Straggling

Examples

• After they had waited some time, straggling people who had heard of the accident began to come up; then the real help of implements began to arrive. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Although Sheridan had been marching all day, his troops moved with alacrity and without any straggling. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Come, straggling lights into the windows of the ugly houses; and you who do iniquity therein, do it at least with this dread scene shut out! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Heston itself was one long straggling street, running parallel to the seashore. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And what's this straggling about in an idle sort of a way? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Straggling had entirely ceased, and every man was now a rival for the front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Shoals of our straggling youth have been swept into the ocean by an unexpected breeze! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But the household troops, though considered fine men, are built so straggling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was no more straggling, no more rear guards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Instead of all members of the family gathering about the breakfast table when the meal is ready, they come straggling in one by one. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I saw the outside of the note, addressed in straggling, irregular characters, very unlike Holmes's usual precise hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The girl was alone; lying with her head upon the table, and her hair straggling over it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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