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Definition of Stragglers
1. straggler [n] - See also: straggler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stragglers
Literary usage of Stragglers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1890)
"With respect to the stragglers, who have lately fallen into our hands, I cannot,
upon the best consideration, discern how the agreement subsisting between ..."
2. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1890)
"With respect to the stragglers, who have lately fallen into our hands, I cannot,
upon the best consideration, discern how the agreement subsisting between ..."
3. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of by Robert Stewart Castlereagh, Charles William Vane Londonderry (1851)
"They were stragglers, or such as had gone astray." His Majesty cannot overlook
this account, descriptive, according to the obvious sense of it, ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"CHAP, right and left of their narrow camp poured forth frr- LX quent sallies of
cavalry and light infantry, which cut t. I their stragglers, swept the ..."
5. History of the Peninsular War by Robert Southey (1828)
"Lasalle fell in with sixteen Englishmen upon the road, stragglers from General
Hope's detachment, and it was related in the bulletins* of Buonaparte, ..."
6. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"... Children — Search after stragglers. THE travellers had now arrived in the
vicinity of the mountain regions infested by the Crow Indians. ..."
7. The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864: A Monograph by Jacob Dolson Cox (1897)
"Guarding the Trains — Collecting the stragglers — Halt on Winstead Hill —
Conditional Orders—Skirmishing with Forrest — Hood's Infantry press close — Will ..."
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