___-to-riches story

Usage examples of rags.

Glad Rags, force herself to cut back her rampant philodendron, and walk four miles around her country block three times a week to try to regain control of a body that gravity was sending south.

His heart had stopped slamming against his ribs, but thinking of Rags was making its beat erratic.

He saw Rags smile and shake her head, then offer her hand to the other passenger.

From the strawberry-ice-cream color of its stucco walls to the white-railed porches, the big house was the one Rags had constructed a hundred times in her dreams.

Ann would, and Rags flew back to Indiana on the pretext of business, spending half the flight and all the layover in Memphis in tears.

Ellis Ann had shrunk enough that they were the same height now, and she clung to Rags with what looked like desperation.

Junoesque proportions made Rags instantly resentful of her own mediocre stature, stood in front of the oven taking out the cookie sheet covered with golden brown biscuits.

Tell and herself, and Rags thought they just might be able to pull this off.

None of those women had, at any time, taken his breath away as Rags did.

Any minute now, Tell would get off the phone and make some snide remark about Rags clipping coupons and she would snap back that her kitchen was not an extension of his office.

Glad Rags had never defined her, only earned her a good living and kept her from obsessing about laundry detergent, talking to plants, and feeding stray cats.

They saved twelve dollars and forty-four cents by using coupons, a feat that delighted Rags until they stopped at the liquor store and spent several times that amount on beer, wine, and peanuts.

Tell grinned at the boy, but Rags saw the tension behind the expression.

Where, Rags wondered-not for the first time-had this solemn and gentle child come from?

Taking the hint, Rags poured her a glass of sweet tea and sat across from her.