Flagged

Examples

• A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The poor relations caught the people who they thought would like it, and, when the game flagged, got caught themselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The talk often flagged between us when we were alone. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It had been easy enough to write the date, and Dear Mr. Rosedale--but after that her inspiration flagged. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The institution never flagged for want of a story, I am certain; and the wine lasted out almost as well as the matter. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Her footsteps flagged, and she stood gazing listlessly ahead, digging the ferny edge of the path with the tip of her sunshade. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My patience would often have failed, and my interest flagged, in listening to her, but for one thing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is, indeed, an extremely neat, snug little place, with well-kept homes, mostly of frame construction, and flagged streets crossing each other at right angles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Two steps to the west meant now that I was to go two paces down the stone-flagged passage, and this was the place indicated by the Ritual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The conversation soon flagged--then dropped altogether. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Eustacia's face flagged. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She glowed; remembering the mendacity of the imagination, she flagged; then she freshened; then she fired; then she cooled again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We stood in a great flagged court, with flowers and citron trees about us, and a huge tank in the centre that was receiving the waters of many pipes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The rain is ever falling--drip, drip, drip--by day and night upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement, the Ghost's Walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The breeze, that had flagged since sunset, now rose again. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Yet our spirits flagged, as the day drew near which we had fixed for our departure. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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