stragglers

He could hear them on the plain beyond the lodge gate, hundreds of stragglers from the main herd spread out on the veld, swarming the dirt trail that led down to the water hole.

The Laugh T 2009

He could hear them on the plain beyond the lodge gate, hundreds of stragglers from the main herd spread out on the veld, swarming the dirt trail that led down to the water hole.

The Laugh T 2009

He could hear them on the plain beyond the lodge gate, hundreds of stragglers from the main herd spread out on the veld, swarming the dirt trail that led down to the water hole.

The Laugh T 2009

Yeah, maybe that's leaving some people out in the cold, but as long as the overwhelming majority of people benefit, a couple of stragglers is par for the course.

How To Fix Eeyore, Part One 2003

Whether we had fallen into the hands of highwaymen, or of stragglers from the French army, was doubtful for a while, as not a syllable was spoken, nor a sound uttered, except by the unhappy functionaries, who grumbled prodigiously as they were dragged along through "rough and smooth, moss and mire," and whose pace was evidently quickened by many a kick and blow of the fusil.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

She has been assisting Servia with money and arms; she brought two corps of the Russian army through England; she has assisted in a monetary so it was that everywhere I went I met stragglers from the British army, men who had been left during the dark hours of the night.

Belgium's Heroic Resistance 1915

Occasional news is brought in, and received with deep interest of the state of the banks, of the losses or gains of the different individuals, or of the result of the vacas, (a sort of general purse into which each puts in two or three ounces,) by different stragglers from the gambling-houses, who have themselves only ventured a few ounces, and who prefer the society of ladies to that of the Monte players.

Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

When, however, Agesilaus, as he had announced, marched into the level country near Sardis, Tissaphernes was obliged to hurry thither with all speed; and by means of his cavalry he cut off many stragglers from the Greek army.

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

But he was instigated by ambition, he desired to rule over these last stragglers from the fold of death; his projects went so far, as to cause him to calculate that, if, from these crushed remains, a few survived, so that a new race should spring up, he, by holding tight the reins of belief, might be remembered by the post-pestilential race as

III.5 1826

Lesson two, try not to arrive in a strange city late at night, especially when it’s filled with still-hungover stragglers from the SuperBowl.

Don’t go to Dayton in February and Other Lessons Learned on the Road | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008