775 examples of ruffle in sentences

The landscape, cold and bare, is reflected in its pure depths; the winds ruffle its glassy surface, and the sun fills it with throbbing spangles, while its waves begin to lap and murmur around its leafless shores,sun-spangles during the day and reflected stars at night its only flowers, the winds and the snow its only visitors.

Cardinal Wolsey to terrify the citizens of London into the general loan exacted in 1525, told them plainly, that it were better that some should suffer indigence than that the king at this time should lack, and therefore beware and resist not, nor ruffle not in the case, for it may fortune to cost some people their heads.

In the earlier battles of 1917 much was done to ruffle Muntar's crest.

A ham, when hot, is usually sent to table with a paper ruffle round the knuckle; when cold, it is served in the manner shown by coloured plate P. LEG OF PORK.

In Germany it is called the ruffle pigeon, in allusion to the feathers on its breast; and it has rarely any feathers on its feet.

His little satirical remarks were such as these: It was March and I took a bunch of violets to Rosa; notched white paper was wound around them, and Mr. Hawthorne said, 'They have on a cambric ruffle.

He was a good easy man, that did not care to ruffle his own peace, nor perhaps set any great consideration upon the value of juvenile time.

You could not ruffle Samuel Salt.

The hawks caught a beautiful bird called hobara, or habary, about the size of the small hen-turkey, lily white on the back, light brown brindle, tuft of long white feathers on its head, and ruffle of long black feathers, which they stretch out at pleasure, with a large grey eye.

I noted, with careful attention, the fine sensations which spread throughout the whole tissue of my nervous fibre, each thrill helping to divest my frame of its earthy and material nature, until my substance appeared to me no grosser than the vapors of the atmosphere, and while sitting in the calm of the Egyptian twilight, I expected to be lifted up and carried away by the first breeze that should ruffle the Nile.

If bands must be used to remedy the deficiencies of ungenerous Nature, let them be at the neck and waist; and if the back is unconscionably long, a band, or fold, or ruffle across the shoulders is to be commended.

It is plain to be seen that the fluffy ruche at the throat-band, and the ruffle at the shoulder, and the spreading bow at the waist, and the trimmed sleeves, add bulkiness to a form already too generously endowed with flabby rotundity.

In each variety of tone, Each wayward charm, he stood alone; And all too nicely pois'd to press, Or ruffle tranquil happiness.

" "And why, if I may venture still another blundering question, was poor Nora held responsible for a cough she never coughed?" Once more Miss Jones surveyed the torn ruffle at the bottom of her skirt.

It was not that there was nothing to ruffle the two most easily ruffled spirits.

Her cap on the other hand was singularly large and white, and the ruffle around her face was very wide and very stiff.

The snapping black eyes under the ruffle were never still, and the clawlike little hands were never at rest.

The smoothest skin in Christendom would not weigh with a jury like a cambric ruffle; and moreover, there is not a poor devil in town striving to keep up appearances in spite of fortune, who would not far rather tear his flesh than his unmentionables; which can only arise from their being so much more important a part of himself.

For soon the ruffle of the breeze died from off the sea, and it became gray glass through which the anchor sank almost without a sound and was lost.

The varying currents continuously ruffle the surface of the Sound, even if nothing else does.

It is, in my opinion, a very odd spectacle to see a queen venting her passion in a disordered motion, and a little boy taking care all the while that they do not ruffle the tail of her gown.

And then the fault is not mended neitherfor next time I shall only have twice the inclination to go: so that all this mending and mending, you see, is but darning an old ruffle, to make it worse than it was before.

"1850.Several perplexing circumstances have conspired to disturb the quiet of my mind, however, they could only ruffle the surface.

To use servants with harshness, or to be wanting in that species of consideration for them which consists in a certain mildness and amenity of manner, would ruffle and deform that smooth surface of things which it is agreeable to the taste of people in high life to see around them.

] and they would not do a benevolent action at the risk of soiling a coat or tearing a ruffle.

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