Stragglers

Examples

• There were stragglers going by long after the regiment had passed--men who could not keep up with their platoons. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• If he had come in by the front instead of through the stragglers in the rear, he would have thought and felt differently. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We first came upon a few stragglers of the Irish at St. Albans. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We decided to wait for an hour at least until all the stragglers had sought their silks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Some of the country people estimated the stragglers from Johnston's army as high as 20,000. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She gave this information to the landlord, to the servants, to the guests, and the innumerable stragglers about the courtyard. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• First we passed the regiment, hotter and slower than ever: then the stragglers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The Romans blockaded, cut up convoys, attacked stragglers, and ran away whenever Hannibal appeared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Behind which follow stragglers of the Garde-du-Corps; all humiliated, in Grenadier bonnets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He immediately ordered the cavalry at Winchester to be deployed across the valley to stop the stragglers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A soldier came along after the last of the stragglers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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