tatterdemalions

Rest and recuperation for those "tatterdemalions" would be the enforced order of the day for a month to come, for while they might readily and speedily build up, it would take many a week to remount the column or restore such horses as remained.

Under Fire Charles King 1888

It was a pair of worn-out tatterdemalions that Captain Jones of the Mounted Police welcomed and fed, and he afterward averred that they possessed two of the most tremendous appetites he had ever observed.

Trust 2010

Only half an hour before, I had stood in the dust of the street, a tatterdemalion, surrounded by other tatterdemalions; and now Aladdin's lamp was burning before my eyes with a clear light, and through the magic power of Fate I had been changed into a prince of the "Arabian Nights."

Today's good word: tatterdemalion AYDIN 2008

Only half an hour before, I had stood in the dust of the street, a tatterdemalion, surrounded by other tatterdemalions; and now Aladdin's lamp was burning before my eyes with a clear light, and through the magic power of Fate I had been changed into a prince of the "Arabian Nights."

Archive 2008-02-01 AYDIN 2008

Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent.

Les Miserables 2008

Well, she thought, if you'd accepted that tatterdemalions were real, how big of a jump was it to believe in Elves?

Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

The tatterdemalions were pelting them with bits of food and egging them on.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

In their place we found hundreds of Cuban insurgents, a crew of as utter tatterdemalions as human eyes ever looked on, armed with every kind of rifle in all stages of dilapidation.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

Island adventure, and gradually Ellen had used every available piece of cloth to eke out the worn and patched garments, which despite all her efforts, turned her family into tatterdemalions.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

In all, except our order, deportment, and arms, we might have been mistaken for a procession of tatterdemalions, or a tribe of Nomades from Tartary.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant