| A raggle-taggle clamour of children curls by, banging homemade drums and startling an old man who has been praying into his wrinkled brown hands. |
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| They were a bunch of raggle-taggle wanderers, individuals, cast away from society to partake on the last quest of each of their lives. |
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| Whatever happens, it's a patched-up, raggle-taggle army heading for Milan on Thursday. |
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| We thought we were raggle-taggle gypsies one and all, despite the fact that we were actually middle-class A-level students. |
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| Compared with the military power of Soviet communism, they are a raggle-taggle army on the run. |
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| There was a raggle-taggle look to Smith's team just as there had been on his debut as manager against Italy in Milan. |
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| Thousands of young ones, all raggle-taggle but gathered together, all prepared to be clowns and make idiots of themselves. |
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| How different this was from Sam's own raggle-taggle tribe and topsy-turvy house! |
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| Danne, after a brief reunion on her return from Africa, had vanished with some raggle-taggle gypsy or other to Paris. |
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| They wandered past the sandwich shop, a raggle-taggle band of urban warriors, uniformed and disaffected, disillusioned, disowned. |
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| Looking back, there was definitely a time when my raggle-taggle mates and I wouldn't be seen dead travelling anywhere but on the top deck of the bus. |
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| He is at his best when relieving a skinflint widow of her wealth, sorting out a king's love life or abandoning a band of raggle-taggle Gypsies to become an itinerant actor. |
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| The raggle-taggle pre-match bands paraded, the stadium music was cranked up to deafening proportions. |
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| The school's students were a raggle-taggle collective of art students, ballet dancers, film-makers and musicians. |
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| A raggle-taggle mob of crazily dressed, skint people bevvying and swearing are not the usual criteria of civic order. |
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| They're big NME favourites and have the charm of a raggle-taggle gang to appeal to lapsed Libertines fans. |
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| Now the building excites little curiosity from the street, and looks like any old raggle-taggle converted row house with rental apartments. |
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| The four of them performed a rousing song about a lady who runs off with a raggle-taggle gypsy that had the crowd clapping and stomping with the beat. |
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| Together they join a former mujaheddin leader as he takes a raggle-taggle force east, intent on establishing a regional base for grabbing greater power. |
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| Whatever about the difficulty of county teams coming back year after year, it is even harder for club managers to hold their raggle-taggle bunch together. |
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| You never know quite where to look, or even where to stand so you don't get knocked over by the march of history and raggle-taggle humanity being swept this way and that. |
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| They sing and dance and the Persian cat even plays the nose flute, and Jenny initially quails before this display of raggle-taggle bravado. |
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| They were captivated by the raggle-taggle bunch who rehearsed in the grounds of Kinshasa zoo then busked and begged on the streets. |
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| The raggle-taggle host of freedmen dwarfed her own, but they were more burden than benefit. |
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| Her raggle-taggle family live underground in these tunnels, they don't really mix with the real world. |
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| The only people committed to creating an unnecessary and prolonged fuss were a raggle-taggle handful of topless protesters and the Lane Conservative Forum. |
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| The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. |
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| One of the larger projects looming on her horizon is an up-coming collaboration with Kevin Rowland's raggle-taggle soul crew, Dexys Midnight Runners. |
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| A kind of raggle-taggle gypsy band dynamic develops, and each member of the troop contributes their own special assets or talents and a remarkable story ensues. |
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| The finest section of Hurtley's book details Starkie's Spanish travels between 1934 and 1936, written up as Spanish Raggle-Taggle and Don Gypsy. |
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