But ahead was the ragged line of the blue mountains.
The raiders, ragged and starving, were continually active.
Bagheera rolled over hurriedly and sat up, the dust on his ragged black flanks.
Mr. Oliver glanced at the ragged hole high up in the log wall and then looked at Mr. Webster with ironical amusement in his eyes.
The trees rose in black and shadowy masses on either side, but their ragged tops cut sharply against the sky, and a faint, uncertain light shone down into the gap between them.
Their ragged branches cut in a sharp ebony pattern against the sky, which was duskily blue.
Each runaway tar was hailed as a martyr in the cause of freedom, and became immediately installed a ragged citizen of this universal nation.
And all about old stocks and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruit nor leaf was ever seen, Did hang upon ragged knotty knees, On which had many wretches hanged been.
His garments nought but many ragged clouts, With thornes together pind and patched reads, The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts.
He advanced to an old Barcelona tar, in ragged red breeches and dirty night-cap, cheeks trenched and bronzed, whiskers dense as thorn hedges.
Then they would seize him by his leg, or by his clothes, just as it happened; and if he were ragged when he came, he was generally a pitiable object before he had time to run away.
In passing along the road towards the gate, only a few yards from the house, he heard somebody snoring in a brake of furze bordering on the path, and there he found his housekeeper very ragged and torn.
He got some education at the One Tun Alley Ragged School, but when nine years old was caught apple stealing, and sent to the industrial School at Ilford for 7 years.
Then there are old newspapers, ragged books, old bottles, tins, canisters, etc.
The social problem presents itself before us whenever a hungry, dirty and ragged man stands at our door asking if we can give him a crust or a job.
He asks for work, which he will set to even on his empty stomach and in his ragged uniform, if so be that you will give him something for it, but his hands are idle, for no one employs him.
The storm had gathered so rapidly that the boiling clouds could be plainly seen now above the tops of the ragged trees which surrounded the place.
He was coming toward them now, his ragged overcoat blowing about him as he jumped over the ridges made by the plow in turning out the late potatoes he had been digging.
They dug frantically at the pile, and were relieved to find that it was only a raggedknot of rainsoaked carpet.
The drift across the Dolf Spruit, below the Zwaartkop, was a ragged gash in the earth, hidden from all approaches by dense bushes of wacht een beetje thorn.
But month after month they held on, crawling slowly over the desolate face of that great new country, till at length the ragged weary men cried out and said they would go no farther.
She plunged over stones that were noisy and ragged underfoot; she tumbled in ant-bear holes and bruised herself on ant-hills.
Ragged children with bare feet, Whom the angels in white raiment Know the names of, to repeat When they come on you for payment.
Ragged children, hungry-eyed, Huddled up out of the coldness On your doorsteps, side by side, Till your footman damns their boldness.
If you hadn't--" She drew a ragged breath that was half a sob.
Morse pulled up the sleeve of his coat and showed a long, ragged scar on the arm.
Nearly a hundred more years had passed when a ragged barefooted pilgrim wandered out of the gate of Caesarea, on the shore of the Mediterranean.
When he saw this mass of ragged rascals, drunk and savage, but all wearing the red cross, he fell in a rage and attacked them.
But it never got there; for Cromwell gained his first distinction by pouncing upon the convoy "with a ragged rout of peasants," and then compelled the surrender of what little was left in Cambridge.
Nearer and nearer marched the ragged regiment, proceeding along a road that led about a quarter of a mile from the hillock on which Blake and his companions were standing.
As he did so a ragged volley greeted him, the bullets either passing through the aluminium covering of the chassis or else whizzing harmlessly overhead.
His clothing consisted of a ragged shirt and trousers; his toes, innocent of socks, peeped through rents in an odd pair of boots that in England would look out of place anywhere except on a rubbish heap.
Now that the principle of reformatory schools was established, Miss Carpenter returned to her plea for free day-schools, contending that the ragged schools were entitled to pecuniary aid from the annual parliamentary grant.
So-called "Ragged Schools" sprang up in many places, and Miss Carpenter conceived the plan of starting one in Lewin's Mead.
She published a memoir of Dr Tuckerman, and a series of articles on ragged schools, which appeared in the Inquirer and were afterwards collected in book form.
Flos-Cuculi isragged robin), and Githago or Agrostemma (corn cockle).
Despite the lateness of the hour before he got to rest, Percival had already breakfasted, when his valet informed him, with raised, supercilious eyebrows, that an uncommon ragged sort of a person insisted that he had been told to call.
Overhead the Northern lights flung their ragged pennons across the zenith, with a ghostly echo of rustling.
Their outfit, Garth reflected, must seem a very fortune to the ragged breeds.
He got ragged in the house, and he had to spend an hour in Howard’s company before he met Dolly at all.
For days he was ragged about it, so much so that he hadn’t the face to say he had been going out with a girl.
He envied the ease with which Gerald talked to her, the way they laughed and ragged each other.
What a fuss about one’s place in form, one’s position in the house; whether one ragged or whether one didn’t rag.
A ragged beard stubbled his cheeks and chin; he was disfigured with dirt and bruises; he was lean with hunger; his face was drawn and hollow from lack of sleep.
But there was something more, a wider difference between this ragged Stretton in the courtyard and the Stretton Warrisden had known than mere looks explained.
Stretton saw a ragged line of white suddenly flash out in the darkness, high up by the weather bow, and descend with a roar.
There were about forty of them, young and old; all were mounted, and in appearance as wild and ragged a set of bandits as could be imagined.
While Liz gives her version of Laidlaw's misfortunes we will return to the garden, where, being Sunday afternoon, Susy Blake was busy with a small class of the most disreputable little ragged boys that the neighbourhood produced.
Merriam and the doctor had ripped off the sleeve of his coat, and torn off the arm of his shirt; and while one was making bandages, the other was cleaning a ragged looking wound, just above the elbow of the right arm.
A starving man cares but little about his dress,' he answered, glancing over his ragged suit, and stooping to wipe the gravel from his bloody feet.
As he ceased speaking, we drew up before a ragged hut, at the entrance of which stood a stout Irishwoman, with a terrible dirty-faced child in her arms.
