He appeared to be on the ragged edge of tears.

This is not a woman who's on the ragged edge of suicide.

Can't you see my sanity is on the ragged edge?

The troops are on the ragged edge in here; if we don't get them somewhere more open they'll start to crack.

If that wasn't enough, Jason was on the ragged edge of exhaustion.

The bad is that he feels like he's on the ragged edge and that's why it's such a dangerous track.

Luke was on the ragged edge of the aircrafts performance.

Nevers could see the man was on the ragged edge and he knew better than to push him.

"We are on the ragged edge," said the person.

Haendl was on the ragged edge of a nervous breakdown.

He was on the ragged edge of another reproduction, and he couldn't afford it.

The CO was on the ragged edge as well.

He has been on the ragged edge.

The meaning is art has to be on the ragged edge of your ability, both in style and craftsmanship or you aren't doing art.

There was nothing I could do, I was on the ragged edge.

I am in a very rundown condition and have been and may still be on the ragged edge of nervous breakdown.

Caslet and his companions were on the ragged edge, and the least she could do was give them time to compose themselves.

"We're on the ragged edge of high-demand times.

Groth was on the ragged edge," commented Weston. "

He was on the ragged edge of total exhaustion, but he listened to the old fisherman as he struggled with the pump handle.

Don Vandenberg's dad owned it, and the place had been on the ragged edge of going bust ever since the Arab oil embargo in '73.

Her voice was tight, controlled ... and Axelrod could tell she was on the ragged edge of fatigue.

The redhead was staring at the guard like a basilisk and it was clear that she was on the ragged edge of violence.

They're on the ragged edge, but neither is able to best the other, until, on lap 45, Hunt draws alongside going into Druids.

"You're right," she said in a voice on the ragged edge of control.

He appeared to be on the ragged edge of tears.

For a moment, towards the last, he had felt himself hanging on the ragged edge.

Luke was on the ragged edge of the aircraft's performance.

He lived always on the ragged edge of fear.

You hang your life out on the ragged edge and gamble against all the odds.

The human arrivals were obviously on the ragged edge of exhaustion.

Nevers could see the man was on the ragged edge and he knew better than to push him.

The hose couldn't have been cut on the ragged edge of the hole.

"We are on the ragged edge," said the person.

He was running on the ragged edge of exhaustion too, Cordelia realized.

If that wasn't enough, Jason was on the ragged edge of exhaustion.

"Her nerves were really on the ragged edge," said Mason with dignity.

The troops are on the ragged edge in here; if we don't get them somewhere more open they'll start to crack.

But now they lived on the ragged edge.

"Can't you see my sanity is on the ragged edge?

The CO was on the ragged edge as well.

You must be right on the ragged edge of exhaustion, where you stand."

Ever since then, Diane had been on the ragged edge, hoping someone would send her over and make her come.

Haendl was on the ragged edge of a nervous breakdown.

"If we've got to run on the ragged edge to take that chance to make the Chase, we need to do it," Earnhardt said.

Now, suddenly, it teetered on the ragged edge of an abyss- and extinction lay ahead.

It lay just on the ragged edge of his visual resolution, but for an instant he was utterly certain of what he'd seen.

When he left the dining room after the Lodge closed, he found his family on the ragged edge of mutiny.

But-how had one on the ragged edge of respectability gotten the franchise for such a post in the beginning?