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Now I wonder what could be under that raggedy-ass sweatshirt?

It was time to take some raggedy-ass volunteers and begin molding them into brothers.

We stood up in a raggedy-ass fashion, by twos and threes.

I don't leave him alone he's gonna bring you in to defend his raggedy-ass name.

Good, cause we're leaving these raggedy-ass bozos behind.

He is just as determined that not one of our raggedy-ass Taglian legionnaires will run off and not go down with him.

They were just raggedy-ass kids.

We've gotten this raggedy-ass publishing company to the edge of something," John said, "and I'm not talking about mere financial solvency.

Another raggedy-ass pickaninny with a ten-dollar name.

Well, I hate these raggedy-ass investigations," I said. "

Just a raggedy-ass guess.

What I didn't see was a redhead maybe called Adeth hanging out with raggedy-ass jungle gods.

I rolled me over and saw about a square foot of raggedy-ass canvas peeking out of the rubble pile.

Ducky is like a magician doing the same raggedy-ass card trick over and over again. '

He was no longer a human shape, merely a raggedy-ass blob looking like a pile of ambulatory hound dog ears.

Exile's men down to give the raggedy-ass militia the once-over... Smeds stomach sank.

There's probably some raggedy-ass cowboy out on a ranch in North Dakota somewhere who doesn't have either a TV or a microwave.

All I saw when I got to its nether end was a gang of raggedy-ass Taglians who had been on the inside way too long.

Panic overtook her again and she howled for help, forgetting there was no one in the neighborhood but one raggedy-ass stray with a bellyful of lawyer.

Jim Boss Bennett was too raggedy-assed and pathetic for her.

Interpreting your orders to suit yourself is a damned raggedy-assed sea lawyer's stunt.

No, he didn't want there to be anything big upcoast, so when I showed him a few raggedy-assed dirtpokers, it made him happy.

I spent the night in Wells, Nevada, the sorriest, seediest, most raggedy-assed town I've ever seen.

She nearly crashed skull-first into a hill as she banked out of a raggedy-assed patch of fog.

"Watch this motion," she said, and he gazed intently at the display as the raggedy-assed enemy formation bobbed and swirled.

A raggedy-assed bulldog by the Mickster's fireplace--wheezing, his tail in a splint.

They're already providing the ZLF'S raggedy-assed 'fleet' with sanctuaries.

We may look a raggedy-assed bunch but Malone runs a tight ship - the way Big D did aboard The Lady.

If raggedy-assed pirates chase us clear out of the Confederacy, people may see it as a sign that we're not holding our own against the Peeps any longer.

She had been captured by a raggedy-assed bunch of Iron Masters who had been vigorously pursued by the forces of law and order.

But surely, even the most raggedy-assed ship knew better than to leave what sounded like a twelve-year-old in charge of the bridge during the most dangerous period of their crossing!

All six of them had at least one dead tire, and I started wondering about the lack of people, and why the two I'd seen so far didn't seem alarmed at raggedy-assed armed strangers in their midst.

Having squeezed the Mutes dry for years, they had a layer of fat to live off until their raggedy-assed clients became so desperate, they'd cut each other's throats in order to be first in line to do a deal.

If nothing could be allowed to stand in the way, then by the same token, there was nothing he was not prepared to do . . . including turning Pahner's beloved Bravo Company into raggedy-assed mercenaries on a planet full of barbarians.

I was toting a rifle under Old Hickorynuts back when we were just a bunch of raggedy-assed rebels, didn't know what we were getting into except that Burr made it sound good and his little French pard was the fightingest one human we'd ever saw.