What is "tag ends"

Usage examples of "tag ends".

He listened harder and realized the thunder was not from the sky but low-planed along the streets, where sled axles humped the faulted paving, bounding off stone buildings, cueing windowpanes into quick vibration, echoing in closed alleyways, dying somewhere out there in the heat, distantly, leaving him with the tag ends of thoughts, the selvage of raveled dreams.

I would like to clear up the tag ends in the matter of the illicit pregnancy.

The other found the tag ends of the Limper's charm and began to weave it stronger.

Sex and a Cause, together, can take care of all the tag ends of emotion and imagination.

Man's last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero.

All the tag ends of a night's proofing danced on the tip of my tongue.

We sat down across the desk from each other and he said it was a tragic thing that Billy had to lose out on a lot of good years remaining, and he said the estate was in very clean condition because Billy had done a lot of neatening up after he sold out his business interests, getting rid of little cats and dogs, small partnerships, shelters, tag ends of land.

He had been directing the Indians how to unload and bore in his arms a heavy bundle of cloth, its tag ends blowing in the breeze, when he saw her picking her way carefully down the path and onto the wharf.

Voices whispered to me, speaking in fragments, in pulverised bits of words and tag ends of phrases.