Sentence example with the word 'ruffs'

ruffs

Last update: August 17, 2015


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Pp. 261-271) can alone be cited as modern witnesses of its habits in England, while the trade of netting or snaring ruffs and fattening them for the table has for many years practically ceased.   [Please select]

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Edmund Selous, pairing, in this species, is promiscuous--the Ruffs are polygamous, the Reeves polyandrous.   [Please select]

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What an impregnable fortress you would have been with those sleeves added to your ruffs.   [Please select]

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A basket containing two or three hundred Ruffs was once put on board a steamer leaving Rotterdam for London.   [Please select]

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For dress occasions the men wore black velvet jerkins with white ruffs, like those in the authentic portrait of Edward Winslow.   [Please select]

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] Sometimes the high ruffs were worn above the shoulders instead of "whisks."   [Please select]

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Kings' treasuries became fat with money gained by taxes laid on ruffs, and on the cargoes of starch, which was now imported by the shipload, or made on the spot, in many countries.   [Please select]

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