The 1,579 occurrences of fag

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Early on the morning of the 14th, the ice slackening a little in our neighbourhood, we took advantage of it, though the people were much fagged, to tighten the cables, which had stretched and yielded considerably by the late pressure.

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Perhaps they heard rather the hoarse shouts of a fresh column in gray which came up in the pursuit, fagged with its own running.

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Hooper seems a bit fagged but he sticks it pretty well.

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She had come up-stairs staggered, incredulous--incredulous and yet convinced--outraged, terrified; but now the appeal of that fagged face and those quivering lids was too strong for her.

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Anyhow Mr. Gladstone looked pale, fagged, and even a little dejected.

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On the following day the lowness of the voice in the Old Man was a little more perceptible, and when it got to midnight, he seemed painfully fagged and exhausted.

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_Rupert_ (_just back from School, where he has been tremendously fagged_).

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You look fagged, darling-- are you?"

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"Not so much fagged as hungry," said Val in his soft voice.

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You'll excuse me now, Lawrence, I can't talk long without getting fagged.

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You look fagged, Val," said Bendish affectionately.

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"You must be fagged out, Val; have you been at the piano all these hours?

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His horse looked fagged--which was unusual in Happy's mounts unless there was urgent need of haste or he was out with the rest of the Family and constrained to adopt their pace, which was rapid.

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They sit faint and fagged out on the verge of newspapers and books.

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Better take hold of a hammer and give one strong stroke and lay it down than to be all the time so fagged out that we cannot move the hammer.

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The plumage of the robin red-breast, the mottled sides of the Saranac trout, the upholstery of a spider's web, the waist of the wasp fashionably small without tight lacing, the lustrous eye of the gazelle, the ganglia of the star-fish, have been discoursed upon; but it is left to us, fagged out from a long ramble, to sit down on a log and celebrate the admirable qualities of a turtle.

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You're a trifle pale and fagged that's all--but we'll have you a beauty again before two weeks are up."

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He had asked Trent to dine with him--the boy looked fagged he thought, and it might do him good to talk freely about his play.

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In the evening he came home to a late supper, completely fagged, bringing with him the smell of mortar and of pine shavings.

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He returned to his room between seven and eight o'clock, his body and mind completely fagged, feeling a crying need of some diversion, some escape from the thoughts that had been hounding him all day.

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When he came in at the end of a hard day downtown--hot, fagged, sticky--she saw to it that the bathroom was his own for an hour so that he could bathe, shave, powder, dress, and emerge refreshed to eat his good dinner in comfort.

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They came home late, fagged and irritable, and supplemented their hurried dinner with hastily bought and so-called food from the near-by delicatessen.

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The poor horses were fagged though, for the carriage was heavy; he would not add to its weight.

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"Yes, as we're pretty well fagged, and Chambéry isn't an all-day's journey, I thought we might take our time in the morning.

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"Oh, he's a very plucky young chap," I replied, careful for the Boy's reputation as a pilgrim; "but he's a bit fagged, and will be better off dining in his own room."

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"How fagged you look!"

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Jack went, and when Acton put him into the easy-chair and noticed his white, fagged face, he felt genuinely sorry for him.

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The care necessary, the cold, cutting wind, and the knee-deep snow, made their progress terribly slow, and Acton began to notice that Senior, despite his anxiety for a sharp pace, was already terribly fagged.

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Soon afterward, when Anderson, fagged but overjoyed, hobbled into the village, the excited crowd was ready to lynch him, but with his first words the atmosphere changed.

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After all, I have fagged through six pages; and made poor Wurmser lay down his sword on the glacis of Mantua-and my head aches-my eyes ache-my back aches-so does my breast-and I am sure my heart aches, and what can Duty ask more?

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I feel sorely fagged.

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I am sadly fagged.

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no time for work, so hard am I fagged by the Court and the good company of Edinburgh.

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Came home too fagged to do anything to purpose.

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I suppose I was too much fagged with sitting in the Court to-day to write hard after dinner, but I did work, however.

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I was fagged at Court till near two.

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[190] I should have gone to the Duchess of Northumberland's to hear music to-night, but I felt completely fagged, and betook myself home to bed.

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[235] January 16.-Nothing on the roll to-day, so I did not go to the Parliament House, but fagged at my desk till two.

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[274] March 14.-Up at eight, rather of the latest-then fagged at my review, both before and after breakfast.

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I fagged at writing letters to Lockhart, to Charles, and to John Gibson, to Mr. Cadell, Croker, Lord Haddington, and others.

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Treated myself, being considerably fagged, with a glass of poor Glengarry's super-excellent whisky and a cigar, made up my Journal, wrote to the girls, and so to roost upon a crust of bread and a glass of small beer, my usual supper.

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This sounds sadly like idleness, except what may be done either in the morning before breakfast, or in the broken portion of the day between attendance on the Court and my dinner meal,-a vile, drowsy, yawning, fagged portion of existence, which resembles one's day, as a portion of the shirt, escaping betwixt one's waistcoat and breeches, indicates his linen.

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I was a good deal fagged, and must have tired my companion by walking slow.

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As I had risen early I was sadly drowsy; however, I fought and fagged away the day.

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I came home much fagged, slept for half-an-hour (I don't like this lethargy), read I Promessi Sposi , and was idle.

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January 27.-So fagged with my frozen vigils that I slept till after ten.

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March 1, 2, 3.-All these three days I wrote forenoon and fagged afternoon.

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She looked fagged and worn, complained of ennui, was already wearied of the life she had been leading, and had lost all taste for simple pleasures.

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"You look a bit fagged," I said, "perhaps we ought not to talk about work."

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He explained that he could scarcely listen to what I was saying because his brain was so fagged that concentration was impossible.

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After I explain that there is no physical reason why the teachers of some cities are fagged out at the end of nine months while those in other cities whose session is longer can hold on for ten months, and stenographers who lead just as strenuous a life manage to exist with only a two-weeks' vacation, they begin to see that perhaps after all they have been fooling themselves by a suggestion, "setting" themselves for just so long and expecting to be done up at the end of the term.

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Knowing the effects of a few nights of enforced wakefulness, and having had a little experience with the fagged feeling after a restless night, they believe themselves only logical when they fall into a panic over the prospect of persistent insomnia.

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If people who fail to sleep are perpetually fagged out, it is not from loss of sleep, but from worry and tossing.

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You're looking very fagged."

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The balance of his personal account was struck by internal damage and mental disputations; if the soul was bruised and ice-bound, the mind was no less afflicted, no less fagged.

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Lastly, but by no means less important, is the rational practice of always going as light and unencumbered as at all possible, preferably with stripped saddle, and to subsist mostly upon meat when in the field, both serving to enhance staying power and to provide a reserve of stamina and of energy for occasions of supreme effort, which often decide the fate of battle against combatants, however courageous, who are fagged out with marching on foot, and through being overladen with accoutrements and pack and a lumbersome diet as well.

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It was mid forenoon by the sun when I reached our lodges, and sat down fagged outside my father's door, to think longer before I entered.

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"You looked fagged," said one of them.

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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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"How do you do, Mrs. Ellsworthy?" said Primrose--she came in looking fagged and tired, and with a worried expression between her eyebrows.

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It took four days to accomplish all that was necessary; and, although the men were fagged, they were also proud of their work.

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The descent thence is gradual, down one of the ordinary ravines, well clothed with the usual shrubs and Xanthoxylon: our camels were a good deal fagged, but more from the halt at the pass, where some cathartic plant abounds and weakens them very much, than fatigue.

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They had scaled Glacier Point that day and were about as tired and fagged as we.

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The sensation is familiar enough to any fagged man, especially if he fall short of sleep.

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'Early on the morning of the 14th, the ice slackening a little in our neighbourhood, we took advantage of it, though the people were much fagged, to tighten the cables, which had stretched and yielded considerably by the late pressure.

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But, child, you look fagged and tired.

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If you'd walked through the train that took them back to Chicago Sunday morning, had seen them, glum, dispirited, utterly fagged out, unsustained by a single gleam of hope, you'd have said it was impossible that they should give any sort of performance that night--let alone a good one.

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But a fagged body fags the soul.

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The reality pressed hardly upon them; those were dark evenings when he would come home fagged out by a second lecture at the end of a full day's work and lay himself down wearily on one couch, while she, so long a semi-invalid, lay uselessly on another.

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Let city-toilers who're fagged or "run down," Autumnal _quiet_ (in home or in office), try; _Not_ "out of town."

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His fagged brain had found it but another worry to decide where he should go to rest, but the dream settled the vexed question off-hand--he would go to Kentucky.

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"Not at all," he answered; "there are some young American gentlemen I know who would be greatly benefited by being well fagged; yes, made to lie down in the dirt and lick a little of it, and fetch and carry.

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It mightn't be well to flash on the town to-night, looking fagged, and without your hair dressed, and all that.

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Louis looked fagged and worn.

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"You're looking fagged, and it's unnatural to see you looking fagged.

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She was quite certain today that Kate would not follow her, and the professor was fagged from yesterday's tramp through the snow.

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Late in the afternoon men began to straggle into the cabin, fagged and with no news of Marion.

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"You look fagged out, old boy.

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And, sure enough, a chicken _was_ going past--a small blue hen, who looked exceedingly fagged.

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Men and boys were thoroughly fagged out, and they sat down under the trees to rest before starting to place their find underground again.

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She was fagged, very much fagged; the journey, you know, and the business.

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His mistress, too, had a fagged, sorrowful air, and soon it became known all over the Three Marshes that Ansdore's lambing that year had been a gigantic failure.

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I have come in rather late, very much fagged out from a day of hard examination work and that imp--that horrid girl--has locked me out of my bedroom.

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I wouldn't like us all to be as fagged as she is--poor, dear, gentle soul!

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"I hope," ran the scrawl of the man for whom Cuxson had fagged at Harrow, "that this catches you at Port Said, because"--followed a badly expressed bit of business.

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"Lady Hickle ought to go to the hills, she's looking absolutely fagged!"

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When at evening, fagged out, he did come home, he soon left his bench, poor fellow, for his bed; just as one, at last, wearily quits that, too, for still deeper rest.

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A little pale, a good deal fagged, and very anxious, Dr.

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Mrs. Walraven saw nothing of him all next day; but in the evening of the succeeding day, and just as she was getting very uneasy, Dr. Oleander entered, pale and fagged.

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"_She_'s fagged out," said Andy, lingering behind her.

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She was fagged out with two long gallops after hounds that day, but for the moment sheer terror made her lively enough.

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They accordingly repaired to the little public-house of the village, where they laughed at the world, got drunk, hugged each other, despised all mankind, and staggered home, Fagged and merry, poor and hearty, their arms about each other's necks, perfect models of filial duty and paternal affection.

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"My dogs is fagged," said Eli, "and 'twere slow comin' back."

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You are looking rather fagged, Ursula.

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Ah well, we must both suffer, I thought; for he certainly looked very unhappy, fagged, and weary, as though he had not slept.

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The trial had been a severe one upon the zealous Mr. Holcombe, who found himself at the end of it in a very bad way, with nerves unstrung and brain so fagged that he assented without question when his doctor exiled him from New York by ordering a sea voyage, with change of environment and rest at the other end of it.

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The awful truth forced itself into her fagged brain.

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He put his pumpsious shoon on foot, He bent his knees to slithe and sprawl, Till, fagged and flausted by disdoot, He brooded by the wall.

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