No such luck … I was a math straggler from the get-go. From Wordnik.com. [On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake] Reference
The closest thing to a straggler is the Oakland Raiders, who haven't taken a lineman that high since 2004. From Wordnik.com. [Brownsville Herald :] Reference
Marine Animal Rescue spokesman Peter Wallerstein said Monday the "straggler" is healthy and probably just taking its time to get to Alaska. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
He spied a straggler in the brush beside the road. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
The lonely straggler stretched his limbs and slept. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ind And Other Poems] Reference
Suddenly the Ølvira was not an irrelevant straggler. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Personnel bumped report to the straggler control point. From Wordnik.com. [FM 90-4 Appendix C]
Forrest is in the rear; never mind the straggler and cannon. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Briefs subordinate unit personnel on straggler control plan. From Wordnik.com. [FM 90-4 Appendix B]
If available, a radio is left with the straggler control point. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-85 Chapter 4 Insertion, Extraction, Escape, and Evasion]
"Take him!" he cried, as a straggler -- a drake -- shot past us. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
I obtained leave to give a straggler a lift of a couple of miles. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Back to the ranks the straggler bring beneath thy standard bright!. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
She became the wretched straggler, cloaked and hooded and hunched. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
It was early day and only a straggler or two was in sight at the depot. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
A whispered command was borne along the line even to the last straggler. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
The Klan is pretty much non-existent here, maybe a straggler here or there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005] Reference
Maybe a straggler of sorts who had just heard about the new king and queen. From Wordnik.com. [Undead and Unworthy]
More than once the others had to wait for the straggler, or else call to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness] Reference
As usual, a straggler sits sleeping in a soft chair to avoid the cold night. From Wordnik.com. [Green Animals] Reference
From that good Genie the poor straggler from Fairyland got solid help and sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Every straggler had fled to shelter, and the usual idlers had deserted the platform. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
One plane only was left, coming in from the south, a lone straggler, late for the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Ever since the foul outrage, only a straggler may, now and then, be seen at a distance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Private Hawes of the Third is remarkably fond of pies, and a notorious straggler withal. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
I remembered the straggler who had surprised me while at the safe, several hours before. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
It's closing time and one straggler, a gray-haired man, sits napping in the soft chair. From Wordnik.com. [Green Animals] Reference
Hustling through Capitol corridors or parking their cars, straggler senators were calling in. From Wordnik.com. [One Nation, Under... Who?] Reference
At length the last straggler had entered, gone his way, and disappeared, and dead silence reigned. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
A straggler who'd heard about Chenault but had yet to meet him entered a room one day and was introduced. From Wordnik.com. [The Race To The Top] Reference
Chaplain, some fifty yards in the rear, and mangled awfully a straggler at least half a mile further back. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
We notice one straggler, apparently confused from lack of oxygen to the brain, making his way up the slope. From Wordnik.com. [My Quest to Bring Karaoke to Mt. Everest] Reference
RAN.E -- N. Africa, Asia, as far east as Japan, Europe including Britain, and has occurred as a rare straggler in Leicestershire. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Drew dismounted to give the straggler a leg up on Hannibal before they headed on toward the Tennessee and the promise of a breathing space. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
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