"Bedraggled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... admit a feeling of disappointment in that first trench. I don't know what I expected to see, but what I did see was just a long, crooked ditch with a low step running along one side, and with sandbags on top. Here and there was a muddy, bedraggled Tommy half asleep, nursing a dirty and muddy rifle on "sentry go." Everything was very quiet at the moment—no rifles popping, as I had expected, no bullets flying, and, as it happened, absolutely no shelling in ...
— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes
... was missed, and father and mother, and the farm hands ran hither and thither in wild search for him. No one, however, found him. In the haste of the search some one left his work at the irrigation dam, and the water running down rudely awoke the child out of his dreams. Wet and bedraggled, squalling at the top of his lungs, Panhandle trudged back home to the relief of ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey
... Finally they crossed Market Street and began to chatter into the tawdry dance halls of upper Kearny. Everywhere the drinks flowed in covert streams, growing viler and more nauseous as the pilgrimage advanced. Near Jackson Street they came upon a bedraggled pavilion of dubious gayety which lured them downstairs with its ear-splitting jazz orchestra. A horde of rapacious females descended upon them like starving locusts. Suddenly everybody in the party seemed moved with ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... of my sad reflections there scrambled up the steps a wet and bedraggled dog, who dropped at my feet a chip. Carrying her in my arms to my room, I lighted a lamp and examined her collar, and found a few leaves of a memorandum-book covered ...
— Captured by the Navajos • Charles A. Curtis
... forgotten to put it in my haversack. Yet the men—no doubt the same non-commissioned officer, with the private he had just relieved from duty as a vedette—passed so near me that I could distinctly see their dress, and could note its worn and bedraggled appearance. These men had ...
— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson
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