raggedness

But the signs of raggedness were there for all to see.

Eyes wide at the raggedness of his voice, she swallowed.

The only problem was a slight raggedness in the final Fast section.

Nothing is allowed to be ragged and unkempt, not even raggedness itself.

It was occasional raggedness in technique that let Cambridge down.

The other had fallen to a cross cut that betrayed a hint of raggedness.

The dancers were good, a little raggedness in the Sting ballet aside.

You might expect a raggedness in the ensemble sound when the Americans mix in.

Of all the beggar-men that I had seen or fancied, he was the chief for raggedness.

I could hear the raggedness of his breathing.

I thought the cells would be the problem, but there's a raggedness in the powerheads."

The raggedness in her voice tore at him.

But there was never a feeling of raggedness or of trusting to luck and energy.

Happily the waning light did not reveal the full extent of his dirt and raggedness.

And in the same instant I felt it through the soles of my feet, a change of beat, a raggedness.

There was a raggedness in his voice.

He sat, pensive, staring out over the lake's green-gray raggedness.

The nails were beginning to lose that raggedness, and what had been a rim of immovable black was now light grey.

Blind with her own emotions, she didn't notice the heat in his eyes or the raggedness of his breathing.

A crucial season was 1981-82, when raggedness and unpredictablity prevailed from night to night.

She sounded calm and contained, but I thought there was a raggedness to her voice that hadn't been there the day before.

The cellar is full of company, chiefly very young men in various conditions of dirt and raggedness.

His voice had an unfamiliar raggedness to it, a harsh echo of an old pain that disturbed and confused her.

An expert might have seen a slight raggedness in their ranks, but the priests were not experts and busy besides.

It was raggedness linked with raving and ruin, such as none there had looked at nor dreamed of.