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Near at hand were a cow and a calf and several yearlings, and farther out in the sage some straggling steers. [13]
Over the door was painted, in straggling letters: "Louis Trudel, Tailor. [11]
For a long time he walked up and down the garden of straggling limes, apparently listless, and smoking hard. [11]
Ten minutes later Theodore and I arrived opposite the house, with the servants straggling after us, and shouted to the distracted group on the porch, "Everybody safe! [5]
Stephen paused under the awning, of which there were many shading the brick pavement, to regard the straggling line of stores and houses which surrounded and did homage to the yellow pile. [9]
I saw nothing that wore unwoven wool on its back in the neighborhood of the monuments, but sheep are shown straggling among them in the photographs. [6]
Following the undulating sweep of sage, Jane saw the straggling lines and then the great body of the white herd. [13]
A band of straggling horsemen were riding across the oval. [13]
The glasses lay straggling along the table, emptied of death and life. [11]
But a few short straggling hairs are found over the greater part of the body in the man, and fine down on that of the woman. [1]
The scanty provisions ran out, hunger was added to the pangs of thirst and weariness, and here and there in the straggling file discontent smouldered and angry undertone was heard. [9]
A few straggling pines grew near its foot, defying latitude, as the mountain itself defied the calculations of geographers and geologists. [11]
Again this quarter passed, they came upon a straggling neighbourhood, where the mean houses parcelled off in rooms, and windows patched with rags and paper, told of the populous poverty that sheltered there. [12]
On both sides of the canyon the mountains rise wall-like, three thousand feet, and the long spiral of straggling huts down in its narrow bottom gets a kiss from the sun only once a day, when he sails over at noon. [5]
Occasionally the whistle of a huntsman, the snort of a horse, the crack of a whip, or the whine of a straggling hound could be heard. [2]
A man with long white hair and straggling grey beard turned to him a haggard face, on which were written suffering, outlawry, and evil. [11]
The Pulpit Rock, in the rough pasture land of Zoar, was reached by a somewhat tedious climb from the lonely farmhouse, in a sheltered nook, through straggling woods and gray pastures. [4]
Men clad in homespun, perspiring and spattered with mud, were straggling along the road by fours, laughing and joking together. [9]
He sipped on, his straggling beard dripping. [11]
Famous Natchez-under- the-hill has not changed notably in twenty years; in outward aspect-- judging by the descriptions of the ancient procession of foreign tourists--it has not changed in sixty; for it is still small, straggling, and shabby. [5]
But Tracy's movements had been watched, and in a few minutes the tormentors came straggling one after another to the roof, where they began to stroll up and down in an apparently purposeless way. [5]
Although the town had a rural aspect, with its quaint dormer-window houses, its straggling lanes and roads, and the water-pumps in the middle of the streets, it had the aspirations of a city, and already much of the metropolitan air. [4]
The road was filled with straggling and wounded soldiers. [6]
One of our expeditions to the hills was one day making its long, straggling way through the narrow street of a little village of the Piano, when I lingered behind my companions, attracted by a handcart with several large baskets of oranges. [4]
French soldiers in English red coats and carrying British flags were straggling along the roads to join the battalion at the volunteers' camp three miles from the town, and singing: "Brigadier, respondez Pandore-- Brigadier, vous avez raison. [11]
Seen from the end of the pier, the coast appears to be all built up--a thin, straggling city by the sea. [4]
He might have done so if he had met her chambermaid, or any straggling damsel of the village. [6]
Here and there beyond in the village a light showed, and straggling voices floated faintly towards her. [11]
The Kalmucks are beardless, and they are well known, like the Americans, to pluck out all straggling hairs; and so it is with the Polynesians, some of the Malays, and the Siamese. [1]
No time fooled away; nobody straggling in after the curtain's up. [5]
Ten o'clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot-passengers disappeared, the village betook itself to its slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts. [5]
For this straggling and stumbling band the world is young again: it has come to the beginning of things; it has cut loose from tradition, and is free to make a home anywhere: the movement has all the promise of a revolution. [4]
Some straggling carts and coaches rumbling by, first broke the charm, then others came, then others yet more active, then a crowd. [12]
By-and-by, one group after another came straggling back to the mouth of the cave, panting, hilarious, smeared from head to foot with tallow drippings, daubed with clay, and entirely delighted with the success of the day. [5]
We came into a straggling village; that we could see by the starlight. [4]
They waited in a straggling town of the open plain circled by threatening hills, where the threat became a blow, and the blow was multiplied a million times. [11]
Our friends formed a part of a group on the hotel piazza who watched the straggling arrival of this band of pleasure. [4]

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