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 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 Marchand, J. N.
Drail, drāl, n. the iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw: a piece of lead round the shank of the hook in fishing.—v.i. to draggle.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Still, somewhere under the huddle and draggle of it all burned on the human soul.
From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson
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
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
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
“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
In spite of the draggling wet and clinging mud, the country people were out in force; but their gapes, their nudges and whispers, were as little to him as the falling rain.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
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 Leighton, Robert
While there is life in bird or beast they will struggle from the death-play blindly, but the Collared Buck lay placidly still with the rain draggling his fur and his eyes staring.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.
