straggler
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Backstory: Before he made movies, Hawkes sang and played guitar in an 1980s punk band called Meat Joy, followed by Gangster Folk and King Straggler.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024
To Straggler Bailey of North Carolina, Commerce Committee chairman, the neutrality bill's virtual erasure of the U. S. merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The Straggler," by Philip A. Bell, New York, out of which the Colored American took its origin.
From The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Delany, Martin Robison
The opposite bank of the river displayed a sandy country covered with dark scrub; and beyond this was the sea, with a view of Rottnest and the Straggler rocks.
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson
How pleased, when down the Straggler sank Beside her, on some sunny bank!
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William
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