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There was a ventilating system in the Hardwick mill, and it was supposed to be exceptionally free from lint; but the fagged children crowded to the casements with instinctive longing for the outdoor air which could not of course enter through the glass; or plodded their monotonous rounds to tend the frames and see that the thread was running properly to each spool, and that the spools were removed, when filled.

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It was a significant point for any student of economic conditions to note these strapping young males sitting at ease upon the porches of their homes or boarding houses, when the sweating, fagged women weavers and childish spinners trooped across the bridges an hour after.

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A fagged but triumphant man was Jimmie Peters when he "blew in" to the Savage Club at 1 A.M. to seek sustenance and a whiskey and soda before going home.

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M. Jules St.-Ange stood long, gazing at the receding vessel as it now disappeared, now re-appeared beyond the tops of the high undergrowth; but, when an arm of the forest hid it finally from sight, he turned townward, followed by that fagged-out spaniel, his servant, saying, as he turned, "Baptiste."

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We reached Utica at twelve o'clock the following day, pretty well fagged by the sun by day, and a crowded cabin by night; lemon-juice and iced-water (without sugar) kept us alive.

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"You do look a little fagged," Mr. Raymond Greene observed sympathetically.

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The cowboys resting in the shade of the bunk-house rose to their feet, sauntered over and surrounded Old Heck and the Ramblin' Kid, commenting meanwhile, frankly and caustically, on the fagged condition of the broncho Skinny was on: "Must 'a' been scared, the way you run that horse," Parker, range foreman of the Quarter Circle KT, a heavy-built, sandy-complexioned man in the forties, remarked witheringly to Skinny as the cow-puncher climbed from the saddle and slid to the ground.

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Sir Stephen wants a change; he is looking rather fagged--" "I'm not surprised!" said Stafford.

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He looked fagged to-night, as she had said; but his face lit up at sight of Stafford.

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He, himself, felt too fagged to sleep.

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Fagged out after a day of hard hunting, each was convinced his life depended on wakefulness.

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Fagged out, the travelers went to bed early.

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Our men were fagged like hunted deer, and the day proved oppressively hot."

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It is strange how the hope of seeing game keeps one from feeling tired, but as we trudged homeward, a bit depressed that in all the great number of sheep seen, there had not been one good head, and that our hard day was all to no purpose, my man and I both began to feel pretty well fagged out.

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We only reached our tent at nine o'clock that night, both completely fagged out.

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We were all fagged out and shaking with cold by the time we reached Blake's old camp.

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"You're looking fagged to death."

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In fact, I and the corn chandler, who was looking a bit fagged I thought, as if he had had a hard morning chandling the corn, were beginning to doze lightly when things suddenly brisked up, bringing Gussie into the picture for the first time.

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We got into camp that night before dusk, pretty well fagged and wet, and as soon as the coolies came in with our kits, we scraped a hole in the snow and pitched the colonel's small tent.

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_Hong-Kong.--July 3rd_.--I am headachy and fagged, for I have had some hours of the most fatiguing of all things--a succession of interviews, beginning with the Admiral, General, &c,...

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The accounts of his death differ, but that most commonly alleged, according to Rashiduddin, is that Mangku Kaan was irritated at hearing of his approach, asking why his post-horses should be fagged to no purpose, and sent executioners to put Ruknuddin to death on the road.

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You look all fagged out.

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Then at dusk, wet-footed and fagged out in mind and body, we trudged back to the Bell, thinking to get back into the loft and bury ourselves in the sweet hay for warmth and comfort.

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_Of our merry journeying to Alicante._ We turned into the first posada we came to--a poor, mean sort of an inn and general shop, to be sure, but we were in no condition to cavil about trifles, being fagged out with our journey and the adventures of the day, and only too happy to find a house of entertainment still open.

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There were three shanties,--they don't often have more than two or three in one place,--they were empty, and the snow had drifted in; Bob Stokes's oxen were fagged out with their heads hanging down, and the horses were whinnying for their supper.

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But Dick would as soon have thought of offering to kiss the polar star as Gerald, and she was suffered to pass on unmolested to Mrs. Hardcastle, who stood just beyond, looking fagged and jaded, and as if she were heartily thankful that in all his life Dick could never come of age again.

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When alone they are very taciturn, man and woman walking together, the man first with his _lathee_ or staff, the woman behind carrying child or bundle, and often looking fagged and tired enough.

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We were now on this towing-path, and after riding for nearly four miles we reached the ghat, struck into the cart-road, and without further misadventure reached the factory about four in the morning, utterly fagged and worn out.

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On the way home we bagged a florican and a very fine mallard, and reached the camp utterly fagged, to find our worthy magistrate very much recovered, and glad to congratulate us on our having bagged the tigress.

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I--I fancy we're both feeling a bit fagged.

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'I never was so thoroughly fagged; I feel as if I had been beaten with sticks, basti--what's its name.'

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We reached Malaga, at last, our horses sorely fagged.

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He knew only that every day was harder to face than the last, that every night the stars up there through Sheila's skylight seemed to glimmer more dully with less inspiration on his fagged spirit.

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An axle breaks, the returning line waits an hour for the other to cross, a sixty-foot pine log for the new railway bridge wedges fast in turning a corner and stops everything--you must imagine them at it all day, sweating and swearing in all the dialects of the dual monarchy--all night, with fagged horses and drivers dazed with sleep, in the blaze of a search-light reaching out over the river.

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Let me again proclaim the debt which we owe to these song spirits, as they walked in melody from loom to loom, ministering to the low-hearted; and when the breast was filled with everything but hope and happiness, let only break out the healthy and vigorous chorus, "A man's a man for a' that," and the fagged weaver brightens up... Who dare measure the restraining influences of these very songs?

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A pause fell between them, while Mrs. Spragg looked anxiously into his fagged eyes.

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He stooped to put the basket back; then he turned his slow fagged eyes on his daughter.

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As he leaned against the chimney-piece, lighting his cigarette, it struck Undine that he looked less fagged and lifeless than usual, and she felt more and more sure that something important had happened during the moment of isolation she had contrived.

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During the last few months they had transferred themselves to the "Malibran," a tall narrow structure resembling a grain-elevator divided into cells, where linoleum and lincrusta simulated the stucco and marble of the Stentorian, and fagged business men and their families consumed the watery stews dispensed by "coloured help" in the grey twilight of a basement dining-room.

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He looked fagged and sallow, like the day.

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Something like a _concierge_ turned princess, and combining the petty spite of the porter's lodge with the caprices of the boudoir and the fagged nerves of the student.

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His task on this volume had perhaps extended beyond the period of his robust health,--it had _fagged_ him,--but he had been spared to write every line of it with his own hand, and my own copy is enriched by the autograph of his valedictory.

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"And you do look fagged out--I declare if you don't.

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That hoss of mine is a pile fagged.

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My voice, used as I was to doing a great deal of singing, was fagged, and Hogge and Dr. Adam were so hoarse that they could scarcely speak at all.

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"Well, to be sure, how much I have fagged through; the only wonder is that one head can contain it all!"

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We had now been more than a week, four of us in all, working the ship, and, instead of being in the least fagged, we had rather got settled into our places, as it might be, getting along without much trouble; still, there were moments when a little extra force would be of great moment to us, and I could see by the angry look of the skies, that these moments were likely to increase in frequency and in the magnitude of their importance to us.

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I was fagged out that night, and--you didn't send in your card, you know--and I didn't know it was you."

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What's the matter, Maggie, you look so fagged?

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They came in with a rush, hungry, fagged, grimed, imperious, smelling of the city.

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He fagged like a dragon--conned pamphlets and reviews--got Ricardo by heart--and made notes on the English constitution.

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This experience has restored all the keenness of my ancient interest in flying, which had become a little fagged and flat by too much hearing and reading about the thing and not enough participation.

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Ye 'r' lookin' fagged, an' yer eyes is gettin' more like yer father's.

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Now I am too fagged to say another word.

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"My, but they're fagged and tattered well to boot!"

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"That horse of yours is more fagged than he is."

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They were fagged to the last extreme.

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You're fagged out; your brain isn't working well.

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Then, utterly fagged, he threw himself into an unexposed chair and stared through tired eyes into the inscrutable night that hid the sea from view.

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I'm fagged, and you must be, too."

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He was fagged and rather anxious for some tea, but the news they had for him drove tea out of his head altogether.

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I have heard him say that the master in whose form he was, being a bad sleeper, held "first school" at four o'clock on a winter's morning; and that the boy for whom he fagged, being anxious to shine as a reciter, and finding it difficult to secure an audience, compelled him and his fellow-fag to listen night after night to his recitations, perched on a high stool where a nap was impossible.

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Her face was bright with burning blushes; Aniela instead looked fagged, though she evidently tried to keep up with the Sniatynskis, who were as lively as a couple of school-children on their holiday.

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I too feel fagged and in want of bracing mountain air, and still more in want of being near Aniela.

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Abruptly Caterham seemed to contract, to shrivel up into a yellow-faced, fagged-out, middle-sized, middle-aged man.

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I was fagged and exhausted, and at last, overpowered by a feverish sleep.

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Towards dusk we arrived at our ships, calmly lying moored to poplar trees by the roadside, and right gladly did we clamber on board, for our invalid was pretty well fagged out.

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As he made his way to a street-car on this vivid February afternoon, he called to mind that of late Claire had been bringing a fagged look to her daily tasks.

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The house party had been augmented during the day by the arrival of half a dozen men and women from, the city brain-fagged, listless, and smart.

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So, in the winter vacation when Payson, Sr., fagged from his long day at the office sought the "Frolics" or the "Folies," Payson, Jr., might be seen at a concert for the harpsichord and viola, or at an evening of Palestrina or the Earlier Gregorian Chants.

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Distract his mind with pleasant or amusing conversation, when you find him nervous and fagged in brain and body.

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Cannot you see with your own eyes how fagged and ill your mother looks, and how much she wants help?

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I have played now merely the part of an editorial elder brother: cut out relentlessly a number of long tiresome passages that showed all too plainly the fagged, toiling brain, the heavy sluggish _driven_ pen, and straightened out certain indecisions at the end.

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Lena conducted her from chapel to hall, from office to woman's building, from registrar to dean, till at length Kate stood before the door of Cobb once more, fagged but not fretted, and able to look about her with appraising eyes.

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Something a trifle fagged and hectic began to show in the faces of Mrs. Dennison's family, and that good woman ventured to offer some reproof.

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She was merely a dreadfully fagged woman, disgusted with evil, with dirt and poverty.

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Our advance was short-lived, however, for it soon became evident that our horses were fagged out.

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That afternoon and night the hounds straggled in, Old Tom and Dan first, and then the others, one by one, fagged-out and foot-sore.

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Look sort of fagged."

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Depression over all: ambulances full of wounded men, tossing and groaning; fagged-out horses, vehicles splashed with mud; policemen dazed, idle; newsboys crying their merchandise; readers eagerly reading--not to know the result to the army, but the fate of some loved one; stores closed; whispers; doom.

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Then there are those who can never get rid of the impression that Hannah More 'fagged' her four sisters mercilessly; but who can tell?

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Some people like being fagged.

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We walk back rather silently; there is nothing so trying to eyes and mind as picture-seeing, and I am fagged, and also indefinitely, yet certainly, cross.

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Sleeping in short snatches, between shivers, to the accompaniment of a jangling dinner-bell and a driver's shouts, and getting out into an arctic temperature every two or three hours, night and day, for a whole week, reduces one to a very fagged and jaded condition.

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The mules were fagged with hard work, weak with want of sufficient pasture, and had suffered much from thirst.

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So fagged was she that she had once or twice dozed in the saddle and come near falling.

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Their ponies must be pretty well fagged by this time."

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As Glover was now fagged out, Thurstane decided to halt for the night and try deer-stalking.

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He saw I was fagged out."

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The Hospital Steward-even he- Who on the sleeper kept his glance, Was changed; late bright-black beard and eye Looked now hearse-black; his heavy heart, Like his fagged mare, no more could dance; His grape was now a raisin dry: 'Tis Mosby's homily- Man must die .

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She wuz all fagged out, but under the fag you could see that expression of perennial good nature and love to man.

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I rode slowly, for the horses were nearly fagged.

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Fagged as I was, I felt that a walk through the fresh air would do me good; so I dismissed the cab, and reached my lodgings just as the sleepy _concierge_ had turned out to sweep the hall, and open the establishment for the day.

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"The poor man is so fagged out," said Mrs. Clayton, as she brought in my broth and wine, "that his very voice is changed.

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June 19.--"Left home in the 'Engineer' coach at seven, travelled through to London without stop, and arrived there at one o'clock: wonderful the shortening of this journey; went with a party to Handel's Athalia at Exeter Hall; tired, fagged, and sleepy as I was, I yet felt deeply the power of the mighty master in this his mighty work.

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"Thank you, I am quite well," answered the fagged timid voice.

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I don't like it, my dear; you look fagged.

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"Fagged, I think, but so does every one, and it was not easy to keep order, Mrs. Duncombe's counter was such a rendezvous for noisy people, and Miss Moy was perfectly dreadful, running about forcing things on people and refusing change."

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If he seems fagged, I can put up at Backsworth and take a fly."

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You are properly fagged out.

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