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An OLD MAN, bent back, barefoot, wearing ragged clothes and a beat-up straw hat, sits astride a donkey in the middle of the road
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Both are badly sunburned with ragged scraggly beards, blistered and cracked lips
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His fingers traced the ragged grooves of three long but
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I pulled together my ragged, ravenous threads of thought
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The stubble on my chin was growing softer now that it was gaining its critical beard length and my hair was becoming ragged at the back of my neck
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He was too calm, as if he were hiding some ragged alter-ego, something that I was by now all too familiar with
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After the ragged stresses of our transfer and our previous solitary confinement, compounded by a myriad of sour and wonderful new experiences and the discoveries of the afternoon, both Menachem and I were starving
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His fingers traced the ragged grooves of three long but thin scars, as if a large tom cat had raked talons across his skin
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that the ragged edge of this kitchen howling,
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Behind us, the ragged lip
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and watched the ragged edges
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by the outline of old boats and piles of ragged nets
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Ragged backed sheep, floating webs of winter fatigue,
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that blows sand into the faces of ragged men,
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the nagging road at the ragged edge of free will,
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I could hear talons, some ragged claw
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It was vicious looking with ragged teeth and an ugly face still dripping with the pastel-green gore of the leese
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The wound is fairly clean, if ragged, the projectile went through the fleshy part of his outer arm just below the shoulder
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Then I notice that not only were both his legs horribly scarred with purple and red, burned tissue, but both his feet were missing, his shins just tapered into ragged, pointed stumps
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of the glasshouse with their ragged feet,
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of the breeze through the ragged folds
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the ragged destruction of hope over this
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'We used to run a pub called the Ragged Fox in London but now I make tiaras and headgear and I'm doing not half bad
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With nerves already ragged for fear of Mercouri's revenge, I crept onto the pan to get a clearer view and to make sure we were safe
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Alan’s ragged edges, and with the needle that she usually used to
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He gets out of the car, careful not to snag his jacket on the beast's ragged teeth
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In the banks upon which the wind-stunted bushes bend, daffodils huddle together, ragged and bleeding at the edges of their two-tone trumpets
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their late twenties – they looked ragged and could have
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Dead trees hung over the Hollow at an angle, the long ragged fragile
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Colours begin to merge, a ragged paint job, primary bright and flecked with rust at the wheel arches
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asked, gingerly pulling on her ragged stocking
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Rafe stood up, dusting himself off, wondering what a ragged mess he must look to her
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Behind him, a throng of ragged children piled into the city
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I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white
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a ragged, dirty creature who was constantly picking the
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and blood, and their clothes ragged and filthy
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Brice turned, though the spy was nowhere to be found, his pale flesh blending with the many ragged faces of the crowd
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The man had a dirty, ragged beard to
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match his dirty, ragged clothes
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She saw the ragged, yellow
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From there the line continued to run northward, a ragged group of Boulder Dwarves, humans, and elves, nearly four hundred strong
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High pitched and formless as the build up of terror over the last few days was released in one ragged emotional outburst
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She burst into tears and clung to him, her breath coming in short ragged bursts
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The girls shuffled into a ragged row and the chief walked down it
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By the early evening she was still walking, one ragged step after the other
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Behind him his cohorts lurched to a ragged stop
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the center of your face, poking through a ragged foreskin
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Faded jeans and ragged shirts, thank God, they are in,
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“Sir! You may be a famous man, while I’m a ragged slave, but there’s no cause to insult
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As he left her with an invitation to seek him out at the Ragged Flagon, he half-wondered if she would follow through on it
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Her ragged clothes told me that she was one of ours
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He’d burned the ragged chiton
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Mother’s breath was ragged now
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” Senta breathed to the other ragged form in the darkness
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‘Is that you Ben?’ Danny projected his thoughts at the small, ragged terrier
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The landing was dark, and Mr Snickerty could not make out the man's features, but his outline was ragged, his posture was stooped and he had about him the odour of old leather and horses
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His emotions were run ragged after what happened with Becky, but I couldn't hold it together either
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The man was now striding towards the edge of the base, a sheer ragged drop before him
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The rock was increasingly ragged, his foot sliding, almost slipping off the edge except
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Studying it now I could see that half of this side had been blown away leaving a ragged wound that had exploded out taking blood brains and skull with it
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” His voice was ragged as a tear welled in His eye
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His chin formed a ragged, pixellated curve
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A young ragged kid was drawing with chalks on the pavement in front of a jeweler’s
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The ants were now eating through the thighs of his ragged shorts; he tried not to imagine the new pain once the material had been eaten
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They remembered the blackened wreck in Havana Harbour, and the sailor comrades sleeping in that foetid slough; they thought also of the women and children crying aloud for deliverance from starvation and despair, and of the ragged patriots fighting for liberty as their own fathers had fought
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Along the now disused trail between Daiquiri and Siboney, overcoats and blankets were rotting by the wayside, and some of the “boys” told the ragged pacificos of this discarded treasure which was useless to the army
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Ragged and ignorant as were Garcia's soldiers, they did not steal and loot as charged, for theft is religiously punished with death in the rebel camps
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ragged garments through and through, causing him to shiver with cold
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ragged stranger standing without, cold and shivering, with bare head
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His ragged clothes
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After the car came to a shuddering stop, Contin let out a long, ragged breath, resting his forehead on the steering wheel
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General Ludlow, who was on the extreme flank, eulogises the Cuban forces in his report, mentioning Sanchez and others by name, and no other officer was brought into closer contact with the ragged patriots
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Ollie Harris was running as fast as he could, his breath coming in ragged gasps as he pounded along the uneven track
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upon his feet and clad in thin, ragged garments
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“It is something you grow to accept, never something you get over,” he responded, his voice ragged
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One, with a ragged notch gained from fighting, lay pressed close to her head, the other stood erect, the hairs on its tip quivering
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Cherva shook his head, favouring the ragged slash that extended down the length of his snout with his paw
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He was looking at me, his breath ragged and two spots of color high in his cheeks
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” His voice had a ragged edge
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Faint spots of color had risen in Dorian’s cheeks, and his voice was ragged as he looked down at me with the same need that held me captive
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It finally died with a horrendous death rattle, the ragged breath coming out of its mouth in a horrid stench
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I gave a small, ragged gasp, my skin suddenly alive and burning under his hands, wanting his touch, his mouth, his teeth, his bite—
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The robin was about to repay the compliment when it noticed that the rose was hanging its flowers dejectedly, the petals faded, the edges ragged, as though pieces had been torn from them
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She headed for the door but he was there before she was halfway across the room, his face red and blotchy, his breathing ragged
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We were both taking ragged breaths, and there were tears on the verge of gushing out
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Through the opening she created, Caroline appeared to be tottering at the ragged edge of consciousness
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Behind him he could hear the women’s ragged breathing
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We could hear ragged cheers off in the distance from some of our mechanics and ground staff, the ones not noisily engaged in firing at the enemy
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A wild and ragged reel screamed out in the afternoon stillness
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” She kissed the ragged scar crossing his nose
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A ragged cheer went up from clumps of youthful aliens here and there, and they came running out to the center, forming up in couples, trios, quads and odd-numbered formations
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He sniffed the air around the ragged, bloodied clothing, and a grimace of distaste and scorn appeared on his otherwise solidly expressionless face
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She bore me down, and the bear stood over me, the human face protruding on a long scaled neck, filthy, bits of dirt and shit caked on a ragged beard, its breath rancid with vomit and rot
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A ragged cough suddenly exploded from her lips as her eyes flew wide open
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A ragged tugging on the raft brought sudden alarm
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The priest nodded silently and produced a bottle of colorless liquid from behind a stack of thick books, scribbled papers and ragged notebooks
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Neither Faith nor Una had any idea how sick the boy really was; a watchful mother would have had a doctor without delay; but there was no mother, and poor little Carl, with his sore throat and aching head and crimson cheeks, rolled himself up in his twisted bedclothes and suffered alone, somewhat comforted by the companionship of a small green lizard in the pocket of his ragged nighty
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The houses were all ragged and old, weathered with years of neglect
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She did not look much like the forlorn and ragged waif the Merediths had found in the old Taylor barn
