So maybe he got sentimental about this impoverished, ragtag Bunch that, even considering J. John Reynolds' help, still were pulling themselves up into space almost literally by their own bootstraps.
"The Planet Strappers"
Raymond Zinke Gallun
Happen I look a wee bit muggerishlike- A ragtag hipplety-clinch: but I've been travelling Mischancy roads; and I'm fair muggert-up.
"Krindlesyke"
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Strange, too, he came of good family; good blood in his veins; and yet he seems to have gone right down with the ragtag.
"Quiet Talks on Power"
S.D. Gordon