How To Use Ruffle 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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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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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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That doesn't seem to ruffle the feathers of the American consciousness or make them feel inadequate.
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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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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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I was briefly ruffled, because few things are held as closely and protectively as one's musical preferences.
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A strong breeze ruffles the surface of the lake.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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`A pink tee shirt with ruffles on the neck and daisies embroidered on the sleeves.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Divide the mixture between the ramekins and push a truffle deep into the centre of each.
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A light breeze ruffled the surface of the lake.
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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 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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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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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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To my delight, it really is frilled and ruffled.
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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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If you can't get hold of truffle pecorino, use parmesan.
Times, Sunday Times
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We'll have the lobster with truffle-yuzu sauce, thanks.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Trims, such as ruffle or lace, sometimes cost more per yard than the fabric.
Inspirational Sewing
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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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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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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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I could tell that my refusal to allow him to ruffle me infuriated him.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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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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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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She saw her daughter had ruffled hair and smudged lipstick.
The Sun
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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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Mona looked ruffled, which wasn't a really unusual expression for her to carry around, given her social rank.
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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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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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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.
HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
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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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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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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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Moonlight poured through the unshuttered windows, and the damp summer breeze ruffled his hair.
A TIME OF WAR
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Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet.
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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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A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
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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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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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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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You're a prime candidate for divided skirts, tiered skirts and those with hemline ruffles.
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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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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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She wore a flowing pale yellow skirt with ruffles and a silken blouse with puffed sleeves.
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Her blouse has a ruffle of lace around the neck.
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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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Our concept of the fungi often ends with a few fleshy Basidiomycetes (agarics, boletes, puff balls) or even fewer Ascomycetes (morels and truffles).
Huitlacoche
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His hair was all ruffled, but he had an unusually satisfied look on his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the prohibitive price of truffles, this is a somewhat academic entry.
Food Watch
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The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled.
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Steamed stuffed bun look calm, unruffled and continue to see her book.
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The opening dinner menu kicks off with daurade crudo, baked potato/black truffle soup with bacon-grilled-cheese soldiers, and wild boar ragout over fresh pappardelle, while entrees include mustard-crusted lamb loin w/ stuffed artichoke, and spaetzle-supported veal cheek blanquette, though a fat lot of security it afforded that baby.
Thrillist: La Silhouette French-American From Some Very Vetted Vets
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To find this with onglet with porcini and winter truffle was fine, the slippery cep and strong truffley aroma making it a rewarding chew.
Evening Standard - Home
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Stalls will be laden with fresh, dried, wild and cultivated mushrooms and truffles as well as blackberries, wet walnuts and hazelnuts.
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Aside from pushing up and squeezing together, ruffles and shirring add some dimension to make you look bigger.
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His hair was all ruffled, but he had an unusually satisfied look on his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were full of admiration for my get-up - which was my usual one of bazaar-ruffler - and Kavanaugh came up to me with absolute tears in his eyes and said I was the stoutest chap alive to stand by him in this.
Fiancée
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Lisa ruffled Charlie's hair as she wandered past, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
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The film's opening scene finds her on her psychologist's couch, tonelessly reciting her recipe for braised pigeon in thyme sauce with truffles.
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Sample truffles, caramels, hazelnut pralines, raspberry creams, almond butter crunch, handwhipped fudge, chocolate cigars and ice cream to die for.
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It would take someone a lot more important than you to ruffle me.
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A brisk wind blew, causing dead leaves to dance in the air and cause those on the ground to ruffle across.
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Put truffle slices in a single layer on each piece of cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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I smiled and ruffled her medium length light brown hair slightly.
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Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet.
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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 foie gras cooked in truffle stock with cherry brioche.
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The menu is small but solid and offers diners the chance to enjoy a selection of home-style cooking from the Perigueux region of France, an area renowned for its truffles, duck, goose and cêpes mushrooms.
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I was wearing a $700 jean skirt and complete faded jacket with a pink ruffled shirt.
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Mario plays Dean Martin in the kitchen, dancing around and rhapsodizing about pigeons in truffle.
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E. L. Godkin, the editor of the Nation, might have been speaking for all of them when he lamented the “gaudy stream of bespangled, belaced and beruffled barbarians” flooding New York.
The Five of Hearts
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Any problems will be easily dealt with and you can leave for work feeling calm and unruffled.
Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
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They moved into the dining room, where Corinne paused before an oil portrait of a periwigged gentleman in a ruffled neck cloth.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Because there is great benefit in seeming to be a big strong nation that is unroiled, unruffled and unbattered by the constant high seas of the world.
From Disraeli to 'the Bang-Bang'
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Rather than purchasing expensive table linens, we chose to highlight ONE element … the ruffled chairs … and rather "gussy" up the plain white and gray linens that we ordered.
Style Me Pretty : The Ultimate Wedding Blog
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The ruff design was a foremother to what we simply know today as ruffles.
The Style Checklist
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It passed over the sleekly barbered lawns and slightly ruffled the neat rows of asters and cannas.
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There he stood calling hastily for a drink; and her heart more than her eyes took in his, to her, consecrated signalment -- the riding-boots, short clothes, blue coat, cocked hat, ruffles.
Balcony Stories
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She saw her daughter had ruffled hair and smudged lipstick.
The Sun
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A stronger puff of wind ruffled the water and bent the water-side reeds.
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A tray of miniature fruit ices appeared after dessert, along with mint truffles and slivers of candied ginger.
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There is nothing to ruffle the tutus of any local balletomane in this year's Royal New Zealand Ballet's Tutus on Tour programme.
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A breeze ruffled the lake.
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The incident of sending a present of clothing is curiously like the tale about a certain English envoy, whose proprieties were sadly ruffled in the Nair country, when a lady sent him a grand shawl with an intimation of her choice.
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
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As she puts it she has always aimed to be the most confident, the most unruffled, the most serene.
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Team with a ruffle blouse and boyish loafers.
The Sun
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Trufflehunter is one of the key animal roles in Prince Caspian.
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The signature starter, Nine Bites, is an assortment of mini-masterpieces that might include a tuna sashimi roll with truffled ponzu (a soy-citrus sauce) or a lobster pot de creme as silky as creme caramel.
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Ingredients like olive tapénade and truffle vinaigrette have become routine at Tavern, deliberately raising its level of culinary sophistication.
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In the scenes in which she was abused by the vindictive villagers, Doone gave a moving representation of the ruffled pride of the old and slightly dotty.
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If you are worried about how to afford all that caviar, lobster and truffle, you are chasing the wrong demographic.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The heart still races,’ he insisted, although it has to be said that the great man looked as serenely unruffled by the prospect as ever.
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His flowing black cape, which appeared to have a perverse relationship with his arms, obscured his clothing, save for his ruffled shirt and his hushpuppy loafers.
An East Wind Coming
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A white ruffle lining the middle of each petal distinguishes the plant from the two natives in the same genus.
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May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
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Only Shakspeare was endowed with that healthy equilibrium of nature whose point of rest was midway between the imagination and the understanding, -- that perfectly unruffled brain which reflected all objects with almost inhuman impartiality, -- that outlook whose range was ecliptical, dominating all zones of human thought and action, -- that power of verisimilar conception which could take away _Richard III_ from
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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Thousands of men and women lead keen-nosed hounds into the forest at the beginning of the hunting season for white truffles.
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These true mycorrhizae include such macro-fungi as the toadstools and the hypogeous truffles and tuckahoes.
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Maybe it's psychological, but of course, chocolate is mostly associated with bars, toppings, truffles and other sweet confections.
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But the truffle hunter must be quick to fetch the prize before the animals devour it!
The Wine Roads of France
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*hands Nativeca66 a silber tray wif truffles set in paper cups wif paw prints on them, and a glass dome ober teh tray*
Invisbl bouncy ball - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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My husband had Porcini mushroom risotto with caramelised artichoke and truffle oil and it has to be said this dish must have been made by the best chef in the world.
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Enormous allonge perukes and ruffles, the fontange (high headdress), hoops, and high heels, rendered the human race a caricature of itself.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
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Such was the case with a recent special in which morel caps were stuffed with chicken mousse and served in an emulsion of foie gras and truffle juice.
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After I woke up you looked so cute with ruffled hair and your sweet smile.
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unruffled" by speculation about the father and has no wish to be a role model for single mothers.
Undefined
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Virtually no other plants, except for those which need no water, can grow in such soil and the underground progress of the truffle mycelium can be charted by the spread of this barren ground.
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And then there was the mix of calico, structured ruffles and sculptural pleats all in one outfit.
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His breeches were an expensive black velvet, but his shirt was a common white cotton with a neat and fashionable ruffle.
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Here vegetation tends towards dark and spiky lushness, though Darwin itself is trim, its greenery coiffed, its palm trees serried in wind-ruffled ranks around the shoreline.
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Rab offers Johnny his outgrown linen ruffled shirt and a corduroy jacket.
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The Hagen was a free-and-easy place compared with the Rheinischer, and among its inmates there was no one who could sing a better song than manly George -- type of the Briton at whom foreigners stare -- who, ignorant of a word of their language, wholly unprovided with any authorisation save the passport signed "Salisbury," and having not quite so much business at the seat of war as he might have at the bottom of a coal-mine, gravitates into danger with inevitable certainty, and stumbles through all manner of difficulties and bothers by reason of a serene good-humour that nothing can ruffle and a cool resolution before which every obstacle fades away.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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He brings her a mug of coffee with a brick of imported truffle chocolate floating in the middle.
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That's really useful and interesting; I think I'll do some experimenting also with the width of the ruffles affecting "drape", which also hadn't occurred to me, LaBD, but makes sense.
Petticoats and Crinolines and Slips, Oh My! - A Dress A Day
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Yesterday the Prince appeared unruffled as he handed out medals for heroism in Afghanistan.
The Sun
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He slid this off the float, loaded into it sundry boxes and packages, and taking his seat astern, paddled inshore to where the rising tide was ruffled by the outsetting current of a river.
The Hidden Places
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Suddenly his unruffled middle age is disrupted by a triggered memory of his childhood.
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Candy got up uncomfortably from her bus seat, and straightened her ruffled skirt.
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A sluggish breeze round the tor top slightly ruffled his hair.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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The truffles are sorted, brushed clean, weighed on Roman scales and placed in small chestnut baskets.
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If you win the lottery, try some freshly grated truffle - alternatively, try truffle paste or even a tiny drizzle of truffle oil.
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The first main course—a duo of pan-seared foie gras on a sour-cherry compote and a mi-cuit literally, "half-cooked" laced with summer truffles and wild cherry liqueur—was, for at least one among us, transformative.
A Foie Gras Tour de France
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Between the roots of the oaks in her garden, chanterelles were to be found, with truffles if one were to dig a little and was lucky.
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The item that did it for me was a salmi of guineafowl, truffles and morels.
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I love chunks of Perugina sausage in sweet pepper-and-onion ragout with two panisses, or chickpea-flour fries; black truffle-accented grilled diver scallops in brown-butter jus; and a cassolette of Provençal vegetables.
Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds
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Rescuers ruffled his hair and clapped.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her long black hair and comfortable clothes are the unruffled badge of the artist and beatnik, be she fifteen or fifty.
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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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Clinton appeared unruffled by the last-minute hitch, delivering his hour-long address in a crisp and fluid style.
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Presumably, if you begin to bash my skull in, I wouldn't be out of my moral depth to send a shattering kick to your shins and, say, ruffle your hair up a bit.
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The potato's resemblance to a truffle is shown in the 16th-century name turma de tierra (earth truffle) and in early Italian names tartufo bianco (white truffle) and taratufflo.
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The snobbery began, I suspect, with sun-dried tomatoes, and has now arrived - via shaved truffles and edamame - at a point where the search for the rare and the downright impossible-to-get has become the foundation of menu-building.
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The glassy lake began to ruffle itself below her, feeling the pulses of its interfluent springs, or sending through unseen sluices word of nightfall and evening winds to all its clustering companions that darkened their transparent depths in forest-shadows.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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Her husband's entire government may have just resigned but she seems unruffled by the political turmoil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boule is a smart synthesis of Parisian-inspired sweets, including a pâtisserie (pastries), glacerie (ice cream and sorbet), chocolaterie (truffles) and confiserie (assorted confections).
The Lobby from SPG
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Repeat your points, stay unruffled, sound folksy.
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The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish.
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Frances, ~they are ruffled, diamond dusted, recurved, doubled lovelies that will certainly be missed.
Daylilies 2009-Grand Finale « Fairegarden
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His shirt had a few ruffles on it and his pants were short.
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Boletus and the famous truffles are examples of these types of mushrooms.
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He was ruffled and sleepy looking, his eyes bloodshot and his hair frizzled.
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While specific ingredients change daily, and actual dishes change every few weeks, a signature element has emerged this past year—a two-part scallop dish, in which a diver-caught scallop is cooked in its shell and presented with some kind of grated truffle; later, a Japanese-style dashi broth is brought out and poured into the same shell, with the residue of the first part of the dish seasoning the second.
Young Stars of Swedish Cuisine
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Instead of looking at the big picture, we became unduly ruffled by near-term issues.
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Educating the customer will take the form of regular truffle tastings and positioning the truffle case as a strong focal point in each store.
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May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
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It was nice to know that something could ruffle the pompous guard.
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Spread a layer of béchamel over truffles and layer with chicken, mushrooms, tomato confit, fontina cheese and another layer of sauce.
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This disrespectful allusion to his calling ruffled the temper of the hospital attendant, and, growing profane, he insisted that he was as good as _Smith_, and better, and at once challenged "the bloviating mule scrubber to get down off his perch and stand up before him like a man.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
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That is called a truffled turkey," said Marcel, pointing to a splendid bird, showing through its rosy and transparent skin the Perigordian tubercles with which it was stuffed.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
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A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
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She misunderstood my intent and ruffled my hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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He righted his ruffled cloak, straightened his wrinkled shirt, and glared white hot anger at me.
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The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats.
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
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She appeared in a white suit jacket with an apricot blouse and a prim ruffle down the front.
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A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by.
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May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
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A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
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Boning a trotter is the ultimate testament to how you value your truffles, good work.
At My Table
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When the boos and catcalls ruffled her feathers, Mean Jean retreated to her perch and later retracted her comments.
John Murtha: An Eagle Amid the Turkeys
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There on the pavement these inexpert children of a pacific age, untrained in arms and uninured to violence, abandoned themselves to amateurish and absurd efforts to hurt and injure one another — of which the most palpable consequences were dusty backs, ruffled hair and torn and twisted collars.
The History of Mr. Polly
