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Pauline had Carew on her right hand and John Ash on her left; the four boys walked stragglingly, now in front, now behind, but never far from Carew.

From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Primitive conditions everywhere prevailed, and communities brooded in silence, growing stragglingly in sluggish indifference, content with coarse food and coarser living.

From Three Acres and Liberty by Hall, Bolton

The water in the river is low, and spreads stragglingly over a wide surface.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

This he followed up till the pursuit came stragglingly to an end, and the trail of the fugitive stood out alone and distinct.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

As steel filings respond to a magnet, they came, and as inevitably; stragglingly, suspiciously by day, in flocks that grew to be a perfect cloud by night.

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will