We inquired of some stragglers from the throng, the meaning of what we saw; but they were too much occupied with their sport to afford us any satisfaction.

Perhaps the Israelitish matrons stood sentry in rotation round the kitchens, while the young ladies scoured the country, as mounted rangers, to pick up stragglers by day, and patrolled the streets as city guards, keeping a sharp look-out at night.

In the early hours of the 29th I put some of our most footsore stragglers on to lorries going in the direction of Latisana.

Such graves mark all the line of the first years of Mormon traveldispiriting milestones to failing stragglers in the rear.

He did not once shove up his borrowed locks (his custom ever at his morning studies) to betray the few grey stragglers of his own beneath them.

Then they joined the little throng of stragglers at the end.

I saw no people within the village, and observed merely a few stragglers about the fields.

At this instant captain Willoughby called a party of the stragglers around him, and set about hanging the gates of the outer passage, or that which led through the palisades.

Thou, straggler into loving arms, Young climber up of knees, When I forget thy thousand ways, Then life and all shall cease.

The troops had all passed me; there were no men on the road except a few stragglers like myself.

As soon as Pierre was informed of the circumstance, he eagerly issued an order to collect the stragglers without delay, and at every hazard.