110 Verbs to Use for the Word rag

and he took out his rag of a handkerchief, got some water in a tin cup, and the eyes were bathed and bandaged.

Also, instead of those rich robes in which king Alcinous had clothed him, she threw over his limbs such old and tattered rags as wandering beggars usually wear.

As she wished to be sold, he had lost the greatest means of controlling her; and as she openly threatened, before all the keepers, to tear every rag of clothing off his body if he dared lay his hand upon her, he did not venture, to brave her fury.

Brother denies himself, denies his family, and gives her cash to buy rags, and now she and a stranger are cursing us for the shelter we gave her.

Whoever understands this, and penetrating to the great heart beneath, recognizes the same original life in them all, will possess the secret of salvation; whatever nation first casts aside the filthy rags of its own self-righteousness and the defiling and sordid garment of mercenary gain, and accepts the others frankly as its brother and sister nations, all of one familythat nation will become the Healer and Redeemer of the World.

"As he removed the rags which covered the sore, I found that it extended half round the body, and was shockingly neglected.

One could understand, when hearing his sobs and seeing his rags, how he had cleared with a single bound these three stepspoverty, despair, rebellion.

She brought some old rags to cover him.

A spectre that impresses as wearing rags under a gorgeous robe, lurks among the foliage of the quiet bosquet beyond the orangerie.

So when I see an engineer watching his engine closely while running, I am most certain to see another commendable feature in a good engineer, and that is, when he stops his engine he will pick up a greasy rag and go over his engine carefully, wiping every working part, watching or looking carefully at every point that he touches.

He took up her golden hair, and looked at it; then drew from his breast a folded rag, and opened it carefully.

you only got this one rag on?

Wow! some kind person wipe my eyes, please; my hands are too rank to touch my tear-rag," he declared, and Will performed this friendly office, thinking that he deserved it after his heroism.

" We spent a pleasant hour pulling Dawson to pieces and leaving to him not a rag of virtue, except intense professional zeal.

Cut off the hair, and apply rags dipped in weak vinegar-and-water, or weak gin-and-water, or even simple cold water, to the head.

He shakes off the rags of sin, and is clothed with the robe of virtue.

I would not have had you offer up the poorest rag that lingered upon the stripped shoulders of little Alice Fell, to have atoned all their malice; I would not have given 'em a red cloak to save their souls.

Then one of the little men came up to him, and snatching the rag from his hand, flung it angrily down upon the floor; then as if afraid of remaining so near Martin, he backed away into the crowd again.

Both tents were instantly blown down, and in a few moments reduced to shapeless rags of torn canvas.

He hath so raw-boned a being that however you render him he rubs it out and makes rags of the expression.

The Khalife Haroun Raschid, making the same pilgrimage, met him upon the way and inquired after his welfare; the Sofi answered him with an Arabian quatrain, of which this is the meaning: "'We mend the rags of this worldly robe with the pieces of the robe of Religion, which we tear apart for this end; "'And we do our work so thoroughly that nothing remains of the latter, "'And the garment we mend escapes out of our hands.

How does this seem to you, young ladies, and what do you think of their upstairs life together, you who calculate, if you calculate at all, whether five hundred dollars may carry you respectably through your half-dozen city assemblies, where you shine in silk and gossamer, of which there will not be "a dress in the room that cost less than seventy-five dollars," and come home, after the dance, "a perfect rag"?

In order to induce each dog to do its best, the owner, or more probably the trainer stands beyond the winning post, and frantically waves a towel or very stout rag.

And as for its being severe, there's many a boy, as their mothers will tell you, comes home night after night, too tired to eat their suppers, and tumble, fasting, to bed in the same foul shirt which they've been working in all the day, never changing their rag of calico from week's end to week's end, or washing the skin that's under it once in seven years.

"What have I done?" "Shot down two men; played like an actor on a stage a couple of times at least, if I must be blunt; hunted danger likelike a reckless madman; dared all The Corner to cross you; flaunted the red rag in the face of the bull.

110 Verbs to Use for the Word  rag