draggle-tail
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of draggle-tail
Example Sentences
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She moved towards the door, with her draggle-tail of infants.
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She hasn't a penny, and goes about tattered, a draggle-tail, and sells her birthright for a handful of cold potatoes.
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Turning to Goldsmith the man, what the "draggle-tail Muses" paid him we find him spending on dress and rooms and jovial magnificence, on relatives or countrymen or the unknown poor, with such freedom that he is never relieved of the necessity of drudgery.
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He doesn't know 'The Draggle-tail Gypsies,' nor yet 'Barbara Allen,' nor yet 'I'll Make You a Present of a Coach and Six;' but I'm going to sing 'em to him some day.
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There was a real actress in the Pullman,—such an one as travels sumptuously with a maid and dressing-case,—and my draggle-tail thought of appealing to her for help, but broke down after several attempts to walk into the car jauntily as befitted a sister in the profession.
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