Words similar to rags

Example sentences for: rags

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A boy in rags notices her rather bony legs, so he levels her with Hi girl, you ain' 'fraid hungry dog see you?
Episcopalians, Lutherans, and some Methodists have rediscovered rituals, ornaments, and clerical vestments (the "rags of popery" of Protestant polemic) discarded during the Reformation.
gone--that God, in His Mercy, had pulled their sick hearts out, bled them, drained them, kissed the dead weight from the bones, that I was looking at myself in rags that were my parents--when I think of them I think of my friend with no one there those hours, no one to witness, no one to take his pulse, no one to talk or listen, no one to cross his heart.
Mussalchee `torchbearer' combines mussal `torch, usually of oilsoaked rags,' adapted from Hindi masal or mashal , the Hindi version of Arabic mash'al , and Turkic - ci (or chi, ji ), a suffix denoting an agent.
Moreover, behind the glossy covers and stilted prose, many of these little journals function as the gossip rags, the People magazines, for the science niches.