Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "rag-bag".
The names given to the earliest coins were something of an etymological rag-bag.
He became an exciting mystery to a knot of us imaginative young cubs, who sorted up out of the reminiscential rag-bag of high colors and strong contrasts with which the sensational literature that we most affected had plentifully stored our minds, a half-dozen intensely emotional careers for him.
In two or three days more, I was informed by the authorities of his having led to the discovery of sirloins of beef among the kitchen-stuff, and sheets in the rag-bag.
David Selig, the telepath, is no stock character from the rag-bag of sf stereotypes.