To see how this draggletailed war will end, let us consult the Soviet playbook, which has become ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey Wawro: Afghanistan: The End Is Near, and We've Been There Before] Reference

I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pygmalion] Reference

Then drunken father and draggletailed mother had faded from the scene, and the boy had been left to a life of odd jobs and fleeting patrons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

A wheen sketching souls, that ye may see perched like craws on every craig in the country, e'en working at your ain trade, Maister Francie; forby men that had been in foreign parts, or said they had been there, whilk is a 'ane, ye ken; and maybe twa or three draggletailed misses, that wear my Leddy Penelope's follies when she has dune wi' them, as her queans of maids wear her second-hand claithes.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ronan's Well] Reference

A’ ane, ye ken; and maybe twa or three draggletailed misses, that wear my Leddy Penelope’s follies when she has dune wi’ them, as her queans of maids wear her second-hand claithes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference