The 1,579 occurrences of fag

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The artist prefers a hilly country because it is picturesque; the engineer a flat one because it is convenient; the man of pleasure likes what he calls "a fine woman"--she suits him; the fashionable young gentleman admires the fashionable young lady--she is of his kind; the toil-worn, fagged, probably irritable tutor, blind almost to beauty, insensible to airs and graces, glories chiefly in certain mental qualities: application, love of knowledge, natural capacity, docility, truthfulness, gratefulness, are the charms that attract his notice and win his regard.

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I looked out at the men, who were getting pretty well fagged, and at the young officers whose uniforms were white with dust, and Frau Weste's words about glaenzendes Elend came to my mind.

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I was getting to look rather fagged and seedy, and was much annoyed at my appearance.

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Our animals were fagged to a state of exhaustion, but the travelling was now much easier and there was good grazing, and after three more long day's marches, we arrived at Camp Apache.

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I sat there, fagged out, looking at the curtains, trying to clear my mind of the confused sensation of being in two places at once, and greatly bothered by an exasperating knocking in my head.

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He also reported his troops fagged, and that it was necessary to equip up.

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The countess looked as though she were utterly fagged out by a night in the train.

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You look changed, Amanda, and fagged.

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Now, it never occurred to me to wish for a nearer inspection of these large insects, with their long black claws, for I always feared to find under their stone wings some little human genius fagged to death with cabals, factions, and government intrigues.

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He was pretty well fagged too, and ready to risk meeting men, if thereby he might gain a square meal.

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When he began to grow exacting, they were still worried, though they were too fagged to abase themselves before him as much as they would have liked.

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"You are fagged out.

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"I'm completely fagged out," declared Heckewelder, that night when he returned to Edwards' cabin.

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Our horses are pretty well fagged out, but we have made a quick trip and a good one.

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As we re-entered the carriage, and I sat back feverish and fagged, I remembered what, in the hurry of events, dark and bright, I had wholly forgotten-the letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt me and make me his legatee.

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While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of encyclopædic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.

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When this very disagreeable young man with the hawk nose and the pointing finger had tackled one when one was sorely fagged, and disputed; disputed.

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"I was tired and mentally fagged," he said.

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He could not afford to be merciful at the expense of good "picture-stuff," however, so he called down grimly: "Now you're just about fagged enough for that close-up I want of you, Applehead.

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There was a phrase in the leading article that went on repeating itself in my fagged mind--'Little is hidden from this august Lady full of the garnered wisdom of sixty years of Sovereignty.'

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_Concentration is practically impossible when the brain is fagged or the bodily condition is far below the normal in any respect_.

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The episode gave us a great deal of unnecessary work getting the two halves of the boat saved, in addition to securing our fish, so that by the time we got the twelve remaining carcasses hove on deck we were all quite fagged out.

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So, through scenes of loveliness that appealed even to the dusky Kanakas, we trudged gaily along, arriving pretty well fagged at our destination--a great glade of tenderest green, surrounded by magnificent trees on three sides; the fourth opening on to a dazzling white beach sloping gently down to the sea.

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So, though they were fagged more or less, and occasionally kicked or cuffed by the bullies, they were, on the whole, well off; and the fresh, brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good-fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousand-fold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.

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The cause was righteous--the result had been triumphant to a great extent; but the best of the fifth--even those who had never fagged the small boys, or had given up the practice cheerfully--couldn't help feeling a small grudge against the first rebels.

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A few days before, they had been fagged at fives to fetch the balls that went off the court.

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But their horses were fagged out; nothing but the fever of victory transmitted from man to beast had sustained their painful pace.

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Mr. Travers was a Suffolk man, and had fagged for Sir Walter at Eton.

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He had given her the freedom of the place and had especially insisted that she use his books and make his library her resting place whenever her mind was fagged.

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On the other hand, a man should be at his very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not wish to do it when fagged by a long journey.

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And you are really fagged.

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"An' I'm fagged out.

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It was no wonder that they returned to Haworth utterly fagged and worn out, after the fatigue and excitement of this visit.

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Then Reardon took his hat and stick and descended the eight flights of stone steps, and walked in the darkness round the outer circle of Regent's Park, racking his fagged brain in a hopeless search for characters, situations, motives.

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"Have you noted how fagged and unstable EVERYBODY is getting?

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"When one is fagged it is only the outset counts.

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A man's horse meant a good deal to him, down here on such a mission, and even his anxiety could not betray him into letting his mount become too fagged.

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She was trying to visualise that which Chauvelin had put before her: a man harassed day and night, unceasingly, unremittingly, with one question allowed neither respite nor sleep--his brain, soul, and body fagged out at every hour, every moment of the day and night, until mind and body and soul must inevitably give way under anguish ten thousand times more unendurable than any physical torment invented by monsters in barbaric times.

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That man thus harassed, thus fagged out, thus martyrised at all hours of the day and night, was her husband, whom she loved with every fibre of her being, with every throb of her heart.

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SISTERS The morning found her fagged out, but more calm.

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Within a month things had been so tidied up, and secured by further excavations and sandbags against hostile fire, that even a middle-aged English writer, extremely fagged and hot and breathless, could enjoy the same privilege.

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They all seemed to be looking us in the face instead of being too fagged to bother.

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"Plumb fagged out, kid?" he asked.

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He would come back to his rooms fagged out, often dejected because some friend had deserted to the enemy.

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You look fagged.

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He looked fagged, and absent-mindedly paid our fares, to McKnight's delight.

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But you're wet an' cold an' you look fagged.

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"Oh, I'm fagged with the daily grind," he said.

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They decided to head straight back for the nearest town with the body of Harry Fisher, and, fagged by the desperate riding of that day, they let their horses go with loose rein, at a walk.

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Fagged out, I should say, from that beard.

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Perhaps his lie might have passed had he not been so fagged.

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It struck him then that Cameron looked fagged and unhappy.

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I would rather----" He stopped at loss for words, feeling fagged out, powerless, holding on to Nostromo's sleeve, absolutely for support after his run.

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Three hours after the stage bearing Dodge and his party pulled up at the City Hotel, Tom Ross and Jesse drove in behind a pair of fagged-out broncos at two in the morning.

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One moment, and the limbs are fagged, the shins are tender with breaking all day through the densest jungles, the feet are worn with unrequited labor and-hark!

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I shall be fagged, disheartened.

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Jim appeared just over the rim, and when he got up to us, dusty, torn and fagged out, with Don, Tige and Ranger showing signs of collapse, we all blurted out questions.

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"Why, nothin'," replied Slone, slowly, "'cept I'm fagged out."

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But during the day or two that followed this settlement, Ella came upon several of her friends who she found were looking a trifle fagged through the pressure of the season, and she promptly invited them to The Mooring, so that she had a party of close upon a dozen persons coming to her house--some for a day, some for as long as three days, commencing with the Tuesday when she and Phyllis went off together.

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Fact is, term's fagged me out.

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It was better in the train; the distraction of all the strange crowd of foreigners, the interest of new faces and new country; and then sleep--a long night of it, snoozed up in his corner, thoroughly fagged out.

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You're looking fagged to death.

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A more fagged-out set of men I never put eyes on."

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Cockley and his memsahib looking awfully white and fagged.

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All of the Wainwright party were utterly fagged.

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Afterward they laid down as if to sleep, but in reality they were too dirty and too fagged to sleep.

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The dogs had been fagged out early in the after noon, but they now began to show new vigor.

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There have been moments during the last ten years when I have fell so portentously old, so fagged and finished, that I should have taken as a very bad joke any intimation that this present sense of juvenility was still in store for me.

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Eleanor thought it was very disagreeable; she was tired and fagged and sick at heart; her present feelings towards Dr Grantly were anything but those of affection.

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One gets home fagged and desouvre, and yet at an hour too early for bed.

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But Boyle pointed out to her so strongly the necessity of her remaining to wait for the return of the soldiers that, being also fagged out by her long climb, she obediently consented, while he, even with his inspiration of the truth, did not believe in the return of the despoilers, and knew she would be safe.

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But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.

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Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.

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Used as Guy had been to an active out-of-doors life, and now turned back to authors he had read long ago, to fight his way through the construction of their language, not excusing himself one jot of the difficulty, nor turning aside from one mountain over which his own efforts could carry him, he found his work as tough and tedious as he could wish or fear, and by the end of the morning was thoroughly fagged.

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She looked fagged and harassed, the old face she used to wear in the time of disguise and secrecy, Amabel asked if it had been a tiresome party.

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Tembarom did not go to bed at all that night, and he looked rather fagged the next morning when he handed back the "stuff" entirely rewritten.

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When I have had to address a fagged and listless audience, I have found that nothing was so certain to arouse them as to introduce the name of Abraham Lincoln.

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III The next morning Hemanta, fagged after a sleepless night, and looking like one distracted, called at the house of Peari Sankar Ghosal.

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Mr. Ness--though as a clergyman he was not so active as he might have been--yet even Mr. Ness fagged away with his pupils and his new edition of one of the classics.

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They looked fagged.

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but by that time poor Kitty, unused to long journeys and the heat, was utterly fagged out, was asleep, and perfectly unrecognizable in veils and dusters on the back seat of the coach.

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Poor Parthenia was pretty well fagged out, and did all the work without "help."

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The assistant looked fagged out.

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Her spirits as high as ever, and with as little ballast; and yet she looks so fagged.

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The check sustained by us at the fallen timber delayed our advance, so that night came upon us before the wounded were provided for and the dead buried, and our troops being fagged out by three days' hard fighting, exposure, and privation, I ordered them back to their camps, where they now are.

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This detachment of rebel troops must have marched nearly sixty miles without rest, for afterward, on reaching Vicksburg, I heard that the men were perfectly exhausted, and lay along the road in groups, completely fagged out.

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Whom, as a baby creature, he had watched straddling; whom, as a little fellow, he had fagged; whom he had seen through scrapes at college; to whom he had lent money time and again, and time and again admonished in his courses.

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But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.

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Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.

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He never fagged or thrashed one of them.

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Hopelessly fagged horses fell for the last time under the merciless blows of their frightened masters, and added their great bulks to the impediments of the road.

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"The moment I get fagged with office papers and that sort of thing I take up my wood-carving; good as a game of hockey."

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One gets pale, and old, and sadly fagged out, with all this dissipation, pleasant as it is.

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"Then I certainly will not, for I'm ashamed of myself when I remember what a romp that was and how sober Uncle looked as he let me in at three in the morning, all fagged out my dress in rags, my head aching, my feet so tired that I could hardly stand, and nothing to show for five hours' hard work but a pocketful of bonbons, artificial flowers, and tissue-paper fool's caps.

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Cockley and his memsahib looking awfully white and fagged.

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But you look kind of fagged out, Uncle Ben--ain't you feeling right well this evening?"

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It always seems to be kind of soothing and comforting when a man's tired and fagged out."

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When dark came we fagged 'em a batch of bullets and shoved out the back door for the rocks.

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The rangers mounted and pursued; but in less than two miles the fagged ponies laboured so that Lieutenant Manning gave the word to abandon the chase and return to the camp.

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Some of the men had been trying to understand why Joan continued to be alert, vigorous, and confident while the strongest men in the company were fagged with the heavy marches and exposure and were become morose and irritable.

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