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Audrey Hepburn bespeaks a plucky elegance that permeates her turn from a '' draggle-tail guttersnipe '' into a proper English aristocrat.— EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
She saw close to the wall some few yards away a somewhat draggle-tail figure in cloak and hood.— Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
Aw think its nobbut reight at aw should tell yo at this rewl abaat names doesn't allus hold gooid, for ther's a mucky, dirty nooased, draggle-tail'd lass lives up awr yard, wi frowsy hair at couldn't be straightened wi nowt short ov a cooambin machine; shoo hasn't a hawpney to bless hersen wi, an yet shoo's called Victoria Hujaney, after th 'Queen o' these lands, an Ex-Empress o'th French.— Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
In fact he said as much to Lord Lisburn at one of the Academy dinners: "I cannot afford to court the draggle-tail muses, my Lord; they would let me starve; but by my other labours I can make shift to eat, and drink, and have good clothes."— Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series
"and you hear -- you, to be a draggle-tail vivandiere wiz a brandy-bottle at your hips and a reputation going like ze brandy.— Vittoria — Complete
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