So, you see, ven Judy died, and Harry was Scragged, I vas the only von living who vas up to the secret; and vhen Mother Lob vas a taking a drop to comfort her vhen Judy vent off, I hopens a great box in which poor Judy kept her duds and rattletraps, and surely I finds at the bottom of the box hever so many letters and sick like,-for I knew as 'ow they vas there; so I vhips these off and carries 'em 'ome with me, and soon arter, Mother Lob sold me the box o' duds for two quids-'cause vy?
"Paul Clifford, Volume 7."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Here the ground lay jagged and shaggy, wrought up with high tufts of reed, or Scragged with stunted brushwood.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
His glance roved from the set face of the cowpuncher and through the Scragged branches of the tree.
"The Rangeland Avenger"
Max Brand