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Raggedly and slowly, but surely, the country's human and material resources are being mobilized.

From Time Magazine Archive

Raggedly, slowly at first, then more swiftly as the press of warriors broke and flowed, the barbarians swept toward the city as water sweeps over a broken dam.

From Black Amazon of Mars by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

III Up the Canongate climbeth, cleft asunder Raggedly here, with a glimpse of the distant sea Flashed through a crumbling alley, a glimpse of wonder, Nay, for the City is throned on Eternity!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred