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ruffles
1. Your chart,” he ruffles through some papers pinned to a clipboard, “says that you have stomach problems
2. Many of the ribbonleaves here had ruffles of flowers along their edges
3. From small arching bushes she picked a few large golden fruits, other similar bushes had ruffles for leaves and grew things the shape of string beans but bright red, of which she only took two
4. The person who works the lace of a pair of fine ruffles for example, will sometimes raise the value of, perhaps, a pennyworth of flax to £30 sterling
5. Between them, Darkburst, head thrown back, the white fur on his throat separated into ruffles that exposed the pink skin beneath in thin stripes
6. There are dozens of brown scallop shells that resemble lasagna ruffles on the floor
7. that effectively we must have none of our own; we must let those ruffles
8. Aside from that, it would also help if it has prints as distraction, and ruffles to add more volume
9. He noticed the pretty sparkles that shone at random on the ruffles of the dress
10. middle to reveal piles of laced ruffles laid on top of each other
11. skirt and the long sleeves had lace ruffles from the shoulder to just below the elbow
12. She was wearing a day gown that was full of ruffles
13. White eyelet lace trimmed the ruffles on the matching floral printed canopy and bedspread
14. There were ones with ruffles and other’s with tails
15. There were Pollyanna ruffles upon ruffles, upon ivory-colored satin and lace bows
16. As if saluting a funeral procession, a murder of crows hopped in a line by the path to let them pass, lazily addressing them with casual insults, wing ruffles and sideways looks
17. "There's too many ruffles
18. I don’t care what you do with the weeds around it, but you are going to pot up this one right here, with all possible care!” Thaddeus said, indicating a small tropical bush that was covered in huge blue flowers that were pepper streaked with a crimson red radiating out from their centers, with hints of peach along the ruffles of the petals
19. Ingrid was holding a yellow blouse with the most bodacious ruffles he had ever seen running down the front
20. The ruffles were funny--that Ingrid appeared to be considering the piece seriously was funnier still
21. The dress, flounced with ruffles, had been pulled to accentuate its lady's every curve, whilst beneath the hem a pair of black boots lent a full inch to her height
22. A strong breeze ruffles my hair as I step on to the porch, the sky is heavy with rain clouds and I sense a storm brewing
23. bonelace, and ruffles of the same that served them for wristbands, with four fingers' breadth of the arms exposed to make their hands look longer; in their hands they held rackets of fire; but what amazed me still more was that books, apparently full of wind and rubbish, served them for tennis balls, a strange and marvellous thing; this, however, did not astonish me so much as to observe that, although with players it is usual for the winners to be glad and the losers sorry, there in that game all were growling, all were snarling, and all were cursing one another
24. Anger and something deeper ruffles his wings
25. We came to Richmond all too soon, and our destination there was a house by the green,—a staid old house, where hoops and powder and patches, embroidered coats, rolled stockings, ruffles and swords, had had their court days many a time
26. Another then put in his word: And they dressed him, says he, in a point shift and petticoat with a tippet and girdle and ruffles on his wrists and clipped his forelock and rubbed him all over with spermacetic oil and built stables for him at every turn of the road with a gold manger in each full of the best hay in the market so that he could doss and dung to his heart's content
27. The king kind of ruffles up, and says:
28. Brodeski was fluffing her ruffles and preparing for her fifteen minutes of fame
29. She had never had to sew tiny rows of silk ruffles
30. the house, her flounces and ruffles billowing about her and two inches of green morocco Scarlett sat on a high rosewood ottoman, under the shade of a huge oak in the rear of slippers—all that a lady could show and still remain a lady—peeping from beneath them
31. Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long
32. Ruffles! That brought up another have to put ruffles in her bosom to make them look larger and she had always had thought
33. She had no bust and her hips were as flat as little Beau’s and as she had neither the pride nor the good sense (so Scarlett thought) to sew ruffles in the bosom of her basque or pads on the back of her corsets, her thinness was very obvious
34. O there were Times when I myself wisht to be Belinda, lying amidst the Ruffles of an Infant’s Gown, crying and spitting, laughing and feeding, drooling and playing with her tiny Hands
35. She took the precaution of wearing a full skirt on the days she expected him, a charming skirt from Jamaica with red flowered ruffles, but with no underwear, nothing, in the belief that this convenience was going to help him ward off his fear
36. "'I see! I see!' impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha upon his silvery ruffles
37. She wore a pale-blue, pansy-sprinkled muslin dress with more ruffles than one would ever have supposed economical Janet could be guilty of, and a white leghorn hat with pink roses and three ostrich feathers on it
38. He also affects ruffles and lace, a long cassock, and a voluminous cloak like many of those of Geneva combined together; black silk stockings and low shoes complete the clerical array of the higher ecclesiastics
