draggle
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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
The other forms, such as drabbe, dregg, and dragan, the b and v being analogous to E. draggle, drabble, draught, draft, all equally from dragan.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
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
He did not tie him to anything, but merely rested the bridle over the pommel of the saddle, so that it might not draggle upon the ground.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
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
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
There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
“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
The draggling ends of the red neckerchief caught the schoolmaster's eyes.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The tail is thickly covered with long hairs, placed vertically, the hairs draggling on the ground.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
He might wander through the country unnoticed and unknown, while the whole nation were draggling after Mrs. Stowe's petticoat.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward
