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  • The wooden cart rumbled along the Gran'Rue, followed by a ragtail cort-ge of villagers.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • To the north were the Montmartre tenements stacked and buttressed by common walls, laundry lines flapping ragtail flags of breeches and work shirts.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • To the north were the Montmartre tenements stacked and buttressed by common walls, laundry lines flapping ragtail flags of breeches and work shirts.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • To the north were the Montmartre tenements stacked and buttressed by common walls, laundry lines flapping ragtail flags of breeches and work shirts.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • The sky was a paralyzing blue, blue as a burst of water; not a ragtail hawk up yet, only the dots of weather balloons basking in the sun.

    Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

  • never once an angry word not one argument occurred no complaint was ever heard from ragtail, ragtail, ragtail, ragtail, ragtail, ragtail, bottle and bones.

    the devil doctor! hradzka 2009

  • A ragtail collection of small, thin [24] shelled, lightly armed, slow-moving baby aircraft carriers, called "Jeeps" or -baby flattops, " intended for unopposed antisubmarine patrol or the support of Army troops ashore.

    Space Michener, James 1982

  • "Here's this blasted ragtail, that's went an 'had this batch of five cats.

    Rose O'Paradise Grace Miller White 1912

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