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
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
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
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 Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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
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
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
“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
Germany, it has been aptly said, became a mere tail to the French kite, its leaders feebly draggling after where Louis soared.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
The trees that lined the roadway were shrouded in a draggling vapour.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
He looked down at the torn strakes draggling in the water alongside, at the smashed boat, and the tangled wreckage on the fore-deck.
From Command by William McFee
