Except for her draggled tail, she already looks wonderfully composed, and so long as the frost holds I shall have little difficulty in keeping her with me.
The prince looked at him, and remarked that he certainly was a draggled old scarecrow.
In the morning, wet and draggled from the storm, his feathers out of place, and without the spirit to arrange them, he seemed to have grown twenty years older in one night, so pitiable did he appear.
The Jackal turned, whining impatiently, and was going to curl himself up under the tree-trunk, when suddenly he cowered, and looked up through the draggled branches at the bridge almost above his head.
In fact, the steamboat looked like a draggled rooster with no fence or cart to hide under.
When I find one, torn and draggled with sin, it is my duty to drive it into the fold, where its fleece can be worked white as snow.
She was no more the draggled hysterical woman who had sought refuge with Peggy Ryle.
The two men jumped joyfully to their feet and assumed expressions of intense disgust; the policeman found something new to watch; the draggled woman turned her head towards the house and stood looking on.
They may have been old almshouses, but there was no sign of habitation, and they seemed abandoned to chattering sparrows whose draggled nests were everywhere visible in the ivy.
The Solutionist occasionally visited Michael with a draggled piece of newspaper, and often he was visible in the garden attending to a couple of Belgian hares who lived in a packing-case marked Fragile among the nettles of the back-yard.
She was tethered to the cliff by her rusty anchor-chain that swung across the space between, serving as a clothes-line for the draggled driftweed left by the receding tide to dry.
Her features were far from prepossessing; dry hacks dented her cheeks and brow; her lips were rough and almost bloodless and wisps of draggledhair hung over her face.
Drenched and draggled in her water-soaked tiger-skin, her long hair tangled and disheveled over the rock, she lay as though asleep.
Fireless, foodless and without shelter, unprotected in every way, possessing nothing now save just their own bodies and the draggled garments that they wore, they lay and slept.
Ladies have ladies’ whims,” said crazy Ann, when she draggled her cloak in the gutter.
He cut a short pole at the water's edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.
The canvas cover was draggled and patched, saturated with reddish sand and long-accumulated dust, frayed into tatters at one side and flapping dismally in the wind.
She was more sunburnt and draggled than ever, her clothes more weather-beaten, her hat more desperately broken.
When I met her by Uncle Bart's shop, she was trudging along in the snow like a draggled butterfly, and crying like a baby.
She had no idea of bringing a poor, weak, draggled soul to her Maker at the last day, saying "Here is all I have managed to save out of what you gave me!
He still sat in the broad shadow projected by one huge chimney-corner, his face overhung by a broad felt hat, girt with a band and buckle; a drooping draggled feather fell over its crown.
He picked up his draggled skirt, and drew a bowie knife from his boot.
The only thing that touched her interest was the old squaw's draggled skirt and limp neckerchief.
Ten bulky insects now foraged busily to feed their grubs within the ancestral home, while the founder of the colony had grown draggled and wingless with the passing of time.
The moth-antennae he had worn bound to his forehead were now so draggled that they were ridiculous.
Burl strutted on the edge of the cliff, a rather foolish pink-skinned creature with an oily fish slung about his neck and the draggled fragment of moth's wing draping his middle.
Burl uttered a cry and ran full-tilt into the stalk of a blackened, draggled toadstool.
He walked deliberately across to the rock, went round the tower, stood a moment in the draggled arbour--the poor arbour of dead ideals.
But it was only a poor thin slip of a shop-girl in herdraggled blouse who passed him, clinging to her lover's arm.
It was a very draggled and dishevelled Thomas that appeared next morning at the stable door of his old home in the country.
She carried a broom-stick, and behind her slunk her cat, all draggled with the wet, and mewing frightfully.
Surmounting the headdress of one of the male dancers, I noticed a bunch of black, draggled looking objects, that closer inspection showed me to be feathers.
The feathers had been left hanging up in the smoky atmosphere of the native's hut, which accounted for their black and draggled appearance.
She walked away, switching, with unabated dignity in the midst of defeat, the draggled tail of her poor little dress.
Eva's hat was trimmed with a draggled feather and a bunch of roses which she had tried to color with aniline dye.
But now they were sodden and dejected, draggled and woebegone, as sorry a spectacle as so many drowned rats.
The draggled bird fluttered in and sank on the floor.
