draggletail
Example Sentences
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O, what a draggletail will she be before she gets to Dublin!
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
I shall make myself a perfect fright—a perfect dowdy—a perfect draggletail!
From Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts by Henry Arthur Jones
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 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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 Grant Allen
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 Frances Freeling Broderip
