Adjective : a ragged old man. ,ragged clothing. ,a ragged wound. ,ragged stones. ,a ragged garden. ,a ragged piece of work. From Dictionary.com.
But the same tendencies, together with a sort of raggedness which is no doubt intentional, weaken his epigrams and polemical poems. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
The reason behind the raggedness soon became apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
He could hear the raggedness of the deep breath she took. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
The vibration built up with unnatural speed and raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds to Conquer]
The vibration built up with un-natural speed and raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
The scenes are ragged with the raggedness of the times, and credible. From Wordnik.com. [Times, They Were A-Changin' A Heady Folk Scene, Circa 1965] Reference
I am a miracle worker, but even I cannot mend a tear of such raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Laird Who Loved Me] Reference
He tried to force the raggedness from his breathing and make it come steady. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
The raggedness showed as Miami committed 17 turnovers, including seven by Bosh. From Wordnik.com. [Heat Win 12th Straight Game] Reference
He heard the raggedness of his own breathing and felt the wetness soaking his lower body. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
This practice leads to raggedness of tone, and finally to virtual loss of the lower voice. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
That little bit of raggedness that for some of us is really the heart of what makes us human. From Wordnik.com. ["A woman in an airport bathroom who, I felt, had addressed my daughter Julia with an unforgivable tone of officiousness and disdain..."] Reference
Men of science they call beggars, and the indigent they reproach for their wretched raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
Not quite as calm as she'd thought, his voice shaded into raggedness at the end of the sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
The cellar is full of company, chiefly very young men in various conditions of dirt and raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
Their appeal for royal assistance is plainly written, in "legible hieroglyphics in their winged raggedness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Creslin releases his capture, ignoring both the faltering of the guitarist and the raggedness of the rest of the ballad. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
But by the fourth or fifth bar, the raggedness smoothed out, and she let out a breath she hadn't even realized she was holding. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Sorceress]
And for all the raggedness of it, the Bosnian peace has held and it's better now, because we turned back the tide of ethnic cleansing. From Wordnik.com. [Interview Of The President By Rolling Stone Magazine A] Reference
Blind men sit in darkness by the wayside; cripples drag their maimed bodies wearily along; beggars grovel in their sores and raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Like King Lear's 'looped and windowed raggedness.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
It was a pity only to look upon the raggedness of his soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
The very raggedness of the thing before him lured him and drew him on. From Wordnik.com. [The White Desert] Reference
I knew his face and dress, for who could forget such eclectic raggedness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference
He acquired the raggedness, the impudence, the phraseology of the vagabond class. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Bohemia] Reference
The like of that "looped and windowed raggedness" is hardly to be found in any other literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
"Who art thou that despite the piercing cold and thy robe's raggedness seemest to enjoy thyself?". From Wordnik.com. [A Cynic Looks at Life] Reference
Almost involuntarily Mortimer, as he talked, had edged back toward his friend of disconsolate raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
Relegate them and blur them, to the eye; let their blotches be constructive and their raggedness relative. From Wordnik.com. [Picture and Text 1893] Reference
He had not seen Kropotkin for years, and so anxious was he to meet him again that he forgot his raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [An Anarchist Woman] Reference
Donal had neither greatcoat, plaid, nor umbrella, wherewith to shield Gibbie's looped and windowed raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Gibbie] Reference
Think of the weary months in jail, of starvation, insult, and the miseries of cold, raggedness, filth, and fever. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker] Reference
They all showed differing degrees of dirt and raggedness, but all were far and beyond the point of respectability. From Wordnik.com. [The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories] Reference
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