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Definitionn. a wandering or disorderly grouping
Last update: October 16, 2015
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After the death of his father his family straggled. [verb]
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The town and its fine gardens and orchards straggle some 6 m. [verb]
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In Great Britain, whither they began to straggle over during the revolutionary troubles at the close of the 18th century, and where, practically unaffected by the clause directed against them in the Emancipation Act of 1829, their chief settlement has been at Stonyhurst in Lancashire, an estate conferred on them by Thomas Weld in 1795, they have been unmolested; but there has been little affinity to the order in the British temperament, and the English province has consequently never risen to numerical or intellectual importance in the Society. [verb]
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"Yes," answered Claverhouse, "my blackguards had little temptation either to desert, or to straggle farther than they were driven by their first panic." [verb]
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Thick waves of dark hair, disarranged with much tossing on her pillow, fell upon her shoulders and straggled over the lace upon her bosom. [verb]
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A hundred or more people had straggled in then, and the preacher, good soul, he took for his text, "Doth not God care for the ravens." [verb]
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Don't straggle, my man. [verb]
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Far behind straggled a few of the villagers, emboldened by curiosity. [Please select]
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