bedrabbled

He leaped into the saddle and held aloft his sword still all bedrabbled with the blood of Raoul.

Huon of the Horn Norton, Andre 1951

It had begun to drizzle, as it so often does during the winter in Northern France, and this man wore a bedrabbled cloak -- a brigandish-looking cloak -- over his blue smock.

Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier Alice B. Emerson

They were all dressed most fantastically, and the child running in advance, an agile and bedrabbled looking little creature, was more in masquerade than the others.

The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Margaret Penrose

And then, to make the matter still worse, you trail your bedrabbled dress into all the mud and water and tobacco filth on the yard's width you occupy in walking, exhibiting the strangest spectacle of civilized humanity that can well be imagined, a woman claiming good sense, sweeping the streets all about her to make cold and wet her already almost bare feet and ankles!

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

Elsie, meanwhile, with her forlorn and disgraced daughter, found a temporary asylum in a neighboring mountain-village, where the poor, bedrabbled, broken-winged song-bird soon panted and fluttered her little life away.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

But Nattie did not even notice her landlady's acrimonious glance, and sang a gay song as she changed her bedrabbled dress.

Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes Ella Cheever Thayer

"Two more bedrabbled persons I never saw!" exclaimed Amy, when they arrived upon the porch.

The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Margaret Penrose

Ruth, wet and bedrabbled as she was, did not think of her own discomfort.

Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace Alice B. Emerson

The thatched roofs of the more primitive type of cabins looked bedrabbled, like the hair of a bather emerging from the lake, and the more substantial shelters were crowded with the overflow from these and from tents deserted by troops and patrols that had been almost drowned out.

Tom Slade's Double Dare Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

Regardless of the weather one of these bedrabbled creatures stations herself just outside the door of a pub.

Europe Revised 1910