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Meanings of filthy rags in English

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Usage of filthy rags in English
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The child was dressed in filthy rags and presented a shocking appearance.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
2
Some of them are covered with filth and a few filthy rags.
Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma...
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He carried on his left arm a little bundle of filthy rags.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
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Thou hast sought to make thy filthy rags to share in thy justification.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
5
While in God's sight, poor wretched boaster, thou art clothed in filthy rags.-Ed.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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And without faith and grace, are not all our righteousnesses as filthy rags?
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
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Now Joshua was clothed, not with righteousness, but with filthy rags!
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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The brave, noble things, the things Mark did: filthy rags.
Mary Olivier: a Life
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My righteousness was indeed and in truth no better than " filthy rags" (Isa.
Fifteen Years with the Outcast
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Clothed in filthy rags, they bore a most terrifying appearance, and even infected the air.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum...
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In His sight we are all guilty alike, and our righteousness is as filthy rags.
The Gadfly
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They were dressed in filthy rags, their faces were wretched, and several were weeping bitterly.
'Me and Nobbles'
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By then, her clothes were filthy rags, and no one suspected her for an aristocrat.
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
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A huge, bearded giant; filthy rags flying out behind.
The lake
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All my righteousnesses are as filthy rags; all my best services have need to be forgiven.
Elsie's Womanhood
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He was now confined in an apartment with other prisoners, who were covered with filthy rags.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
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