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  • Umber turned the clear bag around, showing Hap the other side of the ragged-edged paper.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • The boy, who led the way, checking the eagerness of his muscles to the slow progress of the elder, likewise wore a single garment -- a ragged-edged piece of bearskin, with a hole in the middle through which he had thrust his head.

    Page 1 2010

  • Umber turned the clear bag around, showing Hap the other side of the ragged-edged paper.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • They have pried up sections of tile in the basement, leaving ragged-edged patches of bare grout.

    Poetic Obituaries: The police have taken away all of Sabrina Matthews's Rus Bowden 2009

  • They have pried up sections of tile in the basement, leaving ragged-edged patches of bare grout.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • There was an ugly gash at the base of his throat, and both wrists had been slashed, leaving gaping, ragged-edged wounds.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • There was an ugly gash at the base of his throat, and both wrists had been slashed, leaving gaping, ragged-edged wounds.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • I could only imagine that I looked just as ragged-edged as the stories indicated.

    Thin Air Rachel Caine 2007

  • They have the same objections to the program as publishers and authors in other countries, but then there is this added twist: One of the issues at stake is the way Google presents the search results: They are shown graphically as a ragged-edged piece of paper, as if torn from a book.

    Shopping in Paris (in 1907) - A Dress A Day 2006

  • Where the veils had stretched between the perpendicular pillars of the cliffs was now a wide and ragged-edged opening.

    The Metal Monster 2004

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