We do know that "tatterdemalion" has been used in print since the 1600s. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
The tatterdemalion didn't even look back this time. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
The tatterdemalion picked up a rag and inspected it. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
The tatterdemalion did not speak for several moments. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
The tatterdemalion took a long moment before responding. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
I braved a question when the tatterdemalion could not answer. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
SNAIL'S TALES: Today's good word: tatterdemalion skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [Today's good word: tatterdemalion] Reference
A tatterdemalion, a creature of Faerie, was not the worst choice. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
Snow Patrol tatterdemalion - a person dressed in tattered clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
The tatterdemalion was bent over her, practically shouting in her ear. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
But its tatterdemalion presence relieved her, and her face jerked up scarlet. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 25] Reference
"Get down, Tolstoi, don't bother him," Cora shouted at the tatterdemalion mutt. From Wordnik.com. [‘Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel’] Reference
“Glory be,” the little tatterdemalion whispered as he pulled up his trousers. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon’s Apprentice] Reference
"She has sent me to you," the tatterdemalion confirmed, as if reading her thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
The tatterdemalion clung to her like a second skin, bluish hair flying out behind her. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
She didn't expect help from the tatterdemalion, but she needed to know where Ailie was. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
The tatterdemalion shook her head, her hair rippling like a length of diaphanous blue silk. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
I'm standing here in the buff, and there's no telling when the tatterdemalion will show up. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
By the door of my cab a loafer was standing; a tall tatterdemalion with a pale, bearded face. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
The tatterdemalion released her hands, folded her child's arms across her chest, and hugged herself. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
The tatterdemalion, an ethereal figure in the fading light, looked back over her shoulder and blinked. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
"Once the Loden is found, the Lady says you are free to do whatever you wish," the tatterdemalion said. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
The tatterdemalion was making a point of telling her that her conscience might become an issue for her. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
The tatterdemalion was thinking the same thing, but there was little she could do to help make it happen. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
As he turned to leave, his eyes left the floor, he looked to the bedroom door and he saw'the tatterdemalion!. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
"Any particular reason for wanting to know?" asked Ted quizzically, smiling up at the tatterdemalion of a cowboy. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
Hasmita and gerard too, I love “tatterdemalion” as well; now am looking for anotehr story to slip it in! heh. From Wordnik.com. [HEY CROW! • by Rumjhum Biswas] Reference
When that revelation came to me, I averted my eyes from the tatterdemalion, to betray nothing of my friend's motives. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Its head will be loyal enough, for that will be a bankrupt Gnaeus Pompeius hurrying home with his tatterdemalion army. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The retrogressive Doctor Hanchett had been quite an exquisite in the matter of apparel compared with this tatterdemalion. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
On the 28th of May he set out at the head of his tatterdemalion band from the village of Boughton, and proceeded to Fairbrook. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Simultaneously the door of Kayak Bill's cabin opened and the owner, a tatterdemalion figure, stood for a moment on the doorstep. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
I demurred at first, for I had no mind to be publicly embraced by the tatterdemalion patriots I had seen in the crowd that morning. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
The tatterdemalion saw the confusion mirrored on Angel's face and came forward wordlessly, took her hands in her own, and held them. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
I assure you, and the world would see such a princely tatterdemalion as would astonish it. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
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