She will not let her dignity draggle in the mud, like others I could name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

Samuval was nothing but a draggle-tail mercenary leading his own company of archers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of A Lost Star]

When he'd parked his car, the ubiquitous draggle of kids had asked for money to look after it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleshmarket Close]

She saw close to the wall some few yards away a somewhat draggle-tail figure in cloak and hood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

The nice old maid near him turns away in disgust when she sees his moustaches draggle in the soup.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

Robin came around the side of the wagon, and scraped a draggle of wet hair out of her eyes as she spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Robin And The Kestrel]

Hours of draggle-tailing it through the bushes and peering into cottage pig-styes, and scaring out molting hens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Hour Stories] Reference

It was her pet hobby to take some neglected little draggle-tail from the workhouse and to turn her into an efficient maid-of-all-work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

I flushed crimson and declared resolutely that it was degrading for me to receive a salary for telling scandalous stories of how I had followed two draggle-tails to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

I shall make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act II] Reference

I can't go with the crowd, but I may draggle in about high noon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning the Wilderness] Reference

And a pretty figure you'll cut then, with a draggle-tailed wife and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others] Reference

No one knew of it save Bough Van Busch and the draggle-tailed woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

A draggle-tailed woman stepped to a door and threw out a pan of dish-water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillsboro People] Reference

Caan't 'e see what a draggle tail, low-minded pass all this be bringin' 'e to?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lying Prophets] Reference

The very dogs would have chased such a draggle-tailed beauty from the grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of a Traveller] Reference

A few feet from the coach the water appeared to deepen, and the bear-skin to draggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Briggs's Love Story] Reference

I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems] Reference

But, however much she might whistle, she should see that I was at least no draggle-tailed cockerel!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gambler] Reference

"What's a draggle-tailed chit like her got to do with such a thing?" he wondered, and then spoke to Joan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lying Prophets] Reference

It will be needful, if it be wet weather, to clip their tails, lest these draggle, and so weaken the bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Indeed it is beneath them to meddle with such dirty draggle-tails; and whatever happens to them, it is good enough for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference

Indeed, it is beneath them to meddle with such dirty draggle-tails; and whatever happens to them, it is good enough for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Containing Much Clearer Matters. Book IV] Reference

All ordinary housekeepers are at the mercy of the filth and insolence of a draggle-tailed, novelette-reading feminine democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whirlpool] Reference

And a pretty figure you'll cut then, with a draggle-tailed wife and a crowd of squalling children crying after you wherever you go! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chimes] Reference

I got mine absorbed just in time, and was on the doorstep to meet her, draggle-skirted and untidy, but enthusiastic about her "burn.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference

Audrey Hepburn bespeaks a plucky elegance that permeates her turn from a '' draggle-tail guttersnipe '' into a proper English aristocrat.    From Wordnik.com.  [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference

He did not tie him to anything, but merely rested the bridle over the pommel of the saddle, so that it might not draggle upon the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico] Reference

Running down the long hall, she peeped out at both doors, but saw nothing feathered except a draggle-tailed chicken under a burdock leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Cousins] Reference

"If the air had not been so cold, we would have seen a little light draggle, but cause the air was so chilly it turned into snow," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The departure of summer is dignified and even splendid, but the earth looks so sordid and draggle-trailed when winter goes, that onions could not bring a tear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back Home] Reference

Long draggle-tailed skirts, some sort of a shawl, and the most appalling old cloth cap on her head, concealing a small quantity of grey hairs and shading a wrinkled, aged face!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference

"What a dirty draggle-tailed thing she looks," said Schillie, "in all that worn-out old finery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference