draggletail

Example Sentences

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Steadily the work of degradation goes on, and at last the brutal man becomes a capricious bully, while the refined lady sinks into a careless draggletail.

From Side Lights by Allen, Grant

But, alas, though her cork was still sound, her wings had departed, and the solitary draggletail feather was not sufficient to waft her above the rude mirth of her auditors.

From Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves by Broderip, Frances Freeling

Dr. Butler, the master of Harrow, meeting the poor little draggletail urchin in the yard, desired to know, in awful accents, how so dirty a boy dared to show himself near the school!

From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian

I shall make myself a perfect fright—a perfect dowdy—a perfect draggletail!

From Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts by Jones, Henry Arthur

You do not ken me for the thing I am: If you but guessed, you’d fling the door wide open, And draw your petticoats about you tight, Lest any draggletail of mine should smutch them.

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson