Large tracks of road were being rebuilt, in a bumpy hell of swirling dust, truck fumes, temporary cement factories and ragged roadside habitation.
Six days of sordid and plodding fact life at home on the ragged edge of Lakeside and straitened means, the seventh in Fairlyand--such had been their program and their habit.
It was a grey-haired woman in ragged clothes.
So the poor man put on his ragged cloak and walked to his rich brother's house.
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
A few may hastily drop a few coins into a beseeching palm, and then execute a quick getaway in hopes that another 20 ragged pursuers won't immediately appear on the scene.
Please don't take my sunshine away — " The ragged, strained breathing becomes as smooth as a kitten's purr.
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.
Flat-panel monitors, moviemaking software, wi-fi, digital-music players, touch-sensitive screens — these have all been out there over the past decade or so in ragged and unpolished ways.
" He was a little ragged but still gives me a flood of wonderful memories.
Put on my ragged clothes, wander about the world for seven years, and get to know what misery is, take no money, but if you are hungry ask compassionate hearts for a bit of bread.
" Hans went into the parlor, but the miller said he should not sit down to table, for he was so ragged and torn, that they would all be ashamed of him if any one came in.
Then said the father, that is certainly not true, it is a fine kind of a king who goes about in a ragged shepherd's-coat.
Nevertheless the idea never left his thoughts, so that next morning he rose early, wishing to see whether his daughter's husband was a common ragged beggar.
The king commanded that all people who were in his castle should be brought before him, and amongst them came the youth in his ragged clothes, but the maiden knew him at once and fell upon his neck.
He went to see them, but as he came in a ragged coat, with his shabby hat on his head, and his old knapsack on his back, they would not acknowledge him as their brother.
So the fiddler came in, in his dirty, ragged clothes, and sang before the king and his daughter, and when he had ended he asked for a trifling gift.
Do you think that a man with so much money in his pocket should go there in his ragged old coat.
Among the village children was a little ragged, poor girl, but a pretty one to look at.
"A ragged, emaciated woman sits reclined against the church wall.
