He said in the same soft voice, "And what is that bedraggled creature doing here, filthy dirty and no doubt flea-ridden?"

This was no glorious heraldic monster, but a sad, bedraggled, dirty creature whose wings drooped and whose eyes seemed glazed.

The dirtiest, most bedraggled little creature he had ever seen was regarding him with tiny, sharp eyes.

He was holding up two bedraggled creatures, half rabbit, half bird.

The girl crouched at the edge of the clearing was the most bedraggled creature Tanis had ever seen.

They watched the pathetic, bedraggled creatures trying to climb lamp-posts or form a pyramid for a while, then Gurgeh turned away.

Kind to bedraggled creatures?

Now these wretched, bedraggled creatures seemed diminished; none of them, not even the old Matriarch at the center, was taller than he was.

And in the glaring mine lamps out there he was a very bedraggled creature.

He emerged, a thin and bedraggled creature, with nothing left on him but the upper part of a pair of old trousers, but still Hans, undoubtedly Hans.