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straggling
1. of straggling Lavatera blow west with the wind
2. The chequerboard tile-work path is cracked and overgrown with tufts of new grass, the pale, washed-out petals of long dead hydrangea flowers and the straggling, early season buds of pink Campion
3. The rest will, the greater part of them, be allowed to lie waste, producing scarce any thing but some miserable pasture, just sufficient to keep alive a few straggling, half-starved cattle; the farm, though much overstocked in proportion to what would be necessary for its complete cultivation, being very frequently overstocked in proportion to its actual produce
4. The group hid behind a short wall, behind the last straggling pair of Warlin soldiers
5. It descended upon the huddled masses who, in dark and strange surroundings, threatened to give in to the same panic that had spooked the straggling animals down the same road that the main herd had taken
6. straggling animals down the same road that the main herd had taken
7. While there were straggling
8. of land, planted the seeds from the straggling crop plants that
9. I parked the hearse just out of sight, waited out a few straggling visitors and grasped the iron crib, just as the children apparated
10. He shook his head, glancing at the stunted trees, at the marching woods below, a green mass which seemed to send out tendrils straggling up the sides of the cliffs
11. It was like a red sea, with each wave a straggling line of corpses
12. Broken columns glimmered among the trees, the straggling lines of crumbling walls meandered off into the shadows, and under his feet were broad paves, cracked and bowed by roots growing beneath
13. Kerim Shah was hurrying up the slope, his hill-men behind him in a straggling crescent
14. Across the road from the tavern stood a row of deserted huts, shaded by straggling palm trees, and occupied only by bats and jackals
15. Soundlessly as a shadow he drew her behind the nearest hut, beneath the straggling palms
16. 'A devil of a custom this is!' growled Conan, as he led the way toward the city, paralleling the road but keeping behind the huts and straggling trees
17. The oliphants sounded a fanfare of triumph all over the plain, and the hoofs of the victors crunched in the breasts of the vanquished as all the straggling, shining lines converged inward like the spokes of a glittering wheel, to the spot where the last survivor still waged unequal strife
18. The southern horizon was fringed with flame by night, and in the day straggling pillars of smoke drifted upward; in the cities and plains to the south men were dying, thrones were toppling and castles going up in flames
19. He fell in beside Valbroso and rode up the straggling road to the top of the hill where the gaunt castle stood
20. At sunset of the next day Tarascus came up with his host, dusty and weary from hard marching, the footmen straggling hours behind the horsemen
21. And to her straggling brood the partridge calls;
22. The problem is that our population has really grown in the country and the problem is that overall we have to many ill people in this country and it is straggling the healthcare system like we have not seen
23. So, what makes it remain in its orbit without moving a little away or far away from the earth? Does not that indicate the existence of a heaven that stops its moving away from the earth and its straggling in the outer space?!
24. She watched Zax plunge through the straggling clusters of wounded, the V-shaped ridge of his tail sweeping a wide path, decimating those he hadn’t trampled directly overtop
25. Since I have lived in this big straggling place, full of paths and copses where I am sure of being left alone, with wide fields and heath and forests beyond, and so much room to move and breathe in, I feel choked, oppressed, suffocated, in anything small and perfect
26. Everyone nodded as we drove further into city, passing half-eaten corpses and straggling zombies on the way
27. Removing straggling hairs from around the edges of your eyebrows and also removing any very bushy hairs will improve the outline of your eyebrows
28. Before them on an upward slope was Kökensee, one long straggling street of low cottages lying up against the sunset, its church behind it, and near the church two linden trees which were the trees, she knew for she had often made him tell her, in front of her home
29. Whenever there was a spare half hour, such as between where dinner ended and tea began, she would run out to the lime-trees, and pacing up and down that leafy place with the gooseberry bushes and vegetables and straggling accidental flowers of the garden lying hotly in the sun between her and the back of the house, she learned German words by heart
30. Ahead Kerry neared the fork in the tunnel and he turned to look over his shoulder at the straggling group of Drongs trailing out behind
31. Sammi turned to Nathan- who was straggling behind her- and narrowed her eyes, placing a hand on her hips
32. He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him
33. These, fenced in by hedges, are in the middle of courtyards full of straggling buildings, wine-presses, cart-sheds and distilleries scattered under thick trees, with ladders, poles, or scythes hung on to the branches
34. They were walking in silence in the dark, tired, straggling apart
35. The party was straggling
36. At last they came into the straggling grey village of Crich, that lies high
37. He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode
38. The boys formed a straggling line in front of the teacher
39. Notwithstanding the swiftness of their flight, one of the Indians had found an opportunity to strike a straggling fawn with an arrow, and had borne the more preferable fragments of the victim, patiently on his shoulders, to the stopping place
40. A conjurer must have his time, like a straggling priest in the settlements
41. straggling Highland soldiers of a band
42. He was leaning on the shoulder of his favorite Selim, and he drove us all before him, as a shepherd would his straggling flock
43. For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink
44. I saw the outside of the note, addressed in straggling, irregular characters, very unlike Holmes's usual precise hand
45. It gave a prospect across the moor through a gap in the plantation, and revealed certain figures half a mile off straggling through the heather
46. Their progress was straggling and broken, slower than that which Holly had made with his picked band of three
47. And first came straggling in through the land gate the armed mob of all colours, complexions, types, and states of raggedness, calling themselves the Sulaco National Guard, and commanded by Senor Gamacho
48. (Surely Fanny wouldn’t be so worried about mother, betraying her inner turmoil only by the straggling gray locks that hung from her her brother Hugh
49. When he had finished she sent him off to the back yard to play and watched him toddle across the straggling grass to his playhouse with great relief
50. I knew his letters of old; I had had them at Ravenna; I should not have been disappointed; but that day as I tore the stiff sheet across and let it fall into the basket, and gazed resentfully across the grimy gardens and irregular backs of Bayswater, at the jumble of soil-pipes and fire-escapes and protuberant little conservatories, I saw, in my mind's eye, the pale face of Anthony Blanche, peering through the straggling leaves as it had peered through the candle flames at Thame, and heard, above the murmur of traffic, his clear tones
