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 nice old maid near him turns away in disgust when she sees his moustaches draggle in the soup.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various
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
Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul.
From The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough
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
There’s a straggly line of people, adults and children, along the roadside among the draggled weeds.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
White flowers whirled like snow and her draggled hair streamed back from her face as she squinted against the draft.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
“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
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
Her boots are strong, and her dress is warm—the petticoats cut short to prevent them from draggling in the mud.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various
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
