It is a foolish loyalty to be faithful to the rag, to cry for the rags, to make the rags as gods, and to serve the rags.
THE story of Ireland is like a fairy tale: from rags to riches and back to rags again.
After winning the lottery jackpot, he went from rags to riches overnight.
Upon picking up the rags, the old man couldn't help thinking of the bitter life before liberation.
Soon November will be approaching with its autumn storms and leaden clouds, hanging above your head like soaking wet rags.
As she had no longer any clothes, they dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thenardier brats; that is to say, in rags.
This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags and black with mud.
Let other soldiers limp by in rags with their feet tied up in sacks and strips of carpet, but not Ashley. He should come home on a prancing horse, dressed in fine clothes and shining boots, a plume in his hat.
Paper made from rags deteriorated quickly.
When greasy, dirty rags are used to wipe the tables.
The victim was first bound with barbed wire and his mouth stuffed with rags.
To raise funds they picked rags and salvaged furniture, or begged with laundry baskets in the Paris streets.
In no more time than the telling might take, the kobold was reduced to a pile of rags, bones, and leathery hide.
Lietse's wife said, "I heard that if a woman married an able man of wise, she would lead a rich and noble life. However, I am so miserable. I am so hungry and in rags."
The beggar dressed in rags.
The meat was boiled to rags.
By this time, Tungse's clothes were in rags.
America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches.
He was the American writer, the rags-to-riches embodiment of the American dream, and it never seems to have occurred to him that his popularity would fade.
Eventually, papermakers were able to invent a variety of mechanical and chemical techniques engineer decent-quality paper out of pulped wood, a supply that (unlike cloth rags) appeared limitless.
A man used to be lucky to have rags.
At this moment, a poor man in rags happened to pass by.
Combustible scraps, debris and waste materials (e. g. oily rags) should be stored in covered metal containers and removed from the work site promptly.
Does to rags the heavens tear.
The boy often went hungry and in rags.
Punch pictured me all aflutter with rags, dickering with a beef-eater for the Tower of London.
The beggar was dressed in rags.
I thought shame even to speak with them in such a pickle of rags and dirt.
The harpist, he preached, "is sitting there in rags ... her clothes are tattered as though she had been a victim of Hiroshima… [yet] the woman had the audacity to hope."
She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes were larger, the tatters more sordid.
Those old clothes will do for cleaning rags.
My clothes were worn to rags.
Pack up your rags, you black bastard, and get away! The landlady ordered.
I do everything naturally. Because I'm a musical teacher, so I have to give a concert. Then I must prepair my glad rags . By and by, the fashion designer is my parergon.
Dirty rags will be collected in a linen bag and sent to the laundry room for washing at the end of the day.
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