the mud. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated A desolate and lonely craft, the smoke draggled out of her funnel. The Harbor "In her heart," he thought, "Dublin is still a proud lady, although her dress be draggled!" Changing Winds A Novel I opened the window; the draggling vapors were still rising, rising, the bleakness was merging in a mild warmth. Dreamers of the Ghetto “Stop growling, you young cub, and be grateful; half a loaf is better than no bread,” was Lavendar’s comment as he watched the draggled and muddy but still charming Robinette up the stairway. Robinetta And what do you suppose I do with my mornings—for I have to rehearse every afternoon with odious people who splash their draggled lives with feeble, sick music—? Melomaniacs Why, my dear, your shoes are wet through and your skirts are draggled up to your knees! Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend In another part of the floor lay the unfortunate frock, all draggled and splashed round the bottom, and, as Mrs. Fairchild could see without lifting it up, wanting a part of one breadth. The Fairchild Family The wife of a rich man should not live as a peasant woman, dew in her draggled skirts to her knees, the sun browning her skin and bleaching her hair. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek Its black front melted suddenly, and its draggled banners, trailing across the western sky, vanished utterly in the kindling fires of sunset. Hidden Water Since fighting in the fight supreme, One has grown thin, another stout; The coats that fitted once now seem Too small, too loose, or draggled out. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems She had an umbrella, but her skirts were draggled and splashed with mire and the water came through the worn soles of her thin shoes. Olive in Italy He was dust-covered, and draggled, and his tail drooped, and he sneezed again. Pariah Planet Then the struggling and panting of the young eagle ceased; the wild, frightened look passed out of its eyes, and it suffered Waukewa to pass his hand gently over its ruffled and draggled feathers. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Carrie, who had not heard his steps, started and tried to hide her feet behind her draggled skirt. Partners of the Out-Trail In the sane cold light of early morning the overnight escapade was a draggled, unromantic bit of folly. The Education of Eric Lane Luckily the pool was shallow, and they were in no danger of drowning; but by the time they reached the bank they were wet through, and in an extremely draggled condition. The Manor House School There was a smell of wet clothing, a tossing out of wet, draggled hair, a noise of voices and feet. The Rainbow Likely enough these would be sadly draggled before the deed was done. The Hickory Limb A very miserable-looking man in draggled ducks, after nearly swamping the boat in the heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out. Tales of the Fish Patrol "There is no sense in getting so draggled, and it makes overmuch washing." A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia For hunting, nothing will do but boots and breeches, unless you condescend to gaiters—for trousers wet, draggled and torn, are uncomfortable and expensive wear. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid A second's hesitation at touching so draggled and dripping a creature held Eunice aloof; and then she was down beside her friend, wiping the rain-wet face and begging to be told what had befallen. The Brass Bound Box He unlocked it, rummaged, deliberated, selected finally a serge skirt, draggled but warm; a pair of woolen stockings, and shoes, stout for all their shabbiness. The Combined Maze He glanced down at his own attire, blood-stained, and ragged; felt for the loose end of his collar, rebuttoned it, and knotted the draggled white tie with the unconscious indifference of habit. The Dark Star In two thin streams the damp men and draggled women struggle on board. A Padre in France From Bow even unto Hammersmith there draggled a dull, wretched vapor, like the wraith of an impecunious suicide come into a fortune immediately after the fatal deed. The Big Bow Mystery "You're draggled from top to toe, and your Sunday dress too!" The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius "It's a judgment—my opinion," agreed the thin young woman who had been peeling potatoes, and who wore a wisp of draggled crape round a soiled rush hat. The Dop Doctor Her stained and draggled clothes were beginning to dry and her hair to blaze in the pulsing rays of the sun. It, and Other Stories Its face was drawn with fatigue, and it looked rather draggled. David and the Phoenix Agatha left him, and her face was rather white when at last she came up into the open air, with about a dozen forlorn, draggled women trailing helplessly after her. Hawtrey's Deputy I have often met women bent nearly double under them, toiling painfully along, with hats or bonnets pushed awry and skirts draggling. Change in the Village But the first April rainfall would turn the dry ditch into an open sewer—a vast trough of muddy water—in which draggled women would paddle for submerged household gods. The Dop Doctor The Sunflower Ranch needs my talents, so I can’t go with the crowd, but I may draggle in about high noon. Winning the Wilderness A blue ribband made a gay note in her faded, scant hair; she had pinned a piece of draggled color about her throat. Mountain Blood A Novel The bluebirds came about, draggled almost beyond recognition. Little Brothers of the Air Their long hair hung dangling about their ears, their crape bonnets had been screened in vain by their fringed parasols, and the skirts of their silk gowns were draggled with mud. Select Temperance Tracts And the female, a small draggled young woman in a large hat, trimmed with fatigued and dusty peonies, called out excitedly: "Oh, William, it's 'er—it's 'er!" The Dop Doctor Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over. The Picture of Dorian Gray In her heart the bird of hope occasionally fluttered a draggled wing: would he send for her—would he? Terribly Intimate Portraits She was wet; her lovely mottled plumage was disarranged and draggled, but her head was drawn down into her feathers in patient endurance, the mother love triumphant over everything, even fear. Little Brothers of the Air The miller was sitting, leaning on his stick, with his eyes fixed upon the ground, and Carry was pale, wretched, and draggled. The Vicar of Bullhampton He strode off in the direction of Trafalgar Square, and still dim, draggled shapes haunted his footsteps, leered at him from the shadows, brushed against him as he passed. To Love They had patronised this particular driver long enough, anyway, and Roger paid him liberally and led Margarita into the draggled, dusty station; the new one was not then built. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Elizabeth, drenched and with draggled skirts, sank into a chair. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall How draggled the little bits of fern in the old china pots looked! A Poor Man's House One light would turn out to be a coffee-stall, round which a group of people gathered—cabmen muffled to the throat, women draggled and dirty, boys with faces that were old. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time To her astonishment this draggled, uncleanly object became violently affected by the tender, motherly way in which she was addressed. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales Well, Sir Lionel, I'll let you off; the more especially as I have been down there myself already, and got dreadfully draggled in doing so. The Bertrams The starfish was clinging pinkly to the rock, and beyond him lay the urchin, the blackness of its draggled spines turning to green as it dried in the sun. The Opened Shutters The tail is thickly covered with long hairs, placed vertically, the hairs draggling on the ground. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. She was a draggled, battered outcast—a human ruin, such as night, the pander, flings away. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time She was tired and draggled and dusty, and also very much scratched. Girls of the Forest The rain had beaten down the unkempt grass, which lay in draggled sheaves along the edges of the pathway. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Some of the clever spider's web was there still when Bevis looked out of the window, all dusty and draggled, with the skins and wings of some gnats and a dead leaf entangled in it. Wood Magic A Fable He still sat in the broad shadow projected by one huge chimney-corner, his face overhung by a broad felt hat, girt with a band and buckle; a drooping draggled feather fell over its crown. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 His clothes, seen by the lamp, looked a little draggled and dirty. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time They succeed, however, in reaching the water’s edge again without serious injury received by any, though all are looking very wet, draggled, and dirty. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Neither the original nor the copy, however, appear to have operated to the satisfaction of the assembly, perhaps owing to the badness of the weather and its effects on the draggled, unripe grain. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The prince looked at him, and remarked that he certainly was a draggled old scarecrow. Wood Magic A Fable She suddenly realized what she must look like—bare feet, draggled skirts, dripping arms. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 Her skirt was muddy and draggled, her hair had tumbled down, and she held a dripping black cat. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 A very draggled, agitated pair of girls made their way up the shrubbery walk to the house, leaving a wet trail to mark their path. A harum-scarum schoolgirl You look all draggled and dirty and as if you had been in mischief. Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier We paraded, according to orders, at 11 sharp, and I was glad to see that Janet and the other girls were wet and draggled long before we started. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 Her skirt was draggled, her hair was down, As though she had walked by woodland tracks Or come on an omnibus through the town, And suddenly forth from her loosened gown She pulled an axe. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 And it was draggled, begrimed, uncleanly, as never were the doves of Aphrodite. The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance Ay, it is, I fetched the last bottles of wine out mysel', and I saw them put the man in—sore draggled he was, and looking like a body in a dwam. The Northern Iron Men won't flirt with draggled girls, smirched with dust, weary with work, and soiled with heat; and especially they will not do so at the rate of a shilling a word. Miss Mackenzie It was as if a black shadow 225of disaster had entered the quiet room at the heels of the draggled woman and her child. The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story By this time the poor little saints and angels were pretty tired and draggled. A Venetian June As they entered, he was addressing a small and draggled child from behind his counter. The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance Peace abruptly ceased her drumming on the window-sill and stared thoughtfully through the wet pane at a row of draggled sparrows chirping blithely on a fence across the muddy street. The Lilac Lady And she tendered him a battered flower, leering at him from beneath her draggled, dusty bonnet as she put forth her untempting hand for the money. Miss Mackenzie Two men stood by the choir screen, the broad-brimmed black hats they held in their hands hanging so low that the draggled feathers swept the pavement, their eyes directed towards the retiring crowd. Stradella He did not tie him to anything, but merely rested the bridle over the pommel of the saddle, so that it might not draggle upon the ground. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico They roused the neighbors, and came back to the house with their clothes all draggled and dirty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 For this occasion he had bound round his waist the pelt of one of the slaughtered sheep, and had made a head-dress of draggled turaco feathers. Sacrifice It is not only that men will not flirt with draggled girls, but they will carry away with them unfortunate remembrances of what they have seen and heard. Miss Mackenzie She had read stories of lone, draggled women in logging-camps, toiling so hard they hadn't even time to comb their hair, but always wore it pulled back tight from their forehead. I've Married Marjorie The draggled, wrinkled and stained garments bore no resemblance to the neat office suit. The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow The sense draggles, and it is difficult to keep up one's attention. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Their perfumed locks were never draggled in the mire of the camp, and their silken hose never smirched but in the fray. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death The hope, if hope there had been, died in its birth; before sunset, with drenched garments and draggled plume, the object of so many anxieties arrived within the walls of Winchester. The Reign of Mary Tudor You can't put your foot out of doors without getting your petticoats draggled. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book It was a very draggled and dishevelled Thomas that appeared next morning at the stable door of his old home in the country. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme He had never been so thirsty in his life; yet, true to his instincts, he started to wash his face and smooth his draggled fur afresh. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character The officer at last persuaded her to let him take charge of her draggled pet; and finally had the pleasure of seeing her safe back to her home before leaving her. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner It was nine o'clock before Wyatt brought the draggled remnant of his force, wet, hungry, and faint with their night march, up the hill from Knightsbridge. The Reign of Mary Tudor Do you think they like to see their ideal hot and dishevelled, plastered with mud, and draggled with wet? Kate Coventry An Autobiography She carried a broom-stick, and behind her slunk her cat, all draggled with the wet, and mewing frightfully. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme And the mother was so tattered and draggled and dirty—which, also, was the room.” Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure I observed in one corner an old man whose thin white hair was draggled with blood. In the Track of the Troops I must have had a very draggled look, and I had no wish to be seen by any one at home in that condition. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures We landed at the very spot where, about twenty years before, I had stepped on shore with Harry in my arms, all wet and draggled, followed by the sheep which had saved his life. The Loss of the Royal George He walked deliberately across to the rock, went round the tower, stood a moment in the draggled arbour—the poor arbour of dead ideals. Doom Castle Motionless they hung, in all the picturesque drapery of their strange attire—draggling—dead! The Rifle Rangers It looks draggled and torn, as if partially dismembered. The Lone Ranche Lucien was without a shirt—for Marengo had torn it, and it was now draggled, wet, and worthless. The Boy Hunters The edge of Mrs Greenways’ gown was also draggled and dirty, for she had not found it easy to hold it up and carry a large basket at the same time. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May It’s a fine draggled set the women will look before they get home.” Pixie O'Shaughnessy There was the Englishman with her main-mast gone, and draggled about the bows, beating up under reefed sails for the coast. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess Harry stooped, caught the Major under the shoulders, and with a great effort hauled him up on the bank, a sad sight, draggled and dirty. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House On weekdays the women who passed the window were meagrely dressed; mothers in draggled winsey gowns, carrying infants that were armfuls of grandeur. A Window in Thrums “And it might rain and get his feathers all draggled,” said Alice. Peggy in Her Blue Frock The draggled throng was quietly indicated to the visitor in civilian clothes, who nodded appreciatively and then turned away. A Soldier of the Legion Not a single one of their ships could I see in distress; while many a Spanish top-mast and bowsprit draggled shamefully, and many a Spanish corpse could I mark being slipped overboard. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess His red ribbon, very dusty and draggled, still hung from his shirt-collar. A Jolly Fellowship Ma always wore a boudoir cap of draggled lace and ribbon for motoring. Gigolo The wire was trampled through, and for some minutes our men played havoc with the Germans, who ran, leaving draggled blankets and equipment in their trenches. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Not a bit of it," said Paul, with a little laugh; "draggled and wet, but not ill. The Village by the River How, thereupon, that glorious fleet trailed in a long draggled line northward, never looking behind them, even when the Englishmen one by one drew off and abandoned the chase. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess So they went out and carried Fanie in with his clothes all draggled and his beard full of mud. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Paul's proud feathers draggled a little, and he reddened. The Spinner's Book of Fiction Farther up the shore Luretta, a draggled stocking in each hand, looked at them a little enviously, and wondered a little at the sudden change in Melvina’s behavior. A Little Maid of Old Maine This was no child, however, but some one fully grown, as I conjectured, though I saw nothing but the outline of wet and draggled garments. My New Curate She beheld herself, her bright spring plumage smirched and draggled, all her pinions trailing. Jane Journeys On He was ghastly pale; his hair was draggled over his face; his clothes stuck tight to him on account of the wet; streams of water gurgled down the shutter-sides. Stories of Comedy I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems The idea that under this ill-fitting, already draggled skirt, and loose, ridiculous man's jacket were concealed the fine skin and well-tended person of a lady, filled her with expectation of romance. Ambrotox and Limping Dick Eleanor did not answer; she sat doggedly watching the swinging doors, through which a draggled throng came and went. Quin It was between two and three o'clock in the morning, when, chilled, draggled, and dripping wet, they reached the house. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 "My red robe is torn and draggled," said Love. The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables Our clothes were torn and draggled, and although we had washed at the jail we were still somewhat powder-streaked and grimy. More Tish The driver, turning on her approach, stood back, touching his cap; amazed by this condescension of jewels and silk to beauty ill-clothed, draggled, dirty and exhausted. Ambrotox and Limping Dick And merry to croak at the hunted fox, When his brush trails draggling down, And his strength is spent, and his back is bent, And his tongue lolls parched and brown. The Drummer's Coat Sarah Jane had at times got the hem of her little blue calico gown draggled, and met with a reprimand at home. Young Lucretia and Other Stories On September 23 appeared a strange sail on the offing—the Columbia, under Kendrick, sails down and draggled, spars storm-torn, two men dead of scurvy, and the crew all ill. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward He saw his captor fling off his wet and draggled raincoat and then shake the water from a dripping hat-brim. Phantom Wires A Novel But it was really a miserable sort of affair, for the rain came down heavily, and the roads were muddy and dirty, which made the whole company wet and draggled. A Book of Quaker Saints She would have approved of me if I had been a draggled wreck; but even as it was, she felt it worth while to explain why she hadn't accompanied her brother. Set in Silver Then Annie ran to a vase of artificial flowers which stood upon the mantel, and pulled out a draggled daisy. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West Except for a handful of draggled palms at Sheikh Saad, this tree is the only one till Kut is reached, on a river frontage of sixty miles. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad His fair head draggled in the dust, and a red stain showed suddenly upon the white linen over his breast. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers The bowers were broken, the vines and plants dead, the walks draggled and uneven, the gates rickety, the fences tottering or prostrate. The Friendships of Women Fineness and elegance were not hers, but her healthy, ripe brownness fitted into this sylvan setting where the city beauty would have soon become a pale and draggled thing. The Emigrant Trail They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross and uncomfortable. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland They were indeed a curious looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them—all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Dinky-Dunk's wheat looks sadly draggled out and beaten down, but he says there wasn't enough hail to hurt anything; that the straw will straighten up again, and that this downpour was just what he wanted. The Prairie Wife Somehow their decorous calico skirts, which just cleared the ground, made me feel naked in my own of white corduroy, which was all of eight inches from the mud in which theirs had draggled. The Heart's Kingdom The neck, but now so pure and white, hung in great hideous folds, and grey elf-locks draggled over their wrinkled brows. The Well of Saint Clare He was wet; his bright uniform was stained and draggled; he had no musket; and his tasseled cap sat on a head which in every line and movement expressed defeat and disgrace. Daisy in the Field To Life":— "O life, with the sad scared face, I weary of seeing thee, And thy draggled cloak, and thy hobbling pace, And thy too-forced pleasantry! Some Diversions of a Man of Letters How mournful in winter The lowing of kine; How lean-back'd they shiver, How draggled their cover, How their nostrils run over With drippings of brine, So scraggy and crining In the cold frost they pine. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century A wild storm sweeps over the field; the corn is broken down; the flowers are crushed beneath its weight, draggled and withered. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. He was conscious of passing, on the stairs, a wet and draggled young woman, but he did not pause to see the frightened look she cast upon him. The Shield of Silence He was dust-covered, and draggled, and his tail dropped, and he sneezed again. This World Is Taboo Somehow, Wayland had headed the draggled horses round on the narrow Rim Rock trail. The Freebooters of the Wilderness Or, to be quite comprehensive, a draggled person with a Bulgarian, a Levantine or a Japanese smile, who no longer possessed a carriage, to whom the able-bodied seamen represented the whole port. Hilda A Story of Calcutta Just hear her cough, and out in all this snow, and getting her skirts draggled. The Portion of Labor He piled it on about the Major and his extreme repulsiveness, and the draggled appearance of Gertie, and Frank's incredible obstinacy. None Other Gods In about ten minutes he appeared, looking as draggled and sheepish as poor Monteagle. Masques & Phases His whip, that curled so defiantly in the air, is now pushed under his arm, and the lash is trailing, limp and draggled, on the stones. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy It seemed to her that her very soul was permeated, her very thoughts and imagination, with the odor of damp, unclean clothing, of draggled gowns and wraps and hats and wet leather. By the Light of the Soul A Novel “Lloyd don't have to save coal,” said Abby, bitterly, “but that don't alter the fact of your getting your skirts draggled.” The Portion of Labor Long was the journey, tired were the rowers and paddlers, and draggled was the crew, or rather draggled were the crews, that reached the Richards' homestead. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Our green summer beauty is all draggled, and our faces are grown wan and wan; and the buds, the children whom we nourished, thrust us off, ungrateful, from our seats. Health and Education But it was hard to remain calm while looking up sandstone hills at mountain cats seven feet long, with dark traces of mane draggled across impossibly muscular shoulders. The Mantooth Her beautiful fair hair was all tumbled and soiled, her poor little feet were scratched and blistered, her black dress torn and draggled—she looked far more like a beggar-maiden than like a princess. The Tapestry Room A Child's Romance She walked away, switching, with unabated dignity in the midst of defeat, the draggled tail of her poor little dress. The Portion of Labor With these words, and in great apparent scorn, the draggled dominie took his course along the bank and soon disappeared from view. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life That stuff that looks like lace at the bottom of your petticoat has got all draggled. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton The Drag, in a pink muslin of a draggled description, sat in a deep easy chair, displaying a great deal of skinny ancle and large feet. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses Alice was little the worse, a trifle pale, very draggled and unhappy, and utterly tired. The Half-Hearted Eva's hat was trimmed with a draggled feather and a bunch of roses which she had tried to color with aniline dye. The Portion of Labor It is a big fluffy fly, like a draggled mayfly, fished wet, in the dark. The Disentanglers The draggled woman was so startled that she was unable to form any idea as to the possible cause of this transformation. The Romance of the Coast And yet they both said afterwards that they could hardly help laughing out loud. p. 104The pink muslin was draggled and besmeared with harbour mud, and torn half out of the gathers. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses And you must be prepared to face the cold, grey dawn of "the morning after" while still in your war paint and draggled finery. Greenwich Village On the morning of the 27th we draggled into Saint Quentin. Adventures of a Despatch Rider That afternoon Mrs. Aholiah Luce came walking into the village, spent, forlorn, and draggled. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul After she had gone Mentu glanced at the draggled dress of his son. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying: 'Here's a dead mongoose. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling The art-muslin curtains are draggled and yellow, and some of the windows, by that strange fate which overtakes the windows in unoccupied houses, are broken. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder It looked for all the world like a draggled butterfly. The Witness The "young morn" came picking her way from the east, leading with her a dripping, draggled May, instead of Milton's glorious vision. Records of a Girlhood The girl's dress was torn and draggled, and covered with great spots and splashes of black. Queen Hildegarde Now she is a faded, draggled skeleton, carelessly and unfashionably dressed, following meekly the long procession of her giggling girls and sulky boys. The Measure of a Man From Bow even unto Hammersmith there draggled a dull, wretched vapour, like the wraith of an impecunious suicide come into a fortune immediately after the fatal deed. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes For though he had certainly made her cry, he could not count that any great triumph, since under the shower of her weeping her gaiety was dancing like a draggled elf. The Judge Torn, draggled, wet, covered with sand, mud, and dirt of all kinds, Amelia recognized them. The Brownies and Other Tales As the paint disappeared, one saw how very pretty the poor draggled butterfly was—big, honey-dark eyes, and quite exquisite features. The Vehement Flame She went out of the door with a queer, white draggled look about her. Joanna Godden He might wander through the country unnoticed and unknown, while the whole nation were draggling after Mrs. Stowe's petticoat. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery He tumbled out of the carriage with half a dozen draggled men after him. Captivity Shuffling and self-conscious mill-workers, walking on their toes; draggled women; a Chinese boy; a girl with a rouged face and a too confident manner. Love Stories Here a draggled figure rose from the mire under the feet of the combatants and limped lamely away. More Toasts Above us shreds of clouds, seemingly torn from the dark vault, draggled across the trees, like vast gray rags,—continually melting away in water, torrents of water. Madame Chrysantheme And still it rained, and the newspaper vendors looked in, all drizzly and wet, and the gay feathers of New York business seemed draggled. Doctor Claudius, A True Story When I asked Abbé Edgeworth not to come in, her dread of strangers influenced me less than a desire to protect her from his eyes, haggard and draggled as she probably was. Lazarre It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till! Idle Hour Stories Her beautiful muslin dress was rent and draggled. The Wings of the Morning He eyed her assortment of brushes dubiously, selecting three from the draggled limp collection. Different Girls One Sunday when it was not actually raining he hired a horse and rode into the country—and he came back draggled and unhappy from plodding through the mud, and he never repeated the experiment. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories We sat, draggled and weary, at the shoulder of the little ravine, haggard and worn by the long strain. The Way of a Man The fashionable Mrs. Holt draggled her skirts, and under her breath anathematized her host. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories It looked draggled, and as if it had been up all night, he thought. Flames She could swim, but not much, and shrank from crawling out, half-drowned and draggled, from the surf; for one thing, Thirlwell would see her. The Lure of the North Pale and draggled, Le Gallais confronted his examiners with such firmness as he could gather from a good cause. St George's Cross Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul. The Way of a Man A little later Lena was overjoyed to see five very wet and draggled friends of hers coming into her house to wait until the storm was over. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 17, April 26, 1914 For wet humanity, with wispy hair and swishing petticoats, draggled with desire for shelter, is a piteous vision as it passes by. Flames I hate to think of my sister going about, draggled and ragged, with a bunch of strange men. The Lure of the North Mrs. Nelson rose with as much dignity as her draggled condition would permit. Sandy "Paris on a wet day is like a woman with draggled skirts." Max He would rise and flap his old draggled pinions, as if the great air fanned an expiring spark into flame. At a Winter's Fire Such a limp, draggled female as emerged from the little carriage I never saw. Chateau and Country Life in France He knew them so well, these eternal, restless birds of passage, draggled with their flight from one boarding-house to another. The Divine Fire As the draggled pair were making towards the hut, which stood about six feet from the fire, to follow his advice, its bark door was suddenly pushed wide open. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods She was deadly pale, breathless, and wild-eyed; her dress was draggled and torn, and she trembled from head to foot. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman The natives were now coming up by dozens at a time, bringing with them, in great arm-loads, fallen cocoanuts and breadfruits, and branches of bananas, and large draggled clusters of half-ripe plantains. The Great Taboo She told us people had been on the way since nine in the morning—women and children arriving cold and wet and draggled, but determined to see everything. Chateau and Country Life in France This from the young old lady, who was looking very draggled and not at all young. The Happy Family Men clustered around the draggled man, one of their, own men, recently one in authority. The Covered Wagon Women with draggled skirts and dirty and disordered hair were in the crowd, shrieking joyous profanity, striking and fighting one another in their mad excitement. The Light That Lures On the way back she hardly noticed the dreary and draggled pair, who had little to say for themselves. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 She wore a draggled dress of cream-coloured muslin, very transparent over the shoulders, somewhat scandalously wanting at the throat and breast, and very frayed and dirty round the skirt. A Great Success Variety of uniforms, cavalry, infantry, etc.; flags draggled on the ground, the rattle of near musketry and roar of cannon continue; two or three wounded fugitives drop down beside the hedge. Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 And all the fair-grounds were carpeted with draggled and muddy Signals. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Bridget sat down, after taking off her wet water-proof, and held a draggled hat to the blaze. Missing Upon such soiled and draggled wings can he ever soar again? Robert Browning The girls, without an instant's hesitation, whipped their gowns up round their necks; but their feet were wet and their skirts draggled. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California They seemed caricatures of humanity; scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Both were obviously tired to the limit of endurance, and very dirty and draggled. The Roll-Call And their petticoats were draggled and their hats looked as though they had been trimmed from the ten-cent counter of a cheap store. Starr, of the Desert It looked draggled and hard as though she had been bathing. Kimono Stoops indeed!—so she does, that is the Muse; she is draggled up to the knees, and has trudged, I believe, from Southwark fair. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Limp and draggled, plastered with mud and foam, with a great streaming gash on the shoulder, and head hanging down in utter exhaustion, stood the grey. The Knave of Diamonds He picked up his draggled skirt and drew a bowie-knife from his boot. Frontier Stories He wore the same gown five years without draggling or tearing. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 Her last act was with pure womanly instinct, to draw her torn and draggled skirts about her limbs and feet. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio Her skirts were draggled as if with repeated soaking with dew and rain. Vandemark's Folly The fragments toss it about,—that pretty Amazonian hat, with its alert feather, all drooping and draggled. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 I did not mind that evidence of life, but I did not like the cast-off clothing, draggled hats, coats, skirts, and boots that lay about. The Silent Isle No one has that draggled, too long in the back and too short in the front look, of lots of English women holding up their garments in a frightful fashion. Elizabeth Visits America The nice old maid near him turns away in disgust when she sees his moustaches draggle in the soup. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 And about six o'clock in the morning, he was talking to a draggled woman he had found sleeping in a ditch near Hampstead Heath, asking her very earnestly what she thought she was for…. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Once or twice she glanced at her dirty hands, at her draggled dress, and then sighed, before bending her head, and dozing into forgetfulness. The Soul of the War Roy caught it and a moment later, wet and draggled, they were standing on the deck of the trawler. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles A thin, draggled, middle-aged woman-student, entering hastily, slipped on the wet stones and knocked from under his arm the leather portfolio of a thin, draggled, middle-aged man who was just coming out. The Bent Twig The old, draggled silk gown did not count one way or the other. The Girl at Cobhurst She thought that everybody in the street looked draggled and disappointed. Taquisara Repulsive as this draggled specimen appeared, it might know something worth his, Nick Hilliard's, while to learn; and he was not going to give up because of first impressions. The Port of Adventure Then wet umbrellas began to appear, draggled skirts, and mud. Little Dorrit Once while din And dust and lightnings, and a draggled heap Of beast-slain men made lords with laughter leap, Night fell, with rain. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland HTML Edition A very miserable-looking man in draggled ducks, after nearly swamping the boat in the heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out. Tales of the Fish Patrol His jaws were apart, and through them the tongue protruded, draggled and limp. White Fang Three servants of the castle lay dead beside them, all torn and draggled, as though a pack of wolves had been upon them. The White Company The draggling ends of the red neckerchief caught the schoolmaster's eyes. Our Mutual Friend The air above his bed began to move; It weighed over him In a mass of draggled feathers. Men, Women and Ghosts A little way on they found a tiny spring, bubbling out of the hillside and falling into a rough stone basin surrounded by draggled hart's-tongue ferns, now hardly green at all. The Phoenix and the Carpet His scanty white hair was draggled over his cheek. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets. Vanity Fair Full heavy hung the draggled gown he wore; His hair flew all awry. The Poems of Sidney Lanier He made such delightful play of it, and the splash of the water sounded so refreshing to the tired draggled bird, that she could not resist venturing for a few dips. The Song of the Cardinal As for color, if a once black cat had been well and thoroughly singed the result would have resembled the hue of this waif's thin, draggled, unsightly fur. Anne of the Island It looked as if I'd slept in it, and it came down to the draggled hem of the skirt. In the Bishop's Carriage What would mother say if his nice furry coat got wet and draggled? How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell At all the general was the central sun with the others dim and draggled satellites, hardly more important than the outer rim of satellite servants. The Price She Paid She pecked at the dried berries, and frequently tried to improve her plumage, which certainly had been badly draggled; and there was a drop of blood dried at the base of her beak. The Song of the Cardinal What with the excitement of the discovery, the walk home under the stars in wet shoes and draggled skirts, and getting up-stairs and undressed without rousing Liddy, I was completely used up. The Circular Staircase Raindrops hung on his hair, but he did not look draggled, only very wet and picturesque. The Lost Prince She's got from the pond, and draggled up to the waist like a mermaid. She Stoops to Conquer I wandered about all the evening the first time I went out, and made nothing of it, but came home again wet, draggled, and tired. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders A noble crown thy draggled nets have won For this that thou hast done. Young Adventure, a Book of Poems Her skirts were draggled with dew to her knees, and her hair was still in crimps. The Circular Staircase She saw him saddled with an elegant and expensive wife, earning little money, dragging along and getting draggled in some small, ugly house in a suburb. Sons and Lovers The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal's club had bruised him. The Call of the Wild London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels. The Innocence of Father Brown Under the portico, with its grey, sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over. The Picture of Dorian Gray The two fell to talking while McTeague's draggled coat and trousers smoked. McTeague On an afternoon at this time a young girl entered the stone-mason's yard with some hesitation, and, lifting her skirts to avoid draggling them in the white dust, crossed towards the office. Jude the Obscure They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs. The Call of the Wild The absurd old feathers on her forlorn hat were more draggled and absurd than ever, and her downtrodden shoes were so wet that they could not hold any more water. A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time The absurd old feathers on her forlorn hat were more draggled and absurd than ever, and her down-trodden shoes were so wet they could not hold any more water. Sara Crewe: or, What happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school Her touch enabled her to recognize them in a moment, and to discover if a single feather were crippled or draggled. Tess of the d'Urbervilles They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland She stood a few feet away, regarding him breathlessly, hatted, gloved, all in white, one hand resting lightly on the center-table, one folded about the crook of a dainty draggled parasol. Captivating Mary Carstairs His dress was confoundedly draggled; the conventional countenance, too, was wanting. Wylder's Hand Germany, it has been aptly said, became a mere tail to the French kite, its leaders feebly draggling after where Louis soared. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 At last he released her, mangled, tousled, her very self a draggled piece of chiffon like the night-blue frock, soiled with wet and mud. Viviette Vane felt relieved on one account He had imagined that a woman hated to feel draggled and untidy, and he was willing to own that in his case fatigue usually tended toward shortness of temper. Vane of the Timberlands A dismal lot they made, pasty and sick and draggled. The Cruise of the Dry Dock So, too, did the holes in the dirty white gloves, and some rents in the draggled but elaborate dress. The Coryston Family A Novel A spar was gone, her rigging's disarray Told of a worse disaster than the last; Like draggled hair dishevelled hung the stay, Drooping and beating on the broken mast. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 There is a kind of pleasure-ground at the top of this eminence—a broad walk that draggles up to a ruined wall, with a ruined niche in it, and a battered stone bench. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Her dress was draggled and dirty, and she kept leaning over to give the dog berries and cream from the spoon she was eating with herself. The Little Colonel The long black hair of the Sikhs, which streamed down to the ground, and was draggled with dust and blood, imparted a hideous aspect to these figures. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War The sky broadened into light, and the birds jeered at us, poor, draggled folk who lived in boxes and were embarrassed by the morn. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life The splendid robes of ecclesiastical Rome have a draggled fringe of beggary and vice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Margaret was lying, dressed in the damp, draggled gown which she had worn that afternoon, upon the outside of the bed. Henry Dunbar A Novel Durnovo shook his head and looked down at his wrinkled and draggled clothing. With Edged Tools She was tethered to the cliff by her rusty anchor-chain that swung across the space between, serving as a clothes-line for the draggled driftweed left by the receding tide to dry. In Exile and Other Stories No, it is not the poor bleaching victim hung up to moult its draggled feathers in the rain that he wishes to show us. Among My Books First Series Ninette grown up, with a draggled dress and squalling babies, is an incongruous thing that shocks my sense of artistic fitness. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons Father Christmas had risen from his chair and was fumbling among his tattered packages, taking from them his children's books, all limp and draggled from the rain and wind. Frenzied Fiction She will not let her dignity draggle in the mud, like others I could name. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty To all parties there is attached a draggled trail of disreputables, who hold themselves entitled to benefits when their side is in power, and are angry when they are passed over. Caesar: a Sketch All round was a bewildering chaos of broken jars, shattered bottles, cracked machinery, and tangled wires, all bent and draggled. The Doings of Raffles Haw Nowhere, until you have got it draggling in the mud at the foot. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI All draggled with the mud and rain he stood, as if no house had sheltered him these three years past. Frenzied Fiction The most splendidly angelic inspirations will not suffice to compensate the poet for feet that draggle in the mud, or stumble higgledy-piggledy among stony words, which his toes should have kissed into jewels. Impressions and Comments Out of the sixty thousand that had sallied forth in the morning, all but a draggled remnant lay dead on the hill-sides. Caesar: a Sketch When it was over, and the earl, with his draggled umbrella, his disappeared, David sat, crouched on his wooden stool, consumed with hot ambition and wonder. The History of David Grieve Joan was breathless with haste; her draggled skirts clung to her; and the struggle against the storm made her giddy. Lying Prophets She was a stout red-faced woman, her hair hanging about her face, her dirty bodice drawn tightly over her enormous bosom and her skirt pulled up in front and hanging, draggled behind her. Fortitude "One feels so draggled, doesn't one, with one's hair all lank and wet?" The Vision of Desire Praise the patient saints, Our one white day of Innocence hath past, Tho' somewhat draggled at the skirt. The Last Tournament She brushed a caterpillar from her light summer skirt, and noticing the draggled edge held it up. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories Hawkers' barrows line the kerb; women with draggled skirts and once gay hats are doing their Sunday shopping. The Glory of the Trenches She still wore her green silk dress, the one which he had first seen her in on the pier at Hastings, and the long draggled feather boa. A Mummer's Wife Katie was all draggled and wet, for she had persisted in making her way right across the island to look out for a site for another palace. The Three Clerks The wolf, with the sheep's clothing draggling about his legs, could not run fast, and was detected and shot by one of the men. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family She was a large, coarse-looking woman, and was lying, in what appeared to Gorham to be drunken slumber, on her bonnet, the draggled strings of which caught his eye. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories She wasn't pleasing to look at—just a slum woman with draggled skirts, a shawl gathered tightly round her and a mildewed kind of bonnet. The Glory of the Trenches Fireless, foodless and without shelter, unprotected in every way, possessing nothing now save just their own bodies and the draggled garments that they wore, they lay and slept. Darkness and Dawn "Are those bluish draggled masses hanging down from beneath the snow-fields what you call the snouts of the glaciers?" Travels in Alaska But as, later, she stood with her feet in the sea, she became silent of a sudden, and was still as a rock, with her ragged dress about her like draggled seaweed. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools His white hair draggled in the wild brown flood, and the hollow of his arms was heaped with froth, and his knotted legs hung helpless. Erema — My Father's Sin The London streets looked unutterably draggled and dreary, seen at this early hour of the wet morning. A Terrible Secret He piled his trophies—all the delicate ruffled plumage of summer's prime—on the kitchen table, draggled and bloody. Gone to Earth At the worst, I thought, I could build a bark hut on a hill back of the village, where something like a forest loomed dimly through the draggled clouds. Travels in Alaska Nor are the long-haired breeds at their best draggling round in the wet, muddy streets of a city. Dogs and All about Them She was draggled and her hair was loose, and Thorn's faint amusement annoyed her. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Doors and windows were all closed in a melancholy way—a stray, draggled dog the only living creature to be seen. A Terrible Secret She had a dreary, draggled look at breakfast, after the children had cried at night,—and the nights when Mrs. Sharpe's children did not cry were like angels' visits. Men, Women, and Ghosts Anxiously I watched them as they trailed their draggled skirts across the glaciers and fountain peaks as if thoughtfully looking for the places where they could do the most good. Travels in Alaska Their camp-fires were blown out, their tents damp and draggled, their men dispirited, their forage scarce. Mahomet Founder of Islam You see draggled heaps of them, lying on the shore where the waves have thrown them. On the Seashore Or stay—no! there was a girl besides the dog, almost as draggled as her four-footed companion. A Terrible Secret She was crying like a weak, unnerved woman, draggled and mud-spattered, unspeakably distressed. The Bars of Iron Its lofty blue cliffs, looming through the draggled skirts of the clouds, gave a tremendous impression of savage power, while the roar of the newborn icebergs thickened and emphasized the general roar of the storm. Travels in Alaska The command of the Pacific had passed from England to Germany, and the White Ensign hung draggled and shamed for all the world to sneer at. The Lost Naval Papers Again the colonel’s grizzled head reappeared,—and, oh joy! beneath it a draggled knot of black curls. Yeast: a Problem "I thought it had gone, already," said Jack, with an irrepressible twinkle of the eye that glanced at the draggled dress sweeping the floor. Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories A draggled, forsaken little street-cat sneaks in the door, with a pitiful mew. Children's Rights A book of nursery logic It will be needful, if it be wet weather, to clip their tails, lest these draggle, and so weaken the bird. The Book of Household Management A half-run race—a story cut off in the middle; for he was a young man still; his hair, all dusty, draggled, and bloodstained, had no streak of gray; his hands were smooth and youthful. The Sowers That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths towards the open down above. Yeast: a Problem Two or three draggled women called to them from the pierhead, their voices sounding melancholy and harsh. Lister's Great Adventure Even the trees, that ranged themselves irregularly in the straggling squares and wide street areas, stretched out a draggled and piebald plumage, as if uncertain whether beauty or ugliness were their function in the ensemble. The Iron Game A Tale of the War All around it are fir, and tamarac, and spruce of a stinted and slender growth, dead at the top, and with lichens and moss hanging down in sad and draggled festoons from their desolate branches. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod She loved children, and these seemed so draggled and uncared-for. The Prince and Betty All the lonelier for two wretched gamins, counting their dirty sous and draggled newspapers. In the Quarter The forest seemed to grow thicker, and as far as he could judge through the dark, it appeared draggled and intermixed with larch and cedar. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp It was ringed around with draggled larch and cedars; and a belt of dark hills encircled it. Annette, the Metis Spy By Lewis Carroll They were, indeed, a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales When she went out to the street and found it raining in a steady, gray downpour, her heart sank,—oh, she must not get wet and draggled, now! The Iron Woman Then I stopped, And chatted with a frowsy-headed girl Who knelt among her draggled skirts, and scrubbed The heel-worn doorsteps of a faded house. Bitter-Sweet A hideous old woman, with eyes like a rattlesnake, and draggled hair coloured like the moss upon an aged fir, stood by the spit, which every few moments she turned. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp Three minutes brought her in sight of Hickory Bush, a grove of trees straggling up from the flat in the moonlight, and resembling a congregation of witches with draggled hair, suffering torture. Annette, the Metis Spy She was pressed against bony ribs; a rough arm squeezed her wretchedly; long, poky fingers tortured her flank; her legs draggled dismally. Once Aboard the Lugger Perhaps she saw the woman in Boylan—the mysterious, draggled creature which he designated his devil on occasion. Red Fleece Martha, in her astonishment at this white-faced creature with skirts draggled by the dew and dust of the grass-fringed road, started back, the flame of the lamp she carried flickering and jumping in the draught. The Awakening of Helena Richie Pictures sagged drunkenly upon the walls; hangings were torn, and draggled, and over all lay a pall of dust, dank, choking. A Fool There Was And as they rode suspecting naught of danger, several Indians hidden in the draggled bush arose and stealthily followed them. Annette, the Metis Spy It is singular that the goat-sucker, or fern owl, often stuffed when shot and preserved in glass cases, does not keep; the bird looks draggled and falling to pieces. The Life of the Fields Of course, when he opened his mouth to speak, the poor draggled bride fell out, and going plump into the river, was drowned. Tales of the Punjab "But you can't go like that," he exclaimed, pointing to her torn and draggled clothes, her unfastened hair. The Perils of Pauline He was agreeably surprised, therefore, to find it was a comfortable farmhouse, where the lights in the casement beamed forth a cheery welcome on the wet and draggled wayfarers from real glass windows. What's Bred in the Bone So I was fain to be content, though my fowls looked draggled and wretched, and my pet patch of mignonette became a miniature desert, its fragrance being all blown and rain-beaten away. Station Amusements in New Zealand To her those only were heroes whose pride and spirit were never draggled; and such a hero there still was in her close neighbourhood. Castle Richmond Then he smiled at his forlorn, draggled condition, and went to his room. The Maid of Maiden Lane He held up a broad-brimmed felt, with a draggled feather which conferred no benefit upon it. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Beneath them, coming up, was a procession of humans, scattered and draggled, a quarter of a mile long. Smoke Bellew Chapeau did look at the girl, and all the tenderness of his heart rose into his eyes, as the flickering light of the fire showed him her tattered and draggled dress. La Vendée He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness. Castle Richmond Nearly all the chickens came at Winnie's call, looking draggled and forlorn indeed, but practically unharmed, and ready to resume their wonted cheerfulness after an hour in the sunshine. Driven Back to Eden Alas! for thy noble intellect draggled in the mire to pander to an Imperial Swine, and for all thy power and wise statecraft which yet could not save thee from untimely death. The Broad Highway Maggie was now mother of other children, and the draggled, lame mistress of a drunken home, and looked sixty. The Old Wives' Tale Right in the midst of a Christian land, Rotted with wealth and ease, Broken and draggled they let him stand Till his feet on the pavement freeze. Last Poems Or, to be quite comprehensive, a draggled person with a Bulgarian, a Levantine, or a Japanese smile, who no longer possessed a carriage, to whom the able-bodied seaman represented the whole port. The Path of a Star We mounted the path in a long line, the Lamas in yellow closely guarding our draggled little procession. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose Uncle William is wearing an old blue shirt and a red handkerchief round his neck, and his hair looks thin and unkempt, and his moustache draggled and his face unshaved. The Hohenzollerns in America |
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