As he turned to go into the hotel, a ragged black boy stopped him.
The door swung open and a ragged boy stood framed in the early spring sunshine.
One ragged young boy and his older sister sat slightly apart from the others.
Lying on a heap of rubble she saw a ragged boy who might have been any age between nine and thirteen.
No one bothered to look at a little ragged boy running along on bare feet.
Years later, a ragged boy had appeared at a late night barracks meeting.
To her brother she said, "He's a ragged boy, isn't he?
The cooper looked at the shivering young woman posing as a ragged boy.
Two ragged boys scrambled after pennies they'd been pitching on the sidewalk.
To make things worse, a couple of ragged boys kept racing up and down the passage outside the window of the surgery.