ragtag and bobtail
Example Sentences
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The unknown and the ragtag and bobtail of the city flung themselves on the iron grille of the choir, which they broke through, crying: “Long live the Beggar!”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
It may please the ragtag and bobtail crowd from the ground up," said Phil soberly; "but you take it from me, Larry, unless McGee himself is convinced, there's nothing doing.
From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by Rathborne, St. George
Without the populace having any hand in it, the ragtag and bobtail of the strangers became bolder and shouted more and more.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
