The 1,579 occurrences of fag

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Paris was never more beautiful, with flowers everywhere; but Mrs. Brown confessed to being a little tired of housekeeping; and Molly was looking a little fagged.

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The unseasonably warm weather held well into the middle of October, and it was one evening a day or two after Sawyer's removal from the regular line-up that Steve and Tom, rather fagged from an hour's study in a close room, picked up Roy and Harry and went over to the gymnasium for a dip in the tank.

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It had been a hard day on the gridiron and Steve was pretty well fagged out when study hour came.

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He was pretty well fagged out this afternoon, and for once the thought of that swimming class didn't appeal.

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"You look a bit fagged."

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To tell the truth, the boys were a little fagged at first, but at last as the sun rose, the robins began to chatter, and the bobolinks began to ring their fairy bells, and the boys broke into song.

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As the fagged stokers bent before the boilers, the hot water, dripping from the breeching, washed scalding channels through the coal-dust down their bare backs.

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I haven't had a real talk with Patty yet, she's so fagged out.

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They had been working pretty hard for a year or two with a very good, but rather strict, governess, and Sylvia, at no time exceedingly strong, had begun to look a little fagged.

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The night march had indeed fagged both beasts and human performers.

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"I'm going to bed; I'm fagged."

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"What's the use of waking him when he's fagged?

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"I'm glad you didn't rout me up, for I was regularly fagged last night."

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The boards underneath cramped him; the sun, too, for some reason or other, became too hot, and the breeze fidgeted him; the last sandwich he had eaten had had too much mustard in it; he was getting fagged of fishing.

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Dick was delighted to give up the court, but he was far too fagged to play any more.

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He looked fagged and harassed, and was evidently not much interested in our battle.

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"My poor dear aunt must be simply fagged to death.

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"You look fagged," said he, as I took his arm.

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"I can't; I'm too fagged to go on.

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"I'm too fagged," says Percy, coolly taking a seat.

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He was fagged, and not in the humour.

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For, though he scorned to say so, he was fagged, and felt he could do with a half- hour's lounge before undertaking a new venture.

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"Dear old fellow," said the tutor, "you are fagged out.

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"You'd better rest," he said, "you'll be fagged out.

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For Parson was fagged.

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I say I'm getting fagged of impots.

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"We were jolly fagged--weren't we, you fellows?--and it was all a plant of those schoolhouse cads."

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I'm fagged of fooling about; ain't you?"

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I suppose I was fagged after the hurdles.

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By that time we were so utterly fagged that we felt it would be folly to attempt a long swim under such conditions; we therefore postponed our attempt until the next day.

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Before we had time to load again the savages had effected a landing upon the beach, and then ensued a repetition of the previous day's fighting, excepting that our antagonists fought with their energies renewed by a quiet night's rest and more obstinately than ever, whilst we were weary and fagged by our long and fruitless watch.

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I felt convinced that the blacks had fully realised the advantage to them of our fagged condition during the past day, and had little doubt but that they were acute enough to trace it to its correct source; the question then was, would they allow us to pass an undisturbed night and thus sacrifice an important advantage?

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As we were by that time pretty well fagged out, and as it was manifestly too late to make any progress worth speaking of on our way back to the creek that night, we resolved to remain until daylight upon the island, which we did without receiving molestation or annoyance of any kind from anybody.

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And now, with fine weather, a fair breeze, and New Amsterdam sighted and passed, the poor fagged skipper once more knew what it was to enjoy an easy mind; and as he bade Ned "good-night" on the poop, about five bells in the first watch, he announced, in tones loud enough to be distinctly heard by the man at the wheel, that he intended to treat himself to a whole night's sleep, and that he was not to be called or disturbed unless for something out of the common.

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Half an hour later all the men had returned on board, and though they were thoroughly fagged out by their unwonted exercise they had evidently enjoyed the day just as much as though they had been so many schoolboys.

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The occupants of the fort retired to rest that night, as usual, at the early hour of ten o'clock; and, thoroughly fagged out with the day's labour, soon sank to sleep.

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Gaunt guessed only too surely at the object of this sudden and hurried departure, and his heart sank with dismal apprehension as he thought of the distance those little feet would have to traverse ere the refuge of the fort could be won, of their liability to become fagged and to lag upon the way, and of the fleetness of foot displayed by their cruel pursuers when starting upon their relentless errand.

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I was by this time pretty well fagged out, for the hour was drawing well on toward daybreak.

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The only consolation we could find was in the reflection that, whereas the others would commence the duties of the next day fagged out with a long night's dancing, we should rise to them refreshed, with a more or less sound night's rest; and with this small crumb of comfort we were fain to go below and turn in.

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They pumped away for another hour; and then, feeling pretty well fagged out, and finding on trial that the leak gained upon them with increased rapidity, they left the pumps, and began to clear away the boats.

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Fagged as he was by his long night of watching, he tended his patient with the most unremitting assiduity, administering tonics and stimulants every few minutes; and racking his brain for devices by which he might help the man to tide over this period of extreme prostration.

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Seeing that no pressing danger was imminent, and that nothing more could be done for the present, Mr Meldrum tried to induce Captain Dinks, who had been on deck for over forty-eight hours, to go below and have some rest, as he had a good deal yet before him to go through, and looked fagged and worn-out.

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You look fagged to death, and as cross as two sticks.

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My last partner weighed a ton, at least, and I'm fagged out.

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"C-c-couldn't remember a context," was her hiccoughing explanation of the breakdown, and henceforth Darsie had taken her in hand, fagged for her, petted her, scolded her, put her to bed, and ruthlessly carried off notebooks to her own study, to frustrate disastrous attempts at midnight toil.

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If I am not too fagged, that is to say.

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"You looked fagged, mother dear.

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But I see you look rather fagged, Mr Oldfield.

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But, my dearest wife, I feel concerned about yourself; you look fagged and pale.

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Here at last, very fagged.

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The Cambridge duffers caught me about half-way up, trying to look as if they weren't fagged.

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We were jolly fagged when we got to the inn, I can tell you.

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There was the same humbug about the luggage at a little station in the middle of the night, but we were too fagged to cut up rough.

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I had to be carried too, the last bit of the way, as I got fagged.

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Can't write more, as I'm fagged.

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It was already dawn when, rather fagged and not quite sure how they were enjoying it, they reached the top of the path which led down to Sound Bay.

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But Crawley was a bowler as well as a batsman, and Robarts was the Westonian wicket-keeper, so that both were somewhat fagged when they first went in, whereas they were now quite fresh.

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But the Misses Gould did not look like being fagged, rather the reverse.

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She came into the school-house at the hour, looking fagged, with dark circles under her eyes; and the loving eyes of Mom Wallis already in her front seat watched her keenly.

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I am fagged out."

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And so I went on, and eight o'clock come, and nine, and ten, and you didn't overtake me, and then it got to be twelve o'clock; and at last, reg'lar fagged out, me and hoss, we got to the yard just as it was striking four, and getting to be day.

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I was too much fagged to put it straight.

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Seeing that it could not be long before morning, Ram asked himself what was the use of his going to bed; but he said nothing, only hurried to keep pace with his father; and soon after, feeling fagged out, he was fast asleep, and dreaming that whenever he piled the kegs up they kept on rolling down about him, and that the midshipman from the _White Hawk_ stood looking on, and laughing at him for being clumsy, and then he awoke fancying he was called.

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"Completely fagged out," I said to myself, with a feeling of pity for him.

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We had reached, as I said, a big and prosperous-looking farm on the open veldt, hot, fagged, hungry, and thirsty; and the first thing we saw was the disorder left after the encamping of a large body of men.

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He was weary too with poling the boat and walking, and but for the romance of the expedition he would have declared himself fagged out.

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Oliver Lane stood looking up with the longing to ascend to the edge of the crater growing strong once more, but he was fagged by his exertions, bathed in perspiration, and aware of the fact that an intense glowing heat rose from the surface all around him, while the air he breathed seemed to produce a strange suffocating effect when he turned his face from the wind which swept over the mountain slope.

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Fitz, after a hearty meal, being regularly fagged out, had had three or four hours' rest in his bunk, to get up none the worse for his night's adventure, when he joined Poole, who had just preceded him on deck.

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"Not laziness, old lad--fagged, and must rest when I can.

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"There, I'm fagged out; let's get up to the house.

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He was incorrigible at Euclid, but he was excellent at cricket, and on this occasion he had fagged the Poet and the Palæonto-theologist to bowl to and field out for him.

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I am so fagged!"

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The boys, who were fagged out, gladly crept into the waggon, the last thing they saw being Dinny putting some pieces of buffalo flesh and half a pail of water in the big pot, so as to let it stew by the fire all night.

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Frank was fagged out, and said he would not wait for me any longer, and he has gone home.

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"I was not so fagged before, but after lying down there so long I'm as stiff as can be.

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But look here, I'm so fagged out that my head won't go properly.

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Every one was fagged, but there was so much to do that we could not afford to show it, and we set to work to try and place matters so that we could go steadily on as far as was possible in the regular routine of the ship--no easy matter, seeing that we were so short-handed.

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"Hardock, you're fagged out, and had better stay."

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"A bit ago I felt as if I could do anything to get out of this horrible place; but now I'm fagged, like Sam Hardock there, and don't seem to mind much about it, except when I think of father."

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Safely anchored as they were, shut in from storms, right out where no bears, even if they swam out, could assail them, the keeping of a watch seemed very unnecessary, and Steve never thought it more so than that night, when he found that it was his turn to take the second watch in company with Johannes; for he was regularly fagged.

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I'm fagged--that's what it is.

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"I'm fagged out.

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We're fagged out, and this does seem such a damper.

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The professor, who seemed a good deal fagged by his exertions, would hardly hear of sleeping, but was exceedingly anxious about Lawrence, who, however, seemed to be none the worse for the past night's exposure, the warmth of the day and the rest he had had having recouped him to a wonderful extent.

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Then, to amuse their leisure, they taught him a Morgan song, and obliged him to dance, fat and fagged as he was, to his own music, while they applauded him with shouts of "Go it, old Yank!

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The next day passed in a similar way, and the effect on me of our journey seemed precisely the same as on Esau and the others--for we reached our resting-place fagged, hungry, faint and low-spirited, with Esau grumbling horribly and wishing he was back on "old Dempster's" stool.

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He was kind and affectionate as ever, but his spirits were lower than I had ever known them; and day after day he came down late from London, looking weary and fagged.

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"'Pon my soul I pity you: you'll be fagged to death; for there's only three midshipmen in the ship now--all the rest ran away.

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Now I knew this to be a lie; for, under that very respectable pedagogue, and in that very respectable seminary, as the reader well knows, I was the _fagged_, and not the fagger.

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Seeing there were so many hundred boys under Mr Roots, my schoolfellow you might have been; but may I be vexed, if ever I fagged you or any one else!

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He had not been long in our house before he took to absenting himself for days and nights at a time, returning ragged and fagged out, as if from a long spree.

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"You look worn and fagged, John," his cousin said, on the occasion of his last visit, when spring was close at hand.

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He was educated at Rottingdean, at Westminster, where my family had fagged and fought for many generations, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he boarded with that "paltry Pillans," who, according to Byron, "traduced his friend."

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_De minimis non curat Respublica_; which, being interpreted, signifies--_The Commonwealth_ will not care to know the names of the urchins who fagged for me.

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Billy must have a chance to rest a little; a fagged horse could not accomplish much if the journey were far and the need for haste.

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At four o'clock, they were a little fagged and near the point of exasperation, but they still held their characters admirably.

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"I must be off now, Barry--it's late, and I'm pretty fagged.

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You look completely fagged out."

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"I was a little fagged.

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The soldiers looked fagged and dishevelled.

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