Haggard


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Synonyms for Haggard

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Synonyms for Haggard

pale and exhausted, as because of worry or sleeplessness

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Synonyms for Haggard

British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

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very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

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It was morning when he rose up and came down into the kitchen-- haggard and ashen gray, reeling and dazed.
His haggard eyes turned to Defarge as if he would have transferred the question to him: but as no help came from that quarter, they turned back on the questioner when they had sought the ground.
The haggard head floated up the dark staircase, and softly descended nearer to the floor outside the outer door of the chambers.
Her chubby face, and his haggard, angular visage were both turned up to the cloudless heaven in heartfelt entreaty to that dread being with whom they were face to face, while the two voices -- the one thin and clear, the other deep and harsh -- united in the entreaty for mercy and forgiveness.
It was a smile that had in it something both of pain and weakness--a haggard old man's smile; but there was, besides that, a grain of derision, a shadow of treachery, in his expression as he craftily watched, and watched, and watched me at my work.
Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
The absence of furniture, the extreme meanness of the meal, and the haggard, bright-eyed, consumptive look of the culprit, unmanned our hero; but he clung to his stick, and was stout and warlike.
I startled my wife at the doorway, so haggard was I.
Blackpool boss Ian Holloway insists he is still loving his first season of top-flight management - even if it has left him looking "haggard and jaded", ahead of tonight's visit of Chelsea.
Serving as best men were the groom's brothers, John Daniel Haggard and Philip Bryan Haggard.
The long-standing friendship between Andrew Lang (1844-1912) (1) and Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) (2) is surely one of the most intriguing literary relationships of the Victorian era.
But along comes fallen evangelical minister Ted Haggard, former head of the New Life Church, who's made this connection the basis for a new ministry that he's founded just for drug addicts, homosexuals, alcoholics, ex-cons, and all those who've "hit rock bottom" for whatever reason.
AoYouAAEd think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot.AoAuUS President Barack Obama, speaking to Republican lawmakers Friday, on his health care agenda.AoTed was dealing with certain compulsions that were unwanted.AoAuGayle Haggard, wife of Evangelical preacher Ted Haggard, saying her husband is now AocuredAo of his homosexuality.
The novel follows the journey of a unicorn searching for her people, who have apparently been taken by a certain Red Bull of King Haggard. Along the way to Haggard's territory, the unicorn is joined by Schmendrick, a bumbling magician working for a witch's sideshow, and Molly Grue, the ex-girlfriend of a Robin Hood-wannabe.
Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland's book is valuable in publicising the disaster in a thoughtful, concise, and well-organised manner.