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Definition of Straggles
1. straggle [v] - See also: straggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straggles
Literary usage of Straggles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1847)
"Straggles WENT CHEAP TO ASCOT. BY ALBERT SMITH. MR. Straggles sat by himself, on
a high stool, in his lonely chambers, which were up at the top of the house ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"All those straggles and failures are most vividly told by Palissy himself in one
of the most thrilling pieces of autobiography ever written. ..."
3. The Pilgrim Fathers: Or, The Founders of New England in the Reign of James by William Henry Bartlett (1853)
"... class of inhabitants sunk in poverty ; and the population, thinly scattered,
seems shrunk too small for the extensive circuit over which it straggles. ..."
4. The Warwickshire Avon by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1892)
"Across the river, a few fields back, Wick straggles, a long street of timbered
cottages, with a little church, ..."
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