The 1,579 occurrences of fag

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We reached this well sometime in the night of the first day and our mules were completely fagged out, so we left the wagons, turned the mules loose, and drove them through to the Carson, arriving there on the night of the second day.

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But, however much they might have been fagged by their exertions of feet and features, it is certain that, by ten of the clock the next morning, they appeared, quite fresh and charming to the view, in the ladies' gallery in the theatre.

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One day, toward the very last, Durgin found himself pretty well fagged in the old pulp-mill clearing on the side of Lion's Head, which still belonged to Whitwell, and he sat down on a mouldering log there to rest.

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She herself was perfectly well, but a little fagged, and they must have a carriage.

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After such trips he would reach the cabin utterly fagged out, too tired to eat, too weary, to talk, almost too dead to hear the solicitations of his friends or to appreciate Allie's tender, anxious care.

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Used to get so fagged out from morning to night that towards evening you couldn't feel your legs under you... We were at the manoeuvres also...

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The snow being harder, the coach traveled more quickly, and as far as Dieppe, during the long dreary hours of the trip, through the jostles of the road, during the twilight, and later in the thick darkness of the coach, he kept on with a fierce obstinacy his monotonous and revengeful whistling, compelling the fagged and exasperated hearers to follow the anthem from one end to the other, to remember every word that went with each measure.

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The people are a good deal fagged with boxing about this reef so much, and I shall want 'em all as fresh to-morrow as they can be got.

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A portion of each morning was to be devoted to study, Claude having undertaken the task of tutor--and hard work he found it; and much did Lily pity him, when, as not unfrequently happened, the summons to the children's dinner would bring him from the study, looking thoroughly fagged--Maurice in so sulky a mood that he would hardly deign to open his lips--Reginald talking fast enough, indeed, but only to murmur at his duties in terms, which, though they made every one laugh, were painful to hear.

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"But you do look fagged and pale, little girl," he told her.

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Pleasantly fagged in those slight neat legs, after his walk, Mr. Wrenn sat in the wicker rocker by the window, patting his scrubby tan mustache and reviewing the day's wandering.

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In one hot day on the road ... when you get fagged out--and with every stone hurting your feet--you'll learn.

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Darkness was close at hand, but both men were so fagged that they found it impossible to hurry.

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I was pretty fagged when it was all over, but there was a great deal of satisfaction in knowing that we had frustrated one of the most daring anarchist plots of recent years.

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But he gulped, and swallowed, and shut his teeth close, and nobody found him out; only he looked very pale, which the good mother soon noticed, and said she to her husband:- "'My dear love, don't you see how fagged and weary it makes Mr. Franz look, to hear you raving on about a parcel of silly lads with whom HE has nothing in common?

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"Not only that, sir," said the boy, "but at a public school you're fagged, and forced to go in for cricket and football."

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But now she is so fagged and worn, and she can't sleep.

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"Not only that, sir," said the boy, "but at a public school you're fagged, and forced to go in for cricket and football."

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But now she is so fagged and worn, and she can't sleep.

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Johnnie, who was badly fagged from the previous night's work, found a shady spot and stretched himself out for a nap.

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I'm all fagged out now, and, besides, I've got the only watch in camp that keeps time.

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But it is also important in its relation to work, for without it body and mind become "fagged," people grow "stale" at their work, producing power and power of service are reduced.

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"You, too, Craig, must be fagged out," she said frankly.

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"You do look fagged.

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Alwyn's appearance, when, with his friend Villiers, he had first entered the Duchess's drawing-room that evening, and had there been introduced to his hostess, had been a sort of revelation to the languid, fashionable guests assembled; sudden quick whispers were exchanged--surprised glances,--how unlike he was to the general type of the nervous, fagged, dyspeptic "literary" man!

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Such were a few of the questions that flitted dimly through the minds of the society-fagged fair ones that clustered round the Duchess de la Santoisie, and eagerly discussed Alwyn's personal beauty and extraordinary charm of manner.

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A short December day, though not what they would have chosen, had this advantage, that the victim could not be as completely fagged and worn out as in a summer's day, and Henrietta was still fresh and in high spirits when they drove home and found to their delight that the two schoolboys had already arrived.

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But then she is getting fagged."

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ON THE BALCONY AGAIN Three persons in the royal castle of Graustark, worn by the dread and anxiety of weeks, fatigued by the sleepless nights just past, slumbered through the long afternoon with the motionless, deathlike sleep of the utterly fagged.

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XXVII ON THE BALCONY AGAIN Three persons in the royal castle of Graustark, worn by the dread and anxiety of weeks, fatigued by the sleepless nights just past, slumbered through the long afternoon with the motionless, deathlike sleep of the utterly fagged.

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He saw the lad bend listlessly over his papers and look helplessly up and around--worn, brain- fagged, and half wild--saw him rise suddenly and hurriedly, and nodded him an excuse before he could ask for it, thinking the boy had suddenly gone ill.

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The sisters returned from London, the younger looking brilliant and in unusual health, and the elder fagged and weary.

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The astonished and excited child, partly in fear, partly in satisfaction at the change, stops its screaming, and, as the man adjusts it more securely to his breast, plants its chubby hands against him, and, pushing off as far as it can, gives a good long look squarely in his face,--then, as if satisfied, snuggles down with its head on his neck, and in less than a minute is sound and peacefully asleep without another whimper, utterly fagged out.

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But you are looking fagged, harassed, troubled, mio bene: have you had anything to vex you?

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At last, completely fagged out, and unable to take another step, I lay down under a tree, and there I first became aware of the loss of the tunic.

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At last, completely fagged out, and unable to take another step, I lay down under a tree, and there I first became aware of the loss of the tunic.

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When he reached his quarters he was completely fagged, for the crisis, coming on top of his many responsibilities, had taken all his vitality.

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you see I was pretty well fagged out, and I always had an idea that what my wife said and done was right.

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"Pretty well fagged out, but that does not greatly matter.

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I think the little fool was just about fagged out, and no wonder.

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The boy's detention had been occasioned by the fagged condition of his horse, which prevented the possibility of his overtaking me.

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Our horses were dreadfully fagged and very thirsty after the severe toil they had endured in dragging the drays through so heavy a scrub, but with all our exertions we could only obtain from the spring about two buckets of water apiece for them.

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We were now on the horns of a very serious dilemma: our horses were completely fagged out, and could take the dray no further.

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Notwithstanding the care we had taken of the horses, and the little work we had given them, they got fagged in going through the scrub, and I was obliged to halt the dray at the rocky well in the plains, five miles short of the depot.

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It was late in the day when we arrived at the plains under the sand hills; and though we had brought our six best and strongest horses, they were greatly fagged with their day's work.

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Wylie went out to search for food, but got nothing, whilst I unharnessed and attended to the horses, which were a good deal fagged, and then prepared the camp and made the fires for the night: I could get nothing but grass-tree for this purpose, but it was both abundant and dry.

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Our horses were greatly fagged.

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July 4.--Our horses having been a good deal fagged yesterday, I did not disturb them early, and it was nearly noon when we moved away from our encampment, crossing the main watercourse, of which the ponds we were upon last night were only a branch.

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The boy's detention had been occasioned by the fagged condition of his horse, which prevented the possibility of his overtaking me.

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We were now on the horns of a very serious dilemma: our horses were completely fagged out, and could take the dray no further.

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It was late in the day when we arrived at the plains under the sand hills; and though we had brought our six best and strongest horses, they were greatly fagged with their day's work.

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Our horses were greatly fagged.

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Even the fagged horse pricked up his ears and looked ahead with interest.

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A fag also means a boy of an inferior form or class, who acts as a servant to one of a superior, who is said to fag him, he is my fag; whence, perhaps, fagged out, for jaded or tired.

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And if he wanted the front of the house turned from all possible view, as though abashed at any chance of public scrutiny, why, that was his affair and not the public's; and, with like perverseness, if he chose to thrust his kitchen under the public's very nose, what should the generally fagged-out, half-famished representative of that dignified public do but reel in his dead minnow, shoulder his fishing-rod, clamber over the back fence of the old farmhouse and inquire within, or jog back to the city, inwardly anathematizing that very particular locality or the whole rural district in general.

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Then came an error of judgment--a midnight decision demanded of a fagged mind--and his 0.K.

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M. Jules St.-Ange stood long, gazing at the receding vessel as it now disappeared, now reappeared 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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Next morning the perverse fellow entered the breakfast parlour in a fagged condition, and said, with the air of a martyr, 'Well, I trust I have taken exercise enough to-day: I have walked twenty miles this morning.'

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And though you may return four hours hence, fagged and jaded, you will sit with a pleased heart down to dinner, and you will welcome the twilight when it comes, with the cheerful sense of duty done and temptation resisted.

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I do feel a bit fagged.

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If that flush would only last, she'd be beautiful; but she's too pale and fagged for that--out to a ball last night, I imagine.

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"Your wife is fagged out,--that is plain.

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"Ye're a dear good lad, Jan," said he, "but ye've fagged yourself out.

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When he came home, fagged out and dusty, at dinner time, Marietta presented a visiting card to him, on her handsomest salver.

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After luncheon she ordained that Patty should go to her room for a nap, as she had worked hard all the morning, and must not look fagged at her coronation.

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He looked so big and strong and splendid there in the shadow, with his freshness and his charm; and she felt very brain-fagged and world-weary; and without in the least knowing why, or what led up to the desire, she wanted to feel his arms about her, and his freshness soothing her spirit.

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Our hospitals and sanitariums are crowded, our streets are full of half-sick people-hollow chests, sallow faces, dark-rimmed eyes, nervous, run-down, worn-out, brain-fagged, dragging on their existence, or dying before their time, robbed by stupidity and ignorance of their birthright of full-breathed rosy-cheeked health, and robbing the society that has reared them of the full quota of their service.

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At the end of an hour my head was in a perfect whirl and I was dead tired, fagged out.

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We were pretty well fagged out, now, but as we did not wish to miss the Alpine sunrise, we got through our dinner as quickly as possible and hurried off to bed.

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And very fatiguing, too; for we had tried hard, along at first, to catch up with the guide, but had only fagged ourselves, in vain; for although he was traveling slowly he was yet able to go faster than the hampered caravan over such ground.

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I seemed to have been lecturing a thousand years, though it was only a twelvemonth, and a considerable number of the others were Reformers who were fagged out with their five months of seclusion in the Pretoria prison.

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Found myself very much fagged, and did not arrive at their camp until ten A.M., and then found myself disappointed as to a good breakfast, the camp being deserted.

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But I am tired out-entirely fagged out.

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One or two boys of his age had come home for the holidays, and she tried to be relieved by being told that he was going out with Dick Wolfe or Harry Osborn, but it was not quite satisfactory, and she began to look fagged and unwell, and had lost so much of her playfulness, that even Mr. Kendal was alarmed.

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He soon looked terribly fagged and harassed, and owned that he envied Mr. Hope, who had just received the promise of a district church, in course of building under Colonel Bury's auspices, about four miles from Fairmead.

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

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But, mother, I am tired and fagged.

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Fortune and greater fortune at first; days in which he could not lose, days in which he drove back to the crowded inns choked with dust, sunburnt and fagged with excitement, to a riotous supper and baccarat, and afterward went to sleep only to see cards and horses and moving crowds and clouds of dust; days spent in a short covert coat, with a field-glass over his shoulder and with a pasteboard ticket dangling from his buttonhole; and then came the change that brought conscience up again, and the visits to the Jews, and the slights of the men who had never been his friends, but whom he had thought had at least liked him for himself, even if he did not like them; and then debts, and more debts, and the borrowing of money to pay here and there, and threats of executions; and, with it all, the longing for the fields and trout springs of Surrey and the walk across the park to where she lived.

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She seemed almost ill. She was listless and fagged.

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He just clung to me until he fagged me all out."

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Ned confessed that he was nearly fagged.

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By three o'clock in the morning Tom was completely fagged out and could scarcely keep his eyes open.

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A further reason was urged that the cattle were nearly fagged out by hard travel, and that they would not stand the journey unless we stopped and gave them rest.

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It was hot in summer, and cold in winter, and the gas-jet was so measly and so flickery that we couldn't sew or read, even if we hadn't been too fagged out to do either--which we 'most generally was.

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A friend, at lunch, said: "You look fagged, knocked out, done up, old man.

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Almost asleep, he then went back to the bunkhouse, stumbling and yawning, and stretched out in McGraw's bed, utterly fagged.

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At his heels, doggedly, came the two short ones, fagged, yet uncomplaining; all of them drenched to the skin by the chill rain that swirled through the Gap, down into the night- ridden valley below.

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Cockley and his _memsahib_ looking awfully white and fagged.

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There was no appearance of fear among the men I saw at about four P.M. (I can only guess the time, for my watch had stopped), but abundant evidence of false confidence and still more of the indifference of men who feel they have done all that should be required of them and are utterly fagged out.

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The sorrel and the mare were fagged, the horses of their foes were fresh; and forty to one were odds that no man would care to take.

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The sorrel and the mare were fagged, the horses of their foes were fresh; and forty to one were odds that no man would care to take.

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She saw that he was fagged.

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He recognised him this time, waved a hand, and then called to his own fagged horse.

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Shangois's mare was not fagged; her heart and body were like steel.

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