A very miserable-looking man in draggled duck, after nearly swamping the boat in heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out. From Wordnik.com. [The "King Of The Greeks"] Reference
A very miserable-looking man in draggled ducks, after nearly swamping the boat in the heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out. From Wordnik.com. [The King of the Greeks] Reference
It looked for all the world like a draggled butterfly. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
Paul's proud feathers draggled a little, and he reddened. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
"You're draggled from top to toe, and your Sunday dress too!". From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Its face was drawn with fatigue, and it looked rather draggled. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
What would mother say if his nice furry coat got wet and draggled?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
"And it might rain and get his feathers all draggled," said Alice. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference
After she had gone Mentu glanced at the draggled dress of his son. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
A draggled bee tried to climb to a dry place on a pillar of the veranda. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Such a limp, draggled female as emerged from the little carriage I never saw. From Wordnik.com. [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference
The splendid robes of ecclesiastical Rome have a draggled fringe of beggary and vice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
He eyed her assortment of brushes dubiously, selecting three from the draggled limp collection. From Wordnik.com. [Different Girls] Reference
They roused the neighbors, and came back to the house with their clothes all draggled and dirty. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Here a draggled figure rose from the mire under the feet of the combatants and limped lamely away. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
On the way back she hardly noticed the dreary and draggled pair, who had little to say for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
Do you think they like to see their ideal hot and dishevelled, plastered with mud, and draggled with wet?. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
His fair head draggled in the dust, and a red stain showed suddenly upon the white linen over his breast. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
She carried a broom-stick, and behind her slunk her cat, all draggled with the wet, and mewing frightfully. From Wordnik.com. [More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme] Reference
The women stood worn and draggled in the shade of the veranda facing him, holding the children by the hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
Their perfumed locks were never draggled in the mire of the camp, and their silken hose never smirched but in the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
It was between two and three o'clock in the morning, when, chilled, draggled, and dripping wet, they reached the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
We must carry this draggled earth-dress with us always, -- always in some sort fashionists, even in our soberest opinions. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
It was a very draggled and dishevelled Thomas that appeared next morning at the stable door of his old home in the country. From Wordnik.com. [More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme] Reference
The village cocks were sadly draggled and discouraged, and cowered under any shelter, shivering within their drowned plumage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
Her clothing was torn and draggled, her face pitiably scratched, while great tears chased each other down her wrinkled cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
A wild storm sweeps over the field; the corn is broken down; the flowers are crushed beneath its weight, draggled and withered. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference
To her astonishment this draggled, uncleanly object became violently affected by the tender, motherly way in which she was addressed. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
He had never been so thirsty in his life; yet, true to his instincts, he started to wash his face and smooth his draggled fur afresh. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
Some of the whirligigs of folded paper that had been tied there as scare-crows still dangled from them, drab and draggled by the rains. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
This was no child, however, but some one fully grown, as I conjectured, though I saw nothing but the outline of wet and draggled garments. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Why, she had one of the coal-scuttle bonnets hanging by its draggled strings round her neck when Flint pulled her in, and a number of 'The. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
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