Lexicographical Neighbors of Raggery
Literary usage of Raggery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"Round the coach came crowds of raggery, and blackguards fawning for money.
I wonder who gives them any ! I have never seen any one give yet; and were they ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... your irregulars, and prevent what we may call raggery in your rearward parts;
the skirts of your procession get torn by the bushes if you go faster. ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... grim portentous old hags, such as Michael Angelo painted, draped in majestic
raggery ; mothers and swarming bambins : slouching countrymen, ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Was there ever seen such a travelling tag- raggery of a Sovereign Court before ?
' Several of these creatures' (presque toutes, ..."
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