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  • Then come some large rocks, called the Stragglers, leaving

    The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844

  • Stragglers Live over at 10Flash | Meanwhile … Says:

    CANTICLES • by K.C. Ball 2009

  • Stragglers began coming in around noon, and Dunbar ordered the drummers to beat “to arms,” which only raised fears among soldiers and teamsters that the French were about to attack.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Stragglers began coming in around noon, and Dunbar ordered the drummers to beat “to arms,” which only raised fears among soldiers and teamsters that the French were about to attack.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • On his sixth studio album, Mr. Boland adheres to country traditions but largely avoids their lyrical clichés, using his baritone voice to lead the dancehall engine of his band the Stragglers.

    The Short List 2011

  • Stragglers began coming in around noon, and Dunbar ordered the drummers to beat “to arms,” which only raised fears among soldiers and teamsters that the French were about to attack.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Stragglers began coming in around noon, and Dunbar ordered the drummers to beat “to arms,” which only raised fears among soldiers and teamsters that the French were about to attack.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • An example of this same peculiar behaviour was the December 23rd, 2009 UT article "Blue Stragglers Can Be Either Vampires or Stellar Bad-Boys", where you said;

    Another Antimatter Supernova Discovered | Universe Today 2010

  • Stragglers and those who refused to obey were often executed on the spot.

    Untangling Cambodian History: The Banyan Tree 2008

  • Stragglers and survivors would keep bowling, playing cards, making pizza…whatever.

    UH-OH News from Mad Plato 2008

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