fag-ends

October is usually Parliament's "wash-up" period, where the fag-ends of bills are sorted and the content of the Queen's speech remains officially a mystery.

Gaining the ears of power: your voices can still be heard 2011

I have to sit still and be tortured with his infernal discords, and fag-ends of tunes which were worn out and discarded before ‘Roll on—Sil-ver Moo-oon’ became popular, strung together without regard to taste, time, melody, or the eternal fitness of things.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

I have to sit still and be tortured with his infernal discords, and fag-ends of tunes which were worn out and discarded before ‘Roll on—Sil-ver Moo-oon’ became popular, strung together without regard to taste, time, melody, or the eternal fitness of things.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Everybody had gone home and the remnants of the night were strewn about the room like memories, empty pitchers of beer and lipstick-stained whiskey glasses covered the tables, black plastic ashtrays overflowing with fag-ends and ashes.

The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

Everybody had gone home and the remnants of the night were strewn about the room like memories, empty pitchers of beer and lipstick-stained whiskey glasses covered the tables, black plastic ashtrays overflowing with fag-ends and ashes.

The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

I considered the pie done with; as, for example, by emptying fag-ends of glasses of wine into it; putting cheese-plates and spoons into it, as into

The Holly-Tree 2007

I considered the pie done with; as, for example, by emptying fag-ends of glasses of wine into it; putting cheese-plates and spoons into it, as into

The Holly-Tree 2007

Look at Paddy — a tea-swilling old moocher, only fit to scrounge for fag-ends.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

I would guide them myself to Rumm, in the first critical march through the fag-ends of Howeitat about Akaba.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

On the smooth beaches and in the silent bush, where time is not regulated by formalities or shackled by conventions, there delicious lapses — fag-ends of the day to be utilised in a dreamy mood which observes and accepts the happenings of Nature without disturbing the shyest of her manifestations or permitting

Tropic Days 2003