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Definition of Raggeder
1. ragged [adj] - See also: ragged
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raggeder
Literary usage of Raggeder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book-hunter in Paris: Studies Among the Bookstalls and the Quays by Octave Uzanne (1893)
"... and laid out his boxes, which got emptier and emptier as he got raggeder and
raggeder, and yet always so proud in his rags that he would allow no one to ..."
2. The Book-hunter in Paris: Studies Among the Bookstalls and the Quays by Octave Uzanne (1893)
"... and raggeder, and yet always so proud in his rags that he would allow no one
to replace them. ' Who could buy such horrors ?' exclaimed a lady one day ..."
3. In Argolis by George Horton (1902)
"And there he lived for many, many years, the kind woman bringing him bread and
water each day. As time went by he grew filthier and filthier, raggeder and ..."
4. Tropical Africa by Henry Drummond (1889)
"... its chief getting browner and browner in the tropical sun, his clothes getting
raggeder and raggeder, his collecting-boxes becoming fuller and fuller, ..."
5. From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: Sketches in Ceylon and India by Edward Carpenter (1892)
"... ourselves on the same superiorities over our fellows, enduring the same insults
from them, wearing the same fusty garments, ever getting raggeder and ..."
6. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"His clothes differed in no respect from a “wharf-rat's,” except that they were
raggeder, more ill-assorted and inharmonious (and therefore more ..."
7. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"His clothes differed in no respect from a "wharf-rat's," except that they were
raggeder, more ill-assorted and inharmonious (and therefore more ..."
8. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1899)
"His clothes differed in no respect from a " wharf-rat's," except that they were
raggeder, more ill-assorted and inharmonious (and therefore more ..."
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