| 单词 | rag |
| 例句 | Against the sky in the cave entrance Juana could see that Kino was taking off his white clothes, for dirty and ragged though they were they would show up against the dark night. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z His breath was ragged, his giant hands all over me, his fingers in me, the sand burning into my back, my brand-new cherub tattoo burning into my belly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z All his clothes were now rags and his cheeks were hollow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z That was before the golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Her voice was barely above a whisper, but the ragged quality to it made me think she was either going to scream or burst out into hysterical tears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Clumsy with fright and haste, he dropped the cotton rag three times before he was able to wrap it about the goblet as it had been before. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Naomi wiped their faces down with a damp rag. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside its jar, shrunken into a fetal position, wrapped in tatters, and accompanied by its wretched necklaces of teeth and a handful of rag dolls, the mummy looked like the pit of some exotic fruit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Later there were Mr. Scott Joplin’s rags, which I learned for myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I raise up a little, feeling the benefit of food in my belly whatever the stinking rag may or may not be doing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She crumpled the bill up in her hand like it was a rag or something and went on out the front door just as Earl came in. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mind!” said my convict, wiping blood from his face with his ragged sleeves, and shaking torn hair from his fingers: “I took him! I give him up to you! Mind that!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z His stallion’s spotted hindquarters were covered with ragged strips of cloth tom from the surcoats of men his master had slain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘You’re crazy! Johnny isn’t going to pick rags ... But oh, Johnny, it’s so awful and I’m so sorry and ...’ Johnny’s face was crimson. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique waits until traffic is clear, then waves his red rag and guides her out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The dryness of the rag was part proof. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He flinches when Ma puts a wet rag on his bruised and bleeding head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The nails were broken and none too clean, the cuticles ragged. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We kick the bladder up and down the meadow till there are holes and rags start falling out and we get fed up kicking a bladder that’s hardly there anymore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The ragged fur, in reverse, took on the look of shorn velvet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Keffers also kept a workbench in there, and so I put the magazines down on it, pushed aside some old rags and heaved myself up to sit on the tabletop. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to ride a steer in a pasture, got tossed onto the ragged edge of a fallen tree, and limped home with his gashed knee bound in a handkerchief. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Neither could any of the other prisoners, from the looks of our ragged ranks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he threw the nail down and rested one ragged sneaker on the fish. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The prince wouldn't know his lessons, the royal tutor was quick as a flyswatter with his willow switch— and Jemmy would be back in rags. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “Big Ma, why you wear a wig and an Aunt Jemima rag?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z By the carpentry workshop, he found Meeks, the second mate, lounging in the doorway while Harison sat outside, running a cleaning rag over his revolver. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z After everyone was gone, Dal turned and set down the rag he had been using to wipe the slate clean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her hair hung wet and heavy, a loose strand stuck to her forehead, and she could imagine how ragged and wild she must look, but for once she did not care. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He fell inside the new rock wall, face a bloody rag. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Apples and Ending and fist over hand and Ben and Julie and Beaut, Todd? and the generator is flickering and rags and shut up, just shut up and Look at me, boy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Their horses were left behind as well, poor ragged things. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her cloak was in rags, and her flesh it was lean, And her eyes, her murdered eyes... Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A mob of ragged boys raced by, screeching and flailing at each other with sticks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A ragged wall of flame moved through the flowers, giving off a wave of blistering heat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She used the rag to gather the parings into her dustpan and then wiped the dusty dresser top clean. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In a ragged, barely audible voice, Rob croaked, “Harold was with me last night, but he doesn’t seem to be with me now. He was very weak.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Then they cud up and sleep on the rag—a bedroom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Seated on a chair before the only table in the room was a woman in a ragged robe adorned with an embroidered dragon on its front. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Antonapoulos always turned the wicks so that only a ragged fringe of gold and blue could be seen inside each burner. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When I opened my eyes, all I saw were the Sirens—ragged vultures with human faces, ready to feed on another victim. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Every time Papa saw Sarnie lying around in the warm sun with his feet wrapped up in turpentine rags, he would laugh until big tears rolled down his cheeks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother long ago had shoved all the trunks and boxes as far as they could go under the eaves, leaving prime space for Luke’s brass bed and circular rag rug and books and toys. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z With each ragged breath, more blood coursed between his fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They’d make a slave of me that day, stripping cloak and tunic off me, throwing around me the dirty rags you see before you now. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby was still astride her hip, now she arranged few rags in a corner of the room and laid him down. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Ear, his ears safely nestled in the ragged muffs, could listen to the outside world without pain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Omakayas decided to set this last bird free and she gently undid the basswood fiber twine from a sharp black-clawed foot, its neck, a ragged baby feathered wing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Other kids have ragged security blankets or a beat-up favorite teddy bear. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z They were dirty and wet, their sleeves ragged, and their mother kissed each of their unshaven cheeks twice. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He wore only boxers and ragged scraps of a terrycloth robe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We went down into the cellar, where Anne took some wire and fastened a rag to the end of a stick. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But her tongue feels as if it has been stuffed in her mouth like a rag to keep her quiet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A ragged wave of shouts gave answer, just as Stannis's glove began to smolder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A ragged circle of Romans and Amazons stood around Percy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Among them, the chief’s family is the fattest and wears only new black, shiny clothes, not the faded gray rags we have on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I cleaned the girl's knees with alcohol stolen from a bar, letting her bite down on a rag so she wouldn't shriek and draw attention to us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z And rising through it in ones and twos and larger groups as well came small black shadows, those ragged figures of such elegance, witches on their branches of cloud-pine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Anya gathered some up and wove a patch for the sukkah wall, then wove its ends into the wall’s ragged hole. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Then he strides out, tossing the wet rag to the navigator, who clearly has no interest in nursing my wound. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Then he loosened something, and a ragged gap of light appeared, like the hole in a wall. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z My brother’s ragged sweater and sievelike moccasins are the clothes he studies in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After my Saturday night bath, I set my hair on rag rollers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z No one took from the bodies under the newspapers, as there were no clothes left to take, no shoes, only rags. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Lourdes would welcome her father in her party dress and search his suitcase for rag dolls and oranges. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Touch was the thing, lightness in the finger, the sparing use of water, never spit, the thinness of the rag, and a stingy use of polish. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Shady wiped a wet rag across the bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He whipped out a ragged bandana to cover his nose and stalked away. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “You got a black eye for a rag like this?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he didn't have no pretty woman in the passenger seat anymore, but he was still driving it around like he was king of the world, with a kingdom's worth of rags inside. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Uhmma’s hands washed our dinner dishes, cleaned the kitchen floor with a rag, folded load after load of laundry. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He reached out and took a rag from the bed-heap—a goat-hide, it might have been years ago, but it was now all tatters and black grease. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I wiped the shelves with a wet rag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Elsewhere, two ragged boys no older than Bran were dueling with sticks, to the loud encouragement of some and the furious curses of others. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z One clean sheet under my wrist and a pen in my fingers, I pour it all out to Philbert instead: the music, the dancing, the snap of my rag. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now go,” she says, “and take those rags with you.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A chimpanzee can’t win an argument with a Homo sapiens, but the ape can rip the man apart like a rag doll. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She scraped a ragged peel off a turnip. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And he shook her head like a rag and threw her back against the ground, half-stunning her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The flesh on his thigh is burned black and red, the skin hanging ragged and oozing. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The gash swelled and bled badly, stopping only after I had swathed his forehead with pieces of rags. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks nervous, and no wonder—who wouldn’t be nervous after watching Will collapse like a rag doll? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was called that to differentiate it from a celluloid collar which was what poor men wore because it could be laundered simply by being wiped with a wet rag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She must be on an errand, a knotted rag in her free hand, a poor girl’s purse. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tension poured out of Bast, and for a moment he hung limply as a rag doll from the wrist Kvothe still held, standing behind the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She unsheathed her knife and started cleaning the blade'with a rag. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Klunk, flump went the brush and rag as Mama dropped them into the pail. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I snap the rag till my palms sting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her breath was ragged in her throat; her limbs felt weak, as though she had just climbed a thousand steps; her hand holding the broken stem shook. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s Will’s voice, ragged, coming between sharp, shallow breaths. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She takes one look at me and begins stuffing clothes in the laundry bag that once hung behind my door, a rag doll’s face on a hanger with her body an empty sack. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A pair of captain’s bars ulcerated with rust hung on the man’s ragged shirt collar. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The manager guy wiped off his face with a rag and got this crazy look on his face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She stumbled to her knees, arms crossed over her chest, her breath ragged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Robert squirmed away from the rag, but his father caught him and cleaned off most of the mess before he set his son on the floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, besides the collar, there was a ragged blanket too, and half a chicken. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Men in straw hats and ragged pants and shirts, with torn sneakers or flip-flops or leather shoes without laces, were gathered around a cockfighting pit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Nothing is such a pathetic word, isn't it? But then, you are pathetic. Your clothes are rags and you have a pustulous scab on your neck. Still...” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now, though, they squatted at every street corner, dressed in shredded burlap rags, mud-caked hands held out for a coin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some dressed in fine soft furs, some in boiled leather and oddments of armor, more in wool and sealskins, a few in rags. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had a small, ragged mustache, and beneath this his lower lip looked as though it had been stung by a wasp. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead he saw the black ragged flock all driving down and in upon one point in mid-air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Like all of them she wore ragged and faded clothes and looked anxious. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But at last she heard his ragged voice below. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z There were groups of men dressed in ragged, filthy clothing, drinking from liquor bottles as they chatted. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As I fell, something invisible began rocking me back and forth—lightly at first, but then harder and harder until I was flopping around like a rag doll. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Beside the stump, dressed in crude rags, sat a wiry old woman gnawing at a knot in a bristly rope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I selected that one and headed to the backyard, grabbing a ragged old quilt from the linen cupboard at the top of the stairs on my way down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They walked together into the house, where Mary wet a rag and started to clean up the scrapes and bruises Tony had left on his brother’s face and body. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One could not imagine what she was thinking as she marched so grimly down the halls, her head tied up in a rag, a bucket and a mop in her hands. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I can hear his breathing, soft and ragged. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside them on the ground sits a pile of their little children, in rags, looking up at me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Just then their father enters with a box of dirty rags, and her mother just a few moments later. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z To his right a war galley stroked serene against the rising sun; to his left, a battered old cog raced before a storm, her sails in rags. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yellow rags fluttered from railings and door knockers—pus yellow, fear yellow—to mark the homes of the sick and the dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a storm- wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Though nearly as ragged as I was, he was cleaner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This ragged group then joined several hundred American prisoners of war on a forced trek to Mampo, a small town on the Yalu River, which forms the border between North Korea and China. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They passed a cemetery littered with rock-piled graves and ragged shaheed flags fluttering in the breeze. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I returned to my job at Mrs. Bibbs’s and bought my school- books; my clothing remained little better than rags. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew she had been digging out some old rags of Conchetta’s, but I hadn’t expected this. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Then suddenly as he fixed the miserable rags round himself a feeling of pity for his ruined body overcame him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They were nearing the lines now; men began rising out of the ground, ragged apparitions. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I cleaned the windows with a wet rag. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The clothes he wore would turn to rags, foul and stinking, and he would be made to wear them till they rotted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Behind them Jam could hear Hibiscus’s voice, ragged and pleading, saying how he would tell them everything, everything, if they could just please make sure it didn’t come back for him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She handed me a rag and just as soon as she’d splashed one of the tin cans in the water and give it to me I’d dry it and stick it in the wooden box. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “It healed the tree,” Chiron said, his voice ragged. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Kenneth never gave us any trouble,” she just had to add, neatly folding the polishing rag. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He stuffs a few rags under his head for a pillow and slips into sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z What was missing was any demonstration of ragged, childish enthusiasm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I heard a noise and ducked behind a ragged bush. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Griffin went down and flopped over like a rag doll. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany could hear the singing of the red priests as they lit their night fires and the shouts of ragged children playing games beyond the walls of the estate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She gave the face of the grandfather clock another swipe with the dust rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Moonie goes and gives the old rag rug a scratch with one paw. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He looked out the panes that were already a little frosted over, and the moonlight flooded him, and his scar was a bright ragged line along his side. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z A clean rag tied tightly seemed to stanch the bleeding. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As Lina watched, a bag of rags came tumbling out the door, and then an old brown shoe with no laces. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When they sensed we were watching from above, they turned their faces up to us, all rags and eyes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Ma took the rags off their hair and combed it into long, round curls that hung down over their shoulders. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As she sipped the buttered tea, she would sometimes tell about the Underground Railroad, and that first trip she made to Canada, and how all of them were ragged, hungry, dirty, cold and afraid. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The hero was jerking on the sand, the bright blood pouring from the ragged stump of his shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Washington could slow down Howe, but his ragged army had little chance of keeping the British from sending troops from New York to occupy Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As if Molly might not make the connection, she moves the rag to her head. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z One was an elegant Pentoshi, grey-haired and clad in silk but for his cloak, a ragged thing sewn from dozens of strips of tom, bloodstained cloth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Robb glanced over at where Stiv lay sprawled in the stream, his ragged black cloak moving fitfully as the rushing waters tugged at it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He’s a skeleton with rags and if they were making a film about the famine he’d surely be put in the middle of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Chronicler felt a pang of loss as he stared at the innkeeper with one hand hidden in a linen rag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Such a man!” laughed good-natured Mrs. K., as she put the relics in the rag bag. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew he would be crawling under the cabin, so she made him put on last year’s worn-out overalls and a ragged jacket of his father’s that came down to his knees. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, huddled inside the ragged quilt, she was sucked down, in spite of herself, into a black whirlpool of slumber, where nightmare phantoms whirled with her, nearer and nearer, toward some unknown horror. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A green and yellow rag rug covered most of the old linoleum tile. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “A wish on a rag won’t bring you love, dearie,” they would say. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Olanna saw the four ragged soldiers carrying a corpse on their shoulders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They were dumped on the floor of a gloomy chamber, shucked out of their clothes and left a pile of rags to put on. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They took off their clothes and let the rags lie on the ground until they were destroyed by ants. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It felt wonderful to throw off the evil-smelling rags and plunge into the stream. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I will not bow to such a one, last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We came to a firebreak and Papa plunged into it, began to cut a twisty path across its emptiness, shouting “Hyah! Hyahl,” gouging ragged tracks through the dusty sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He was making copious notes in small leather notebooks filled with high-quality paper made from linen rags. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We found it under a pile of rags in the kitchen.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I hang in the bathroom to get out of Momma’s homemade rags and into the clothes Charlese brings for me to try on. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z When you look at the moon through a telescope you cannot see mountains, but the ragged terminator indicates that mountains are there. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Luck smiled on me the next day, and I managed to steal a bundle of rags off the back of a wagon and sell them to a ragman for four iron pennies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Forcing down her revulsion, she picked up the handkerchiefs with her cleaning rag and dropped them into the laundry basket in the hall. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Running the rag over a gauge I wondered how an apparently uneducated old man could gain such a responsible job. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A ragged drift of fur at the top was bright cinnamon. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z If someone— man, woman, or child—provoked him, the cold, quiet man disappeared and the fire inside him flared up like a rag doused with kerosene, all flames and flying fists. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I sailed into the office and shoved my ragged composition book under the nose of the man who called himself the editor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But gram for gram, nothing in the universe comes close to the green speckled recluse; among other spiders, compared with the green speckled recluse, the black widow was a rag doll. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I swing and swing ’til there’s a ragged hole around the window. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He nodded at the rag sling holding Nailer’s shoulder. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The square’s packed with screaming people, their faces hidden with rags and homemade masks, throwing bricks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He had no shirt or coat on, no shoes or rags on his feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z His hair had burned away, leaving only ragged patches. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I called the U.S. Army in to haul them buffalo rags away,” he said. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes and took a deep, ragged breath. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Momma and other ladies caught him in time to bring him back to the bench, where he quickly folded upon himself like a Br’er Rabbit rag doll. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And she, for a long time, sat deathly still in wonderment—for sometimes as she gazed she found him—yes, clearly—like her husband, but sometimes blood and rags were all she saw. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he puts a rag in one hand and a tin of wood polish in the other. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was looking a bit ragged these days. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Guy blotted his face with a dust rag as he prepared to hear the news. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It was a Cyclops in ragged jeans and a flannel shirt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He wiped Sciron’s big toe with his rag and turned aside to gag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He looked about as young as Muthu, but his clothes were even more ragged. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z One more swipe of the rag would’ve gotten it, but Daddy’s not used to wearing good loafers on a Saturday. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Cooler than your bloody nose rag?” she asked, and wrinkled up her face. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The sound was ragged and clotted up, but even so he knew the voice. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sirius was wearing ragged gray robes; the same ones he had been wearing when he had left Azkaban. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She picked up her rag and began to wash the woodwork around the kitchen door, humming—more happily, I thought—as if in a dream. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Shortly it became two lights, then three: a ragged row of beacons rising from the water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He would seem like a prince even dressed in rags. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Yelp and bellow next time. Hear? Or I'll tell Papa to give you back your rags and kick you back into the streets." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He paid as much attention to us as would a shopkeeper receiving a delivery of old rags. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a ragged strip of grass bordering the street, and as Jake walked along the ground seemed to rise nearer to his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Now, by the time I reached the top of the craggy hill, each ragged breath felt like inhaling fire. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Milgrom was laid in the cart and covered with a ragged scrap of cabbage-colored wool that had once been a blanket. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Had the last washing split the shirtwaist so bad it could not take another mend and changed its name to rag? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought the Madonna with me, and Jacqueline took a small bundle with some black rags in it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Where he had once cared for only one boy, he now brimmed with love for this bristling vixen and her ragged brother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Later Abuela wrapped my hand in a white rag and tucked me into bed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z My friends, when I had them, pretty much just ragged on me and took my seat when I left the room anyway. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Their mother, her head tied up in an old rag, sipped black coffee and watched Roy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The mother tried to open the Kleenex in her lap, but it was too ragged to spread out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z My first week at Miss Celia’s, I scrub the house until there isn’t a dust rag or a stripped sheet or even a run stocking left to wipe with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Hassan said your copy was old and ragged, and that some of the pages were missing,” Ali said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Who’s been kindly to your hurts?” the boy’s mother asked as she looked down at the clean white rags that bandaged the boy’s fingers. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me see,” I said, kneeling down, holding the rag out. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Now she understood why the children had all stripped off their clothes, dropping them like bright rags on the sandy ground. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By standing on his hind legs he could just rest his forepaws on the ragged lip of the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something hard and curving in a corner, wrapped in a scrap of cotton rag. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Don’t be a girl. You know if I was in the mental ward, you’d call me up and rag on me a little. It’s because we’re friends, man!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z What’s more, in the three-mile trials the older boys had begun to look decidedly ragged by the time they entered the last mile. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell where the shreds of his saturated coveralls ended and the ragged flesh began. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Worse, they looked ragged, clearly knackered by the heat, and were wandering from one side of the course to the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Not finely dressed as the others had been, in fact only one step from being ragged. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Over my hair I tied a ragged length of linen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At night, she snuck out of the house with rags to wash his cuts, and gave him food and water. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I emptied a bureau drawer full of ragged, baby-stained old quilts into a big box. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The markets were crowded with ragged men selling their household goods for any price they could get . . . and conspicuously empty of farmers selling food. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Well, I tried,” Moss said, his breath ragged. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Her mother’s boots clomped uncomfortably, even though she had stuffed the toes with old rags. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In the back seat we were all thrown around, flung from door to door like rag dolls, with Mama bouncing in front of us and Papa’s hat crunching up against the ceiling. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking Needles in the eye, I dabbed the rag on the first cut. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Her breath was ragged, animalistic, the opposite of pretty. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I had a rag blanket and a burlap sack with some straw that I used for a pillow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He mopped his forehead with an old rag he kept tucked in the back pocket of his overalls, then put it away and rolled his sleeves down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z His muscles were sore from weeks of not practicing, and his breath was ragged in his throat as he thrust and thrust again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Walter brings the rag back to my face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The rag tied around his nose and mouth is damp from sweat and tears. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Not all of them, and not all at once, but in a few minutes only a few ragged stragglers remained. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She had tied rags around her shoulders to keep out the spring chill and was picking through the trash while her dog, a black-and-white terrier mix, played at her feet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The bank was a muddy slope covered in ragged weeds. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I put the bowl of bread pudding into a basket, tied on my cloak, and wound up my hands in rags to keep the frost from biting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She waited until her heart had calmed before she dropped the washrag back into the bucket, her breathing ragged. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I take a handful of the moss to use as a rag and join Wiress in the shallows. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was naked except for a breechclout, a filthy bit of yellow rag. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yet, for all this rare color, his clothing was ragged, torn, and patched in many parts, enough so that I could see his dirty, hairy skin in several spots. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z With my messy ponytails and dress from the bargain basement, I feel like the fairy tale’s ragged girl with the basket of onions when I’m around Miss Mademoiselle Danielle. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z His jerkin was a ragged bearskin, worn and greasy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He circled the mound and stared at a faded blue rag partially uncovered, quivering in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon the Frog was covered with cloth, cushions, drying sails, ropes, rags, and towels tied into all the lines that supported the mast—the shrouds and stays—and along the handrails. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My room, like Kitchen-Girl’s and Cook’s, is a dank hole with a low entrance and a ragged curtain that serves as a door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It broke under his weight and he lay sprawled in the wreckage, limp as a rag doll. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When it was done the bride stood naked, her bridal finery a heap of white and grey rags, about her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He threw him like a rag doll into the sharp edges of the picnic tables, knocking the skip tracer out in a single blow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There’s a heap of rags, a few bars of soap, and a carton of baking soda in the indoor lavatory, Miss Larsen tells me, in case you want to freshen up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The man behind the counter picks up my glass and, with a chocolate-stained rag, wipes the counter. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She shakes my hand like a puppy shaking a rag. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But these were sacred figures in rich velvet capes and glittery robes and shepherds' cloaks beautifully stitched to look ragged with patches by the Carmelite nuns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I learned how to lash together makeshift shoes out of rags. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Alex grabbed the wet rag he used to clean the kitchen, took the scalding skillet by the handle, and hurried to the sliding door at the back of the kitchen. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I tightened my grip on the dust rag, my ready excuse for why I was here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They were huge ragged rodents, bigger than any he had ever seen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The Slammer stood in an obscure place between the Homestead and the north Glade wall, hidden behind thorny, ragged bushes that looked like they hadn’t been trimmed in ages. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Dany’s clothes were hardly more than rags, and offered little in the way of warmth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Father wiped his hands on an old rag in the back of the wagon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can it taste sour?” she yelled as she wiped me down with a rag. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Wiping with his dirtcolored rag the ring-shaped water stains they had left on his marble Refreshments Counter. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A ten-foot trunk remained upright, its ragged top charred where lightning had struck. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “I think she knew she was dying. She handed me wet rags with this tiny dragon inside.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When she got closer, she saw that he was a northman, very tall and thin, huddled in a ragged fur cloak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She gave me rags for the quilt and a few rupees to buy thread. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath, reached into his pocket, and handed her a ragged kerchief. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They used white rags to wipe sweat from their foreheads and then stuffed them deep into their back pockets. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z People who’d come here from other lands—and there were many of them—would frown at the rag, or even reach up to remove it. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He had seen the ragged man's eyes, and he was thinking of them now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was cloaked in shadows too, in wisps of ragged grey mist, half-seen, sliding across his face and form with every step he took. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sun was feeble, wrapped in ragged gray clouds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain could see the men shuffling, strange pathetic spectacle, dusty, dirty, ragged men, heads down, faces down: it reminded him of a history- book picture of impressed seamen in the last war with England. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The fountain spurted a few inches into the air from a rough length of pipe, threw up its hands, collapsed and drowned its ragged dribble in a stone basin of yellowing water. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The woman comes back with a seriously foul-smelling rag in her hands. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The blood would not stop its flowing, though I tied the rag tightly about the incision. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Freddie whisks away the excess, finishing with a snap of the rag, loud like a firecracker. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched them tear down the last of the shelters, and they piled the rags and coats they found and sprinkled them with kerosene. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The cooling palma christi leaves that Janie had bound about her grandma’s head with a white rag had wilted down and become part and parcel of the woman. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z So while Mackenzie runs herself ragged in game temples, I wander through my neighborhood making random turns, maybe in search of my own boss key. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The miracle worked upon a worthless rag of cotton. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They'd tom the rags she was wearing half off her back, so I wrapped her in my cloak while Jaime chased the men into die woods. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then outside Anne poured kerosene over the rag, lighted it, and led a torch parade from the cellar toward the cherry tree. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love looked at the sputum he spat into a rag. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z One of Jonas’s arms was immobilized with pain, and he could see through his own torn sleeve something that looked like ragged flesh and splintery bone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The aiakh cut was wide but shallow; his left nipple was gone, and a flap of bloody flesh and skin dangled from his chest like a wet rag. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Instead of throwing away the fragments of the mirror as she had planned, she folded them into an old rag and put the rag into the empty trunk. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But here and there small purple flowers shone iridescently, and in the upturned earth and ragged dunes a few delicate asters grew; for some reason, hundreds of tiny fuzzy caterpillers were chewing on the asters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he made his way stealthily to the outlet of Shelob’s tunnel, where the rags of her great web were still blowing and swaying in the cold airs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Foods like frijoles and papas, clothing, plows, tools, nails, machetes, ropes, leather goods, baskets, comales for the toasting of tortillas and such, cleaning rags, buckets, and jeans jeans jeans, which have taken over. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He had watched her washing clothes, squatting on the flat stones of the river, her dark legs polished by the water, as she rubbed the faded rags with her rough peasant hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman lowered the rag she held over her face. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Ugwu did not want to go into that ragged bazaar but he steeled himself and walked toward a man sitting on the ground with a red-stained rag wound around his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was dressed in rags and seaweed, with a chain-mail coat made of bottle caps and old plastic six-pack holders. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Rolling, ripping, kicking, they fought until the both of them were ragged and fresh blood dappled the snows around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When they had hidden the treasures in a nearby cave they separated, she to summon Telemachus home, he, whom her art had turned into a shambling ragged old man, to seek the swineherd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a crow, Ada liked shiny things, and with them she had transformed her dull, ragged coat into a sparkling work of art. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The clothes she wore were rags, faded and fraying, but warm clean rags for all that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I saw children dressed in rags chasing a soccer ball outside the huts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They rowed anyway, some of them attired in ragged sweat suits, some, incongruously, in shorts and stocking caps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With one shoe on and one shoe off, his clothes in rags, and his body streaked with oil, Alex knew he must look a strange sight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The cement floor was a jungle of boxes, ragged pants, overalls, jackets, bicycles, unwashed pots and pans, opened cans of fish, empty beer bottles and cartons, old newspapers, greasy underwear and frayed suitcases. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Peeta’s feet slamming into the closet door break up the ragged breathing of the others. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z After two minutes he dropped his hand as you would drop a rag. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They looted the shelves of paper, rags and deposit bottles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The world’s wind had been sinking, and the driving sleet of the storm had given way to a chill, ragged, thickening mist. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They floated, her palms little ragged cups bobbing on the surface, the water weaving in and out of her fingers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She tied another rag around my crusty arm. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z His clothes are ragged but well kept, though his pants are too short and may have once been blue or brown or green but have faded too much to be certain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She gets us up early and tells us for once in our lives don’t wash our faces, don’t comb our hair, dress in any old rag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I picked it up as a joke, thinking, who would buy this rag? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes she plucked at a thread on her ragged cape or bent over to pull on her socks, which were loose and tended to slide down around her ankles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They wash themselves with orange-colored Lifebuoy soap, dust themselves with Cashmere Bouquet talc, clean their teeth with salt on a piece of rag, soften their skin with Jergens Lotion. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the road came twenty or thirty tired and ragged men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was like a rag doll in her hands. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes back the rag and shows me the basic move. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The white dress she’d taken the care to wash out every day was ragged. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But when I put clothes on Rusty, he went all floppy, like a rag doll. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z One by one they stood up, twitching rags into place. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z By day thin plumes of smoke hung against the sky like ragged grey ribbons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Beneath this was a collection of yellow newspaper cuttings, all stuck together to make a ragged collage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Dully, I looked down at the ragged, dirty shirt I wore. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Wearily, the Captain sat down in Auntie Braxton’s easy chair right on top of the pile of rags I’d left: there. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them left the group to follow the flying rag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She dropped her rag in her bucket and turned to find Clara watching her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Several times during the mourning period he awakened and complained and got the dipped rag again and went to sleep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Eberhardt remained polite, even though he knew the policeman wasn’t telling him everything about the green rag. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She grabs a rag and rushes to the oven and jerks the cake out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Silence from the bear; and then he dropped the ragged bone and lifted the jar to his muzzle again, drinking the powerful spirits like water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Jory's armor was blue-grey plate without device or ornament, and a thin grey cloak hung from his shoulders like a soiled rag. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My journal is black, ragged on the edges, and nearly filled up with my daily scribbles and screams. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Then I shucked off my slave rags, put on my master’s clothes, and rode off on his horse to my freedom,” Captain Smith finishes his story. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She began to swipe at the table furiously with a wet rag. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He almost ran home, but Mama wiped his face with a damp rag and gave him a piece from the best part of the cake. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of us stood in a ragged circle around the baby buffalo. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused, drawing a ragged breath, and took the moonstone ring out of her pocket and put it into the palm of his hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I shake my head and begin cleaning the counter with a wet rag. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The more evil air a person had, the more my body turned into a limp rag afterward. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to sniveling tears. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He's never married and is always getting ragged about being homosexual. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The sharp blue slacks he had worn were in a corner, next to Aunt Pearl's box of dusting rags. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He removed the dirty card from the ragged envelope. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always ragging Revere about falling off horses. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Pepperhorn was dragging Valley down the aisle to the door, handling her as if...as if she were a rag doll. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “I remember. What a ragged, naughty thing you were, Matty, when you came to Village.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Duchess's once beautiful coat now hung in ragged patches. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Her dark hair is tied in a ragged lace handkerchief, and her curved jawbone is fit with large, false-pearl earrings, as if these headlamps from another world might show the way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Kuda rummaged through the rags until he found a man’s shirt with the sleeves torn off. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She had to bind his hands in clean rags before he could even pick up a fork, or the Bible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Barefoot children were playing on the street, kicking a ragged tennis ball with a stick, and they stared when I pulled up and killed the engine. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And after them came a line of black girls, old, fat, dressed in ragged gingham, walking loosely, carrying tin cans of soap powder, rags, mops, brooms ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Keenan is nowhere to be seen, but a woman draped in rags detaches herself from a wall and approaches me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His hood and his grey rags were flung away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I glanced down at my hands and saw the ragged edges of my cuticles. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z These old rags could be my death, outside on a frosty morning, and the town is distant, so they say.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was applying a rag wet with creek water to my forehead. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The convoy of vans and trucks sped away in a huge cloud of dust, with several of the black policemen dangling from the side and rear doors like rags on a line. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had made himself a black armband out of what looked like a rag dipped in boot polish, and his eyes were puffy, red, and swollen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He twisted her arm like a wet rag. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His arms were pinned to his sides and his legs dangled as limply as a rag doll’s. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The tires had collapsed a long time ago, and the black rag roof was peeling. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My brothers played at soccer with a ball they had fashioned from old rags. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z A drip from the rag makes it to my mouth and I gag and spit and cough some more. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Newt was cleaning it with a wet rag, gingerly, asking questions in a whisper too low to hear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I grunted disapproval and reached under the rag pillow for my tattered khaki pants and shorts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Instantly, Percy gulped and began to thrash, but Jason was as lifeless as a rag doll. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I placed the rag doll in her arms. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I also saw she didn’t have no clothes on ’cepting a rag hanging ’cross one of her shoulders. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A man dressed in rags pushed a large cart that already contained two corpses—a child and young woman, their skin tinted a pale yellow. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the girls but Rachel generally ran ragged, so this must have been—for our family—a Sunday, a coincidence of our big day and the villagers’. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy tried to say something back, but all that made it through the rag in his mouth were these crazy low muffled noises. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z "Oh, yes. They ragged him about me at the café, I guess. He wanted me to grow my hair out. Me, with long hair. I'd look so like hell." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It was the best music my brothers and I had ever heard, with gorgeous cascading chords and an electrifying ragged timing, which compelled the audience to get up and dance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes, too, they laughed at him for being so ragged. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Taisin had almost forgotten about it, but now she peeled hack the rag. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She spread coats and rags on the floor of the little back room and we slept there with the bicycle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And so they were: ragged elegant black shapes sweeping past high above, with a hiss and swish of air through the needles of the cloud-pine branches they flew on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z With the weather remaining cool, he still had to wear his ragged sweater to practice almost every day, and the boys still teased him continuously for it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His great shock of bright yellow hair burst out in all directions, like a ragged sun. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The herons built huge ragged nests of sticks and trash and sat around in the trees all day long, fussing and staining the tree branches with their white droppings. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as though their brilliance must shine through his rags and someone cry out, “Now here is a poor man carrying an emperor’s treasure!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I considered getting up to turn on the fan but only sat there staring through the panes at the milky-blue sky, a sad, ragged feeling catching hold inside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Women washed their rags in leaky, rusted washtubs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A small rag doll covered with what looked like blood was trapped under one of the bus’ front wheels. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bueno, that will do. But when we are paid the first time, we must also buy some new clothing. We have only rags.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z And I can turn the saddest rag of a shirt to find the one good spot that can be snipped out and turned into a quilt patch. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And that red plaid dress . . . there was one, a hand-me-down to Prim that got washed to rags after my father's death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Their owners, such as J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, wore diamonds, while their workers wore rags. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z When she saw her clothing, all rags now encrusted with drying salt, she clutched the tatters, feeling the ruined cloth with her fingers, and then relinquished it all, turning her face to the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A ragged, legless beggar sat by the gate. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Kermit was still feeling ragged from it, but he was better compared to four days ago, when he could barely stand up. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I took a rag out of my tote sack and wrapped the knife in it so’s it wouldn’t bang up ’gainst none of my chunking stones. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Aisling,” she said in a ragged voice, “your father — he is not well.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "Then the war hits, and he's overthrown. Saddam goes into hiding, and when he's eventually found, months later, he's filthy, dressed in rags, and living in a hole in the ground." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Tiller and Sairy gaped at the ragged hole chopped in the side of the barn. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Ishtar picked a small rag doll from a shelf. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then they set out upon the road again, slumped and cowled and shivering in their rags like mendicant friars sent forth to find their keep. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Rags, rags!” the boys used to shout at him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the child, who began to wail, clutching at his mother’s ragged cloak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’d sooner go naked than wear one o’ them black rags on my back.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An unadorned light bulb dangled down over several long wooden tables piled high with rags. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The tents we'd seen previously had been torn apart, and their ragged canvas flapped limply in the fetid breeze. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I speared a damp rag and shook it into my sack. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She sank to her knees, taking a deep, ragged breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When something brushed against her leg, she almost jumped out of her skin, but it was only a cat, a ragged black tom with a chewed-off ear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She lay under the faded bedding like a rag doll losing its stuffing, her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow, her cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the overalls his body was looped with filthy yellowish rags, just recognizable as the remnants of underclothes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was not dressed in sleek furs, but in thin and ragged robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In front of one mound, like a one-eighth scale model of Stonehenge, was a ragged circle of wak’a: sacred stones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I would be faithless if I looked the other way when his son has fallen upon evil days. Still—” Zau’s ragged eyebrows lifted arrogantly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I feel his diaper rag, which is dry on the outside but spongy. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A ragged line of chopped nettles on the grass marked her progress, as did the stinging white bumps on her feet and ankles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Edwin casually lifted an oily rag from the bottom of the skiff and wiped away the slime, then tossed the rag back under his seat and again fixed his eyes on Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A week later he was back with six barefoot and ragged soldiers, armed with shotguns, and an oxcart in which his wife and seven daughters were traveling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He lifted the corner of the rag that covered my bucket and sniffed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, in rotting rags and filling the room with the stink of the grave, stood over her to curse the daughter who had denied her on her deathbed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It rose and fell in ragged hitches, and Pax was relieved. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was filthy and ragged and its hair was tangled with twigs and leaves. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z We wait on the comer with our rags. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But Amens and Yes, sir’s began to fall around the room like rain through a ragged umbrella. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As though she could bind herself back together with rags, keep her body from coming apart at the seams, keep her bits from breaking. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Over the next few months, as the extent of the devastation settled in, the trickle of ragged refugees that Joe Rantz had witnessed heading west the previous summer became a torrent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Looking at the man, with his crippled foot and greasy ragged tunic tied closed with woven palm fronds, it wasn’t hard to believe he was close to starvation. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Then they scoured my head clean and tied up my hair in ringlets with cotton rags that stuck out all over like a frightful job of bandaging. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A ragged winter sparrow flew in patterns against the smoky sky and at last came to light on a gable of the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z After that, I would be called on to present my own ragged gallery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He could see a long way off through the trees, and there were ragged bodies in the fields, groups of men digging, cutting trees for cover. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He removes the rag from my forehead, dips it in water, and then squeezes out the excess. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Papa sits at the table with a rag, polishing all of our silver, which lies in neat piles around him. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Each individual had a small prayer mg, and each man and wife, or large group, had a larger communal rag. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeming to gain courage, she went to the hut and came back with something again in her hands, a bundle wrapped up in a rag. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I just closed my face and slapped my scrubbing rag on a chair leg. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I have even seen her on her knees, scrubbing the floor with rags. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They were ragged and worn and smelled peculiar, with a lingering, dank odor, part old sweat and part something else Hannah did not even want to guess at. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I’m finally sucking in ragged breaths, he kisses my head. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Several children had added themselves to the company; they came after, jigging about in high glee, noisy and excited: a long, ragged tail-end to the procession. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had placed a damp rag on her forehead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The rag hung limp in my hand as I stared as Nabila. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She poured some on one of the rags which she had carefully dampened just as Mrs. Nevins always did and proceeded to clean the never-used dining room with its dark, heavy table and six chairs. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The dark passage outside the courtrooms was packed with tall, black-hooded figures, their faces completely hidden, their ragged breathing the only sound in the place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He smacked me and stuffed a rag against my ear. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z But as Jinny opened the cabin door and stepped inside, Ess peered longingly down at the beach, where the others all seemed to be playing a game of catch with a ball of rags. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Tilted slightly to the starboard, it had hanging from its intact masts the dirty rags of its sails in the midst of its rigging, which was adorned with orchids. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The plumes on the centurions’ helmets were frozen and ragged. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She could hear its heavy footfall and ragged breath, even more real now than it had been that night in Flatbush. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Tendai struggled with the monkey, but the owner threw his arm around Tendai’s throat and plastered a rag to his face, too. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When I had the tire back on, I wiped my hands on a rag from the toolbox and said, “Now, Grandpa, you can crank her up again.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He ignored the thistles as the bear sank its teeth into his thigh, lifting him like a rag doll. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I used to stay after class and wipe the blackboard for him with a wet rag. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At no long interval, Odysseus came through his own doorway as a mendicant, humped like a bundle of rags over his stick. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the boys reached the lot in which there was a ragged diamond tramped out, a little yellow butterfly flew across the weeds. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the ragged edge, a neat person had printed in blue ink, “P.A.” and the year the actor, dancer, or musician had graduated. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z His hair is reasonably long and his flannel shirts all resemble rags. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z She was wiping the metal counter with a limp rag. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Over our first few days we would learn how to shine our shoes using Kiwi black shoe polish, a cotton rag, and a pretty disgusting amount of saliva. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z ‘In that case I will have my pouch back, which is not yours and has journeyed far with me. Wrap the weed in a rag of your own.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He was as ragged as a rock star, but his missing teeth and the unhealthy pallor of his skin spoke eloquently of a life of privation and despair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not too surprising, I suppose, that she would forget a ragged boy she’d only known for a few days on the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The evil spell is broken, and the little ragged girl and her poor mother are given a nice house next to the castle where they live happily ever after. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z There’s not much to boast of here—two ragged, stained, and dirty uniforms. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My tongue probes the ragged flesh and I taste blood. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “No, Scout, those ragged ignorant people fought until they were nearly exterminated to maintain something that these days seems to be the sole privilege of artists and musicians.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It had a glittering golden tail as long as a peacock’s and gleaming golden talons, which were gripping a ragged bundle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They examined each other, their new garb in sharp contrast to the other rags they wore. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z His glasses were streaked with grease and he held a wet rag over his nose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Debussy, in Paris, cashed in on the popularity of cakewalk piano rags, with his ‘Golliwogg’s Cakewalk’ of 1908 - which incidentally also includes a jokey musical quotation from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His weight like a rag on the rungs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Shawn said they had to be washed before they could be loaded, so I fetched a rag and a bucket of water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were dressed as I was, rags and dirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My sister was pretty much a rag doll when she was asleep. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The most surprising thing about it was that those ragged pants he was wearing had any pockets left that would hold anything. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The swineherd led him to the manor later in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken, propped on a stick. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a rug on the floor, oval, of braided rags. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They seem to revel in it, using their superhuman strength to toss other champions around like rag dolls. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z His shoes were bound up with wire and coated with roadtar and he sat there in silence, bent over in his rags. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He dined on roots, berries, and seaweed, hunted game with spears and snares, dressed in rags, endured the bitter winters. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His gray rags had been cast off in a pile next to him and he was clothed in a bright yellow silk, the color of the sun. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z But finally the water cleared from Derek’s throat and the coughing stopped, though his breathing was still ragged. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Baba’s breathing had grown a little ragged, and he kept wiping sweat off his forehead and scalp with his handkerchief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he got a pocketful of matches and a rag and the can of kerosene. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She thinks of her father and his endless destinations, his suitcase filled with rag dolls and oranges, his voice soothing as leaves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He indicated that he wanted me to come and have breakfast with him and his wife, on their rag. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother could not afford diapers, so she used pieces of rags to diaper the baby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Never cared much for appearance, gave an impression of ominous bad-tempered strength and a kind of slow, even, stubborn, unquenchable anger: a soft voice, a ragged mouth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A little ragged girl arrives and announces, “I’ve come to help the princess cry.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I made much use of my dream rag. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t pictured herself confronting him caged and starving, hands bound, dressed in rags. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Everyone quieted to see this lump of rags, shuffling forward, his weight leaning on a gnarled stick, his legs bent like bows and caked with mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The song feels as though it is calling my blood, moving it through my veins to the same ragged beat, with the same sweet chords. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I have an interest in not making you a new set of clothes every other day. I have an interest in your not smelling so bad and walking around my island in smoldering rags.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was an old Tallhart man, three trees sewn on his ragged surcoat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wears ragged brown clothing and skin sags from his jaw. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I’m coming, I said silently to everything I’d left behind, and headed for the single, ragged bus that would take me home. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She had seen the thin, ragged drug addicts huddled on street corners, begging for scraps. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Stale and wilted flowers, rejected downtown, blazed feverishly on a cart, like glamorous rags festering beneath a futile spray from a punctured fruit juice can. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Nox said, his breathing ragged as he stopped by her side. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I washed my arms and legs and the back of my neck and my ears and my face and I dried myself with a soft, clean rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice was ragged, as if it had been used too much recently. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The basket was covered with a clean ragged cloth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She took a ragged breath and managed to sit up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He thought how the rats had gnawed ragged holes in the red saddle, and how the mice had nibbled Gabilan’s tail until it was stringy and thin. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The bleeding won’t stop, no matter how hard I press the rag against my nose. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Brigid picked up a pile of what looked like rags, but might have been clothing, off a rough stool, and Lyddie sat down gratefully. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great brown eyes, Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer, leader of a gang of vagabonds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Bridey Hannon told Mam that Mrs. Meagher is in a constant state of shame over the rags they wear and so desperate she goes down to the Dispensary for the public assistance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Florah was singing lullabies to Merriam; Maria was playing placidly with her frayed rag doll; and George huddled near the brazier, sleeping. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hello,” they called, and their voices, faint and ragged, were almost one voice floating up to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The steady thud of knuckles striking flesh, the groans and ragged gasps, the scuffle of feet on the floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With something of a start, I did remember: a windy autumn night, full moon obscured by dusty rags of cloud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Rita and Kuda screamed as the two men—who had silently followed behind—pounced on them and stuffed rags into their faces. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z At one end of the hall at which he found himself, heedless justice in threadbare robes were biting their fingernails or closing their eyelids, at the other end was a ragged rabble. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His face sagged beneath his ragged, new-grown whiskers, and he looked so weary Catelyn feared he might fall off his horse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A dry rag, for buffing surfaces, occupies the right-hand pocket of your slacks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Atticus Finch had watched Henry’s ragged pursuit of his daughter with benign objectivity, giving advice when asked for it, but absolutely declining to become involved. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z While he piled the stuff on to the scale, Francie blinked, adjusting her eyes to the darkness and was aware of the mossy air and the odor of wetted rags. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The gates were opened, and a ragged bunch of prisoners were marched back inside, all beaten and bloodied. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Some prisoners were already awake, their hands and arms wrapped in rags sticking through the bars of the window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in this way that for one period, one of our best periods, I remember, we specialized in Oriental rags. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Longstreet smiled his ragged smile, grumbled, jerked a finger over his shoulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d found a pair of workshoes and the boy was wearing blue tennis shoes with rags stuffed into the toes and they had fresh sheeting for face masks. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Two children that were hardly more than babies shared a blanket on the stone floor, and another was curled up in a pile of rags. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An official collection song had this line: “We collect bones, scrap metal, rags, false teeth, and paper bags.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I left the rags in place till it was nearly time to go on Saturday. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We have rags to catch the spit blown out the valve at the bottom of the slide, but I miss half the time. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He had, first, given himself an outrageous beating and thrown some rags on—like a household slave— then slipped into that city of wide lanes among his enemies. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He wore a ragged tweed jacket, a skullcap, and a pair of eyeglasses with one chipped lens resting on the tip of his nose. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had his arms crossed over a great big stomach with his head-wiping rag hanging out of his right hand. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Yellow eyes peered from between the ragged split strands, and a hiss spilled from a mouth full of fangs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And into his mind burst the vision of an emaciated old man lying in rags upon a stone floor, screaming, a horrible, drawn-out scream, a scream of unendurable agony.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He lined it with bits of dirty newspapers and rags, and whenever he found a trinket or a keepsake he carried it home and stored it there. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z When she arrived, she discovered that the ragged breathing of more than two hundred hysterical guests had fogged the glass. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I showed her my ragged stockings, my patched pants. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Theresa tipped the can over; the squirrel, looking ragged, scooted toward liberation. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I unbuckle my belt and strip off my jumpsuit, which is little more than a perforated rag. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He wondered what Lord Eddard might have done if the deserter had been his brother Benjen instead of that ragged stranger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Collared and chained and back in rags again, Reek followed with the other dogs at Lord Ramsay’s heels when his lordship strode forth to greet his father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tonight, as I come in, the girls in my room are setting each other's hair with bits of rag and smoking cigarettes with the windows open. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Too soon a grieving one, wearing rags like a madwoman. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The carpet is one of those rag rugs you see in country inns. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Then she sends another gift: A ragged old sheet comes floating down. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I have always suspected that the fence himself sold the rags to the people we stole them from. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel my hands shaking, and my breathing is ragged. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She lays a rag and then several pieces of wood atop his right shoulder. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I get my rag and my oil soap, work my way up the staircase, polishing each spoke on the banister as I go. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He tried to run and his leg rebroke under him and he crawled up the ragged slope to the roadbed where it was happening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z People ragged Leek, but they were oddly proud of him, too, he was a freak, he was so bad at everything. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He wore a faded red shirt, ragged, dusty, and dark pants ragged around his legs. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a mile up to the raftered ceiling hung with red, dusty drapes or banners all ragged with the years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But the dream rag gave a special quality to my daze. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They are ragged and dirty, but these things do not hide their love. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Then they spread a tablecloth over the rag and ate, so the rag became the dining room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She screeched as her body shriveled with age and her gown turned to rags. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I drew breaths in ragged jags, my heart raced, and my skin burned. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Well, at least I haven't got that disgusting rag stuffed in my mouth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I could buy a rag blanket that I would hide on the rooftops, keeping me warm all winter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He wiped the marble counter with his dirtcolored rag that he held in his hairy watch hand. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to open the next window as Becky laid out a rag on each sill. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She started combing out her rag doll’s hair and watched Naima erase the stone. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z The soiled clothes were dumped out of the wash basket and it was lined with a ragged but clean blanket and set up on two chairs near the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I threw a wet rag on the possibility by giving my actual name. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He summoned the winds and flung three ghouls off the side of the hill like rag dolls. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He saw a curly-haired faun in ragged clothes running to catch up with him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Tell Mr. Blakeslee I cain’t come today,” he said, putting his scaly hands in the pockets of his dirty, ragged overalls. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After people write their hope on a rag or piece of paper, they tie it onto one of my branches. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In the mirror, Ash saw a pale, expressionless face with wide brown eyes, and where there had once been a smooth length of dark brown hair, now she saw ragged edges pointing every which way. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One was suddenly gripping under the body of the van, and something was dragging me, swinging my legs around like a rag doll’s, till they hit the tire of the tan car. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “He’s on the rag again”—a condition occasioned, in this instance, by the fact that the cook on the morning shift had forgotten to thaw out the steaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel heard a ragged, painful noise and realized it was her own breathing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She had a new scar on her chin, and her dirty blond hair had been cut short and ragged, like someone had attacked it with a pair of safety scissors. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And I said well I couldn’t help it either and I just lost my rag. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Covering the table was a large map of the north, painted on a ragged piece of hide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The build this fellow had, under his rags!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Under its feet he slips folded rags; then he jacks up the other side and does the same. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The train car smells of diaper rags and sweat and sour milk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, oh. I finally got up to see it. A rag pallet on the floor, Dana!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z If anything, Shay*s hands were in worse shape, red and dry and cracked with the ragged edges of burst blisters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She is a limp rag without her stuffing. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He limped noticeably, and he was dressed in a ragged version of the clothing of the whites. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Her flesh had grown as thin and ragged as Lannister hopes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After her death, he wore no underwear and struggled to find rags to wear inside his shoes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Suddenly it became a squirt bottle with a rag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She sewed clothes for him, built him toys from scraps of wood, rags, and dried grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The ragged circle around him moved perceptibly closer. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d be up there in my chair, and my shine rag was popping to the beat of all of their records, spinning in my head. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the faint patch of light below the ragged hole in the roof, a rabbit was standing—no Efrafan, a rabbit unknown to the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He just lay there in the sunshine, all stretched out and limber as a rag. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw her there, dressed in rags, her face thin and worn. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Ess held up a worn and ragged book, with a picture on the front of a sleeping monster and a sailboat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She brought me clean rags and explained how generation occurs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It dropped the ragged thing it was carrying at his feet, then landed heavily on his shoulder. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They were old enough to remember when rags became felt for the war effort, when cans and scrap metal could become bullets and cans of grease explosives. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He withdrew and reappeared with a limp rag. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He stripped slowly and piled his vile rags in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z If not for the ragged state sashes they still wore, it would be hard to tell them apart. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Their clothes were ragged and covered in filth, their bodies had warped into hideous designs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z After a while Neeley came in, crawled under his cot and pulled out a ragged catcher’s mitt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As I hung up the phone, I felt bad for having ragged on him earlier. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Buttoning the three buttons in front, she remembered suddenly how she had thought the dark blue dress Gitl had given her ugly, how she’d called it a rag. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In despair I wound the rags about me again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He washed and polished it once a week and dusted it every day with a rag he kept underneath the front seat. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He wraps his hand in the dish rag and tells Mam, Quick, quick, wipe the blood off the Pope before it dries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It had been used for holding screws, but he tipped those out and wiped the inside with a rag before inverting the glass over it with the card still in place over the mouth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When Cleopatra finally arrived to take Mark Antony and the survivors back to Alexandria, she found the soldiers in rags and Mark Antony in despair. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “You’ve been working for white people all your life,” I said, “and they have never given you as much as a rag. You yourself always said that.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My skin was grimy with dirt, my nails long and ragged. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “My pa talked to Mr. Soldano. Mrs. Soldano was burning a bunch of rags in kerosene to clear out the mosquitoes.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Its grass was ragged and brown, and the chalked yard lines had faded to a pale yellow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The ragged scar that marked her chin and continued down her neck to her broad shoulder was said to be a remnant of a long-ago battle with one of the forest creatures. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A barefoot clump of rags was slouching off down the alley. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Jenny’s husband pulled out a rag and wiped his hands on it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Orphans by the thousands roamed the streets in their rags and boils, slumped in doorways, begging for food, clothing, anything. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “So,” she said, her voice ragged with both tears and smoke. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She wiped her floured hands with a rag and stood up. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Uncle Chester’s bed linens were fit for rags and barely that. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I felt his ragged fingernails scratch across my skin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They stared at Reyna, their eyes ragged holes in faces of rock. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was a loud crack, and a house-elf appeared, with a snout for a nose, giant bat’s ears, and enormous bloodshot eyes, crouching on the Dursleys’ shag carpet and covered in grimy rags. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z So now Odysseus made his shirt a belt and roped his rags around his loins, baring his hurdler’s thighs and boxer’s breadth of shoulder, the dense rib-sheath and upper arms. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Now shrugging off his rags the wiliest fighter of the islands I leapt and stood on the broad door sill, his own bow in his hand. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He swung the bear viciously by one of its ragged ears and smacked her in the face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All he could see of his forearm was ripped shirt and ragged torn flesh. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The men wear red rags sewn to their chests, which has been lately required of them as proof of their oaths to the Crown and to Lord Dunmore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z So she reached for a rag instead and mopped his face with it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When it got real severe with the colors and the gangs around the neighborhood, we put all them things straight in the rag bin. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Instead of dispersing, they coalesced into him, clustering in the folds of his ragged cloak, disappearing into his mouth, and flying around his head like a screaming halo. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Otto shouted over his shoulder, the only instruction he had time to give before leaping through the ragged hole in the wall. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She leans over my shoulder and lifts a dusty rag, one of my old cloth diapers, to remove a tape measure hidden underneath. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Each time someone arrives to eat dinner, he waves the red rag to guide the customer into a parking space, like a ground crew member ushering a jetliner to a gate. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t have to sleep on rags up in the attic no more,” he’d said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When she was done she painted the skin with red ointment, covered it with more leaves, and bound the breast in a ragged piece of lambskin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Maybe if she laid him on the porch and put some soft rags under him tonight, he might rise from the dead, like Lazarus did in a meetin’-house story. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the ragged curtains, I catch a flash of a liquid silver face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The little ragged girl curtsies and replies, “I promise, Your Majesty, I will bring no harm upon your daughter. I just want to help her.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Staring up through the ragged branches of the acacia to the stars, spangling the dark sky, he could see only the kindly face of Rekh the goldsmith rising before him in reproach. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z ‘Look, Aragorn! Did I not warn you? There is the old man. All in dirty grey rags: that is why I could not see him at first.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Felicia dropped a rag into the skillet and watched it go limp with oil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She was at it all week for more than eight hours a day, until her back and neck ached, and ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Soon I would need rags to wrap round my hands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z With her ragged black hair and her black punk clothes, an old wool overcoat wrapped around her, she looked like some kind of huge raven, completely out of place in the white landscape. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Near them, half-moon lobster traps bleached under the heat of the sun, the salt dried to white streaks along their boards, their rope netting stiff and a bit ragged. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z This one glided down into the com on its enormous, ragged black wings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Maisie was eighteen months old, but her weight was like a bundle of rags. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In the cramped back yards were rotted privies and lines of torn, smoky rags hung out to dry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He saw them outlined in lightning, black ragged figures rising around him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was wrapped in a bit of rag and he tore this away. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His hair was still ragged, but his eyes were a brownish orange. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The ragged cut rock surrounding us seemed to close in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After scrubbing away most of the grime, she put the rag over one finger, held it in place with the other hand, and traced the outlines of the paintings. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z I say, drying my hands on a rag. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Leroy took a rag out of one of his overall pockets and wiped the sweat off his head. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She was so thin inside her ragged garment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Norman Bowker and Kiowa and Dave Jensen were dozing, or half dozing, and all around us were those ragged green mountains. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Newt stood up, refolding his bloody rag to find a clean spot. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She saw that she was inadequately dressed against the raw November day in a threadbare cotton dress, ragged little sweater and thin cotton stockings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When the video warns against oversoaking our rags with cleaning fluids, he pauses it to tell me there’s a danger in undersoaking too, especially if it’s going to slow me down. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I called him so many times that I finally saw him, but when he came he was covered with dried blood and rags, dragging streamers of barbed wire across the waxed parquet floors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything from beggar’s rags to rich silks and velvets could be found there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “A bath is an excellent idea, younger sister, and they need fresh clothes, too. Those rags can be fed to the metal worker’s furnace. I wouldn’t dare use them in a cook fire.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The hotel mirror is perfectly clean, but for the echo of a few rag swipes in the top left corner. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Each evening, without fail, he summons his courage and goes to the Nuevo Laredo city hall with a large plastic paint bucket and two rags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He took a rag, dipped it into the soap water, and washed Sophie’s udder. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When he laid down his staff, the one under the pile of rags hid whimpering. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He lights the rag hanging from the bottle’s mouth and with a not terribly good arm flings the Molotov cocktail through the front window of the Zebra Room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At least when Jinny unwound her rags one morning, she found her bleeding had stopped. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Little boy hands, his mom would call them, with short-short nails and ragged cuticles. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure drags the heavy rag rug from the floor of Madame Manec’s apartment all the way to the sixth floor and drapes it over her quilt. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He was wearing a ragged blue cotton jacket with a red cloth, pincushion-like charm around his neck which was supposed to keep him from getting smallpox. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for the rags they wore and the fact that they were standing, they looked like the bodies. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Just glimpses of them, wild and ragged, flitting through the woods or standing by the gate late at night. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He collected a small following of happy boys, one small ragged girl with a beautiful, delicate face. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A few white hairs were all that separated him from baldness; his forked beard was equal parts white and grey, but always ragged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The man in the hole was now a mangled mess of blood and shredded rags. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Figures staggered through the street with demented expressions, wild-eyed, their clothes singed, rags tied around burns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He bent and scooped up the rags in his arms and piled them on top of the shoes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z One half he ate, the other he knotted into his ragged sash as he hurried out of the courtyard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Then he went to a box by the wall, and from it he brought a piece of rag. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of all that was more important, I hated him to see me covered in rags and cinders. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Ruth’s doll rested inside it under a rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z After pouring warm water in a tin bowl, I take a rag and scrub my face, my neck, my fingernails. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She has to live up high in his nest, dirty and ragged, eating rotten meat. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A ragged laugh rippled through the crowd, and some man shouted out an offer to kiss it and make it better. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I rushed to the bathroom and dampened a cloth from Mama’s clean rags bin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He put the paddle down and wiped his hands on a rag. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They might look at pictures, and they might hold their rag dolls nicely and talk to them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Tubes, brushes, cans, rags, and parts of frames and canvas were strewn everywhere. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Loomis could pick Grandpa up like a rag doll, Miss Love. Not jostle his ribs or anything. Just bend over easy and lay him in the water.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And beside the sagebush there would be a naked, eyeless skull, a few picked bones, a spot of black dried blood and a few rags of golden fur. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Voices call to her in ragged words stitched together from many languages, like dissonant scraps of quilt. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Half their size, it dove through the scribble of their ragged, stinking wings, driving them back with its piercing cry. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Covering the poles were hides and rags and in some places patches of straw thatch. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After a queasy moment in which I imagined some twisted cannibal leaping from the shadows with knife in hand, I realized they were only coats rotted to rags and green with age. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She’d called the dress a rag; she hadn’t known anything about wearing rags then. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And he sure lit out the way he’d come when Grandma fired just over his ragged ears, as he’d probably used up eight lives already. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We ran out of the kitchen, slammed the door, and stuffed rags in the gap beneath it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s not like his parents’ divorce was a pleasant time for him, or like he runs himself ragged about grades for fun. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The rag was still in my hand, but it was no longer wet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Some homes there are teepees, stitched together from rags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I remembered the legend of how he had come to the college, a barefoot boy who in his fervor for education had trudged with his bundle of ragged clothing across two states. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get you a rag and shine her up. A man should polish his own horn.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The boy lowered the stick cautiously and the silly pigeon followed the rag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The dress was tight across her newly budding chest, and it hung unevenly to just above her ankles in a ragged hem. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As I made my way down the short hallway, a boy in rags emerged from the inner rooms holding a small winter apple. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All the young men got on their feet now, laughing, to crowd around the ragged pair. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He wiped down the counters with rags dipped in water and vinegar. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Mexican bartender had gone home, and now the white man who owned the place was behind the bar, dusting off the bottles with a rag. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She listened to their breathing: That is Nag; that is Rida with her one ragged exhalation every other minute. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Hang the rags outside his children’s window as a final warning.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Very tall and very thin, the Lord of Raventree had a hook nose, long hair, and a ragged salt-and-pepper beard that showed more salt than pepper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Seth moved around the shack, not taking his eyes from the ragged woman in the doorway. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But Daddy had found him, brought him home, and they’d pressed a cool, wet rag to Tommy’s bruises and stitched up a cut over his eye while the boy tried not to cry. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Instead, the ragged tom was curled up in an egg box, contentedly snoozing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Toddy didn’t go to school but instead spent his days in a corner of his room, clutching the ragged remnant of an old quilt and rocking himself without ceasing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Later, in Mecca, I would see yet another use of the rag. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You shovel like a disznó. A pig. You cannot toss the ground aside like an old rag. Then it will not help you later. Use a hoe, there by the shed.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I took the rag from him and rinsed it out again; the water was sunset pink. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But a few minutes later the road turned a corner and began to run along an old pasture dotted with gnarled fruit trees in ragged bloom. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His eyes were closed in pain, his breath ragged. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ripping a piece from the rag she called her skirt, she wrapped him tightly and ran her secret hidden route back to the village. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Humbaba crumpled to his knees and clawed the earth in agony, tearing great ragged trenches with his claws. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z When winter comes, I’ll have shoes on my feet instead of rags and straw. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z She snorts, dropping the rag into the bowl of water with a wet plop. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When he heard the rustle of leaves, Bran used the reins to make Dancer turn, expecting to see his friends, but the ragged men who stepped out onto the bank of the stream were strangers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He wore a ragged red kefta and was clutching the sleeve of the guard closest to him, lips moving feverishly as if imparting some desperate wisdom. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Dressed in every stitch of clothing I could find, I suspect I looked like Mattie's rag doll, shuffling my way down the icy steps and across the snowy yard to the well. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And when Soon-Lee and I ignore their taunts: “I think some people are on the rag today.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In a massive valley between two of the largest peaks, a ragged wall of ice rose out of the sea, filling the entire gorge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She limped away, her breathing hard and ragged. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The first khalasar they met would swallow up her ragged band, slaying the warriors and slaving the rest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Half a year after Orellana’s departure, the surviving members of the expedition staggered in rags into Quito. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And while Pax slept, the ragged little runt kept watch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I stirred it vigorously, then grabbed a rag, wiping each of the boards clean, then made a new sample of each bucket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The first report was very bad, and Buford rode over and took command, but it was only concussion and Gamble was back on his feet in a few moments, ragged and dirty. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He laughed heartily at his joke, reminding me of a ragged version of Clement Moore’s Saint Nick from the old poem “The Night Before Christmas.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In the dark she struggled into a ragged old shirt of Salvador’s, then his trousers, which she rolled up, and finally his blue jacket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Underneath the workbench, I pulled out the box of rags and shoved my hand beneath the curtains looking for the drill. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He dipped a rag in whisky and gave it to the baby to suck, and after three or four dippings young Adam went to sleep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet I laughed bitterly at the white kids in ragged jeans who frolicked on the campus lawn tossing Frisbees and went about campus caroling in German at Christmas. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime I think I need to stuff that girl’s cleaning rags in my ears so’s I cain’t hear her singing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Tufts of hair stuck out from under a head rag, and the eyes stared from a face gone skeletal. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Clumsy dolt,” Hannah scolded as I knelt to clean the floor with rags. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I must look a ragged thing, and starved, she thought, but if the days stay warm, I will not freeze. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A flush of heat rose in her cheeks, and she sat back, busying herself with stowing the canteen and dirty rag. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z With my mop and my rags I spread cleanliness like a blessing all around the nuns’ quiet house. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My legs were rags; I leaned heavily on the rope. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Behind a veil of ragged clouds, a full moon floated fat and white as a snowball. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I studied the clouds’ dark shapes—flocks of lost sheep straying across a desolate wasteland, blown to rags and tatters by the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Several of the men have no shoes, protecting their feet with rags wound around them only, and their discomfort was extreme. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Zalmai lay around the house, eyes dulled and half closed, or in his father’s lap, limp as a rag. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His eyes were as red as the blood of the ragged man who had died that morning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She should be stuffed into the ticking along with the bits of rag, stitched shut to hide her visible lumps and moving parts. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z All that happened was the rag I’d covered the fish heads with came off and I got bounced back and landed square on the floor. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Aravis went a few steps away into the wood and came back looking odd in her new, ragged clothes and carrying her real ones in a bundle. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “Get a rag. One of the customers just spilled they drink.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama is wiping the counters down with a rag, even though they are already gleaming. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She drew a pail of water from the well and, with a rag, washed the windows of her room and the windows to the living room downstairs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z My ragged breathing is the only sound in the room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The ; gelding plunged down the bank as the ragged men closed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She looked like the victim of a famine—limbs like sticks, swollen knees and knobby elbows, rags for clothes, broken fingernails and toenails. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the market square, we found ragged companies forming, several led by men habited as milkmaids. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He was definitely one of the gang, the way they were ragging on him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Beneath her, bits of broken glass cut into Koffi's palms and knees; plumes of smoke filled her lungs with every ragged breath she took. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then, using its large snout to lift her off the ground and into the air, it caught her, throwing her over its shoulder like a rag doll. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I tore off the rag that covered my hair. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The bridge was full of people: the elderly and sick, men and women in rags, leaning on canes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When she ran a damp rag once across a small section of the kitchen floor, the rag turned black. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I flung my rag into the bucket, sloshing gray ammonia water all over my ankles. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Black children in rags were playing in mud puddles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear dropped the ragged weed he was holding and stole around to the window at the side of the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “And that—” said Riddle, now eyeing the ragged thing that Fawkes had dropped, “that’s the old school Sorting Hat —” So it was. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He stopped in his ragged pilgrimage only to lift his hat to white men who fled past him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z All those nights working the shoe-shine rag hadn’t prepared me for how it would feel to be down in the throes of it all. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Mass, Ma tightened a leather belt around her belly, the way some old Haitian women tightened rags around their middles when grieving. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I got dust rags and Comet cleanser in case I needed them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z On the nightstand, a lamp with a ragged shade and a worn anatomy text. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “You said just the other day you had plenty to do here,” Dad tells me, wringing out his rag at the pump. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z With water and rags she cleaned my wounded ear. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “I think it’s hard to grow up,” Rashida said, holding her rag doll close. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z In his blue overalls that hung limp over his skinny little body he was like a blue-and-yellow rag doll. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The old woman gave him her rag and they disappeared into the crowd. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The music grew louder, and as I rounded the bend near the train tracks, I felt the warmth radiating from the bonfire, saw the glow on the rough and ragged faces. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They took a bus to a place Rasheed called the Shar-e-Nau Park, where children pushed each other on swings and slapped volleyballs over ragged nets tied to tree trunks. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The reverend’s daughter opens it up to see an exhausted, very thin redheaded man dressed in rags, covered with dirt and sweat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He had no clean dry clothes, so he wriggled back into the same damp rags and followed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Scipio simply wedged a rag between his captive's teeth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I asked as I wiped my sister’s hands and face with a damp rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Each had brought a tail of fighting men—five for Old Flint, twelve for The Norrey, all clad in ragged skins and studded leathers, fearsome as the face of winter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Broken, by God’s whiskers. Broken,” she moaned, feeling her ankle, and she set about telling Beetle how to pack the boneset herbs and wrap the rags about the limb. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask Otis, wiping my hands on a rag. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z All eyes turned to me, because in a world without any playthings other than a ragged ball, a new game is always welcome. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I handed the coins as usual to Puli, who thrust it into the ragged pouch which covered his manhood. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help feeling jealous that she’d soon be wearing those dresses and I would be left behind with nothing but my rags. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Where I had been standing a moment before was a ragged hole in the side of the Arch, with melted metal steaming around the edges. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Gray mist creatures churned all around me, whispering rags of smoke that I somehow knew were the spirits of the dead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A tin gallon can has been cut in half, the lip ragged and dangerous. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Henry set aside his glass and pulled a rag out of his back pocket, wiping away the sweat that sprang up on his brow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z This waren’t nothing but a waste of time, though, ’cause soon’s the rag left his face, sweat rolled right back all over it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I say, pressing the rag with my fingers and wincing from the smell. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I push my ragged mouth against the mirror. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I lined my shoes and cap with newspaper to keep out the wind and emptied the leftovers hiding under the holly bush into a bucket that I covered with an old rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why she had made the boy put on his ragged clothes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All the hate was out in the crowd, he thought, screaming for blood, for a knockout, and the crowd didn't really care who flopped over like a rag doll, Griffin, Rivera, Brooks, anybody. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy felt warm and proud inside when he saw his father’s great hand take hold of the handle of the hot lid without using a pot rag the way his mother always did. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They could smell him in his stinking rags. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He would have felt it incumbent on him to supply his granddaughter with clothes if she were indecently clad or if she were ragged or cold, but not to marry in. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z “She didn’t mean it. She going through a lot, that’s all. King throwing Iesha around like a rag doll every single night.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z My tongue felt the ragged edge of a broken tooth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When he dropped the bag to reach for the bottle, it was hard to miss the ragged knuckles or the big, dusty footprint stamped on the front of his new shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Of course, he had an eye patch, and he’d tied his hair down under a doo rag made from an old black T-shirt. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The jousting went all day and into the dusk, the hooves of the great warhorses pounding down the lists until the field was a ragged wasteland of tom earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Let him ’ware them, when no man can’t find a rag of his dear relation’s clothes, nor yet a bone of his body. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Off came the last ragged garment, down went the crutches, and with a “Whoosh!” he was into the water with the others and away with the current. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z A ragged cry, but a cry just the same. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was like ripping a great bolt of silk, and the air fell in ragged ribbons away from her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I can smell her breath, which is worse than the rag, and I feel the silence behind all these words. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a three-legged race with a life-size rag doll. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He heard it in the kitchen, trying to sleep, trying not to see the rag doll flop endlessly to the canvas. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They were artsy misfits who dressed exclusively in concert tees and ragged flannels, and it was those brooding qualities that intrigued me more than the cookie-cutter athlete and cheerleader types. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In his rags he sat on the throne facing south, and we, a great red crowd, bowed to him three times. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced at her clothes, which looked like the garments of a queen when she had them on, but now, hanging from their nails on the wall, seemed like the sad rags of a beggar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought there could be deathships out there yet, drifting with their lolling rags of sail. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “I need it so much. I’m dreadfully in debt, and it won’t be my turn to have the rag money for a month.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She tossed it onto the bed, and pulled off the rags and tatters she had worn as an old woman. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z And it hadn’t been a heap of rags after all; it was a gray-bearded man, chained to the wall, whose eyes glittered in Pantalaimon’s luminance, and whose tattered hair hung over his shoulders. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She scrubbed them both off with a rag until the child’s mother, Leye, came running over. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Uncle Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door, and Harry was left to find the softest bit of floor he could and to cud up under the thinnest, most ragged blanket. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In the basement, I opened up a cupboard underneath Dad’s workbench and pulled out a boxful of rags. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I have taken a damp rag to my face, hands and feet, scrubbing only the skin that will be visible. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When he was sleeping, he was like a rag doll. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He taped rags around the window casings, but it was little help. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z So when we heard him whistle, we never knew whether to expect good news or bad, rags or riches. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z As he washed the boy’s hand with a soft white rag he said, “You musta slammed these fingers in a awful heavy door or gate.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca managed to bring him a guitar and stuffed some rags beneath the strings so no one would hear him composing muted songs of widows, orphans, prisoners, and the disappeared. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the skeleton of a Union soldier, though the uniform it wore was so ragged and filthy it was difficult to identify. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z After I squeezed my feet into those small, dreadful shoes, it was back to the sweeping, and then the polishing of the banister with soft rags and beeswax scented with lemon. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A ragged Kleenex poked from her other hand, which was tucked in front of her, balled into a tight fist. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Both of his arms plunged into the terrible ragged hole and dragged out a big, white, dripping bundle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Marty,” Dad says, going outside with a rag to wipe off his Jeep. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We have no money for a proper ball so one of the boys brings a sheep’s bladder stuffed with rags. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Leave my customers alone,” he shouted at her and waved the greasy rag the way Don Berto used to wave his sharp machete. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The page came out with a ragged tear and the pencil turned out to be a green one, but that would have to do. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In the farthest corner there was a heap of rags she took for bedding, and that was all she could see. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly self-conscious, I imagined how I must look: ragged and half-starved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Then what exactly are you here for, babies?” he said, not unkindly, his rag hovering over the tabletop. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Neither of you girls are on the rag, I hope,” said Rex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I go upstairs with my oil rags and I open that cupboard for myself. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They tried to stop it with rags but they only turned sopping wet and let the rain in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tonight, even though the coach ran us ragged at practice, I heard Webb sprinting past the house. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Strands of hair, pale blond and black, clung to his brow, the rags of his tunic to his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The voice on the other end was ragged. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And she took their ragged clothes and with thread she herself spun on a bamboo spindle from a wad of cotton she mended and contrived to cover the rents in their winter clothes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He’d heard that sometimes a surge could move the coastline inland as much as a mile, turning beaches and trees into a murky swamp sea, the new ragged tide line of rising sea levels. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her voice is ragged, the ripped chords of an Eat’n Park hostess back home. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The moths weren’t...they weren’t scraps of rag. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They sprinted down the shed rows, gathering pommel pads, horse blankets, and rub rags, and threw them on the truck bed to serve as a makeshift gurney mattress. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z These Muslims prayed on their rags there in the compartment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If a girl didn’t have enough hair to do the trick, she used rags, rats, or switches to fill up the insides of the ear muffs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But James was trembling in the clubroom corner, ripping open his heroin bag, and the crowd was screaming for him to kill Rivera, and Griffin was flopping over like a rag doll. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Had I been raised with the tradition of stuffed animals, I would have hugged my bear or stuffed dog or rabbit, salting the ragged fur with my tears all night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z George and my sisters no longer went about in rags; we now could even afford a Christmas tree. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t say anything about his lips in her hair, or the fact that his breathing had gone ever so slightly ragged. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z One leg dangled, torn away from the body, held there only by an oozing bit of ragged tissue. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Malcolm pulled the canoe away from the water and into ragged shrubbery at the edge of the lawn, and then slumped down beside it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Those two tattered rags were literal pieces of her mother, the only things she had left now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I was relieved to see that she had slipped into a thin ragged housecoat—even though it had holes in all the wrong places—and I could look directly at her for the first time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z His uncle, having said these words, stepped back and folded his arms with a flourish of his dirty and ragged robes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In a small garage on the dealership property, the detailers used little blue rags to make spotless the used or new cars and ready them for sale. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A waiter walked over with a rag to wipe off the counter. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He took a drink outta the jug of water he always keeps in the field and pulled the rag off the plate of fish Ma had fried for him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z From a nearby crab apple tree, a small ball of confused bees hung like a ragged skein of yarn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The motor was ragged and loud — I was riding something the sound and speed of a lawn mower. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As I turned, someone seized me from behind and thrust a damp rag over my nose and mouth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I’d forgotten how they looked—torn by brambles, stained and faded to the color of earth and moss, fluttering in rags and tatters. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z None of them were as ragged, and none of them looked as tired as I felt. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Radar was furiously swinging Alex’s backpack in his mouth, shaking it like a rag doll, spilling notebook paper and sheets of homework everywhere. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Later, a different girl had made a man of him upon a ragged quilt in the shade of that tall grey-green sentinel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had long lines of ragged stitches holding the skin together across the top of my head and down the middle of my face, right over the center of my new nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They were ragged and looked more like the work of beavers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She threw the dirty rags in a gunny sack at the far end of the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had washed and rubbed his feet with golden oil, he turned, dragging his bench again to the fire side for warmth, and hid the scar under his rags. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My rag caught on a crack in the bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Since there were no lights up in the attic and she had the water and rags anyway, she figured she’d clean the windows. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Dust cloths, monthly cloths, rags tied around pipe joints to hinder freezing; pot holders and pieces to test hot irons and wrap their handles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan always went along with my projects, but this rally was worlds different than putting up removable wallpaper or braiding our own rag rugs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Wearing masks and goggles, sitting in their rags by the side of the road like ruined aviators. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And he pulled Minli up to her feet and pushed her behind one of the giant gnarled stone carvings, kicking his rags over her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z It’s not like Tyler Croft ragging on me or nothing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She watched until the delicate flames consumed the rag, watched until the blaze was hot and floating in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The wounds were deep, and he could see exposed muscles and tendons glisten yellow and pink in a devastating kind of beauty where the ragged flesh gaped open. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I had a rag blanket and a half a loaf of bread there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He thrust half a dozen torches into the brazier’s glowing coals and watched the oiled rags flare up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The grey stubbly man wore black rags too, he saw with a sudden start. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mama had let me sleep in rag rollers the night before, so I had big corkscrew curls instead of my usual pigtails, and she put bobby pins in my hair, crisscrossing two on each side. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He was shot in midair and flopped to the ground floor like a rag doll. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Let your clothes alone and put that rag on your eye. I’ll send your suit out first thing tomorrow.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She could have thrown the weapon into the fire, never to see it again, but Taisin came to her side and held out a torn rag. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Marcos decorated the carriage house with some frayed curtains that had once belonged in the drawing room but that neglect and age had turned to dusty rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I had the bottle in hand and was trying to coax the bonobo to drink when my mom came in from the outside, wiping her hands on a rag. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As we came to a side road I saw a team of oxen hitched to a broken-down wagon, the ragged driver dozing on the seat beneath the shade of a clump of trees. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well—” Jen waved her hand in a way that made Luke even more aware of the contrast between his ragged flannel shirt and patched jeans, and Jen's perfect house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He leveled McWatt out with another harsh cry and whipped him upward and around again into a ragged blue patch of unpolluted air just as the bombs he had dropped began to strike. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A bald ghost in ragged clothes elbowed Jason in the ribs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Instead, she checked Doc over, then wet a few rags with cool water and a little dish soap. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I grabbed a rag, immersed it in the hot water, and started dabbing the swollen side of my face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Stonesnake curled up under his ragged fur cloak and was asleep almost at once. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Most of these ragged men had nothing beyond what they took in the day’s labor and begging, and he was always conscious that he was not truly one of them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly he thought of his Aunt Jimmy, her asafetida bag, her four gold teeth, and the purple rag she wore around her head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The waiters looked at the thin child in her ragged dress and then exchanged glances. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I put down my roller and wiped my hands on a rag. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A ragged cheer went up from the commons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Finally she gets this idea to cut the rope on the ragged edge of the boiler. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z One lifts me like a rag doll and carries me up to the roof, onto a hovercraft, and fastens me into a seat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The road was blocked by a line of slow-moving carts, each pushed by a man with a rag tied over his face, each holding a corpse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The thump of a thousand Jackboots was now the shuffle of ragged shoes; instead of the roar of tanks, the crickety click of cart wheels. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I saw Johnson; he had a rag or something around the sixty and was shooting it from the hip. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was seated on a flat rock, cleaning a wooden bowl, scrubbing the cracks in the rounded poplar with a rag dipped in fire ash. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I walk into the garage and get back to my can of turpentine, and I load the rag up again and wipe off any leftover paint. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The wind roared once in the forest and pushed their rags against them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A few cheers went up from the crush along the banks, as thin and ragged as the clouds scuttling overhead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Neither could boast more than a single short garment, held at the waist by a rag of a sash. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Her hand pressed against the ragged hole in her armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z His ears were nothing but shapeless shreds, ragged at the edges, seamed with ill-knit scars and beaded here and there with lumps of proud, bare flesh. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Some riders went past along the river road as Arya was washing her clothes, but if they saw the scrawny naked girl scrubbing her rags in the moonlight, they took no notice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The one in the gun- nysack was even tighter and more ragged. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She let the rags of her gown fall to her waist as she opened a carved chest, and busied herself with bottles and boxes, knives and needles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My shine rag popped with the rhythm of those great bands rocking the ballroom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But denying a drink to children and a few ragged old people was something beyond my experience. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Fin put down the tool, wiping her oily fingers on a rag. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She picked up a pile of rags and ajar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When there’s a hole in a pair of pants she sits up and patches it with any rag she can find. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z No-one bothered to look at a little ragged boy running along on bare feet. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z An old lady Liyana didn’t recognize was down on her knees scrubbing the floor with pieces of rags. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe they saw the fever rag and thought there was still an invalid in the house.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Are we not poor enough, ragged enough, without two more coming to share our resources? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede hesitated, but finally took the rag and ran it over the edge of the blade. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She moistened a rag and wiped my face and neck. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z After a while, Mr. Stine wiped his red, sweating face with a rag. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She leaned over the parapet, watching as a young fox approached along the dusty road, bearing a stick with a white rag of truce tied to it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A ragged cheer rose up below as the captives below saw her fly past and realized that someone was making an escape. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She runs into the church to see if Stephen Carey, the sacristan, would spare her a rag and he gives her some kind of canvas cloth that makes my nose sore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When Naomi opened her eyes, they landed on Henry’s coffee cup and the stained red work rag he had wiped his mouth on at breakfast. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked around her tidy farm, listened to her ragged, wet cough, and moved in. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The bright clothes of the Match-Man faded, and his straw hat turned into his old ragged cap again. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z This poor Sufi dressed in rags walked into a jewelry store owned by a rich merchant and asked him, “Do you know how you’re going to die?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I would really make my shine rag sound like someone had set off Chinese firecrackers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She falls, first to her knees, her hands limp at her sides, and then to the pavement, slumped to the side like a rag doll. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z What young women are left dress themselves in rags, cower in basements. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The man in rags was now advancing on Ogden, knife in one hand, wand in the other. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Long ragged tails streamed behind them like flickering flames, and in place of a lord's sigil they bore the device of a god: the burning heart of the Lord of Light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She gave a last moan and leaned forward to put her hands on her knees, her breath coming in ragged gasps. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I could hear him down there, breathing his ragged breath. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll need to stay home with her today. Make her some soup. Give her water to drink. Put rags in cool water and lay them across her forehead.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Kino’s ragged white clothes were clean at least, and this was the last day of his raggedness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, we have to return almost all the new things and take back our old rags again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone is talking about the newest post in the Bartlett Dirt, the school gossip rag that not only has its own website but seems to be taking over the entire internet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Come in here dressed like rag piles and act like they own the place.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z By the time I had my fishing gear in the back of the truck and my lunch sack on the front seat, R.C. showed up, looking ragged and red-eyed. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Much too large for me to wear, I’d thought to use the shirts for a quilt and pants for a rag rug but was now very glad I hadn’t. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I wasn't too worried about the car—I was just ragging on him for old times' sake. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His spindly wrists extend from his over-large cuffs, his hands are long and thin, ragged around the nails, like mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Shady took up his rag and wiped the bar top to a shine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It had passed through the animal and torn a ragged slot in the last rib, where it came to rest just beneath the hide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She was rubbing sweat off her face and neck with the dusty head rag. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The owner of the premises was away on business, Royal told them as he untied the rags from their eyes, a ruse to hide his part in their enterprise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She got up and sprinkled soda on a damp rag and handed it to me without saying a word. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As I listened to her retreat, I allowed my hand to slide to the floor, my body shaking with ragged breaths. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Grandma started walking after her, an old woman in a bathrobe trailing an old woman dressed in rags. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At the very last moment she reached into the pile of rags on the shelf where she slept and pulled out a walnut-size piece of dry bread. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After that the rocks seemed to be growing impassable so they sat for a time, letting their rags dry and watching the clipped outlines of the rollers that moved so slowly past the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He stopped to draw in a ragged breath. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Lest he freeze, he wore a ragged sweater over the ensemble. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since Father had returned the compliment of the widow downstairs by insisting his wife was not in the least lovely, and in truth was only an old rag, the widow had stopped greeting him. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It occurred to me they didn’t see a penniless, ragged boy sitting across from them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Felicia carefully brought the blue flame to the tip of the rag. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique wipes the front of the car, then the side windows, moving his hand, with its fingers splayed across the back of a rag, in quick, ever-growing circles. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I gestured to the dust rag and tried to keep my voice from trembling. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The patched and ragged Sorting Hat was standing on a shelf. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The falling snow had begun to bury what remained of them, so pale against the black of ragged cloaks and breeches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I paused in front of the yellow rag tacked to the door. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I jumped from my chair and wrung out the rag as though it were someone’s neck. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She shook her head as she wrung out her rag over the bucket beside her on the chair. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jessie said as she grabbed a ragged scarf and wrapped it around her neck. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His breath was ragged, and his body barely moved. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “There’s little enough business right now,” Joseph said as he took the rag to wipe jam off Robert’s face. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The gwythaint hung like a crumpled black rag, one wing upraised, the other folded awkwardly on its breast. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z A gaunt, ragged figure stood on the step, and as she shrank back a man pushed his way through the door and halted on the kitchen threshold. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I ran to my room, got a battered suitcase, and began packing my ragged clothes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They sing, an antique language as ragged and strange as their beards, a language closer to mine than to their own. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Such clothing as he wore was nothing more than a loincloth of filthy rags. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She waded through a mixture of old rags, used bandages, the emptied-out waste of the slop buckets. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And one dreads the crusts on the seats, especially when they require the intervention of a Dobie as well as a rag. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Brown gave me Beethoven’s Ecossaise in G, which, strangely, had chords not unlike the Joplin rags. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z One day he’d walked by, and there they were — a girl, her parents, an assistant, looking disoriented and somehow ragged around the edges, as though they’d been torn out of a book. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She is about 16 years of age, and is a bright mulatto, about the ordinary height, with straight hair and tolerable good features—she has a ragged scar on her neck occasioned by a burn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She bent one knee and dug the toe of a ragged gym shoe into the dirt. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We’d lost the distiller setup, the tarp, jugs, paddles, tools, rags, everything but the bloodstained sail, which was too worn and torn to hold water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a fierce-looking old woman, head wrapped in a white bandanna which she called a head rag. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, because business was tapering off, he had time to give me a demonstration of how to make the shine rag pop like a firecracker. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, “Business as usual.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They came slowly up the long green slope, a ragged crowd of men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They lined up in front of Frank, putting their shields together in a ragged defensive formation. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was wearing sunglasses and—in contrast to the shapeless, tweedy rags he generally wore—a sharp and very new Italian suit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then I dip the clean rag into the sweet water, give it to her to suck on, and she goes back to sleep. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Donovan felt the ragged edges of the opening that looked out into what the cautious flashlight showed to be a larger and obviously main-stem tunnel. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z And fighting for control of the grove itself were a score or more Specters, being held back by a ragged band of ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They kept coming, with bundles on their heads, children riding on their mothers’ shoulders, all of them ragged, dirty, the children naked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But Luma also had a new ball, and the one the boys were playing with was scuffed and ragged. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z When they saw the ragged line of the Wood in the distance, Con felt like a sailor long at sea, finally sighting land. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She had a bulbous nose and ragged ears. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I yank at the ragged hem of my shift, wishing desperately for the shapeless, ankle-length skirt I wear during the day. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I unwind the wool scarf from around my head, folding it to hide its ragged ends, and hand my papers to him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z White-clad mess-hall workers mill around the steam tables, walk back and forth wiping off the tables with rags, tie up bags of garbage, and mop up spills. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice daily the maid twisted rags into buckets of water and wiped the floors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We borrowed a bucket and mop and a bottle of disinfectant as well as a pile of rags from my mother, whose face was set in a question she did not ask. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I rearranged the rags and fishing nets he was covered with. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Beyond that milled a tribe of two-headed men dressed in rags and blankets like homeless guys, armed with a haphazard collection of slings, clubs and metal pipes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As the little ragged girl and the princess pull apart the layers of the onions, the tears start pouring from both their eyes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He rinsed the rag and dabbed at the cut on his head where the boom had taken him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s the new guy, crouched in my old spot, scrambling with his rag. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I went and got a wet rag to put on her forehead. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s little more than a rag doll on the ground, just as he was when I dislocated his shoulder. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She’s not quite ragged but seems to me barely clothed, at least compared to the high-necked blouses, cardigans, and long skirts she used to wear back when I knew her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When I sat up, my vision was blurry, but I had a horn in my hands, a ragged bone weapon the size of a knife. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She was like a rag doll being dragged. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Jo-jo had brought it with her from the west, where revolution was sparking along the ragged coast. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, Zoe had me outfitted in a ragged flannel shirt and jeans three sizes too big, bright red sneakers, and a floppy rainbow hat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He surveyed his ragged band of brigands: near three hundred Stone Crows, Moon Brothers, Black Ears, and Burned Men, and those just the seed of the army he hoped to grow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Early on, supplies became so short and the fighting so chaotic that many Red Army soldiers were reduced to wearing rags and going barefoot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She drags a damp rag along the back of the kitchen countertop. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Now that he has both hands on his gun, I notice the ragged hole in his cheek where something—falling stone maybe—punctured the flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I went straight to him with the letter, which he took from my teeth and held until I had cleaned my hands on a rag and took it back. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z When you enter a house, you spray a white rag with Windex and place it in the left pocket of your green apron. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lannisters moved through a sea of ragged men and hungry women, breasting a tide of sullen eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lyra made herself stand and pretend to consider for several seconds before picking out a rag doll with big vacant eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “We need more than a rag,” the captain grunted. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was dirty and bent and his clothes looked as if they were made from rags used to wash floors. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I saved the cobwebs, twisting them around a rag and storing them by our pallet in the cellar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Most turned up with no more’n the rags on their backs.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They shout to us in English, with British accents, I think, muffled through the rags they hold over their noses and mouths. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z C.P. would curse and lay down his tools, and attempt to wipe off his hands on the filthy rag he stuffed in his back pocket. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So the residents tossed her bucket and rags, her baskets and reed broom, down the stairwell, past the letter boxes, through the collapsible gate, and into the alley. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Four hands clamped around Henry’s neck, shaking Henry’s head like a rag doll, twisting it this way and that. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z As they walked, the boy dabbed at his cuts with the wet rag, picked bits of straw out of his hair, and ran his fingers through the tangles. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He felt suddenly weak and powerless, as limp as a rag doll. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He did well to send me, Reek told himself as he climbed back onto his stot to lead his ragged column back across the boggy ground to where the northmen were encamped. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An old rag, lukewarm water, and elbow grease soon brought a sheen to the table. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Deza handed Bugs and the other little boy some rags and some soap powder and they started splashing the dishes in the water. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He shook the mildewed object by its pointed end and it dangled, empty and ragged: the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I rubbed the soap on a rag and scrubbed my skin until it burned. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are amazing,” John Mark hoots at Mom as she wipes her hands on a rag. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z No more ragged blue jeans and hand-me-down flannel shirts for him—he had a whole suitcase in the trunk full of the same kind of fancy Baron clothes he’d laughed at all those months ago. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Excited, I rushed about and gathered my ragged clothes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But mostly her bag was filled with ragged newspaper and magazine articles. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I dip the rag in the polish with my rubbery arms, and begin to slather it on the barrel of the great gun, but the master-at-arms laughs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The stone dust that powdered him seemed a badge of slavery, and the two bloodstained rags about fingers of his left hand proclaimed the unskilled depths to which he had fallen. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He did not even have rags on his feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Rons ragged breathing came from near the bed; Hermione was quite silent. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They squatted in a bleak wood and drank ditchwater strained through a rag. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She hadn’t got around to painting herself yet and her face looked like she had polished it with a gun rag. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a ragged rip along the hem and deep perspiration stains under the arms. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As she touched the dirty rags, her stomach rose in her throat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Large families lived in small, crude lean-tos with dirt floors and roofs made of banana bark thatch, often patched with rags to stop leaks during the rainy season. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Her skin is like a bright pink rag someone has wrung out. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He was dressed in a black suit, old-fashioned in style but neat, not ragged. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Once last year she’d found a fine boy’s shirt that had been used as a rag to wipe mud from a tourist car and thrown away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z A dirty bundle of rags and mud was trying to worm its way up the steps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tateh was standing right next to me, so I grabbed a rag and started wiping the counter, edging close to them, eavesdropping. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A ragged blanket of white covered the tom and tortured earth that stretched from the Wall to the edge of the haunted forest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I lay the knife in the bowl and slid a rag beneath his arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “People are supposed to make their wishes on a rag or piece of paper, not carve it into the trunk,” Francesca said. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Your daughter looks tired. If you wish, she may climb into my cart,” a ragged man on the road said. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I got a rag from the house and, using some of the water, I cleaned up as well as I could around his head; I got him a fresh pillow and a clean blanket. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes they had no clothes at all, and had to wear old rags and leaves to preserve their modesty. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She divided their long hair into wisps, combed each wisp with a wet comb and wound it tightly on a bit of rag. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Struggling against the wind and lashing rain, I tied the ragged pieces as best I could across the gap, but everything inside was already wet. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Nailer and Pima forced their stiff limbs to move and stumbled down to the beach, joining a ragged assemblage of other survivors who were streaming toward the sands. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Beside the cannon is a bucket of polish and a rag. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She looked like a hippie who’d been kicked to the side of the road maybe forty years ago, where she’d been collecting trash and rags ever since. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We both looked at the grass--there was a sharp line where my ragged lawn ended and the darker, well-kept expanse of his began. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z That evening I took a rag and wiped the mower down, parked it in a comer of the garage and—a little admission here—patted it on the top of the gas tank. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z But the boys hung a rag permanently and accidentally on the rear plate to conceal its vintage and they dabbed the front plate with good thick mud. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At first the nesting killdeer screeched and whistled in alarm, flying frantically in all directions and repeatedly dive-bombing the mad sheepherder dressed in rags, who paid them no mind. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heavy brown hair was bound up and covered with a kerchief made out of a rag—actually a piece of Granny’s old white outing nightgown. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I wash my armpits with a wet rag and she rolls her eyes at me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her feet were nothing more than ragged flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I suspect she made up that rule for my benefit, so I could grow unfettered, without the weight of wet rags dragging me down. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Community clotheslines ran above the ragged strips of grass. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wilder and stranger than ever, her hair long and tangled, her clothes in rags. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She looked at the little houses surrounded by boats, oil drums, tires, buckets, broken cars, and rags and bags, and happily followed her new parents home. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab the Clorox and the rags and a bucket. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I thought he would have come apart like a rag doll with a pulled thread, but he doesn’t look that different, except for some bandages and scrapes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Instead, I have my pots of paint and my ragged pages. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z I reach slowly for the rag again, scoop up sand, press it against the sword blade and give it a stroke. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Captain Smith rips a strip off the rag and ties it tightly around my finger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In the first second before her awareness could flow into her other sentinels, it was as though fire scorched away her sight in pieces, leaving ragged holes rimmed in cinders. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Ugwu brought a rag and some water and, while he cleaned, he listened to Master’s uneven breathing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The map was ragged, so thumbed that it had grown as supple as a piece of chamois. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He ducked out from under an ancient Locomobile up on the lift, working a greasy rag over his big hands. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is a sad, ragged helmet, like she’s the loser in the war. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Swore he’d rather go naked than wear some other kid’s rags. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran to the rooftops and wrapped myself in my rag blanket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And he took a rag and began to buff the side of his dusty coffin with it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “What can I get you?” the counterman asked as he wiped in front of us with a rag that spread a thin film of grease on the Formica surface. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Mattie held up a rag doll with a distinct bald spot on her black yarn head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Another rag, sprayed with disinfectant, goes into the middle pocket, and a yellow rag bearing wood polish in the right-hand pocket. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A serving girl came over with wet rags, wiped the table clean, and made a few barbed comments. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His lecturer’s facade gave way to a grin as he tried with marginal success to wipe the pitch off of his hands with a rag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he realized others were entering through the remaining three Glade openings, all of them running and looking as ragged as the guy who’d just whisked by him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He grabbed the rag and backed me away from the puddle. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Then came curtains, a rag rug, Mrs. Soldano’s white slips, sheets, and a small, worn stuffed bear that I knew was my best pal’s. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Day by day she sat beside her tom gunny sack selling handfuls of nuts and berries, growing progressively older, more ragged, less healthy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And that neck—that neck; and the blanket she wore over her head—ragged and filthy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In the silence I heard May’s breathing grow loud and a little ragged. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it clothes that made a prince, Jemmy wondered, just as rags made a street boy? The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Climbing along the blade of the summit ridge, sucking gas into my ragged lungs, I enjoyed a strange, unwarranted sense of calm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z "I'll be depressive soon enough, but while you eat your candy just allow me to chew the rag; there's a kind of substance in it." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminded me of the old rag Dad used to polish his dress shoes. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Ben stirred under the ragged quilt, and then turned over. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I look down at the coiled rag rug and the shiny wood floor underneath. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Alicia takes a long ragged breath, and then wills herself to calm down. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the golden boots were a pair of feet which were swaddled in rags. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A half-dozen black puppies and the odd pig or two skulked among the benches, while women in ragged deerskins passed horns of beer, stirred the fire, and chopped carrots and onions into a kettle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The plantation was beginning to have a ragged, uncared for look. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The segment opened with a genteel docent standing before a Rembrandt painting and addressing a group of unshaven men dressed in ragged clothing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Fang pushed the moldy shower curtain to one end of the tub and started unbuttoning his new shirt, already ragged after a couple hours on my buddy’s back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She puts down the book she holds, Gulliver’s Travels, and fans herself with a ragged peacock feather fan. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He replaced his ragged trousers and cowboy hat with a dandified suit and a bow tie and a felt hat, his eyes peering out through distinguished round-rimmed glasses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He saw various women of indecipherable age, their skin dry and cracked, some apparently pregnant, all of them barefoot and dressed in faded rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A wave swelling in under the ragged fog took him and rolled him over and over and flung him up like a stick of driftwood on the sand. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He was sitting on a stump at the base of a ragged old shagbark hickory. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Throat and chest had been tom apart, and glistening green entrails and ribbons of ragged flesh dangled from where the belly had been opened. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So she went to Mama Yemo Hospital, the hospital of last resort for the city’s poor, and spent hours waiting in a casualty ward jammed with ragged people and children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He found a beer bottle and an old rag of a curtain and he tore an edge from the cloth and stuffed it down the neck of the bottle with a coathanger. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Cluny that emerged from the ragged tent in the meadow was far from being sick in the head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When Edd caught sight of the ragged band of wildlings, he pursed his lips and gave the giant a long look. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Albert appeared behind Joseph with a pail full of water and some rags. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z We now ate full meals, and dressed in clothes slightly better than rags. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “A bunch of people were killed at a wedding. Everyone dead, torn apart like rag dolls. Blue fire.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I wanted to find a rag and wipe that stuff off her face, the way she wiped off the dirt and grime that collected on mine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He dressed it, carefully fitting the wide sleeves of a ragged coat over the two stick arms. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the basement was a bucket of filthy rags. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z A woman unwrapped her head rag and placed it on Hannah’s shoulder. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes there is no food for the migrants; she must ration antibiotics and not give patients a full dose; she runs out of gauze and must use boiled rags instead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I take a rag, wring it out in a bowl of cool water, and lay it on his forehead. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Then, I wouldn’t feel I’m suffocating in the dark heat, hear Mama Ya-Ya’s breathing ragged and slow, or smell the Mississippi living in our house. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The first attack was very short: a ragged fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When he stopped to rest, his breath came in ragged gasps. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Nothing is said about the possibility of transporting bacteria, by rag or by hand, from bathroom to kitchen or even from one house to the next. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “A stack of dirty dishes and a rag.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His hackles stood up in a ragged ridge along the back of his neck and shoulders. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I am weak and have no weapon so, with my ragged teeth, I bite him. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Now books keep me company the way my Cuban rag doll once did. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z A head staring sightlessly up at a homed moon, cheeks ripped and tom down to bloody bone, pits for eyes, neck ending in a ragged stump. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Galahad did not care for them at all, but played with a rag doll which he called the Holy Holy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I skirted down Limanowskiego Street, ready to duck behind a busted-up piece of furniture or hide in a pile of old rags if I heard the Nazis coming. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But that lonely figure in the ragged flapping shawl — it was easy enough to imagine any sort of mysterious brew in that pot! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She spoke to Abby: “They are not rags. They’re clothes that are still good that people donate to be sold. The proceeds go to the hospital.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z His voice was deep and ragged and filled with so much sadness, it registered through my pain. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z When a twitch or a gasp disturbed me and the rag fell away, I’d come to full consciousness, delighted to find that time had slipped by. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He studied her thin face, her ragged hair, the way her skin clung to her bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z By the time she left, she’d have bitten her nails and cuticles ragged, and her mother would shake her head and say she was going to make her wear gloves. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Mr. Sager wrapped his hand in a rag towel and pried away Nicole’s hands. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Behind Corporal Nettle’s head was a wide strip of deep blue sky and, etched against it, the ragged black edge of the cellar’s ruined ceiling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I don’t know how it got there, but I was inside of it, the sirens blaring, my uncle’s ragged voice, the bright lights and someone else—a paramedic maybe—moving around us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Yet now he was smiling through his ragged salt-streaked beard in a way that the queen could scarce remember. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were perhaps a hundred in all, in ragged rows of pale gold down which Betty’s metal spatula dug and scraped and turned. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Jimmy took a rag and started wiping down the counter, and then he raised one arm and waved us in without looking up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Presently they were in among a clump of ragged leafless shrubs, useless either for concealment or as protection from the wind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “So the flag should be hanging straight down, like a rag on a pole.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He had no shoes at all and his feet were wrapped in rags and cardboard tied with green twine and any number of layers of vile clothing showed through the tears and holes in it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His long ragged black cloak was made of batwings, fastened at the throat with a mole skull. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then there was the ragged bark of the newspaper editor, a tone that coupled wisdom with an unlimited capacity for cruelty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The runaways, ragged, dirty, hungry, cold, did not steal the gun as they might have, and set off by themselves, or turn back. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When any kind of dispute arose, someone who was respected highly and who was not involved would sit on a rag with the disputers around him, which made the rag a courtroom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell Madame Ngemba she needs a new pagne with some color left in it. Tell her she is disgracing her sons with the washing rag she wears to the market.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t keep the ragged edge from her voice when she added, “Don’t you think so too?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A woman in rags pushed through the moving train with her shopping cart of treasures. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He was naked, lying as if in a swoon on a heap of filthy rags: his arm was flung up, shielding his head, and across his side there ran an ugly whip-weal. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I pull the rag up to finish with a flourish, but it only hangs limply from my fingers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I put my arm around his shoulders and gave him a rag to blow his nose. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He drank up his pay and walked around in rags. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z His hands were ragged from climbing the tree. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z He tightened the rag on the handle of his fiberglass knife to give it a better grip. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z What he saw was a boy in the rags of what had once been a school uniform. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She looked at her rags and stained skin, and she couldn’t suppress the twinge of shame. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had lost both ears and a finger to frostbite, and he dressed all in black, the same as a brother of the Night's Watch, except that his furs were ragged and greasy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The wrapper turned back into a slimy rag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Silly,” Camilla was whispering—and I caught a glimpse of ragged, fluttering cloth, streaked with mud—“you took the wrong ones. We can’t bring them back like this.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then the sun gleamed out of ragged clouds again and the rain lessened. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I ran past them to my room and slapped the cooling rag on my tingling cheek. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the northernmost realms of Prydain many trees were already leafless, and among the branches clung the ragged shapes of empty nests. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing his usual thrift-shop rags except for the shirt. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z She picked up the rags and sacks and boxes and bags that Granny had tossed out of the closet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The camera would cut to a field of ragged crows and then to a freckle-faced woman who sat in a sunbeam examining her knuckles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He remembered standing there in his rags while she measured him and then put on her thimble to stitch the cloth ing for him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Old men and women in pitiful rags sat hunched against the wall or lay upon pallets. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Instead I say, “If you want this done right, sir, I’ll need more polish and a bigger rag.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He was wiping ink off his hands with a rag. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He'd been dreaming happily of his ragged but carefree life before he'd been plucked from the streets and sewers of the city to serve as royal whipping boy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z His body jerked around like a rag puppet being dragged by a dog. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She slowly peeled off the ragged shift she wore. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Two teammates helped pull him up to his feet like a beaten-up rag doll. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Arul speared a large rag with a misshapen metal pole that lay on the ground. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Once or twice, when the normal process of evaporation is deemed too slow, I am assigned to dry a scrubbed floor by putting rags under my feet and skating around on it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z About the compound yard were strewn empty beer cartons and bottles, papers, rotting porridge, rags, overturned trash cans, overturned nightsoil buckets, ash from burnt peat and coal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I was proud of my family, with our ragged shoes and stringy hair; we were still kings among men. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Stanton wrote to Lucretia Mott: “Woman can never develop in her present drapery. She is a slave to her rags.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Jinny, staring at the ragged brown fabric, knew she’d never be able to put things back the way they had been, but at last she had the three large cushions gripped awkwardly in her arms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was smeared with mud and the torn rag was dangling from the gap he had stuffed it into. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Charlie grabbed a rag from his back pocket and tried to clean his hands, but they were so filthy, all he did was smear the dirt around. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I was still ragged and frequently hungry, but I was in no real danger of starving. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He dangled like a rag doll, his feet trailing on the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Excuse me, Miss. Have you seen my granddaughter, Mattie? She must be around here somewhere. Filthy little urchin, she is, wearing a grimy dress and a ragged cap.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I put on my ragged clothes and stepped outside to stretch and yawn while soaking in the sunshine and warmth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A wet, reeking rag that smelled of damp cat fur. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z There was no answer, just the sound of the rain and the wind stripping the trees, filling the air with ragged yellow leaves. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z At the front of the bus, Billie picks up a pair of Chris’s patched, ragged jeans and, closing her eyes, presses them to her face. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then what exactly are you here for, babies?” he said, not unkindly, his rag hovering over the tabletop. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They seemed unwashed and desperate, like William Hale, who would eventually appear on his horse, in his ragged clothes—this man from nowhere. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A ragged tunic concealed the half-healed scars on his back, but his boots were scattered amidst the rushes, and his breeches tangled about his feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the evenings, when the boys came home, they would pick up Alyah and carry her around like a rag doll. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Removing the dishes and cloth, they sat on the rag—a living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The person in the mirror looks ragged, with her uneven skin and tired eyes, but she looks like me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then began the massive waves of poor and half-starved and ragged immigrants from Europe, arriving with everything they owned in the world in bags and sacks on their backs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s to be done, Blackberry?” he asked, making his way to the bolt fixed on the bow, with its ragged remnant of painter. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the corner, a cluster of little children played catch with a rag ball. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then I set it in rags all over my head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But deep down, they are still boys in rags bringing down coconuts for el patrón when he visits his fincas with his family on Sundays. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Three of them were drinking from bottles of pop, and one, a real old one, was using a rag to wipe the inside of a trumpet. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Everyone could see Boots could barely keep her eyes open, and he must, have looked pretty ragged himself. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He wraps Madame in quilts, but eventually she shivers so deeply, so profoundly, that he takes the big heavy rag rug off the floor and lays it on top of her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They piled their things in the center of a few worn rags and tied the corners together. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By the time my wounds had softened and my rag of a blouse had come unstuck from them, I was exhausted. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Shin’s mother sewed underwear and socks for him out of rags. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We engaged in some few brief exercises, but were ragged in our showing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Through barter and the generosity of a few friends, he soon owned a ragged collection of old stringed instruments—a mandolin, several guitars, an old ukulele, and two banjos. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was a gray gas can in one comer next to a bunch of gray rakes and a pile of gray rags, and a gray tire next to some gray fishing poles. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z This close it’s easier to see details, like the ragged red ribbons at the ends of her braids and her sickly yellow eyes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The ragged bandages Baba wrapped for me are shredded and filthy. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s quiet, save for the sound of Tom’s breathing, ragged and shallow. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bloodbeard, the savage commander of the Cats, was a roaring giant with a ferocious appetite for slaughter who made no secret of his disdain for “old greybeards in rags.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He grabs a shop rag to clean his hands. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The elf was carrying a stained rag with which he was attempting to finish cleaning Mr. Malfoy’s shoes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Even across the length of the crowded hall, Viserys should have been conspicuous with his pale skin, silvery hair, and beggar's rags, but she did not see him anywhere. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I look at Patches, toppled over on his side, ragged and worn, all alone on the floor except for a lone truffle, resting against his tattered leg. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Smelling like a cesspool, I staggered into the house and took pieces of rags, doused them in water and wiped myself, but the stench remained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a little black head and two little black arms coming out of the rag that was stretched out ’cross her front. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “You had every chance in the world and you threw it all away for that—” and I jabbed my wrenched rag toward Grandma’s face watching us petulantly from behind the glass. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He frowned, grinned, wiped his mouth with the good hand, the right arm folded across his chest, a bloody rag tucked in his armpit. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They wrapped the body in a canvas cloth that had been discarded in the corner, and Kaede tucked the bloodied rag inside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was a ragged strip of green cloth. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z On the floor, a rag rug in blues and reds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His long fingers danced with the rag against the metal. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z To her brother she said, "He's a ragged boy, isn't he? Look at him." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It had a rag on the end and the boy stood waving the stick in circles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Caught on a piece of iron that stuck out of the concrete wall, a ragged T-shirt hung, limp as a flag of surrender. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The Grand Elder closed his eyes and calmed his ragged breathing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They wore trousers that looked too big or too small, sandals with ragged straps that flapped back and forth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A squadron of flying machines, which had been getting the better of a ragged battle with Lord Asriel’s gyropters, wheeled in the sky and made off to the west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They didn’t know our names anymore, but we still had our Jewish stars on our uniforms, ragged and torn though they were, and we were all in the Jewish car. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Mama puts the cold wet rag all over and then my eyes feel better, but she doesn’t look right. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Stooped and dark and sprouting rags from his shoes, hat and sleeves, he shuffled slowly toward me, bringing a threatening cloud of carbolic acid. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s ragged out, he gets down tight on their case. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And I remember a lone, almost ragged guitarist huddled on a side street playing and singing just for himself when he glanced up and instantly recognized the oncoming, striding figure. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been heavy once, when we were newly married: now the faded rag in which it was tied was too big and the ends flapped loosely over the knot. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Pa put a clean, greased rag on the ramrod, and while the gun barrel was still hot he greased it well on the inside. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We use a heavy, mud-colored paste in a jar, a few small, stiff brushes, water, and lots of rags. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As he promised, the musicians were very talented and played the rags that had made everyone happy at previous socials. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Frozen with fear, I watched the yellow-white flames make a ragged brown line up the pink fabric of my skirt and climb my stomach. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z From a well-dressed and neat individual he became filthy and ragged. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They came out of the scalder looking like floppy wet rags with beaks and feet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The sun sank down behind a ragged line of trees in the distance and the sky paled. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She nodded yes, and Carney flipped the junk off and made her wait while he piled the paper in one corner, threw the rags in another and sorted out the metals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned: There was Lucius Malfoy sitting in the darkest corner, ragged and still bearing the marks of the punishment he had received after the boy’s last escape. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She wets a rag and places it under my neck and after awhile the bleeding stops. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The rail was lined with ragged Japanese sailors waving down at me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Then she left again and this time returned with a can of Comet, a rag. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z At the largest table, six ragged men laughed and clinked glasses with old women in wrinkled dresses and faded lace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I dipped the rag again, breaking the balloon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z If the women could see at what risk these bits of rag are often obtained, they would be horrified. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A few of the prisoners stepped to the side so I could see a bundle of rags on the floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt exhausted again, so I sat on the edge of the bed in nothing but clean boxers and looked at my clothes all ragged and torn. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I grabbed a rag to wipe up the puddle. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Then the weakened roots, having grown accustomed to the poison, responded one day to severe pressure, and the tooth fell free, leaving a ragged stump behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d sneak into cities disguised in ragged beggar’s clothes and hand out gold coins to kids living on the streets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She dragged one hand free and wiped them away, drawing a ragged breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z With man’s instinct to capture anything running, flying, swimming or crawling, they gave chase, throwing their ragged caps at it in advance of their coming. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He, too, was a wild child, dirty and ragged, his hair a long mass of tangles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She has slim, small hands with unpolished nails and ragged cuticles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Under the sink were some old rags—and could you believe it?—a quarter bottle of furniture polish. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “You put it on with a rag, see, and if you don’t soak the rag in water after you’ve finished and dry it flat, it’ll catch fire all by itself.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The tunnel terminated fifty feet ahead in a ragged point. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was a feeble sort of evasion, a sad rag wrapped around his wounded word. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The unfinished alpana on the stone called out to her, but she jumped up and found a wet rag. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z His mother would sit next to him and shoo them away with a rag. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Boys did not want to take the chance of being ragged by their friends for walking home from school with her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It throbs, the pain coming in staggering pulses, like a second, ragged heartbeat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The jib was loose, without the benefit of a boom to hold the bottom edge stiff, and it slapped mightily in the wind, like a wild white rag. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m hauled up by hands on my upper arms, my breath still a bit ragged from getting kicked. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “All praise R ’hllor, the Lord of Light,” the wedding guests answered in ragged chorus before a gust of ice-cold wind blew their words away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Doll sprang from sink to range, skidded and almost slipped, and picked up two rags to drag the cauldron off the heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A ragged skin had been hung across the narrow window to keep the damp out, and a slab of peat smoldered in a brazier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He assembled the men in two long ragged lines and called them to attention, but they ignored him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew and liked the damp earthy smell of the dirt floor, even though they slept on the floor, huddled under thin ragged blankets, aware of the chill. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That, and the rags on her back, were all she had taken from Meereen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They parked me on a stool and set to work on me, yanking the rags from my head. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “You think I read this rag?” he said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I lay comfortably on the tarpaulin and I placed the dream rag on my face, fitting it to my features. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z One was clad in ragged brown and was armed with a bow of horn; it was of a small breed, black-skinned, with wide and snuffling nostrils: evidently a tracker of some kind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He hid the muddy rags in the trash and scrambled back to his place on the stairs just in time to meet Mother coming down. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He would need every sword to deal with the ragged horde of Poor Fellows surrounding the Great Sept. She asked about her twin often, but her gaolers gave no answer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Somehow, it doesn't seem strange that his whole back- seat just happens to be filled with rags and three of those squeegee things. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z His skin became ragged and dry, sagged into pathetic folds on top of itself. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I grab a dry rag and take that black cake out the door, set it down on the concrete step. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In line behind them were five men who seemed especially dirty and ragged. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Jay sat in a chair on the other side of the table and chewed on a ragged wedge of sugar cane from the counter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z His dad nods, lifts a metal toolbox from the street, bundles up some greasy rags, then heads for the garage. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I chuckled and took a deep, ragged breath. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z With relief they wrapped their heads in rags, and their breasts in flannel; eased their feet into felt. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly in front of him she drank the last champagne in her glass, delicately struck the rim on the table, and jammed the ragged edge against his cheek. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In our village there are very few boys of an age to climb trees for birds’ nests, or girls stomping self-importantly down the road with a sibling clutched sideways like an oversized rag doll. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes the constant rag of the street hustle look like child’s play. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled as Tendai buttoned it and tied a rag around him for a belt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Shay sighed, looking down at her ragged nails. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They passed a group of gloomy nuns, a ragged man wearing chains, and the Fat Friar, a cheerful Hufflepuff ghost, who was talking to a knight with an arrow sticking out of his forehead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The camp swarms with rateros and killers but mostly with ragged people like me, who have dreams so close that still may not ever be lived. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Her pulse was frantic, her breathing ragged, and it seemed impossible that people could live at all with such flimsy stuff as skin keeping blood, breath, and spirit safe inside their bodies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I was drawing ragged breaths just from the effort of packing a few of my belongings into a brown paper bag. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She and her brother, Neeley, like other Brooklyn kids, collected rags, paper, metal, rubber, and other junk and hoarded it in locked cellar bins or in boxes hidden under the bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sea surge that had drawn up the coastal waters of Maine poured past the cliffs and tore along the ragged coast. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They pulled teeth like maniacs, barking at us in whatever their native tongues were while they yanked our heads back and forth like rag dolls’. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They hang limp, reminding me again of my Cuban rag doll that Mami threw away. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He lifts me to my feet like I’m a rag doll. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “If you ever see me again,” she said, “I won’t be wearing rags like yours.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I could literally smell his sweat, hear every ragged breath, every cry, every cut of the whip. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I knew I would have to give up my long, tall rag doll, Mellie. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Amber's still a rag doll in his arms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Still, the music brought joy even as the notes evaporated, and playing a rag exhilarated everyone to the point of jumping around the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Like she says one time, she says, ‘I’ve knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor an’ a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they’re running a parlor house.’ Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he handed the glass to Camilla and, left hand free, reached down and turned the fibrillation into the opening notes of a Scott Joplin rag. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z A child emerged from a pool of darkness, a pale boy in a ragged robe, no more than nine or ten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A young jockey named George Woolf, aboard for one of these woeful performances, summed up the colt’s mental state in four words: “mean, restive and ragged.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His white hair was soft and ragged on his neck and he carried around with him a woman’s big silk pocketbook full of chalk and Jesus ads. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The moon was partially hidden behind ragged summer thunderheads, but the agent could still see the surrounding landscape. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of ragged people sat huddled in doorways. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Xan flung him aside as easily as if he was a rag doll. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Are you traveling with this group?” he asked, looking over our ragged assembly. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sails were dry and he bagged them all except the working jib and mainsail which he left up, hanging like limp rags waiting for wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When he looks back at her, she has picked up a rag to wash the kitchen sink... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z You can see the tall pines standing like an army of zombies along the shore, with stars for eyes and the wind moving their ragged arms, but they can’t find you. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Then she tied a rag around my head that covered the ear and one eye. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I didn't have anything special to do, so I went down to the can and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z That day, I held her limp hand and watched as her breathing grew ragged, as eventually there were long pauses between her inhales. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I found some rags in the car and we got the worst of the muck off. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the pilot, and the plane, and down at himself— dirty and ragged, burned and lean and tough—and he coughed to clear his throat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the breath shuddered inside her, and she burst into another storm of ragged tears. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “This isn’t how it works, Jinny,” said Ben, surveying the ragged cushions and the destroyed couch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Grandfather stayed silent until we approached a limping man dressed in dark rags, pushing a cart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Things of Ma’s. I don’t mean old clothes and letters and ragged quilts like you sent over. I mean—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She had on a blue striped head rag and a dirty faded old feed-sack dress that blew in the wind against her knobby legs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His voice sounds ragged after the sleepover, like he’s been screaming at a rock concert. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After dinner, Alex cleaned the kitchen, scrubbing the pans and wiping down the counters and stove top with the same graying cotton rag. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He looked like a pile of rags fallen off a cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Clearing up my armadillo bile, Professor,” said Harry innocently, straightening up and showing Snape the sodden rag he was holding. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z On top of this accompanying oompah the rag pianists wove a catchy tune that pulled the rhythm around, a technique called syncopation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She glanced down at the ragged comfort object and grinned. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Why would you so disgrace yourself in these rags?” she said, fingering the dress in disbelief before dropping it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What had been a broad avenue was fast becoming a ragged sinkhole with black water boiling up to fill it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The stew was thick with barley, carrot, and onion, with here and there a ragged shred of salt beef, softened in the cooking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the beach Captain Smith demonstrates to me how to clean the sword with a rag and sand—he says this sand is fine enough to do the job. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I let out a gasp, seeing him like that, towering over me, holding Clove like a rag doll. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Dressed in prison rags and old, beat-up sneakers so dirty that not even the brand name shows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The next day it was quiet, and the woman carried a bundle of bloody rags away from the bridge, far away north, toward the hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z My breath was coming in ragged gasps, and I could barely hear the knocking engine of Papá’s old car for the pulse pounding against my eardrums. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Had it not been for my superior brawn, she would have sacked my wagon. Finally she limped away from the fray, her glad rags askew.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her breathing became ragged and uncertain, as if she was trying to remember, in between breaths, what to do, what breathing was. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Inside the house, every crack and chink had been plugged with rags to keep the wind out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was wrinkled and dirty, its edges ragged. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As Taran wrestled with the fallen stones, the walls of Spiral Castle shook like gray rags. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “Which of you”—McNamara bit back the words that'd lose him his job—“toe rags have the guts to insult me face to face? Right now?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I haven’t hibernated in three years. I’m ragged from it. Him too.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Spencer darted in and out, thanking everyone, giving them dripping-wet rags to cool their faces, bringing dippers of water, weeping all the while. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Now, you go back over to your side of the truck and wipe your face,” he said, and handed me a floor rag that smelled like gasoline. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Straight ahead a ragged stream of people crosses an intersection: a woman, a child, two men carrying a third on a stretcher, all three with cigarettes in their mouths. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When I find water in a ditch, I strain it through my ragged shirt and drink drink. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z But his voice was ragged as though he, too, was going to cry. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Speechless human sounds—spontaneous shrieks, ragged breaths, baby whimpers, one musical bit of insane laughter—dance around in the charged air. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The wet rag felt good over the open cuts on Wes’s face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I plug up the basin with a rag, sprinkle in detergent, dump in the smelly diapers, and start scrubbing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to an old man dressed in ragged clothes trudging down a dirt path, a large burlap pack filled with scrub grass tied to his back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His garb was still ragged and filthy, but he had found time to wash and brush his hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We were wrapping him up in some clean rags that Mama had brought along when here came Little Arliss. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “A person is not killed here, but chosen. They are not cremated in the ovens, they are processed. There are no corpses, only pieces of drek, only shmattes, rags.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A zombie in a ragged nineteenth-century motoring outfit clawed his way to the surface. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When he raised her it was like picking up a handful of sticks concealed in a rag bundle, so light she was. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell him, teasing him with a rag. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The dead clansmen were thin, ragged men, their horses scrawny and undersized, with every rib showing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The friends of my childhood—Flora, the rag doll, and Rosamunde, the wooden doll in the gown with seven flounces—nestled in their basket. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I guess I saw him through Pink’s eyes that morning, because I was embarrassed all of a sudden, how seedy Grandpa Tweedy looked in ragged overalls, his beard so long and scraggly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Dimple stood on shaky legs, her breath ragged, disbelief and hope mixing, swirling, bursting in her chest. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The white gauze was black rags now, and Grandma had blown the lid clear of the coffin. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Robb drew a map across the table, a ragged piece of old leather covered with lines of faded paint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Wind swirled through the yard, cutting through the thin cloth of the filthy rags he wore and raising gooseprickles on his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Arya thought it tasted wonderful, but Yoren was too angry to eat: A cloud seemed to hang over him, ragged and black as his cloak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Just a single steel-frame bed with a worn mattress, a ragged blanket, and a wooden chair in the corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some wore black cloaks, some ragged skins, some nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He found the place near the side of the arroyo where she had buried the rags in the yellow sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I tried to dodge, but the javelin caught me in the chest and sent me flying like a rag doll. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Look, Marly, you shine both flashlights into the hole, see, when I find it. I’ll fix this rag, and then we’ll light it and stuff it in and run. See?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain looked at die bald head, the ragged dress. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His mouth was stuffed full of rag tied in place with a kerchief so all he could do was growl and moan. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z We got very embarrassed at school when the rags came loose and their contents fell out in clumps and grains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Still Ged waited, one hand on the yew-wood mast of his boat, staring into the icy drizzle that slowly drove in ragged lines across the sea from the north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z As they dipped their pails into the water, the rhino would attack, stabbing and stomping them with its mighty hooves, until there was nothing left but bloody rags. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z By 5:00 A.M. the first hint of daylight glowed dimly in the east, and daybreak brought a chilly, misty, overcast day with snow squalls driving in ragged veils across the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Bob washed his bowl with his squirt bottle and rag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then he poured some out into a clay dish and took the rag and stuffed it back into the bottle with the screwdriver. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They turned into long ragged claws and grabbed him violently by the arm. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Mam puts the wet rag on my nose and a key on my neck but it won’t stop the bleeding. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then all three of them took deep, ragged breaths and walked in through the door into endless night. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Only, as the west wind tore the golden rags away, they looked fascinating and difficult to catch. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything was better than the filthy rags I was wearing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She heard Ivan’s ragged breathing from behind her, but she didn’t want to look back and take her eyes off the dragon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She had started humming sadly to herself, but she stopped, her rag poised midway between the bucket and the floor, as if suddenly aware of my presence behind her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Wisps of fog clung like tattered rags to the trees, and then the forest cleared. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “They’re like knives. They cut my clothes”— she examined the ruined dress, with its long ragged tears— “but they don’t quite reach my flesh. It’s as if they’re waiting. Teasing me.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They wear ragged work clothes stained with patches of sweat; their faces are drawn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “That’ll stop bleeding now,” he said, taking the rag away and stepping back. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In the bedroom I notice my rag doll is missing. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Let’s peel these onions,” the little ragged girl tells the princess. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Every evening when I come home from work, I take a rag and wipe all the loose grass and dirt from the riding mower, and then I cover it with a big tarp. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A few of the women were waving their head rags at the sky, shouting, “Go! Beautiful, go!” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I tried to pull the rags of his shirt over the wounds without looking at them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The bottoms of my shoes, which were thin as paper, grew ragged. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Sørlle gaped in astonishment at the three ragged castaways, and then turned his head away and wept. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z This close, Anya could see its knobby fingers with ragged fingernails jutting from the ends. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It was because so much intricate care was taken to weave fine rugs in countries where rags were so culturally versatile. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The rag died down and went out, and there wasn’t a sound. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z After a moment he heard the sounds of Penny hurrying after him, down a sandy slope to a circle of ragged tents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I walked home limp as a rag; I had not felt anything except sullen anger and a crushing sense of shame. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His father wiped the sweat from his brow with a threadbare rag. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Still, Tally spent a lot of time wondering what Shay was going to look like pretty, her skin-and-bones body all filled out, her already full Ups perfected, and the ragged fingernails gone forever. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The voice was ragged and clotted up, but he knew instantly that it was Kiowa. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The aux slides me along the wall to a niche in the battlements and shoves me through, holding me by my neck above the dunes like a child with a rag doll. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t wear any gloves, either, when I filled buckets with alcohol, bleach, and ammonia, dumped old rags and sponges in, and scrubbed death from the walls and floor of the house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Nearby was a pile of dusty ragged sheets that Granny had kept draped over the upholstered parlor furniture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She looked around for the other woman and, seeing just the top of her head rag in the grass, slowly realized where “yonder” was. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Mama got some clean white rags and bound up the place. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re winding me up,” said Harry, looking at the ragged old bit of parchment. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z One side of the rag was black in two swipes, but Gilly turned it over and poured out more polish. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The rags have fallen from the window crack, and the air is cold. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The wild- ling was within, seated at her board, spreading butter on a ragged chunk of warm brown bread with his dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You must be,” Minli whispered to the ragged, disappearing figure, “the king!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter that we were at odds—I didn’t like how intensely she was making me feel like a disposable rag, to be picked up, used, and thrown away whenever she felt like it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z His body was tossed and hurled in the stampede like a rag doll, finally rolling to a stop when the melee moved on. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s furs looked ragged and they stank, but they kept the warmth in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed a rag from the counter and leaned down to wipe up the mess. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She comes out with a tightly tied bag of chicken meat lined with cloth rags. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She looked like rag dolls I had seen Doctor Korczak’s orphan girls carry. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I didn’t sleep well that night on my lumpy rags. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He looked down at his hands, which were covered in scratches and blood, his fingernails torn and ragged, aching from the labor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z We wrapped ourselves in every piece of clothing and rags we could find. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The peacock feathers on the side panels were torn and ragged. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z I was kneeling on the other side of it, polishing the lock with an oily rag and rottenstone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “A better chance at what? Getting tossed around like a rag doll?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Finally his lord father gave a command, and two of his guardsmen dragged the ragged man to the ironwood stump in the center of the square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Brush, liquid polish, brash, paste wax, shine rag, lacquer sole dressing . . . step by step, Freddie showed me what to do. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat the boy down and pulled off his shoes and pulled off the dirty rags with which his feet were wrapped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Take a wet rag to the leather and wash the laces so they always seem like I just got ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I wiped the ashtrays with a wet rag and straightened the papers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Will shaded his eyes to watch her and the other ragged, elegant figures wheel in the air and dart up over the trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I try not to let my face register as I pick up a rag and sit beside him. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We quickly learned that whenever we ventured into the kitchen, we needed to wrap our hands in the driest socks or rags we could find. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The other guys hoot, and start ragging on Noodle. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A large ragged sheepskin was tossed across the papers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The heavy sword hanging from his shoulders by a length of cord thumped against him as he urged his legs forward: the breath rose ragged in his throat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His old shoes and some rags of clothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They went slowly along the foot of the bank, pushing in and out of the clumps of red campion and ragged robin. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was creepy being inside, looking out of the empty windows at die ragged shapes of other buildings. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We passed a file of inmates, all dressed in baggy pants, ragged coats, and caps, gray faces in dim light; one had one of the most crooked noses I’d ever seen. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z |
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