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His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His
— Joe Abercrombie
The ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.
— J.G. Ballard
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing.
— Caitlin Kittredge
This ragged heart," she said, pulling at her kimono. "I should rip it out and bury it for compost.
— Janet Fitch
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
— William Carlos Williams
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me ...
— Laurie Halse Anderson
ragged clothing he had on was taken
— Wooden Leg
In working myself ragged, I felt integrated, I felt American, and I rarely had time to think of home.
— Abraham Verghese
I always walked the ragged edge.
— Lisa Mantchev
You fixed yourself. You didn't need me.""No, Sydney." My voice was ragged. "I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you. — Richelle Mead
Marcus looked down. "Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?" he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.
— Ripley Patton
I play the music of Stevenfor Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love - — Stasia Ward Kehoe
He needed the hand on his shoulder, the kiss to his temple and the hot, ragged breath of his Master over his face.
— Casey K. Cox
Zane lifted one hand to cup Ty's face. "Do you have any idea how brave you are?" he asked, the sounds ragged and perhaps even a little choked. "Tell
— Madeleine Urban
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
— King Krule
Death is dancing me ragged.
— Linda Hogan
Thou art a very ragged Wart.
— William Shakespeare
Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.
— Sabaa Tahir
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray ...
— Richard Wilbur
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
— Stewart O'Nan
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
— Herman Melville
His eyes softened into something almost like amusement, as if such a ragged appearance was all one could expect from a renowned mechanic.
— Marissa Meyer
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.
— Eoin Colfer
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox.
— Natalie Babbitt
You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.
— Susan Abulhawa
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
— Gordon Graham
Out on the ragged edge of space, there was no time for theories.
— Adam Christopher
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from our hair.
— Jonathan Lethem
When she went back to the telephone Hely's breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive.
— Donna Tartt
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
— William R. Alger
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
— Roger Andrew Taylor
Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.
— Stephen King
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
— T. S. Eliot
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains.
— Bill Bryson
She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
— Dorothy Parker