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

The most splendidly angelic inspirations will not suffice to compensate the poet for feet that draggle in the mud, or stumble higgledy-piggledy among stony words, which his toes should have kissed into jewels.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock

Caan't 'e see what a draggle tail, low-minded pass all this be bringin' 'e to?

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden

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 Evans, L.