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Definition of Bedraggling
1. bedraggle [v] - See also: bedraggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedraggling
Literary usage of Bedraggling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (1881)
"... it seemed a sudden dulness had dropped from the sky bedraggling all the landscape.
Thus disposed, yielding to the sweet influence, what shall save him ..."
2. A Group of French Critics by Mary Fisher (1897)
"If such are your tastes, well and good; there is nothing to be said. As for
Regnier, I am like Boi- leau. I cannot admire his bedraggling the muses with ..."
3. Camps in the Rockies: Being a Narrative of Life on the Frontier, and Sport by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1882)
"... preventing the soaked canvas bedraggling our robes, and giving us breathing,
and even smoking space. Had it not been for our inner persons the day would ..."
4. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"And if the great philosopher liad tumbled into a puddle, spattering his embroidered
coat, losing his periwig, staining his silken hose, and bedraggling his ..."
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