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  • With apologies to our favourite sportswriter's son, Neil Young, this weekend at the Air Canada Centre should be dubbed the Ragged Glory tour.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2012

  • He seemed to understand that this was Serious Business, and that he needed to have his game face on and be a working dog, which was excellent, and means he can probably keep coming back -- though I'm not yet ready to try him at Ragged, which is crowded.

    that was one long poke. matociquala 2009

  • From a blogger in Denmark, I learned this plant is also called Ragged Jack.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Kalyn Denny 2008

  • The other, whom we may call the Ragged One of the Sorry

    Don Quixote 2002

  • But the Red Road's easy enough to follow since it leads from Quarzhasaat to the Silver Flower Oasis and beyond are only the mountains the nomads call the Ragged Pillars.

    The Fortress of the Pearl Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1989

  • Well, James opened the letter and inserted a note asking Arthur to meet him in a little wood called the Ragged Shaw, which is near to the school.

    The Adventure of the Priory School 1985

  • Chalcedonica, commonly known as Ragged Robin, is perhaps the most showy variety; but L. Viscaria Plena, or Catchfly, is a very beautiful plant.

    Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

  • James opened the letter and inserted a note asking Arthur to meet him in a little wood called the Ragged Shaw, which is near to the school.

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Five stout yeomen keepers, with their attendants, called Ragged

    The Waverley 1877

  • In order not to wound the pride of parents who are not too proud to receive a gratuitous education for their offspring, these establishments are not called Ragged Schools, but "Boys 'Meetings," and

    The Englishwoman in America 1867

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