Sentence examples for the rag of from inspiring English sources
Finally we emerged, and as we crested a hill, the plantations fell into an endless repetition of tidy bunches stretching for miles, looking almost like the rag of a Berber carpet.
It takes us a moment — the shock of the bloated and discolored flesh, the crusted mat of blood at the temple and the rag of the hair, this obscene violation of everything we know and expect and love — before the surge of joy hits us.
Tie the loose ends of the rag on top when you reach the scalp.
The Rags of Time, by Maureen Howard (Viking; $26.95).
Its labor unions, parading the rags of an exhausted socialist dream, often seem equally fossilized.
He also developed a taste for the rags of Scott Joplin and began composing his own.
And from here on in, Christians would swap the rags of the oppressed for the ermine of high office.
Langlois saved movies from death and disintegration, not just the rags of cinema but the riches as well.
"What dress they had seemed to be the rags of the red petticoat of the country from below the waist, rags of some black stuff above it," he wrote.
The country holds around itself the rags of a constitution, and takes refuge in a nominally respected hereditary system of power.
