(1) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(2) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(3) At the base gates an American sentry, suspicious of the bedraggled Afghan, yelled at him to stop.
(4) Among those who finally decided that Kobani was on the brink was Mukdad Bozan, travelling with his wife, a wailing baby and three bedraggled older children.
(5) A telling paragraph in the club’s accounts reads: “The directors believe the company is not at risk with its strong financial position, no borrowings, an increased turnover and a modern fit-for-purpose stadium to play in.” Yet Blackpool’s healthy financial position is at odds with their performance on the pitch – a pitch, incidentally, that has not been relaid since the summer of 2013 and would shame even the most bedraggled of municipal surfaces.
(6) McMahon passed that on to his England team-mates, who figured they'd be lining out the next day against a band of bedraggled buffoons.
(7) Nearby, two clerks from India's ministry of women and child welfare wheel piles of brown, bedraggled office files on swivel chairs toward a waiting van bound for the central records office.
(8) Others still hold out hope of moving northwards, with a group of bedraggled asylum-seekers dressed in oversized anoraks holding up a German flag on Wednesday, signalling that they still hoped to get to Germany.
(9) We’ve got a point, we will carry on working tomorrow and I’m sure that if we apply ourselves as we did in the second half we will get more points.” That may turn out to be true, but much of the fans’ frustrations here stemmed from the fact that Rayo appeared far more alert than their bedraggled hosts from the start; with just two minutes gone the left-back Nacho volleyed at goal and forced a corner.
(10) The role requires a substantial downgrading of Cotillard's natural glamour – Sandra is rake thin and washed out, emotionally bedraggled and popping Xanax.
(11) They could have led by the required scoreline at half-time, such was the pace, power and penetration of their game and so bedraggled were Galatasaray.
(12) We must look a bedraggled mess when we arrive because lovely owners Elena and Roberto rush to dry us and warm us up, show us our cosy larch-floored room and give us drinks, and even the keys to their car, so that we can drive to the nearest restaurant still open, in Alagna.
(13) With two goals in Sunday's demonstrative romp-and-stomp over StubHub Center tenant Chivas USA (nobody really calls this a "rivalry" anymore … not even the priciest PR firm could spin it thusly considering Chivas' bedraggled state) Donovan has matched Jeff Cunningham's all-time mark of 134 league goals.
(14) They have become ideal opposition for those in need of a win, whether a bedraggled Chelsea last Saturday or a besieged Manuel Pellegrini.
(15) Gunfire and shelling had tailed off in Debaltseve by Thursday morning, after thousands of Kiev’s forces made a bedraggled, dangerous retreat from its bombed-out streets.
(16) As Worthy Farm's usual residents – 350 dairy cows – were set to replace Glastonbury's 170,000 bedraggled festival-goers, Eavis cannily set the rumour mill rolling for next year's headliners.
(17) Sadly, what we are likely to see in the red box is a few bedraggled rabbits offering pre-election gimmicks and the chance to drown our sorrows for a few pennies less this year.
(18) You can merely choose between wearing something protective and becoming soaked in sweat from the inside, or something cool and becoming bedraggled in the traditional manner by the precipitation outside.
(19) The sight of so many Uncle Sams, Statues of Liberty and Captain Americas traipsing the last few miles of dual-carriageway hard-shoulder like bedraggled refugees should make Fifa question their criteria for stadium allocation (it won’t).
(20) Inside the ceremony at a university sports hall in the New England university town of Durham a clergyman intervened to denounce gays in lubricious detail, while outside a bedraggled group of demonstrators waved banners warning "Fags Doom Nations".
Trollop
Definition:
(n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.
Example Sentences:
(1) She came up with the idea for the series after reading a comparison between Trollope and Austen – Trollope herself has said that "comparisons with Jane Austen make me twitch.
(2) Both events are eloquent testimonies to the perils of what Anthony Trollope's novel called "the way we live now".
(3) We have regular users of the library, for 20 to 30 years, coming and saying to us we don’t know what we’d do without libraries.” Joanna Trollope: 'UK cannot afford to close one single public library' Read more More than 100 libraries were closed last year in the UK, with at least 441 shutting in the past five years, according to figures from Speak Up for Libraries , the coalition of organisations working to protect library services and staff that is behind Tuesday’s event.
(4) At the time, I wrote about how depressing it was to be in his moral universe: "A world where men are men and women are trollops."
(5) In the words of another Trollope title, "he knew he was right" , although it had become increasingly clear that he was in fact going badly wrong.
(6) Her lecture was to mark the 10th anniversary of the independent charity The Reading Agency, and was attended by fellow authors including David Nicholls, Julian Barnes, Joanna Trollope and Sarah Waters.
(7) Rebecca Lee, a barrister at the Chambers of Andrew Trollope QC, makes £42,000 a year before tax.
(8) Harold Macmillan spent many Downing Street hours lost in Austen and Trollope; Winston Churchill claimed Austen and antibiotics helped him win the war; Rudyard Kipling gave solace to his family after the death of his son in the first world war by reading Austen aloud in the desolate evenings.
(9) Her debut, Sense and Sensibility, first published in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady" and featuring the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, has been reimagined by Joanna Trollope in a version to be published by HarperCollins later this month.
(10) Anthony Trollope found Austen's novels "full of excellent teaching, and free from any word or idea that can pollute… Throughout all her works, and they are not many, a sweet lesson of homely household virtue is ever being taught."
(11) In a statement on Tuesday evening, Nona Buckley-Irvine, general secretary of LSE students’ union, said the club would be disbanded for the academic year after the flyer handed out at the freshers’ fair on Friday described women as “mingers”, “trollops” and “slags”.
(12) • canalmuseum.org.uk Kensal Green cemetery Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy One of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries, this canalside location “hosts” the likes of Harold Pinter, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope and the Brunels.
(13) The writer Joanna Trollope and bookseller Christopher Foyle are among the others, not all of whom have chosen to be named.
(14) "An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's The Pallisers has been axed by the BBC and instead I'm doing ... South Riding — a 20th-century story with quite a modern feel.
(15) Joanna Trollope: 'UK cannot afford to close one single public library' Read more “We have to do something about the budget, so rather than just cut the service we want to speak with people about what they want going forward.
(16) Now, publisher HarperCollins is hoping it has dreamed up another marriage made in heaven, commissioning Joanna Trollope to write a contemporary reworking of Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility .
(17) It's a respectful conversation, and if it ends up with people talking more about Austen and Trollope, then that's a good thing.
(18) I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
(19) Thea’s story: ‘The extrovert in me disappeared going into school’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thea Trollope.
(20) Asked if he worried about Beijing being involved in West Somerset, Trollope-Bellew said: “That’s not in my remit.