"Haggard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... jump of excitement that Sally heard, in the following week, that Madam was very ill indeed. Gaga came in the morning with a haggard face, having spent the night by his mother's bedside. He had a few words with Miss Summers, who came out of the room with a comically solemn look upon her plump face. She made no remark to the girls, but at lunch time, when the others were out, or were dispersed in the part of the ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton
... our little party's wonder grew. Most of them dragged themselves forward with stumbling footsteps. Their faces were haggard, their hands moving restlessly and their features twitching. They looked like men who had been for days undergoing severe mental and physical strain and were on ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... artisan see in his mind's eyes, during the long and sleepless nights, those who are dear to him, wan, gaunt, haggard, exhausted, stretched almost naked upon filthy straw, or huddled close together to warm their frozen limbs. And, should he afterwards be acquitted, it is ruin and desolation that he finds on his return to his ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... haggard eyes. "Well, why not? What is there any better than blazes for me to go to? Besides, it isn't so awful—when you've ...
— The Letter of the Contract • Basil King
... his cellar reach, fainting, almost bereft of speech; and as his men he staggered by, with panting breast and haggard eye, ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 • Various
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