draggles

The plaster didn't crack and then vomit outward in chunks; it seemed to have become plastic, and as the wall continued to bulge, making an irregular white bubble-shape from which scraps and draggles of wallpaper still hung, the surface began to mold itself into hills and curves and valleys.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck;

Walt Whitman 1900

There is a kind of pleasure-ground at the top of this eminence -- a broad walk that draggles up to a ruined wall, with a ruined niche in it, and a battered stone bench.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Various 1885

The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on

Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

The wet day draggles the tricolor, but the joy is unextinguishable.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

The Parliament draggles on, till any two of the factions can unite.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

_draggles_, and it is difficult to keep up one's attention.

How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Edwin A. Abbott