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To see how this draggletailed war will end, let us consult the Soviet playbook, which has become ours.
Geoffrey Wawro: Afghanistan: The End Is Near, and We've Been There Before 2010
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To see how this draggletailed war will end, let us consult the Soviet playbook, which has become ours.
Geoffrey Wawro: Afghanistan: The End Is Near, and We've Been There Before 2010
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Then drunken father and draggletailed mother had faded from the scene, and the boy had been left to a life of odd jobs and fleeting patrons.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903
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a wheen sketching souls, that ye may see perched like craws on every craig in the country, e'en working at your ain trade, Maister Francie; forby men that had been in foreign parts, or said they had been there, whilk is a 'ane, ye ken; and maybe twa or three draggletailed misses, that wear my Leddy Penelope's follies when she has dune wi' them, as her queans of maids wear her second-hand claithes.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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