A ragged string of wild geese passed overhead, high on the grey sky, and a few rooks whirled over the trees, inspected, and flapped off homewards with a disgusted expression; but I met no sensible being to ask the news of.
Wilkins, while the ragged youths disappeared with the suit-cases into the night and the man with the lantern helped Beppo pull the rug off her, that they were both in God's hands; and for the first time on hearing this, Mrs.
There, parked by the side of old, battered ragged Lady Jane, was another car.
Ragged shadows on windy evenings—torn, twisted, fantastic shadows.
Barney's old patch-work quilt is getting ragged.
They went early, for it was twelve miles to Chidley Corners, and they had to go in Abel's old, ragged top-buggy.
There was a dwindling grove of ragged, crone-like old spruces behind it.
The ugliness of the view always struck her like a blow; the ragged fence, the tumble-down old carriage-shop in the next lot, plastered with crude, violently coloured advertisements; the grimy railway station beyond, with the awful derelicts that were always hanging around it even at this early hour.
At home Tom learned of the Cardiff Hill event; also that the "ragged man's" body had eventually been found in the river near the ferry-landing; he had been drowned while trying to escape, perhaps.
I dogged 'em to the widder's stile, and stood in the dark and heard the ragged one beg for the widder, and the Spaniard swear he'd spile her looks just as I told you and your two—" "What!
They saw a weedgrown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs.
"）People who are running ragged and cannot keep up with their commitments have often neglected themselves.
These youngsters, dressed in sneakers so ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in their spiffy blue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes.
Poor Cindy had run herself ragged waiting on those step-sisters, trying to do the impossible, and make them.
" He was a little ragged but still gives me a flood of wonderful memories.
Dost thou think that a man with so much money in his pocket is to go there in his ragged old coat?
, Dany could hear the singing of the red priests as they lit their night fires , and the shouts of ragged children playing games beyond the walls of the estate.
He had seen the ragged man's eyes, and he was thinking of them now.
Finally his lord father gave a command, and two of his guardsmen dragged the ragged man to the ironwood stump in the center of the square.
He had lost both ears and a finger to frostbite, and he dressed all in black, ,, the same as a brother of the Night's Watch, except that his furs were ragged and greasy.
