In the first grey of the morning, and again late in the afternoon, these would straggle past about their tree-top business, strike off here and there into the bush, and vanish from the face of the earth.
It was two in the afternoon ere the first boat was beached, and the long procession of chests and crates and sacks began to stragglethrough the sandy desert towards Equator Town.
The greatest Souls are as capable of the greatest Vices, as of the most eminent Vertues: And those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.
But if they straggleto pick flowers or hunt lizards, they are sometimes carried off.
Afghans in winter are late sleepers, and it was not till full day that the Gulla Kutta Mullah's men began to straggle from their huts, rubbing their eyes.
Long villages of white tiny cots stragglealong the roads that radiate from the city; the great black cross of the French parish church showing reverently from all.
No hospital physician would have pictured thestraggle in such colors.
He massaged his brow, the fingertips out of habit stroking the roughstraggle of his eyebrows.
The straggle of fighters and destroyers from the planet's last line of defense the launched ships ignored altogether, these being handled easily by the multitude of blazing turrets aboard the Dreadnought.
No Frenchman, however fatigued, dared to straggle or fall back: it was instant death to him.
As daylight dawned the searchers began to straggle back with the same report of failure.
Then his guards were changed and the men began to straggle back from the grove.
She's always calling us," said Joel, in an injured voice, dragging himself away from the charms of the woodshed tostraggle slowly back to the house.
Stray copses straggle here and there; lines of fir-trees strike against the sky like regiments with arms at the carry, and pleasant houses peep from their pretty perches.
The folks that stayed at home and didn't straggle all over the country had their old places to live on and their old friends around them, but them Texans was different.
Anyways we had to straggle back the best way we could, and me and mammy just got along one way and another till we got to a ferry over the Red River and into Arkansas.
Or where her pathwaysstraggle as they please By lonely farms and secret villages.
Ali Chous looked uneasily at the crowd beginning to straggle out towards us.
The men began to straggle back from their various homes and to form in little groups about the yards and in the shops.
It was only when the burned-out settlers from the north began to straggle in that Antioch awoke to a proper sense of its danger.
It was late in the afternoon, and the men from the car-shops were beginning to straggle past, going in the direction of their various homes.
Some of it may straggle up, if permitted, into trees, but I saw little that would fairly justify the designation of Forest.
I was curious to see the sable skins they catched; but I could never speak with any of them; for they durst not come near us; neither durst we straggle from our company to go near them.
The drab-colored buildings straggle up the hill upon whose crest sits Middleham Castle, grim, vast and wholly ruinous.
The low lichen-covered buildings, with leaning walls and sagging, dull-red tiles, straggle over enough space for a city of three or four times the size.
For a dozen yards it runs evenly and straight, then a few close prints straggle to and fro, zig-zagging hither and yon for a distance, finally going on straight again.
My vegetable cart starts in two hours; one of you can go with me, the other must straggleon behind, for two would be more than is safe with one cart.
The quiet of the town was now frequently broken; for as February drew to a close, some of the soldiers began to straggle home, some on furlough, some on dismissal.
The door was wedged open with a drift of undisturbed soil and Boyd, exploring into a ragged straggle of brush in search of a well, reported a house cellar hole.
It was only too easy for a man to straggle from the company and not be missed until hours and miles later.
If they could cut through Forrest's present lines, thrust straight ahead, they could smash the demoralized straggle of Hood's main command, and the Army of the Tennessee would cease to exist.
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