draggle
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Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The Sunflower Ranch needs my talents, so I can’t go with the crowd, but I may draggle in about high noon.
From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand
He cut a short pole at the water’s edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
Fifteen months later, a battered, be draggled ghost ship, the Wolf again dodged through the British blockade and limped home to her base.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
“We had to grow,” Alexandra hissed as she propped herself against the terminal, her dark hair a curtain draggling before her as she hung her head.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2019
Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took the job because he wanted to be on the side of victory.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have often met women bent nearly double under them, toiling painfully along, with hats or bonnets pushed awry and skirts draggling.
From Change in the Village by George Sturt
Nor are the long-haired breeds at their best draggling round in the wet, muddy streets of a city.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
Therapia, draggling down the stony steep, like a heap of bangles on a brown-red cheek.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
