| 单词 | scraggy |
| 例句 | I watched him swing his scraggy leg in a sweeping arc, watched his whole body tilt impossibly to the right every time he planted that foot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The old people in the bed all leaned forward, craning their scraggy necks. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z As Scrimgeour came within range of the lantern light, Harry saw that he looked much older than the last time they had met, scraggy and grim. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “With this brand, you will be of a gang too. The mangy, scraggy, sorry gang of Beast Riders.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry,” he said to you, and he sat down cross-legged, pulling his T-shirt over his scraggy knees. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Here it is overgrown with bruja-haired trees and scraggy deep grass up to the shoulders. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z All those scraggy- looking Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were tinging bells too. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The men all roared, none louder than Chiswyck himself, who laughed so hard at his own story that snot dribbled from his nose down into his scraggy grey beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The train runs northwest, through hundreds of miles of scraggy forests and granite outcrops, hundreds of small blue anonymous lakes edged with swamp and bulrushes and dead spruce, old snow in the shadows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sporting scraggy Brooklyn-style facial hair and a loosely fitting suit without a necktie that contrasted with the stately White House surroundings, Mr. Russell spoke with an air of cynicism. White House Hosts ‘Next Generation’ Young and Rich 2014-04-18T21:49:51Z The house is fine; the garden – sloping and scraggy – isn't. Love Your Garden: TV review 2013-06-26T06:00:10Z Joe's moustache does look a bit like feathers, he has a long scraggy neck, an understanding of the forest, and a tentative, birdlike walk. TV review: My Life as a Turkey 2011-08-01T21:04:00Z The house I rented was next to a scraggy, flamboyant tree that was used as a tethering post by my neighbors across the yard. Goats Rule on the Island of Anguilla 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Consider this a spoiler, but dog lovers should know that Abbie, the clever, insanely captivating canine character in Ti West’s scraggy western In a Valley of Violence, does not make it through alive. Valley of Violence Is Hounded by Its True Star 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Emsworth is described as tall, scraggy and all the stringier from his penchant for draping himself over the rails of his prize pig's sty. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Bare branches sprout from walls in the orchestra or reach scraggy arms across the ceiling, almost into the balcony. Review: In ‘The Woodsman,’ a Love Lost in Oz Under a Witch’s Spell 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z He was very thin and scraggy, but he cracked, because I didn't know enough about armatures. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds. Why you should see Seattle Art Museum’s new Giacometti show 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Goat-horned half-demons with scraggy coats of fur, lolling tongues and threatening bundles of birch branches are no one’s idea of a welcome guest on a winter’s night. Austria struggles with marauding Krampus demons gone rogue 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, farmers in these same lands can no longer afford to buy petrol for their tractors; they straggle behind scraggy donkeys pushing wooden ploughs while their children become fighters and militiamen. Yemen on the brink: how the UAE is profiting from the chaos of civil war | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z UNALASKA, Alaska — Army helicopters began flying in and out of the scraggily wilderness near this fishing town in August, surprising even the mayor. The new Arctic Frontier 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort. Eugene O’Neill’s Vexing Outsiders 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Trim the chicken thighs of scraggy bits of skin. Our 15 favorite recipes of 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Posed on his hind legs, he’s a bit scraggy and a lot lanky. A cat collection becomes a museum in southwest Ohio 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z He has a way with dimension: Three simple lines on the page can give a demon’s skin texture or reveal the scraggy ribs on the underbelly of a winged hell beast. In the studio where 'Hellboy' is made: Mike Mignola says goodbye to his giant demon baby 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z On Saturdays, he drove from tony Coral Gables to a neighborhood of scraggy lots, barbed-wire fences and malls scarred by riots from nearly two decades before. Jeb Bush gave this black community a charter school. Then he moved on. 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z A short time later, his scraggily beard covered in celebratory suds, his message was clear. Dodgers have fans wanting more, not more of the same 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Back on the beach, Maria Dolores is cutting a piece of ham to offer to the couple of scraggy dogs, which are skulking under the picnic table. Why has Spain fallen out of love with Europe? 2013-06-30T23:49:34Z Pity Robbie Deans, the Wallaby head coach, required to make a silk purse from some pretty scraggy raw material. England beware wounded Australia in the game with a special rivalry 2012-11-16T17:21:00Z He wore size 15 shoes, and his hands were the size of a catcher’s mitt at the end of scraggy arms, which added to his imbalance. For Florida State Center, Military Was a Steadying Influence 2012-03-09T00:38:45Z After leaving the town the way is skirted, for some distance, with scraggy, weird-looking pitch-pines, that are slowly replacing the native forest. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The old man, in Arab dress, arose unsteadily from his knees, stuck his feet into his heelless slippers, and stood with scraggy, gray head bowed upon his hands. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z Some shingle banks, now overflowed, sustain a few scraggy willows, and on the farther side is some low-lying land. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z How frequently one sees tall, scraggy planes, or belts of naked, attenuated firs, where groups of oaks and elms and groves of chestnut might have stood with greater advantage. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Aloud, he blithered some complimentary lie and watched the visitor lift the scraggy nondescript out of the car. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z He is very swarthy and scraggy, and strikes one at first as much less handsome than his photos: but gradually you see that it's a face of genius. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The country grew continually drier; wheatfields changed into scraggy forest. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z Aye, I have wherewith to pay for your three scraggy hens, your four mangy pullets, and that big idiot of a peacock dragging his dirty tail in your yard. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z We are just as little reminded in Schopenhauer of the professor with his stiff joints worse for want of exercise, his narrow chest and scraggy figure, his slinking or strutting gait. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z After leaving the timber-line, the riders found the scrub bushes grew scraggier and shorter, and finally the top of the peak was left as bare and craggy as any volcanic formation. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z She stopped, stood crouching behind the scraggy trunk of a hemlock, and glanced wildly in all directions. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z She was very thin, with large, black eyes, often uncombed hair, red hands, altogether scraggy; he nicknamed her "the duckling," and once when she had hurt her foot and went about limping, "the lame duckling." In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z Ulenspiegel saw that she was old, scraggy, lank, and fierce of aspect. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z From the rich material offered by our War of Secession the caricaturists drew little more than the long, gaunt figure and the scraggy beard of Lincoln, and the cigar of General Grant. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z A hansom drawn by a scraggy nag came toward him and drew up at the curb on his signal. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z “I always imagined the men were tall and thin with lantern jaws and long white beards, and the women were small and plain with straight hair twisted into scraggy little knots behind.” The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Once inside, the woman began to inform the car what she thought of "scraggy 'Uns with faces like a drop of vinegar on the edge of a knife." Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z We had drawn our boat well up on the sandy beach of a little cove, hidden by some scraggy bushes when— “‘Look, look!’ cried our purser’s clerk. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z Miss Simpson wore a narrow-shouldered, aesthetic garment, so modestly cut that only the scraggy column of her throat was visible above its lavender folds. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z Her captor—a small man with a coarse voice, a broken nose, and a scraggy, drooping mustache—stood in the doorway looking at her fiercely, with obvious intent to intimidate the indignant Amazon. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z At the side of the road was a group of scraggy pine trees, and under these they pitched the blanket tent. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z He had a great shock of black hair and a scraggy beard. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z I wish you could give me some; but we have all scraggy rats' tails. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z They light the candle and place it upon the table by the scraggy little evergreen-tree. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z We had been going along cautiously in this way for some time when, peering over the bank, I spied a single impala half hidden by a scraggy bush. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Only to think of his turning out a deceiver!—to leave me and go and pay court to a woman of forty, with a yellow skin, scraggy neck, and a temper of the most shrewish! A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z It had evidently been at one time 153 the road-bed of a brook, but was now filled with scraggy stones, dried underbrush, and fallen logs. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z He was highly pleased, for decidedly the boniest and most scraggy of the fowls had been selected, and nothing could be more delicious than this stew. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z "Poor beast," said the girl, stroking the creature's scraggy neck. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z I sat by the driver, and felt sorry for our pair of lean and scraggy horses as they toiled painfully upwards. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z She’s an uncommonly nice young girl, and twenty years hence, when beautiful Helen has grown old, and yellow, and scraggy, Stuart will be a pleasant, soft, amiable little woman, like Mrs Bolter. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z Mrs. Kavarsky was an eccentric, scraggy little woman, with a vehement manner and no end of words and gesticulations. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z The arms are thin and scraggy, and the fingers attenuated and skeleton-like. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z For hour after hour we saw nothing but sand, scrub and the occasional group of scraggy camels. 'Front-line' farce 2011-07-05T21:38:44Z Koos was a very big, sallow, dark-haired man with a scraggy fringe of coarse, black beard around his chin, and eyes of a very peculiar shade of light grey. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Almost imperceptibly, the few sparse palm trees and scraggy pines which stood far apart like people on the outskirts of a crowd, began to grow more closely together in little friendly groups. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z "Yes, but I am too scraggy," declared Pierrot cunningly. Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z For three weary hours she sped over dreary moors and scraggy, precipitous valleys, which were often little better than ravines. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z His silvery hair and beard had been trimmed and combed, and he wore a small white ruff that covered from view his thin and scraggy neck. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z In the regardless embrace which she threw around his scraggy neck, she spilled what showed to be a collection of more or less aged bones. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Creeping things, frightened into their holes by the storm, now ventured forth and skimmed across the ground frequently, disappearing again under the scraggy underbrush. The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land 2011-04-11T02:00:11.027Z I don't know what I've been saying"—he staggered to his feet and offered his lean scraggy hand—"I'm a good friend of yours, Ted. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z These were, at the signal, to roll down the boulders and huge stones which abounded in the rough and scraggy hillside. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z His ruff was limp and frayed at the edge, and his long scraggy neck rose out of it like the stump of a mushroom that had difficulty in supporting the large head that surmounted it. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z Plant thickly in order to force an upward rather than a scraggy growth; and so that you may begin to cut out the superfluous saplings for bean-poles, hoop-poles, etc., three or four years thereafter. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Then was he sparely clad, in garments of faded hue, tattered and dust-stained; his mount the scraggiest of mustangs—a very Rosinante. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z His good lady, however, was quite his reverse,— She was scraggy and lanky, and, what was far worse, For ever was teased with a terrible cough, That threatened each moment to carry her off. The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook 2011-03-13T03:00:22.773Z All are muscular and active, but singularly scraggy and loosely knit, and to an easy shuffling gait is added a national addiction to standing cross-legged. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Wagging his scraggy apology for a tail, he sidled up to her, and in an ingratiating, wheedling way which only a dog possesses, he claimed her attention. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z The roads, which were lined by scraggy poplars, were narrow, and deep in mud owing to the heavy traffic. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z “It’s the scraggiest part of the whole forest,—only fit for owls to live in!” The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z One had a bulldog head and the lank, scraggy body of a village pariah; two had the powerfully boned frame of the Banjara hound; but all showed the uncertain, treacherous temper of their pariah cross. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z His face was flushed, but his neck thin, scraggy, white. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z You can get awful scraggy on that diet. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z In diet I had long been a Pythagorean, so that the scraggy, long-limbed sheep which browsed upon the wiry grass by the Gaster Beck had little to fear from their new companion. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z Thrown anyhow on the dingy shelves were scraps of fish, butter and suet, jars of dripping, some shrivelled apples and the scraggy remains of a leg of mutton. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Half a dozen scraggy fowls scratched and pecked about the water-butt. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Playing in central midfield, this scraggy haired six-footer is a tough tackling, intelligent holding midfielder with natural leadership qualities. Bayern Munich v Manchester United: David Pleat's key clashes 2010-03-30T13:46:00Z Not one of them had yet successfully emerged and they were living on what Mrs. Rumbold called, “the scraggy diet of hope.” The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z He’s fond enough of you to keep him right, so never you mind what scraggy Wilters says.” Lady Maude's Mania Old Gresley, leaning his scraggy face upon his hand, replied curtly, "I shall do no such thing." "Pip" A Romance of Youth Two days later, on sale day, this same scraggy mob of northern bullocks was still in the largest pen of the Wirreeford yards. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Also throw a scraggily top of some kind into the water over the ring-pole to hide the catch after drowning. Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. There, on the pavement at the end of the turning into the Strand, stood the scraggy, erect, grey-clad, frumpily hatted figure of my Aunt Anastasia. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Suddenly, across the street against a scraggy growth of sassafras-bushes, he saw something white moving. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Moreover they found that their seat was not a comfortable one, for the old horse's backbone was rough and scraggy, and nearly as sharp as a saw. A Reading Book in Irish History They drove their first, wild-eyed, scraggy herds whither they listed, a cursing, blasphemous crew, none dared gainsay them. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z And this is one of the lessons which even an accomplished draughtsman may learn from his drawings, in any age when scraggy execution masquerades under impressionism. Aubrey Beardsley They were about the size of an English cob, mouse-coloured, and somewhat scraggy looking. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War He is scraggy when he is young, but he fills out, and grows broad and dignified, and the little touch of grey in his hair has quite a poudrée effect. Lady Cassandra Pray how do you think that the Fancy will class them, So scraggy, and leggy, and bandy, and bald? He would pull his scraggy and grizzled chin with his gnarled fingers contemplatively, and a twinkle of understanding humour would supplant the anger in his shrewd, blue, woods-wise eyes as he stood surveying the damage. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life She wore a blaze of jewels and a low gown out of which rose the scraggiest neck and shoulders I have ever looked on. Eleven Possible Cases Very lean and scraggy they both were when the snow melted and the geese took a thought to go North. Dusty Star There was no more than emptiness—the emptiness of sun and molten sky, of grass and scraggy bush, of a brown-and-yellow land stretching into foreverness. The World That Couldn't Be It has widely extended, scraggy limbs, is high, irregular in form, and undoubtedly very old. The Pearl of India He tied his horse to a scraggy locust tree, went in, and then reappeared and fastened the signal to a post supporting the roof of the porch. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures He wore heavy logging boots, brown canvas trousers kept up by a belt, and a brown shirt, showing hairy brown arms and a bared, scraggy throat. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia Some one stepped from the shadow of a scraggy buckthorn in front of the team. Stories of the Foot-hills Nearer they drew, lean, scraggy, but withal large beasts. In the Brooding Wild A scattered village, two white churches, one Catholic, one Protestant, a grove of tall and scraggy palms, and a long bulk of ruin, occupy the end. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought "it a misnomer," for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest. The Boy Slaves "It was a wee, scraggy cat, black all over, with a white spot on its tail." The Weans at Rowallan I neglected to say that meanwhile she had replaced her scraggy feathers and grown a fine tail. Upon The Tree-Tops And she stepped into the hall, followed by Maggie, who still held the scraggy little kitten hugged close. A Dear Little Girl The roads became bare and dented, the fields were mottled by shell-holes, the woods looked like scraggy patches of burnt furze. Cavalry of the Clouds Their clothes were ragged and dirty, their hair long and uncombed, and their faces were covered with scraggy beards. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out When you buy them, see that they are elastic and firm, that they come naturally and easily to a good point, without any scraggy hairs. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors The trees, this bird's headquarters, were an aged and half-dead cherry and a scraggy and wind-battered elm, standing perhaps a hundred feet apart. Upon The Tree-Tops He stroked his scraggy beard and looked at the fire. In the Heart of a Fool To and fro, and up and down beneath their scraggy gum-tree, the two great cranes footed it in a sort of grotesque minuet. Finn The Wolfhound The Hindu bent until his scraggy whiskers almost touched my cheek, looking straight into my eyes with keen, intent gaze, but without speaking. The Sign of Silence Two old, scraggy, immense oak-trees still remained; and she used to watch them from their first faint green to the blood-red and copper tints of autumn, when the sun shone through them. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Her dull, tear-stained face was turned hopefully to him; her straight, coarse hair hung limply on her shoulders––the old coat had slipped away and the ugly nightgown but partly hid the thin, scraggy body. At the Crossroads The scraggy rocks and thinly soiled farms of that region became in his picture vast reservoirs of cheap food, only waiting to be tapped by the beneficent railroad for the benefit of the world’s poor. The Shepherd of the North On our way we paused to admire the church bell—an ancient dinner-bell, which hung by a piece of string from the longest and scraggiest arm of a very old and leafless tree. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' It was a scraggy sorrel with twitchy ears and wicked eyes, but it looked tough as a mountain buck. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Are you a broken nervous wreck, Run short of red corpuscles, Painfully scraggy in the neck, And much in need of muscles? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 There was a little plot of grass between Peneluna’s shack and Philander’s and a few scraggy autumn flowers edged a well-worn path from one back door to the other! At the Crossroads His face, too, seemed a trifle more worn and lined than usual behind his spectacles, and his beard had a scraggy appearance. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Just at the edge of the clump of scraggy timber the animal shied again. In the Musgrave Ranges The two small Islands are flat and even; only the Bashee Island hath one steep scraggy Hill, but Goat Island is all flat and very even. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 “Wish we could take that rotten tree along with us,” murmured Morvyth, pointing to a decayed old stump that stood upright with two withered boughs like scraggy arms outstretched on either side of it. The Madcap of the School Well, she is not the tall, scraggy sort, neither is she a diminutive creature, like your ladyship. Wee Wifie Sandy gulped convulsively, feeling at his scraggy throat, where an Adam's apple was working up and down. A Man to His Mate Not a leaf moved on any of the scraggy mulgas standing near. In the Musgrave Ranges A long scraggy tail was stuck on behind, which by an ingenious device could jerk up and down and from side to side. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief Our route from the town led us over a succession of scraggy hills, with cultivation in the bottoms, and some straggling vineyards, not very flourishing. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. His white teeth showed a little under his scraggy, breath-frosted mustache. The Ranch at the Wolverine This is, strictly speaking, a huge clinker not unlike what comes out of a grate—hard, glassy in spots, and scraggy all over. The Land of Thor From beneath his dingy black felt hat thin wisps of flaxen hair flowed ridiculously enough about his scraggy neck. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama His features were dull and expressionless, and over the lower portion of his wrinkled face a scraggy, mud colored beard seemed struggling for existence. Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life I'm dished and done up brown; would you believe it? she calls me a long, scraggy, outlandish animal, and that I look like two deal boards glued together! Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle Her neck was scraggy, her arms lean, and her lips thin; and she resembled neither her father nor her mother. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm In Cambodia, stretches of sand covered with low, scraggy, discouraged-looking scrub alternate with tangled and impenetrable jungles. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Just as they were rising to take leave, a tall, lanky man, stuck his long scraggy neck in at the cabin-door, and, in the broadest Scotch vernacular, exclaimed,— “To what port are ye bound, man?” Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Thus we found our warbler, the head of a family, hard at work as any sparrow, feeding a beloved, but somewhat scraggy looking, youngster, the feeble likeness of himself. Little Brothers of the Air It grows out-of-doors in Cornwall and in the greenhouse in other parts of England as a scraggy bush 10 to 12 feet high. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Catamaran, an old scraggy woman; from a kind of float, made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving shipwrecked persons. The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man “Well,” said the stolid man with the scraggy beard, rather reluctantly, “I confess that this has come to me as a perfect revelation.” The Stretton Street Affair Sinnet’s eyes half closed as he watched the mountaineer, and the long, scraggy hands and whipcord neck seemed to interest him greatly. Northern Lights It was half opened by a long, lanky man, with a scraggy chin-beard, who looked like the customary pictures of “Uncle Sam.” Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War The engineer was a long, lean man with a scraggy neck. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands His hair was long, he had a scraggy, sandy beard, and chewed "long green" tobacco continually and viciously. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 She is as tawny as a frog, as scraggy as a spider, yet, withal, as cunning as an ape, and as learned as a book. Laboulaye's Fairy Book The Seal of Solomon and purple Twisted Stalk made scraggy pictures easy to identify. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks As she left Beauchamp, and looked at her scraggy pine-trees cresting the hill, she felt as though they were her own no longer, and as if she had given them up to an enemy. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster He was deeply sunburnt: scraggy in the neck; strong and lissome, but not very smart. A Poor Man's House It got its name, probably, from the fact that there were on it a few scraggy peach trees. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 I found him everywhere—on the arid plains and mesas, in the solemn pines of the deep gulches and passes, and among the scraggy trees bordering on timber-line, over ten thousand feet above sea-level. Birds of the Rockies Barren, level, vast, this waste of world stretched before him, with no verdure save the repulsive cactus, the scraggy yucca, the grease-wood, and occasional splotches of mesquite. The Range Boss They had only just gathered together when he rode up on his old scraggy horse. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush There were several pretty clumps of dhoum palms, and a few scraggy mimosa by the river's margin. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan His face was covered with a thick, scraggy beard, and under all these circumstances it was impossible for me to recognize him. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Then, rising, she turned towards the people with her long, bare, scraggy arms uplifted in silence. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason He was a scraggy looking, rusty black little fellow, the most unattractive young bird I ever saw. In Nesting Time The timber was slight and scraggy and the undergrowth ceased there, leaving an open space, rock-strewn and rugged, but from whence a view could be obtained over a wide expanse of country. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush It was built in a sequestered glen, by a narrow brook near to a couple of black, shapeless, scraggy firs, whose long lean arms were extended over the roof. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 She was thin at the best of times, but now she grew positively scraggy with the worry of it. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Her long scraggy arms were raised high above her head, and she was crying aloud to me. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason Her picture consisted of a scraggy tree, with several long wavy lines near its foot. Cricket at the Seashore Why, we should have crow’s-feet round our eyes, and thin, scraggy necks”—she passed a hand over her plump young neck—“and be left to sit out at dances, if we waited for them!” In the Mist of the Mountains The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought it a “misnomer”, for of all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest. The Boy Slaves The bushes, too, that grow by the road-side, seem straggling and scraggy: but, then, I must remember that it is winter-time in Australia. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Why, the pony is stone blind, and as scraggy as a scarecrow, so there’s not much driving to be had out of him. St. Winifred's, or The World of School It is all very well to aim at the development of the aesthetic faculty for children by putting pictures and scraggy geraniums in pots into schoolrooms. General John Regan “The scraggy ones do,” replied the other, speaking in a far away and contented manner. The Man Who Lost Himself Those at the head of the moving herd were strong and virile, and in good condition; those towards the rear were thin and scraggy, and many of these were a long distance in the rear. Kiddie the Scout A rawboned fellow, lank and long of leg; as ungroomed with his scraggy yellow hair and beard as the scrubby little Texas pony which he rode. At Fault “It was the rummiest vehicle you ever saw,” he heard Jones say; “a cart, I assure you—nothing more or less, and drawn by the very scraggiest scarecrow of a blind horse.” St. Winifred's, or The World of School The Bishop did as he was told, and Jack Bracken led the way down a rocky gulch under the shaggy sides of Sand Mountain, furzed with scraggy trees and thick with underbrush and weeds. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills You look better than I expected, dear, but fearsome scraggy! About Peggy Saville He turned out to be a little man with a scraggy beard and large round spectacles. The U-boat hunters The woman of the house, a scraggy, genteel person, tried even to provoke confidences. Chance A Tale in Two Parts By the waterside stood pollarded trees, scraggy and black, ranged along the shore like naked negro boys, big-headed, with shaggy lumps of wool, hesitating before a plunge. The Car of Destiny His scraggy hair topped the rock fence and his staring eyes peeped over, each its own way. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills While fording a shallow stream, the doctor’s scraggy, ill-tempered horse took a fit of kicking quite frantical. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Most of the captives were of the appearances denominated "scraggy" or "knotty." Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War We had a black, scraggy pond two miles away, dotted with stumps and rotting tree trunks. Ted and the Telephone Even scraggy Sam Sorrel looked quite big compared with them. Chasing the Sun The southwest point, which only has been and is still cultivated, is barren, scraggy, and sandy, growing plenty of wild onions, a weed not easily eradicated. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Redwood rode a strong horse of the half-hunter breed, while the “wolf-killer” was mounted upon one of the scraggiest looking quadrupeds it would be possible to imagine—an old mare “mustang.” The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire On the other side of this is an open tract of ground, half cleared, half woodland; the former sterile, the latter scraggy. The Death Shot A Story Retold She was a scraggy woman, with the appetite of a giant. The Lady of the Basement Flat Here, the scraggy, ill-conditioned trees were crowded together, and overgrown with gigantic creepers. The Island Home Then a little, scraggy neck, and, last of all, a monstrous skeleton head that grinned from ear to ear. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Instead, the man danced round Merry till his back was toward the centre of the cleared space, while the dark shadows of the scraggy timber was behind Frank. Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win He had some questions he desired to ask Mr. Wrangler, and the oftener he thought them over the more he felt his fingers itch to close themselves around Mr. Wrangler's long and scraggy neck. Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Led by Ned, they swept over the open space and plunged into the wilderness of rocks and scraggy brush beyond. Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet Where do all the scraggy, bad-fleshed beasts come from that we see daily in our fat markets, and what is the cause of their scragginess? Cattle and Cattle-breeders And towards the mountains, on and on, the regiment marched between the rye fields and the meadows, between the scraggy fruit trees set regularly on either side the high road. The Prussian Officer In diet I had long been a Pythagorean, so that the scraggy, long-limbed sheep which browsed upon the wiry grass by the Gaster Beck had little to fear from their new companion. Danger! and Other Stories Over the barrel he saw a scraggy pony loping down into the wash along the trail of the burro. Bloom of Cactus There was not a leaf on the row of trees in front which stood staring at the sky with their scraggy snow-covered branches—a sight which chilled my very bones. My Reminiscences His scraggy hair tousled on his head, a growth of black, wiry beard covering his face, coatless and collarless, he was a picture of coarse self-indulgence. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles No wonder Carlyle fiercely denounced it all as "a wretched, unsympathetic, scraggy atheism and egoism". Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles As dear Lady June informs hus, the too-little or too-big, The scraggy and the crummy ones, the lanky 'uns and the lumps, Will be grateful for a fashion as is kind to bones and 'umps. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 They were very blue and deeply set under rather scraggy brows. The Californians Grass, except in long scraggy tufts here and there, or in sparse blades in some odd fence corner, was not prevalent at the Works. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls It came out a scraggy blotch of white paint, with its black eyes glaring like two great glass beads! Martin Rattler “Which? the one painted green, and a scraggy horse with a bag hanging to its nose?” Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines And ridges, by the torrents worn, Thinly streaked with scraggy thorn, Which fringes Nature’s savage dress, Yet scarce relieves her nakedness. The Settler and the Savage Down he went below the foaming water, his scraggy tail making a farewell flourish as he disappeared. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America “But tell me,” said the old woman, becoming suddenly grave, and laying her thin scraggy hand on the man’s arm; “why do you call me mother?” Red Rooney The Last of the Crew A few scraggy lines, a few sentences now and then, hurriedly written and mailed—often to ease a troubled conscience—mere apologies for letters, which chill the mother heart. Pushing to the Front In the full beauty of the afternoon they stood together, only the scraggy hedge between them, he on grass-tufted clay, and she on orderly gravel. Clayhanger Some of his teeth were missing, leaving deep hollows in his cheeks, and his kindly protruding chin was covered with scraggy gray whiskers, which stuck out ahead of him like a cow-catcher. A Voice in the Wilderness Long Stork Island was a barren rock about a mile long and half a mile wide, with a few scraggy patches of grass on its uninviting slope. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Plump legs, scraggy legs, and legs of one width all the way down, and at the end of each the sad, inevitable shoe, and down each back the sad, inevitable pigtail! Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story After a second vigorous pull at the bell by our coachman, a stern and scraggy female put in her appearance. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life "Do you suppose that's a whalebone whale, Hank?" asked the boy, turning to a lithe Yankee sea-dog with a scraggy gray beard who had been busily working over the mechanism of the whale-gun. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Through such scraggy scenery, you come to the Rocky Mountains, an irregular pile of massive rocks, from 100 to 150 feet high. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 She held the male sex in utter contempt, but had a secret exception in favor of Sim Tappertit, who irreverently called her “scraggy.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 A few armfuls of scraggy sage-brush furnished wood for a fire, but it was not enough to make our invalids comfortable, and the night was cold and raw. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 A very dry spring-time is the cause of the grass of a field growing very slowly, remaining scraggy and puny, flowering and fruiting without growing much. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work The rugged rocks and scraggy trees, if there be any, are at this distance invisible, and nothing is seen but what delights the eye and quickens the imagination. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer She'll clip your head, deck you out in scraggy iron-gray hair and whiskers until a bank clerk would turn you down, even if you were identified. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Pennsylvania Avenue was then bordered with scraggy poplar trees, which had been planted under the direction of President Jefferson. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis And yet observe: that thin, scraggy, filthy, mangy, miserable cloud, for all the depth of it, can't turn the sun red, as a good, business-like fog does with a hundred feet or so of itself. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 The individuals of this new race would be small, scraggy, and some of their organs, having developed more than others, would then offer special proportions. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work A tall iron railing, with an ornamental gate, encloses a front yard in which are some forlorn-looking shrubs, a rosebush or two, and a couple of scraggy altheas. We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses From the ladder one could reach a long limb of a scraggy apple tree upon which hung early apples nearly ripe. Little Maid Marian Lofty structures of paupers' hair, elaborately frizzled, were seldom seen on sensible women's heads, nor were the party dresses cut so shamefully low in the neck as to generously display robust maturity or scraggy leanness. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis N a blaze of splendor the morning sun broke over the mountain, throwing its scraggy brown bowlders, spruce-pines, thorn-bushes, and tangled vines into impenetrable shadow. Dixie Hart His little trousers and his shoes were muddy, and he carried a great scraggy mass of sassafras-roots. Young Lucretia and Other Stories The barren soil, which would not have supported a firm lawn, was dotted with scraggy bunches of wiregrass. The Colonel's Dream Presently they saw a house smoking under a scraggy clump of eucalyptus. The Eternal City "Nasty, scraggy old cat," Cheesacre said to himself, as he turned away from her. Can You Forgive Her? With a bellow of frightened rage at the stupidity of A'tim, he stuck his scraggy tail out with its tip curled over his back, and broke into a solemn gallop. The Outcasts If Simard, therefore, appeared in his own scraggy beard and unkempt hair it meant that he communicated with headquarters by some circuitous route. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont To the north lay a sandy shore dotted by a scraggy forest of dwarf spruce and birch. The Man Who Rocked the Earth He himself is thin and scraggy—Raemaekers has intensified these characteristics, but even so the caricature of the reality is more accurate than unkind. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Rare souvenirs the stranger sees— Who never sees a joke— And innocently dreams that these, From knotty, gnarly, scraggy trees, Were once the Charter Oak! Poems Vol. IV Shag looked ruefully at his great, scraggy sides, so like an Elephant's, only more disreputable, and sighed resignedly; "I suppose I can't help it," he muttered. The Outcasts Plucky enough, but small and lean and scraggy, of all colors and all degrees of ugliness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Thin and scraggy, as they wander through the thickets they look like the patients who seek their aid; yet their milk is so thick that it sticks to the milker's fingers. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator How mournful in winter The lowing of kine; How lean-back'd they shiver, How draggled their cover, How their nostrils run over With drippings of brine, So scraggy and crining In the cold frost they pine. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century For the hill-slope was covered with the gray-green of young olive trees, the dense, dark foliage of young oranges, and the stunted, scraggy boughs of the Japanese persimmon. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Is it like the scraggy Loco Plant of the South Ranges? The Outcasts He let go the scraggy neck which he held in the fork of his hand. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories It is however a thin, round, and scraggy type. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three Halfway up the avenue, a homely, impudent, scraggy little dog, sprang from among the trees and yelped at Beth. A Little Florida Lady This dress was made with short sleeves and low body, so as to leave exposed her ladyship's arms, long, lean and skinny, and her scraggy neck. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 "Yes, isn't it—well, she has the most divine figure, quite slight and yet not scraggy—you know the kind, I loathe them scraggy!" The Man and the Moment His scraggy neck was craned forward, and his grim mouth had relaxed into a grimmer smile. The Half-Hearted Mr. Stanley has severe fever. 14th February, 1872.—Across the same flat open forest, with scraggy trees and grass three feet long in tufts. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi In addition to having to spend the evening by himself, the cook sent him a very moderate dinner, smoked soup, sodden fish, scraggy cutlets, and sour pudding. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Men hate thin, bony faces and scraggy hair; they want something they can pinch and pet. Sally Bishop A Romance The country was covered with scraggy forest, but so undulating that one could often see all around from the crest of the waves. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 With a crash of splintering wood he drove breast-on against the gate, throwing up his bony head at the end of his scraggy neck. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul It is a thousand feet above the water, and is covered with trees rather scraggy. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi I believe, very lofty and scraggy, patched with snow only; no glaciers on it, but some good epaulettes of clouds. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals A flight of stone steps ran from the doorway to a short tesselated entrance leading to the street, where two scraggy poplars still held aloft the withered skeletons of last year's tulips. The Voice of the People In going westwards on the upland the country is level and covered with scraggy forest as usual, long lines of low hills or rather ridges of denudation run. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 There were a few acres of sand, some scraggy spruces, and a thrusting of ledge. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Specially noticeable were the usual thickets of thorny, dry, and scraggy trees, seen even on the edge of the mesa. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Close behind him stood the tall gaunt figure of Marvel, with his large bony hands, his scraggy neck, and ill-favoured countenance. Jack Sheppard A Romance He lifted his bony hand and gave a tug at his scraggy beard. The Voice of the People He had a thin face, with a scraggy fringe of yellow hair and whisker about it, and a gray, penetrating eye. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 His scraggy arms, with their tattered clothes, writhed in the air as he beat the drum above him. The Eternal Maiden A little weak—still!" said he, "but not so bad—you're no scraggy sylph, thank heaven! The Definite Object A Romance of New York Phil also turned away his face with a purpose of concealment, but the impression left by his lank and scraggy outline, as it stood twisted before Harman, was such as could not be mistaken. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two At length Corbet's long scraggy neck was seen projecting like that of an ostrich across the banisters, which commanded a view of the shop through the glass door. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The man beside him was gray-haired as himself, a man of power, with a high, sincere purpose looking out of the haggard scraggy face and mild blue eyes,—how could he presume to advise him? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Over the uneven scraggy promontory, blinded by the fierce sunlight, Annadoah staggered. The Eternal Maiden Her hair was drawn painfully back from her forehead, and there was a wispy fringe of it on the back of her scraggy neck. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man A few ragged locks of grey hung about her long, scraggy, red, and vulture-like neck. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales He was a near, penurious devil, hard and scraggy lookin', with hunger in his face and in his heart, too; ay, and besides, he had the name of not bein' honest. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I have conceived a great aversion to her—a long, scraggy gal. The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts Nothing was to be seen but the high board alley fence with a broken chicken-coop leaning against it, the weather-beaten old stable, and a scraggy, dripping peach-tree. The Little Colonel's House Party "How doubly scraggy you look in that worn-out old sea-green satin!" said the smiling old lady to herself. Trumps Whilst we were still discussing the situation a Bushman mounted on a scraggy pony and seated on a sheepskin saddle came riding along. With Steyn and De Wet All the trees were scraggy, stunted with tufted grasses. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Our tents are pitched on the slopes of white sand, soft and deep, into which you sink at every step, that stretch down to the river, dotted with a few scraggy thorn-trees. With Rimington The lad sat down on the high stool again before the lathe and looked through the dingy window at the scraggy trees outside, beyond the forlorn yard. The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story She remembered them vaguely—tall, scraggy, permanently girlish in dress and manner, and looking their true fifty only about the neck and eyes. The Street Called Straight But Schulenburg soon realised that she could afford to smile and shrug her scraggy shoulders at the insolence of those "horrid Engleesh." Love Romances of the Aristocracy There is something peculiar in the appearance of the trees of the plains, especially of the Nauclea; they look scraggy. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries They stand scattered and scraggy, like individual bristles on a bald pate. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 If ragged edges or scraggy ends are left these portions will become too dry in the curing and will practically be wasted. Every Step in Canning The note was written in Meshach's scraggy and irregular hand, in three lines starting close to the top of half a sheet of note paper. Leonora His ribs showed sharp, and his tail was full of burs, while his short and scraggy mane was missing in spots. Ted Strong's Motor Car The trees were about this all scraggy, but of picturesque appearance. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The Abbe was there as well, with his large head and pallid face showing above his scraggy shoulders. A Love Episode The thatch was getting scraggy over the gables and sagging at the back. Waysiders What struck me first of all was that she certainly was ugly, short, scraggy, and round-shouldered. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories She was dressed in a white muslin gown through which her scraggy yellow shoulders were very distinctly apparent. Love Descending still farther we left the downs, first coming into the scraggy woods of Oaks, Rhododendron, Quercus, chiefly Q. robur. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries His nickname in the town was "the Mummy," as he was tall, very lean and scraggy, and always had a solemn air and a fixed, lustreless eye. The Party Consider the jarring effect of a noble pearl necklace upon a scraggy neck, and, changing the figure, think how disappointing is a bad dinner served beautifully. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" The cottonwood, too, is common, though generally dwarfed, scraggy and full of dead limbs. The California Birthday Book It came out—a scraggy blotch of white paint, with its black eyes glaring like two great glass beads! Martin Rattler The vegetation within the maximum high water mark consists of a few scraggy shrubs. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The old hag laughed hoarsely to herself until the scraggy sinews of her withered neck stood out like whipcord. The Firm of Girdlestone He was a little, old stoop-shouldered hombre about as big as a gun scabbard, with scraggy white whiskers, and condemned to the continuous use of language. Heart of the West [Annotated] A willow still more scraggy, and having many limbs destroyed with mistletoe, is often found in the same places. The California Birthday Book I scrambled up like that scraggy parasite, without a root. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 A scraggy, hawk-nosed trooper of hussars entered and flung himself into my chair demanding a shave. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales A single shot brought him from his perch in a scraggy oak, and the first chase of the day was over. A Texas Matchmaker She was mounted on a long-backed bright bay horse, with a scraggy tale, crop-eared, and the mane as if the rats had eaten part of it; and he was not in high condition. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829 How like a gallows that tall, dead, scraggy pine looked against the pale grey! The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion There were scraggy hoofs to trim, witches' bridles to disentangle, while long, bushy, matted tails must be thinned to a graceful sweep. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings She was mounted on a long-backed bright bay horse, with a scraggy tail, crop-eared, and the mane, as if the rats had eaten part of it, nor was it very high in condition. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa For such a pair of eyes, for those exquisite features, some scraggy denizen of Vanity Fair would have given a king's ransom. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 Colour dyed her thin face and rather scraggy neck. Deadham Hard The scraggy aged cedars of the yard stood about in green velvet and brocade incrusted with gems. The Mettle of the Pasture If not inviting, the section proved interesting, with its scraggy plum brush, its unnumbered hills, and its many depressions, scalloped out of the sandy soil by the action of winds. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Tall and short, fat and lean, stout and scraggy, cannot be made equally subject to the same rule. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette But the fancies had found utterance for themselves, somehow: in his hatchet-shaped face, even, with its scraggy gray whiskers; in the quick, shrewd smile; in the eyes, keen eyes, but childlike, too. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 Wolves had been sighted numerous times running from covert to covert, but few had shown themselves to the flank line, being contented with such shelter as the scraggy plum brush afforded. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories The cattle generally were evidently of the Gaelic origin and antecedents—little, chubby, scraggy creatures, of all colors, but mostly black, with wide-branching horns longer than their fore-legs. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's How the heroes, idling pleasantly about in the sunshine, laughed aloud at the uncouth "foreigner" and his ugly raw-boned beast, "covered with tangled scraggy hair of a sooty black." The Story of Ireland The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would scratch our eyes out. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 I am truly thankful mainly for the sake of the ponies; poor things, they look thin and scraggy enough, but generally brighter and fitter. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I The subject of this sketch is a pure blooded Negro, whose kinky hair is now white, likewise his scraggy beard. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Maryland Narratives There were tall funereal cypresses, whose immense height and scraggy profusion of decaying branches showed their extreme old age. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Since they had been picked up he had lain amid the scurvy-stricken soldiers with hardly a sign of life save for his thin breathing and the twitching of his scraggy throat. The Refugees A few, who are too old or too young to fight, remain at home and look after the cattle and the scraggy gardens upon the gravelly hillsides. Modern India The cat looked wild and scraggy, and had been known to rush straight up the chimney when he moved towards her. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers His throat was long and scraggy, and supported a head unrivalled for ugliness. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire To see them looking scraggy and sick, you will be thrown into despair by the miscarriage of some plan, which promised rich returns. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition She raised up a panel which was leaning against the wall, and showed a rude painting of a scraggy and angular fowl, with very long legs and a spotted body. The White Company The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare. Frankenstein The trees were scraggy, loppy old things hanging down in dismal sweep over the leaky roof and damp walls. Twilight Stories Some scraggy myrtles stood in broken pots, and nettles flourished in a corner. Greenmantle I saw Trafalgar Lodge very plainly, a red-brick villa with a veranda, a tennis lawn behind, and in front the ordinary seaside flower-garden full of marguerites and scraggy geraniums. The Thirty-Nine Steps And now she became brisk and well again, and grew so rosy, and plump, and fair that the Queen and her scraggy daughter turned blue and white with vexation at it. The Red Fairy Book She was a woman of forty odd, somewhat scraggy of figure and, while not exactly ugly, not prepossessing of countenance. She Stands Accused Kate shouted, watching as the beard that had grown long and scraggy over the past few months disappear into the sink. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko All day the man lay with only his puffing blue lips and the twitching of his scraggy neck to show that he still held the breath of life. Round the Red Lamp The lean flesh shall be scourged from your scraggy bones, and you shall totter away from this place as a red and bleeding example for those who would dare traduce their Empress. The Lost Continent Looking over them was a wrinkled, scraggy hag. Moon and Sixpence He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique. The Lost World As she spoke she glanced at her thin arms, bare to the elbow, and touched the gold chain that encircled her scraggy throat. Wild Kitty But from that point to Laval the line was now very badly blocked, and so we hired a closed vehicle, a ramshackle affair, drawn by two scraggy Breton nags. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Her face had been painfully scrubbed in a circle out as far as her ears, and her scraggy gray hair was twisted in a tight knot at the back of her neck. Lo, Michael! The poor ones have only poor, scraggy plumes. Twilight in Italy Mrs. Minturn was leaning against the tamarack's scraggy trunk, her head resting on a branch, lightly sleeping. Michael O'Halloran H., dragged from his mule by a scraggy limb, was shocked to find that the first inquiry of his companions was not about the safety of his neck, but of the barometer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The men were of the ordinary dock rat type, scraggily built, unshaven, with cunning, shifty eyes. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 He had gone, caring little about the scraggy child whose future had been discussed. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt He was a scraggy man—very lightly clad—and a violent squint handicapped him seriously in the matter of first impressions. With Edged Tools And as he blocked the way, he saw a scraggy young fellow who was wiping his coat-sleeve after elbowing him. L'Assommoir Then a scraggy woman slipped through the door of the next room with an embarrassed grin. Dame Care Upon the bars hands, scraggy and bluishly white. The Enormous Room His scraggy neck rising far above an evening collar too low for him seemed to betray by its stringy workings the perturbation of his spirit. The Mountebank He looked back over his shoulder towards one of the huts, where a scraggy infant with a violent squint lay on its diaphragm on the sand. With Edged Tools I'll just teach you, you scraggy young scamp," continued Coupeau, "that the blouse is the finest garment out; yes! the garment of work. L'Assommoir They have a very scraggy appearance, and show but the slightest signs of the fat-rumped proportions of their ancestors. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile The Champs Elysées may look pretty in summer; tho I suspect they must be somewhat dry and artificial at whatever season.--the trees being slender and scraggy, and requiring to be renewed every few years. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 He was the leanest, scraggiest long thing I have ever seen. The Mountebank A scraggy, ugly, untidy woman who was passing—through an inner door looked back and listened. The Christian A Story But Coupeau, who had just recognized his daughter's cavalier as the scraggy young man in the coat, did not care a fig for what the people said. L'Assommoir He was tall and angular, hands and face seamed and leathery from the work of earlier days, eyes small and keen, and a scraggy mustache, that petered out at the ends. The Short Line War But Hawthorne's black-ash trees and scraggy apple boughs shaded 'A land in which it seemed always afternoon.' Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis At the base of this mountain, and facing the shore of Nakashima, rises a pyramidal mass of rock, covered with scraggy undergrowth, and several hundred feet in height—Mongakuzan. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series She was wearing an old, faded, green blouse, open at her scraggy neck and her skirt was a kind of bed-quilt, odd bits of stuffs of many colours stuck together. Fortitude Those who have viewed the scraggy specimens in the menageries and zoological gardens would scarcely suspect the activity and power of running possessed by them. The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. Run down on the platform and see if there's a little scraggy man about the height of Dubois hanging about anywhere. A Mummer's Wife "I am asking Dawson to explain just exactly what a 'Shotover Drive' resembles," she said, turning to include Siward in an animated conference with the big, scraggy, head keeper. The Fighting Chance And here no muddy harbor reeks, no foul mouth of rat-haunted drains, no slimy and scraggy wall runs out, to mar the meeting of sweet and salt. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War "Put him off on the grass in the orchard," as the one scraggy apple tree was called. The Adventures of Joel Pepper Soon enough they will learn that instead of preventing the disease, it actually fosters it, by harbouring clouds of mosquitoes under its scraggy so-called foliage. Old Calabria Can it be that his son, a scraggy youth in those days, inherited not only the father's name but his poetic mantle? Alone We camped in a boggy hollow on a bluff among scraggy, usnea-bearded spruces. Travels in Alaska And particularly that great scraggy fencing master, who fills the whole place with dust. The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman And so she does not put the garland of her acceptance round the lean, scraggy neck of the ascetic. The Home and the World The first comers in 1788, found before them, as their ships came to anchor, sandstone bluffs covered with scraggy trees and heath-like plants, with a bright blue sky above, and an elastic, buoyant atmosphere around. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 He was a small, scraggy man, painfully fair, with a big, baby-like head, vacant watery eyes, long thin hairy hands, that felt like pieces of damp seaweed, and an apologetic cringe-and-look-up-at-you manner. While the Billy Boils The horses tied up, across the road, in the supposed shade under clumps of scraggy saplings along by the fence of a cattle-run. Children of the Bush Most unluckily, however, one of my knees received a violent contusion on a piece of scraggy ice, which was covered by the snow. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present Grey and bald she is, a head standing up on a long, scraggy neck—ugly as a witch, as an ogress out of a story. Growth of the Soil There are four trees before this bungalow, and at present two vultures are perching on each—horrible creatures, with long, scraggy necks. Olivia in India Annas was a thin ill-humoured-looking old man, with a scraggy beard. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ The trail led us directly into the grove, where we were obliged to dismount, as the low, scraggy branches would not permit our riding beneath them. The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West The reins were jerked, the scraggy night-horse broke into a spasmodic trot turned out of the station, and pulled up in front of the caravansary which an eminent butcher has done so much to immortalise. With Zola in England "Mine was a scraggy specimen, more like an Indian club than a marrow." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 12, 1917 The shrapnel screeched in the air, and burst right in among the brush and boulders, smashing the scraggy trees, and tearing up the moss that covered the ground in patches. The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief And now she lay there, stretched out, scraggy and withered, poisoned by the affection which she had been unable to bestow. Fruitfulness At length we came in sight of a large drove of the animals, gathered beneath the branches of a small, scraggy oak. The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West As it approached the meridian, I saw that it would go behind a scraggy apple-tree. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals He sat his horse as English foxhunters do—not prettily—and the little animal with erect head and scraggy neck was evidently worried by the unusual grip on his ribs. The Sowers In its literal application, it may designate any surface that has ridges, projections, or inequalities and is therefore uneven, jagged, rugged, scraggy, or scabrous. The Century Vocabulary Builder Truth to tell, she was so thin, so scraggy, that before consenting to make her his wife he had often called her "that bag of bones." Fruitfulness The fall and the lake and the glacier were almost equally bare; while the scraggy pines anchored in the rock-fissures were so dwarfed and shorn by storm-winds that you might walk over their tops. The Mountains of California They were thin, scraggy animals, apparently all legs and manes. My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Across the other side of the road a huge granite cliff has picked up a bit of gauzy silver, which he is winding round his scraggy neck. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 In 1861 and thereafter he traversed, as has been said, the wooded hilltop behind his home, which was reached by various pretty climbing paths that crept under larches and pines, and scraggy, goat-like apple-trees. Memories of Hawthorne A tall, slim fellow, as carroty and as scraggy as his wife, with an angular face, green eyes, and prominent cheekbones. Fruitfulness Countless pit craters extend over the whole mountain, all of them covered outside, and a few inside, with scraggy vegetation. The Hawaiian Archipelago Two pounds of the scraggy part of a neck of mutton. Miss Parloa's New Cook Book He saw nothing but a small backyard in which some miserable, scraggy fowls were crouching under a cart to protect themselves from the rain, which was falling heavily through the dim, smoky air. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Here and there, also, was a half-famished, yellow, or black and yellow dog, with small head and long scraggy hair, skulking about the fields and among the wigwams of the Indians in search for food. Annette, the Metis Spy She had touched the beech, and the scraggy thing. Poems of the Heart and Home The houses are very bad indeed; the cattle in the pasture are of the small native breed, and have little appearance of milk; the sheep are very miserable and scraggy. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Break up the body of the lobster, and cut off the scraggy parts of the meat. Miss Parloa's New Cook Book At almost the same instant a shot from Roy's rifle brought down the largest of the creatures of the desert, a big hungry looking brute with tawny, scraggy hair and bristling hackles. The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings The walk was immensely long; it was through the scraggy and hilly streets I have mentioned, and I really thought it endless. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 The great mass consists of Konkani Moslems, with dark features and scraggy beards. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II "But it is the scraggy ones who seem to delight in displaying their angles." Bat Wing Her hair was very elaborately done with two ringlets on the left side of her scraggy neck; her dress was of silk, and she had come on duty for the afternoon. Victory An Island Tale Throughout the woods and bogs of the Northern Hemisphere is found the scraggy, untamed, hurdy stock from which has been developed the superb White Grape. Success with Small Fruits Long ago the ruthless shelling had reduced most of the timber to scraggy, scarred skeletons. Our Pilots in the Air Upon his scraggy neck was a necklace of baboon's teeth and amulets, whilst above the moocha was twisted a snake that might have been either alive or stuffed. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales He had grown quite thin and gaunt, his finely formed muscular neck was lean and scraggy, and his limbs felt weak. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories For supper we had that Oregon patriarch, and he was a fraud, there is no question about it—old, scraggy, tough, nobody can picture the reality. Sketches New and Old, Part 7. The road led through a forest of great gum-trees, lean and scraggy and sorrowful. Following the Equator, Part 3 Presently both Blaine and Bangs saw heavy masses of men advancing in platoon formation over the scraggy battle-scarred plain. Our Pilots in the Air "Do you think so," I answered, "when we are so thin?" and I surveyed Hans' scraggy form in the moonlight. She and Allan They were all brimful of health, squarely built, sleek, in prime condition; and in their turn they looked at Florent with the uneasy astonishment which corpulent people feel at the sight of a scraggy person. The Fat and the Thin After making four or five short turns, the party passed through a clump of scraggy, wind-swept pines, and suddenly found themselves at the top of Montanvert. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Soon it rose like a green spot in the desert, the well-remembered grove coming into view, with the half-dead oak's scraggy branches peering out of the feathery tops of the palmettos. Four Months in a Sneak-Box Ascertaining that his petrol was still plentiful, he began gliding downward, over a hamlet or two, mostly in ruins, then over a few small fields, and at last over the scraggy trees. Our Pilots in the Air An old scraggy woman; from a kind of float made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving ship-wrecked persons. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Madame Francois could now see him more distinctly, and he was truly a pitiable object, with his ragged black coat and trousers, through the rents in which you could espy his scraggy limbs. The Fat and the Thin His scraggy beard suggested poverty of soil on his lantern jaws. Driven Back to Eden A short, scraggy white beard covered the lower part of the face. The Old Wives' Tale Luckily their plane was not hit or in danger from the occasional shells that still came screaming over the lines across the scraggy war-torn land over which they flew. Our Pilots in the Air A chap with scraggy black whiskers and a sort of worried look on his face, stepped for'ard and made a bow. Cape Cod Stories In imagination he already saw the contemplated battle; clusters of men clinging round those columns, the gates burst open, the peristyle invaded; and then scraggy arms suddenly appearing high aloft and planting a banner there. The Fat and the Thin Not one chicken could be purchased for love or money, and, besides grain, only a lean, scraggy specimen of a goat, a long time ago imported form Uvinza, was procurable. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley His throat was wrinkled and scraggy and his head was plainly very bald on top, for the miller's cap he wore did not entirely cover the bald spot. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret What was that just below him which some scraggy shell-torn timber had kept him from seeing before? Our Pilots in the Air On the right was the cultivable though mostly uncultivated strip, long neglected and silted up with fine sand drifted into dunes, from which scattered, scraggy dom palms and prickly mimosa bushes grew. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan It was magnificent; all those colossal bosoms flying at your scraggy breast! The Fat and the Thin A ledge of rock, a few scraggy trees, and more black, charred remains of wagons marked the final scene of the massacre. The U. P. Trail "He is with you," said Sartello, leaving the scraggy laurel behind which he had concealed himself. The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast There were no maples or other forest trees, but only scraggy fir, that seemed too exposed to the winds from the sea to have much health or verdure. Lost in the Fog On her way to school she passed some boys who were pelting a most wretched dog, a poor, scraggy beast driven into a corner. A Life's Morning He was lost in the whirl of the voluminous petticoats and buxom bodices which surged furiously around his scraggy shoulders. The Fat and the Thin Still he heard nothing except the wind in the few scraggy trees. The U. P. Trail If you see her, tell her she's a beast, and I wish Arthur would wring her scraggy neck. In the Year of Jubilee She was bent forward, her eyes starting, her scraggy throat working as if in anguish. Our Friend the Charlatan When the nether regions were illumined and the door thrown open, Lilian beheld a familiar figure, that of a scraggy and wretchedly clad woman with a moaning infant in her arms. Denzil Quarrier He was a tall, scraggy young man, carefully shaved, with a skinny nose and thin lips. The Fat and the Thin Of his grizzled hair very little remained, and little of his beard; his features were shrunken, his neck scraggy; he stooped much, and there was a senile indecision in his movements. The Nether World His thick hair and scraggy neck gave witness of unreadiness and through his misty glasses weak eyes looked up pleading. Ulysses She was tall for her fourteen years, and very slender—"scraggy," Jim was wont to say, with the cheerful frankness of brothers. Mates at Billabong Here and there stood a solitary she-oak, most doleful of trees, its scraggy, pine-needle foliage bleached to grey. Australia Felix I didn't say that; I don't know—" "It must be Clemence," interrupted La Sarriette; "a big scraggy creature who gives herself all sorts of airs just because she went to boarding school. The Fat and the Thin The wretched mud cottages stood each one apart, their yards separated by scraggy willow-hedges, upon which ragged old garments were hanging in the sun to dry. Joseph II. and His Court And the house, standing in the still air of the winter afternoon, with its rotting roof and low red chimneys partly obscured by scraggy cedars—how small it had become! The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields "I don't believe you know much about anything—you're three parts asleep!" said Wally, flinging a cushion at his chum, which Jim caught thankfully, and, remarking that Norah was uncommonly scraggy, adjusted under his head. Mates at Billabong Uprooted stumps stretched out their dead, scraggy roots, and chips of wood littered the ground. Mother Mouton, however, leapt on to the table, where, with rounded back, he remained contemplating the tall, scraggy individual who for the last fortnight had apparently afforded him matter for deep reflection. The Fat and the Thin He has one arm in a sling made out of his neckerchief, and his scraggy little throat rises bare from his voluminous shirt. Huntingtower Seeing 'em together reminds me of that scraggy, old snowball bush in full bloom, leaning down to the little Stars of Bethlehem reaching up to it. The Road to Providence The ancient virgin is known by being lean and scraggy; and perhaps this diagnosis is correct. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 When our men surrounded them they were full of joy and held up their scraggy old faces to be kissed by these troopers. Now It Can Be Told Constantly coughing, he made his way through the cool, moist atmosphere, and running waters of the fish market, on a pair of scraggy legs like those of a sickly child. The Fat and the Thin The occupant of the depot wagon's rear seat was a thin, not to say scraggy, female, wearing a black, beflowered bonnet and a black gown. Cy Whittaker's Place The path along the edge of the high bluff entered a grove of scraggy pitch pines about a mile from the lighthouse and the picnic ground. The Portygee The Captain, who took this part of his duties very seriously, was too intent on crimping Daniel's rather scraggy forelock to talk much. Cap'n Eri Probably he was tired of water, and swamp and water, and scraggy trees and water. Their Pilgrimage They had long scraggy necks that could turn all the way round like the neck of a hen. Irish Fairy Tales Phronsie was out in the "orchard," as the one scraggy apple-tree was called by courtesy, singing her rag doll to sleep under its sheltering branches. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew A few years afterwards I saw the trees on his side of the fence looking in good health, while those on the other side were scraggy and miserable. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 A few scraggy trees and bushes, which twisted and writhed like vines around the square tower and crumbling walls of an irregular but angular building, looked in their brown shadows like part of the debris. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Against the top leaned a dead balsam, just as some tempest had cast it, its dead branches bleached and scraggy. Their Pilgrimage Joe Pillin's face, never highly coloured, turned a sort of grey; he opened his thin lips, shut them quickly, as birds do, and something seemed to pass with difficulty down his scraggy throat. Five Tales She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. War and Peace This was succeeded by highlands, undulating, stony, and covered with scraggy trees. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Their horse was an energetic, round little thing, with a clipped mane on its scraggy neck. Virgin Soil Innocent rural aspects of Humanity, Boor's life, Gentry's life, all the way, not in any holiday equipment; on the contrary, somewhat unkempt and scraggy, but all the more honest and inoffensive. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 It is dotted with Hamlets of the usual kind; and has patches of scraggy fir. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 Their position, in these scraggy Woods and Villages, in these Morasses and Carp-Husbandries, is very strong. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 The trees were in general scraggy, and covered, exactly as they are in the damp climate of the Coast, with lichens, resembling orchilla-weed. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Paklin made a sad grimace, and pointed to his scraggy, crippled legs. Virgin Soil The number of scraggy waste places he swept clear, first and last, and built tight human dwellings upon, is almost uncountable. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 Seven battalions are in this Village of Leuthen, eight in Nypern, all the Villages secured; woods, scraggy abatis, redoubts, not forgotten: their cannon are numerous, though of light calibre. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 She did not see—but there! she saw nothing, absolutely nothing—except the scraggy spruce tree in her tiny front yard and the lonely ten feet of walk bordering it. Keziah Coffin It and several other masses of rock are of a light grey colour, with white patches, as if of lichens; the sides and summits are generally thinly covered with rather scraggy trees. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Red Wilson had red eyes from fighting the flying sand, and red dust pasted in his scraggy beard, and as he gave his belt an upward hitch little red clouds flew from his gun-sheath. Wildfire His scraggy throat was adorned with a black neckerchief like a boot-lace. The Path of the King Saale, at four or five miles distance, bounds this scraggy lump on the east and on the south. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 But the gate in the fence creaked, some one stole in and, breaking a twig from one of those scraggy trees, cautiously tapped on the window with it. The Wife, and other stories After leaving Muazi’s, we passed over a flat country sparsely covered with the scraggy upland trees, but brightened with many fine flowers. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 He was a little, old stoop-shouldered /hombre/ about as big as a gun scabbard, with scraggy white whiskers, and condemned to the continuous use of language. Heart of the West Mr Quarmby beamed benevolently upon her, and Mr Hinks, his scraggy neck at full length, awaited her reply with a look of the most respectful attention. New Grub Street This is the safest place Fermor can find for himself; scraggy firs around, good quagmires and Zabern Hollow in front; looking to the east, waiting what a new day will bring. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 The woman of the house, a scraggy, genteel person, tried even to provoke confidences. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The one, old and scraggy, dressed almost entirely in black bead trimming and a satin reticule; the other, young and thin, in a white gown, her yellow hair tastefully garnished with mauve sweet peas. In a German Pension The Pilgrim and his mate were scraggy little bipeds of the city push variety, so they were suppressed. Over the Sliprails Why, then, there is other Processioning, scraggy Discoursing, and—this is our Feast of the Etre Supreme; our new Religion, better or worse, is come!—Look at it one moment, O Reader, not two. The French Revolution He was a dark, uncanny bird, with long, scraggy, bare neck, a wreath of white, grizzled feathers, a cruel, hooked beak, and cold eyes. The Spirit of the Border Some of the scraggy trees had been cleared away, and all the dead wood burned. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields His hollow cheeks betrayed themselves through the scraggy beard, and his eyes seemed to have retired into deep caverns where they burned with cold fires. The Faith of Men Every time he swooped a little nearer, and bent his long, scraggy neck. The Spirit of the Border |
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