draggle

Example Sentences

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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

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

She will not let her dignity draggle in the mud, like others I could name.

From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

It goes right hard with her to draggle her skirts in the dewy strawberry beds; but she feels consoled when I fetch up the till!

From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap

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 Afton, Effie