64 adjectives to describe sleeves

She held out her little arms from which the loose sleeves had fallen back.

Then very carefully I helped him strip off his coat, bringing to light a grey flannel shirt, the left sleeve of which was soaked in blood.

"The coat (cotte) corresponded with the tunic of the ancients, it was a blouse with tight sleeves.

he inquired of the negro, who stood hat in hand, wiping the moisture from his face with a ragged shirt-sleeve.

The golden sleeve.

Wrapping the dead in one shroud and winding sheet, with heavy shot well secured at their feet, the captain put the little child's lips to its mother's, giving her an unconscious kiss, which caused the men to brush their rough sleeves across their weather-beaten eyes.

The waistcoat, the vest, as Sir Walter calls it, not knowing the risk that he ran in this half century of being considered as speaking American, had a smaller, but similar, collar and lapels, work outside those of the coat, and the "man's tie" was of soft white muslin, and a muslin sleeve and ruffles were visible at the wrists.

And the tattered sleeves, that no one has care to mend, try to clasp the Wind, whom they take for the Fashion, and drop back emptyThe Wind has passed, the Wind is far!

Bless your soul, he'd have throwed off his little hat, and tucked up his little sleeves, and gone in at a lion, he would, if they had happened to meet one, and she had been frightened of him.

One after another, strange figures, plump and portly in their colored robes, crossed his threshold, nodding their buttoned caps, clasping their hands hidden in voluminous sleeves.

LINGUA apparelled in a crimson satin gown, a dressing of white roses, a little skene tied in a purple scarf, a pair of white buskins drawn with white ribbon, silk garters, gloves, &c. AUDITUS in a garland of bays intermingled with red and white roses upon a false hair, a cloth of silver mantle upon a pair of satin bases, wrought sleeves, buskins, gloves, &c. LINGUA, AUDITUS. LIN.

the mantle, trimmed with fur, was open in front, its false sleeves being slit up above in order to allow the arms of the under coat to pass through.

But I would love to live in a great stone castle, all my own, with a moat and drawbridge and outriders, and go around in a damask gown with a pointed bodice and big puffy sleeves and a ruff and a little cap with pearls on it, and a bunch of keys jingling at my side.

Her sin, she says, is not great; she has done nothing worse than to lace her silken sleeves on a Sunday.

The small pressure, cold through the torn silk sleeve of his white shirt, continued to urge him swiftly along a passage.

" He pulled back his tunic sleeve, held his shirtsleeved arm up the moment the next wave came, and motioned a reply.

'There againdon't you see something move under that marl bank?' Tregarva watched a moment, and then ran up to the spot, and throwing himself on his face on the edge, leant over, grappled somethingand was instantly, to Lancelot's astonishment, grappled in his turn by a rough, lank, white dog, whose teeth, however, could not get through the velveteen sleeve.

I thought that the white, shapely hand tightened its grip upon my wet sleeve at the moment Leith's bass voice came booming to our ears, and I blessed the big brute's interference for the thrill which I derived from the pressure of her fingers upon the greasy coat.

"As ye yourselves have often experienced, three things are indispensably necessary to the success of the soldier: he must, for example, be bold, active, and circumspect; quick in running, prompt in striking; ye, however, to the disgust of the eye, nourish your hair after the manner of women, ye gather around your footsteps long and flowing vestures, ye bury up your delicate and tender hands in ample and wide-spreading sleeves.

The same swaths are used both by men and women in Jamaica upon the smaller parts of their arms up to the armpits, similar to the old-fashioned sleeves in Spain.

At last, what might have seemed a coat thrown carelessly on the ground met his eye, but presently he became aware of a white, rigid, aimlessly-clinched hand protruding from the flaccid sleeve; mingled with it in some absurd way and half hidden by the grass, lay what might have been a pair of cast-off trousers but for two rigid boots that pointed in opposite angles to the sky.

His frayed sleeves, as they swept to and fro, wiped the marble top of the table and set the glasses rattling.

He had his arms folded, his hands gripped the damp sleeves of his coat.

And to divert Mrs. Veal, as she thought, took hold of her gown-sleeve several times, and commended it.

"Thou, Gigio, tell the good padre!" says the bright-eyed young contadina, pulling the gray sleeve of her fisherman who stands stolidly beside her.

64 adjectives to describe  sleeves