All that remained was a skinny carcass of bedraggled wet feathers on a patch of bilberries, the tag's antenna sticking into the air.
Beating a smug and bedraggled England outfit in Australia was one thing.
Playing football of a quality that belongs in the top half of the table, Swansea took a significant step nearer safety in the Premier League with a comprehensive victory that leaves bedraggled Norwich deep in the relegation mire.
Anka tells also of "the most terrible moment of all", when the bedraggled survivors "returned to Prague, which we had once called home, like ghosts – begging even the fare for a tram".
So Champ and his friend got to Rydal after all but there was no prize that year for so bedraggled a hound.
I'm flushed and my hair is bedraggled, but I've been exercising for nearly an hour now and it's still fun, and the tunes keep coming.
Eventually, hundreds of bedraggled monks, defeated but defiant, were bundled onto ships.
For two decades after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the defining image of Vietnam was the waves of bedraggled refugees washing up on its neighbours' shores, fleeing oppression and penury back home.
Mr Silverstein survived because his financial structure was sound and the building useful, and because he had his share of luck.Block by blockMr Silverstein's education in real estate came from renting lofts in the bedraggled lower Manhattan textile district.
A short, bedraggled figure in shabby robes, he lobbied Capitol Hill and somehow persuaded startled legislators to grant his followers asylum.
I prefer the notion that the electorate has a useful streak of bloody-mindedness: the voters may love Sarko his ratings for the moment rank with De Gaulle's but they still want there to be an opposition worthy of the name, which is why the hitherto bedraggled Socialist party will have 185 seats in the new parliament compared with 149 in the last one.
