I gathered that was what had happened to the last straggling pirate to be discovered.

"Let her pass," he told the straggling troops, who couldn't make up their minds what to do.

He looked back at his straggling troops, then waved his officers forward.

Then, hidden behind the palms she would watch until the last straggling tourist had left the pier.

We did no fighting in our new position, for the last straggling shot had been fired by the time we got there.

Martin looked up at the loose tiles that had slipped down the porch in a straggling avalanche.

He likewise enrich'd poor straggling soldiers with great quantity.

His head was quite bald on top, and he had a straggling beard that reached almost to the middle of his waistcoat.

Nor could he grow a beard, except some straggling thing that made him look as though he was suffering from radiation sickness.

(This still seems possible to me, as I wrote when I began this straggling history.)

But now that we have that freedom in our hands..." The acolyte watched the last straggling bird dart toward the east.

Now, water-logged and weary, they glumly lined the rails as the last of the straggling convoys dropped their anchors.

U-332 torpedoed the straggling Norwegian Stigstad on the morning of 21 February.

He had a singular straggling beard, white and yellow, and not a hair on his head--not a hair!

The house had been added to, but in a very straggling way, and I can only guess at the amount of ground it covers, which must be very great.

A straggling Red Sox fan who was kneeling to tie his daughter's shoelaces spotted Giambi.

U-203 was depth charged and damaged while attempting to attack the straggling British tanker Anglo Maersk.

This late afternoon strike narrowly missed detecting Yamamoto's main body and failed to score hits on a straggling Japanese destroyer.

U-614 sank the straggling British freighter Harmala while Lobelia sank U-609.

Lieutenant Sakagawa kept urging his men to rip the straggling German units with one effective spur: "Remember what they did to us at Cassino."

The night came down upon them as they skirted the lower slopes of the Mount of Olives, and left the last straggling buildings of the Arab settlements.

The direction of the French squadron's flight, following the direction of the wind, took them across the path of the straggling British ships, beginning with the Foudroyant.

Jenette stood with Arrou, Skutch, Liberty, and Grubb beside the sixth skimmer as the last straggling evacuees reached the shore.

Smith first used the pseudonym in 1824 when he edited a periodical called The Straggling Astrologer, later re-published as The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century.

I was straggling behind him, working hard to keep up.

Behind her, the playing of the others straggled to a stop.

God help them if it turned out they had run away, then came straggling back.

Sure enough, she straggled in with the afternoon's last light.

He thought that would look better than if we straggled in one or two at a time.

Father moved with him out into the hall, and everyone straggled after them.

They straggled in - one, two or three at a time.

A small group was straggling ahead of us toward the buildings.

The English group moved to the front when the field began to straggle after the first hour.

The road was empty and they straggled all over it.

Many other boys who are never given names straggle in.

The road straggled in front of office block and store.

I've been straggling for a while how to publish my book.

A few others were straggling in from the area of the dirt road.

The small girl straggles from the museum to the school bus.

That is, they must not be allowed to straggle up a long way apart.

At just that moment, the rest of the wing started to straggle in.

He waited until the others had straggled up before speaking again.

As the others straggled over, Patsy saw what he was talking about.

And what's this straggling about in an idle sort of a way?

Beyond the hotel, the town straggled to an end, and the fields began.

My mother raised her eyebrows when she saw the two of us straggle in.

"I saw those straggling behind, one seemed quite young, or perhaps it was weak."

Outside the house, three police cars straggled along the pavement.

One or two started to straggle away, then Blake spoke.