How To Use Ruff In A Sentence
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In her house apron and with her hair a little ruffled she looked younger, startled and then angry.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Even the normal Perigordine fare of duck la gras and truffles washed down with red wine and pastis has yielded in favour of Scottish food and drink in celebration of the Auld Alliance.
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Louis XIV spent 200,000 gold francs for the construction of the royal kennels at Versailles where he kenneled hunting hounds, truffle terriers and toy poodles.
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his voice was gruff but there was still a hint of anxiousness in his tone.
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Not that he is preening: he is careless about his blond good looks, a scruffy hipster beard giving maturity to his rather angelic face.
Times, Sunday Times
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The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed.
The Stone Monkey
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He has become gruff and cold, a far cry from the playful, expansive carouser and rabble-rouser of the film's opening scenes.
Come and Get It
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We were lectured by numerous academic doctors, usually wearing scruffy sports jackets or ill-fitting white coats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roulston appears unruffled by the lack of attention, his concern mainly extending to getting the young interested in science and electronics, which he regards as vital for the future of the economy.
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That includes the ever-popular plum cake, plum pudding and Yule log, marzipans glittering with a coat of sugar, and delightful creations such as nougat, truffle and gateaux.
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Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists.
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The old seamstress ruffled my skirt rapidly.
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This strategy suits hands which look to be strong in honour cards or have a long suit that may be run through without ruffs by the opponent.
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A woman is approached in the street by a scruffily dressed youth who opens his mouth - and asks for directions to the local mosque.
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Having savored victory, the ruffians moved on to attack the homes of well-known abolitionists in the neighborhood.
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Moroccan lamb meatballs, halibut and shrimp cakes with romesco, brioche panini with fontina and truffle oil, roasted pepper and Serrano ham, fried risotto balls, tuna tartare with chermoula on toast, fried polenta with mushroom duxelle.
Three Stages of Amazement
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His gruff manner always belied a kindness in him that all his close friends knew he had.
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That doesn't seem to ruffle the feathers of the American consciousness or make them feel inadequate.
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When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent.
Chapter LIV
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I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast.
Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
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Using his special truffling stick, he extracts the truffle from between the roots.
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While in the daytime it looked just kept enough to be scruffy, the thick cool of the night hid its dinginess and transformed it into something almost beautiful.
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He has been booked just twice in the past two seasons and does not appear ruffled by heavy tackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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This morning, he didn't wear his skullcap and his hair was ruffled by the wind.
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But "Le corbeau" still was a touchstone for the young François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol has drawn on Clouzot's mordant critiques of bourgeois society.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
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I was briefly ruffled, because few things are held as closely and protectively as one's musical preferences.
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Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black – visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep.
Oliver Twist
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The Dodgers were “dem Bums,” the “daffiness boys,” the unpretentious clowns, whose fans were seen as scruffy bluecollar workers who spoke with bad diction.
Wait Till Next Year
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After the flood of 1966, the S Ruffillo Altarpiece underwent restoration.
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Ethan Hawke rubbed the scruff on his chin and leaned forward in his chair for emphasis.
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Next, a scruffy-looking student enthusiastically volunteered to lace him into a straightjacket and secure him with padlocks and chains.
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A strong breeze ruffles the surface of the lake.
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Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders.
Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
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There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin.
Power, corruption and lies
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I struggled to taste the truffle in the light celeriac mousseline but all-in-all this wide array of flavours pulled together well.
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Canada Goose Inc. Canada Goose's Kensington parka in steel color, insulated with 625-fill-power white duck down and featuring a two-way adjustable, fleece-lined down hood with a removable coyote-fur ruff.
Coolhunter
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She was plain-featured, and had rather a severe expression on her face; her dress was as rich as any morning dress could be; her voice deep and unmodulated, -- what in a lower rank of life would have been called gruff; but that was not a word to apply to Lady Cuxhaven, the eldest daughter of the earl and countess.
Wives and Daughters
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Someone had opened a window and the cool morning breeze drifted in and ruffled the white hospital curtains.
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Tuleh's ruffled wrap dress has little circle prints, and Emanuel Ungaro's cherry blossom branches print shirt is very fashionable.
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I ruffled my hair and straightened my collar.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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His hair is unkempt and his clothes scruffy; his eyes are red and he seems permanently on the point of tears.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need.
Finnegans Wake
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THE author of 'Lorenzo Benoni' is GIOVANNI RUFFINI, a native of Genoa, who effected his escape from his native country after the attempt at revolution in 1833.
Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini
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You could say the same about director Bille Woodruff's last movie, Honey, which against all the odds, I totally loved.
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Reasonable, unruffled, not put out by circumstances - his journey might seem to hint he wishes to earn the right to mock himself ‘doing time’.
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I finished work today, go to pick the car up and lo and behold some scruffy twoccers have smashed the window, nicked the stereo which is no good because I kept the face with me and completely ripped all the ignition out.
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Some of the older pros were rough and gruff which must have influenced me.
Kevin Keegan - Black and White
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I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta.
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South ruffed but got only the ace of diamonds besides.
Bridge
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The title of the book gave me the willies--I could only think of my moms 1947 Singer with the giy-normous buttonhole attachment and how many frustrating hours she spent trying to get it to work, not to mention the ruffler .
Toys! Wonderful toys! - A Dress A Day
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Well, then," returned the ruffian, "to put you out o 'suspense, as the topsman remarked to poor Tom Sheppard, afore he turned him off, I'm come to make you an honourable proposal o' marriage.
Jack Sheppard A Romance
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Both girls had over-the-top suntans, scruffy blonde hair, and very long legs in extremely tight jeans.
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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.
The Book of Household Management
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A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
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He wore pitch-black pants and a black shirt with understated ruffles at the neck and sleeves.
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To the west of the town, on the B939, is Rufflets hotel www.rufflets.co.uk , a turreted mansion house built in 1924 for Anne Brydon Gilroy, the widow of a wealthy jute baron.
Drives That Leave the City Behind
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No one likes a scruff.
The Sun
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Her throat was bare and a slight ruffle of white fabric edged the neckline where the edge of her chemise peeked out.
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While some herbs, such as angelica or woodruff, do well in partial shade, the big boys, including basil, oregano and sage, need full sun.
News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
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He's got more cheekbone than Snoop, bloodshot and rheumy eyes, and he's wearing a scruffy black overcoat and woolly hat.
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If the lowest ruffian may stab your good name with impunity in England, will you be so uncandid as to exclaim against Italy for the practice of common assassination?
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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He ruffs a second club (low - admittedly risking an overruff).
Times, Sunday Times
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Nits stick to the hair while things like dandruff and dried hairspray flakes can be blown away.
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`A pink tee shirt with ruffles on the neck and daisies embroidered on the sleeves.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
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Divide the mixture between the ramekins and push a truffle deep into the centre of each.
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Which whacked off four Truffala trees at a smacker.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lesson of the Lorax:
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A light breeze ruffled the surface of the lake.
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As Alfonso Cuaron took Hogwarts by the scruff of the neck and transformed Prisoner of Azkaban into a film worthy of its medium and not just its source, so Mike Newell takes the series one step further.
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Mr Gucci had the fillet of veal braised in brown chicken stock, sautéed ceps, baby spinach and truffle cream at £20.
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the pig was rooting for truffles
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He helped me over the difficulty with the ruffian.
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He has been booked just twice in the past two seasons and does not appear ruffled by heavy tackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe toffs aren't offensive as long as they're scruffy?
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He had a scruffy old teddy bear which went by the name of Augustus.
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And what we found is that in order to really get people out and motivated for a subject, whether you're on our side or not, is to kind of ruffle their feathers a little bit, to give them something to kind of shake their fist at, make them angry.
CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007
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Consider, in this light, ‘to neck someone out of the room’ which is supposed to mean, ‘taking somebody by the scruff of the neck and ejecting from the company.’
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He is the presiding genius of the national spirit, a kind of Churchill in a neck ruff.
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The scruffy ex-student had been the final auditionee accepted on to the next stage of the show.
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Truffle: The surprise center in every cake is a thinly coated truffle made from two textures of caramel: a sticky-salted caramel and a caramel bavarois mousse as in Bavairan—the recipe adds eggs in addition to the usual cream.
A guilt-free, low-calorie, low-fat cake
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Strew the mozzarella and tomatoes over the pizzas, then add the pancetta, ruffling it up a bit.
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Joining them is Hallyday, who plays a higher-ranking mobster and their minder, and Renaud, a scruffy, dangerous criminal known only as ‘Zero.’
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“He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon.
Within a Budding Grove
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To my delight, it really is frilled and ruffled.
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They can be seen as rough and gruff bandits of the road.
The Sun
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Ruffs and britches disappeared long ago, and there isn't much to distinguish a Balinese from a Siamese today except a wispy fringe on the underbelly and a meek plume of a tail.
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Its ruffled, lavender-pink flowers look like they belong in a grandmother's garden with feverfew and love-in-a-mist.
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The male pads about, calling to females with gruff barks.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you can't get hold of truffle pecorino, use parmesan.
Times, Sunday Times
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A gruff nod of counter-hommage?
The Times Literary Supplement
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We'll have the lobster with truffle-yuzu sauce, thanks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
The History of Pendennis
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The truffle taste was strong and earthy and worked in nice harmony with the risotto.
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(Of course, it’s easy to remain unruffled when the bypassed book is published by another divison.) I pointed the reviewer to my company’s media contact page for future reference and went about my day.
When books walk « The Book Publicity Blog
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Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
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The crisp new outfit is in contrast to Mercy's scruffy orphanage clothes.
The Sun
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The male pads about, calling to females with gruff barks.
Times, Sunday Times
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And before any person could take notice thereof, hee became (of a theefe) Ruffian, forswearer, and murtherer, as formerly he had-beene a great Preacher; yet not abandoning the forenamed vices, when secretly he could put any of them in execution.
The Decameron
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Trims, such as ruffle or lace, sometimes cost more per yard than the fabric.
Inspirational Sewing
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WOODRUFF: And just as important, he is hoping to win over you, the voters in the United States, with what he calls plain-spoken words about his priorities.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: President Bush Addresses Congress and the Democrats Respond - February 27, 2001
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Pleated, flowered, straight or flouncy, ruffled, and ruched - even the more detailed designs have become commonplace to the point where we don't want to have anything to do with them.
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Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
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Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.
Success A Novel
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Thirteen minutes after taking off from Rufforth for a raid on Duisburg, Germany, a Halifax heavily laden with bombs crashed near Poppleton.
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There is something old-fashioned in his manner which may explain why he excels as gruff authority figures and flinty men of the West.
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I started off with the roast veal sweetbreads with collop of foie gras and morel jus, while Vicky opted for the roulade of duck fois gras cooked in truffle stock with cherry brioche.
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So it's funny to be very habituated to watching regular wildebeests which are kind of gruff and intense looking and tough, and then come across the back wildebeests and watch them stotting around the landscape like, in comparison to the regular model gnu, dancers in a Baz Luhrmann production.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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About half a mile away, starlight finally hit it, revealing a sleek chestnut brown body with ruffled russet red tail feathers.
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Zeke leaned over, his white-gloved hands splayed on the counter, and his shaggy, ruffled black hair forming a cowlick.
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Even the tsotsis, the unkempt street ruffians of the 1930s, began to embrace the quest for style in the 1950s.
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I could tell that my refusal to allow him to ruffle me infuriated him.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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The general consensus is that he is too negative, unable or unwilling to grab games by the scruff of the neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cats should not be picked up by the scruff of the neck; instead, support the cats hindquarters in one hand and use the other to support its chest.
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Despite his usual gruff demeanor, he was impressed with the vessel.
THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
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The characteristic Paula Wolfert fiddliness was exactly what I was looking for-I wanted to fuss a bit over my one-time truffle, yet not to drown it in extras; after all, I was wondering what it tasted like.
Toast:
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This is a tendency to dwell on what ruffly garment was worn, the precise glossy shade of a woman's hair, and so on.
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After the family firm's bookkeeper-nephew takes a fatal fall, which local police deem an accident, Lynley's Yard superior asks the dectective inspector to double-check that verdict, though quietly: "No feathers ruffled but no stone unturned.
In Brief: Mysteries
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The ruffian threatened to run his victim through if he did not hand over all his money.
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Like so many other beauty products, styling treatments have come a long, long way: 20 years ago there were products that, when dry, transmuted into white flakes of dandruff.
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Chickens scratched in the company of a stately, gruff-voiced, very respectable pig, rooting under a walnut tree.
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She saw her daughter had ruffled hair and smudged lipstick.
The Sun
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His scruffy appearance made him look dirty next to the clean bright sterile walls of the hospital.
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If it loses you are going to need the club finesse and one ruff in the dummy.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Ruff's comment hasn't caught Gordon Campbell's attention, one suspects the Premier has lent his ear to the thoughts expressed today by his dearest supporters - the corporate community.
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As when a breeze ruffles the surface of a reflecting pool, ripples ran rapidly across her vision, momentarily distorting the figures.
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He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!”
At a Welsh Wedding
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He's 45, he writes plays, directs operas and choreographs ballets - his curious version of Swan Lake ruffled feathers when it was staged at the Edinburgh International Festival two years ago.
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I love cooking for the holidays and I love giving edible gifts: cranberry relish, cranberry orange pecan bread and pumpkin muffins, stollen and panettone, tiny chocolate truffles nestled in fluted paper cups adorned with red and green poinsettias.
Jamie Schler: 'Tis the Season to be Doubly Jolly!
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You can truffle out some tragedy in the daffiest comedies.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It shows a gruff, bewigged figure holding a sheet of music.
Times, Sunday Times
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I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation.
Wuthering Heights
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Mona looked ruffled, which wasn't a really unusual expression for her to carry around, given her social rank.
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Had both opponents followed, declarer could have ruffed a fourth round to set up a long card.
Times, Sunday Times
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Years ago we were in Torino during white truffle season and had 'fondue' - or a plate of melted cheese and white truffles...
Weekend Herb Blogging #107
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Were you surprised to see those drunk scruffy bastards start moshing?
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A light breeze ruffled the surface of the lake.
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I have, God be praised, learned to admire, and not envy every one that outgoes me: and this will, I hope, go a great way in making me easy and happy under the pressures of a very narrow fortune, and amidst the ruffles of an ill-natured world.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
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In 1794 the ruffians, Danton and Robespierre, fell in succession, and expiated their crimes (if indeed such crimes be expiable at all) on that guillotine which they had so often deluged with the blood of innocence, even of female innocence and beauty.
Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France
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Leaving aside service so patchy it was almost threadbare, I don't like overdone halibut, while Michael wasn't impressed with his corn-fed chicken with pomme Berny and truffle froth.
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Based on a traditional steak and mushroom pie, the dish includes $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef fillet, $3,330 in Chinese matsutake mushrooms (which are so rare that they are grown under the watchful eyes of armed guards), two bottles of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild at a cost of about $4,200 each, as well as black truffles and gold leaf.
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He ruffled some feathers by suggesting ‘if blogging is to go mainstream, bloggers will have to sharpen their act up considerably’.
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It would just sit there, ruffle its clipped wing feathers and continue its neurotic seed shovelling and beak swinging.
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Emily smiled down at her son and ruffled his hair affectionately.
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My very favorite skirt has a subtle ruffle along the hem, it's not ultra-girly but it gives it a little something extra.
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Use the dandruff shampoo every day until your dandruff goes away.
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Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards.
Sunstroked
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Nothing seemed to ruffle him and, what he may have lacked in attentiveness, he made up in luck.
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‘I just think he is a wonderful dog, he's got a lot of bottle,’ said Mr Marsh as he ruffled the ears of his faithful companion.
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The body of the men remained in the clearing, conversing in knots, while two miners, buirdly fellows, rather gruffer of tongue than the rest, went to the office to act as spokesmen.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
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A moment later, the intercom chirped and a deeply gruff voice spoke from the speaker.
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Her graceful neck rises higher than the trees, like a giraffe in slow motion, her liquid eyes staring curiously, then dismissively, at the gaping humans; she returns to her grazing as if these late-model mammals were no more worthy of note than their scruffy shrewlike ancestors, with whom she shared the Earth 130 million years ago.
Here Come The Dnasaurs
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Your choice to ignore your responsibilities and then sit around gruffly barking at passersby is just that, your choice.
Think Progress » Dick Morris: ‘Civil War Is Progress’ In Iraq
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You can pick up the odd book-related soft toy too, such as the Gruffalo and the rebel of the leporine world, Peter Rabbit.
Independent bookshops in south-east England
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Her stomach fluttered - this could kill her, possibly - and she clamped down on it, stilling her nerves until her mind was smooth and unruffled.
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Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below.
A Wanderer in Holland
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Moonlight poured through the unshuttered windows, and the damp summer breeze ruffled his hair.
A TIME OF WAR
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What is it about spring training that reduces normally gruff sportswriters to the patois of travel brochures?
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He's young, stubbly and scruffy, a slouchy cool that makes one think that Kate must be cool and edgy, too.
'Kate-alikes': Would-be princesses find a new muse in Kate Middleton
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Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet.
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I can’t help but think my dandruff is the result of Bush's War on Iraq. posted by jann wenner at July 26, 2005 2: 14 pm
Greg Gutfeld: HUFFPO FAQ'S!
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Say there's a scruffy old fragment of woodland down the road from you.
Times, Sunday Times
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LINDA: This name ruffles my feathers every time I hear it.
CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008
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She wore a conservative blouse of dark cream chiffon, with a high, frilled collar and ruffles up the front.
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And when that political class gets their feathers ruffled, you want to look and see who's doing the "ruffling" and get behind that man or woman.
Archive 2005-08-07
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The city swarms with scruffily dressed and, largely, scruffily mannered young people.
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A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
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The warder, whose name was Li and who disliked the gruff and unsociable criminal, was mystified to see a Korean looking after a Chinese with brotherly care.
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Mild cases can cause slight irritation and dandruff.
The Sun
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Juliet ruffles his hair, destroying the very conscious disorder Benny strove to achieve.
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She ruffled his thick hair affectionately and laughed.
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The powerhouse who used to grip games by the scruff of the neck was a pale shadow yesterday.
The Sun
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Even then, as Woodruff points out again and again, we can never be assured that we'll reach a definitive end.
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'Nice bloke, Firenze,' he said gruffly 'but he don' know what he's talkin 'abou' on this.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Adventurous herbalists like to experiment with basil, oregano and rosemary, also including the more exotic plants like sweet woodruff, lemon grass and borage.
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But the flesh-coloured chiffon was covered in delicate embroidery and the revealing bodice took refuge in an ultra feminine jacket with dainty ruffling on the collar and cuff.
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A simple, extremely elegant dusky pink open flower with slightly ruffled petals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old seamstress ruffled my skirt rapidly.
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A scarlet tunic with gold embroidery, white ruff, and my tall, heavy, pointy partizan in my hand.
Read the winner of the 247 tale competition
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The actor gives his usual gruff delivery, meant to convince us he's honest.
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Ford and his new executive team have already begun the healing process through a back-to-basics strategy which includes repairing relations with dealers and smoothing feathers ruffled by Nasser.
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Declarer won dummy's king and sought to ruff hearts in dummy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools.
Inside the Whale
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You're a prime candidate for divided skirts, tiered skirts and those with hemline ruffles.
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She arrived at Rufforth airfield on a flight from Heathrow and wore a turquoise suit with matching hat and black accessories for the occasion.
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It is somehow extremely loud and is followed by a long moment of utter silence and calm during which the breeze gently ruffles the pleated hem of the woman's blue burqa.
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Forsooth she wondered that the stark and gruff old man was so changed to her in little space; for nought she knew as yet how the sight of her cast a hot gleed of love into the hearts of them who beheld her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The image of beer belly, scruffy jeans and T-shirt is vanishing as one in eight delivery drivers dons a shirt and tie for work.
The Sun
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He is scruffy, self-effacing and funny and conjures up all of these attributes in his perennially popular excursions to far-flung corners of the globe.
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She could tell that he was ruffled, but he wasn't able to come up with anything to say until she was clearly out of his radius.
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Flowers are available with plain tepals and ruffled tepals.
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He cross-ruffed diamonds and spades twice.
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She wore a flowing pale yellow skirt with ruffles and a silken blouse with puffed sleeves.
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It's all complemented with the serious pathos of Hattori's sickly and melancholy wife and naturally the full-tilt violence with numberless ruffians and no-account villains feeling Zatoichi's cold steel.
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Then she played the ace and king of clubs and ruffed a club.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her blouse has a ruffle of lace around the neck.
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Tockwith made it five from five when they beat Rufforth 3-0 though the score-line slightly flattered them.
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On the menu: The Wolfgang Puck menu featured barbecue pork shank, paella, tortelloni with summer truffles, fingerling potatoes, asparagus, heirloom tomatoes with mozzarella, garlic shrimp, scallops and filet mignon.
HBO guests enjoy a lavish presentation
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Ruffle necklines are big too, as well as fluted sleeves, hem flounces and ruched side panels.
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She wants him to stop looking like such a mangy scruffbag.
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Our concept of the fungi often ends with a few fleshy Basidiomycetes (agarics, boletes, puff balls) or even fewer Ascomycetes (morels and truffles).
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