"Bedraggled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... killed!" A muddy, bedraggled little figure that once had been pink and white flew straight to him, and two soft arms swept about him and clung convulsively. "I seen it comin', an'—an' I tried to shove you out ...
— Anything Once • Douglas Grant
... the young man chanced upon a somnolent and bedraggled hack, at rest in the stenciled shadows of the Third Avenue elevated structure. Its pilot was snoring lustily the sleep of the belated, on the box. With some difficulty he was awakened, and Maitland dodged into the musty, dusty body ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... bedraggled skirt, reddened eyes and a fat, motherly face timidly approached. She had ...
— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon
... listless and indifferent! At the beginning of the season he is quite another person. The magnetism that has done so much to win him fame shines in his eyes and seems to emanate from his finger-tips, but the difference in his physical being at the end of the season is sickening. Like a bedraggled, worn-out circus coming in from the wear and tear of a hard season, he crawls wearily back to New York with a cinematographic recollection of countless telegraph poles flying past the windows, audience after audience, sleeping cars, budding geniuses, the inevitable ...
— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke
... in bedraggled fashion in rusty black, wore a common black straw hat and a thick veil; but it seemed to me that the dexterous hands at work untying the bundle were slim and white, and I perceived a pair of hideous cotton ...
— The Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
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