rag bag
Example Sentences
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Peter the Great took the bits of modernity that he fancied but mostly he preferred to use what he could find in the traditional rag bag of Ivan the Terrible.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2018
This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural rag bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Johnson and a bright rag bag of quotations Moore happens to like.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result is a confused rag bag of reportage, memories and confession.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Such a man!” laughed good-natured Mrs. K., as she put the relics in the rag bag.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
