He looked down at the torn strakes Draggling in the water alongside, at the smashed boat, and the tangled wreckage on the fore-deck.
"Command"
William McFee
Look at things as they really are, and you will see that the clever unjust are in the case of runners, who run well from the starting-place to the goal but not back again from the goal: they go off at a great pace, but in the end only look foolish, slinking away with their ears Draggling on their shoulders, and without a crown; but the true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato
The eldest of the comers, a girl who wore a triangular shawl, its corner Draggling on the stubble, carried in her arms what at first sight seemed to be a doll, but proved to be an infant in long clothes.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy