| 1. | I startled my wife at the doorway, so haggard was I. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | I see 'neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | Half an hour after arrival, haggard and pale, Tommy stood before his chief. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | It was a sort of haggard astonishment. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she did this morning. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | "Why didn't you kill him" she hissed out, putting haggard face quite close to his. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 9. | Her face was haggard and thin and eager, stamped with the print of a recent horror. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |