How To Use Ruffled 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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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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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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He has been booked just twice in the past two seasons and does not appear ruffled by heavy tackles.
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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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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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A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
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A light breeze ruffled the surface of the lake.
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He has been booked just twice in the past two seasons and does not appear ruffled by heavy tackles.
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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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(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.
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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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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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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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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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Mona looked ruffled, which wasn't a really unusual expression for her to carry around, given her social rank.
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A light breeze ruffled the surface of the lake.
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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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Emily smiled down at her son and ruffled his hair affectionately.
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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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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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She ruffled his thick hair affectionately and laughed.
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A simple, extremely elegant dusky pink open flower with slightly ruffled petals.
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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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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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His hair was all ruffled, but he had an unusually satisfied look on his face.
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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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His hair was all ruffled, but he had an unusually satisfied look on his face.
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Lisa ruffled Charlie's hair as she wandered past, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
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I smiled and ruffled her medium length light brown hair slightly.
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I was wearing a $700 jean skirt and complete faded jacket with a pink ruffled shirt.
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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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It passed over the sleekly barbered lawns and slightly ruffled the neat rows of asters and cannas.
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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 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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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Rescuers ruffled his hair and clapped.
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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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Clinton appeared unruffled by the last-minute hitch, delivering his hour-long address in a crisp and fluid style.
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Her husband's entire government may have just resigned but she seems unruffled by the political turmoil.
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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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He was ruffled and sleepy looking, his eyes bloodshot and his hair frizzled.
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Instead of looking at the big picture, we became unduly ruffled by near-term issues.
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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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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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She misunderstood my intent and ruffled my hair.
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He righted his ruffled cloak, straightened his wrinkled shirt, and glared white hot anger at me.
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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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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
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This autumn, make sure you look blooming brilliant in printed midi dresses and ruffled blouses.
The Sun
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She ruffled his pale blonde hair, laughing when he jerked away.
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Singers Cindy Wilson (wearing a belted mini-dress and whipping her curtain of cornsilk hair like a dervish) and Kate Pierson (old-school burlesque in hot pants, flamingo-pink ruffled blouse and corset) have lost none of their vocal power, even if they both seemed a little exhausted by the idea of trotting out their 1990 hit "Roam.
On the Scene: True Colors tour at NYC's Radio City | EW.com
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Yet was there a stranger guest among us who did all this and more with unblenching brow, unruffled self-possession, unequalled courtesy, who, if discovered, would have been arrested and consigned to a lock-up, only to be exchanged for the gloom and the manacles of the condemned cell.
Robbery Under Arms
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The drawing of a woman with big eyes, dark lashes and tightly knotted hair, dressed in a ruffled frock and sporting a fan, gave it away.
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I was just wondering if maybe my perspicacious words had finally ruffled the princess's feathers.
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He looked out at a pair of starlings hopping over the lawn, their feathers ruffled by the chill breeze.
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A few chickens squawked indignantly as the cold gust of air hit them, but they soon settled back down into their boxes, feathers ruffled to keep out the chill.
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Sickness in birds may be diagnosed from their plumage, which is ruffled when they are sickly instead of lying smooth as when they are well.
The History of Animals
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Her short hair was oddly ruffled and then flattened around her head.
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This autumn, make sure you look blooming brilliant in printed midi dresses and ruffled blouses.
The Sun
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Fresh chef Peter Evans and Getaway host Catriona Rowntree create a Mediterranean-themed menu of Italian mussels, polenta-crusted spitchcock with green olives and Gorgonzola dolce late with truffled honey.
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There is an unexpected ease to the ruffled shirt: it has a relaxed silhouette, but the central ruffle gives a nod to fun.
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That pretty dotted, ungored Swiss skirt will make dainty, ruffled sash curtains for bedroom windows.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"
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Plunging necklines were rendered almost demure with ruffled detailing and structured hips on a dress made from floral cloque.
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His little brother ruffled up the bed every day.
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The chain hung straight down from the chock of the bowsprit and although our flags above flickered in the breeze, the water lay unruffled.
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I was ruffled and quickly reacted by sending up the windows.
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The roll that he saw was fluid, and even as he looked, it transformed itself into the salt sea wind-ruffled, and flowed on into sunny, flower-vistaed landscapes, and into great sounding cities of delight.
Morganson's Finish
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Hazard appears unruffled by it all.
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the bird ruffled its feathers
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Now and then came the unruffled voice of a female dispatcher, droning numbers and code words.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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Bill Clinton was deemed the best performer by 31 percent-evidence that he had succeeded in staging the kind of unruffled, workmanlike performance he needed.
FACE TO FACE TO FACE
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Piloted by a savvy young man called Wayan (who doubles as a guide), I'm going to remain unruffled even during the vast traffic jam that oozes between Ubud and Kuta.
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Its feathers were ruffled by the chill breeze.
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His little brother ruffled up the bed every day.
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She was in new black boots, a swirling tweed skirt and jacket, a high-ruffled blouse: her hair was perfectly coiffured.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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When he had heard Shibli Bagarag to a close, the countenance of Shagpat waxed fiery, as it had been flame kindled by travellers at night in a thorny bramble-bush, and he ruffled, and heaved, and was as when dense jungle-growths are stirred violently by the near approach of a wild animal in his fury, shouting in short breaths, 'A barber!
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1
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The wind ruffled his hair.
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(Knight of the Pope), a cushion, one waisted fiddle with a comb-bridge, another lute (upside-down), and three books, two of whose pages are "ruffled" as if by a nearby draft.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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He†™ s so calm, quiet and unruffled always! †But, isn†™ t that in complete contrast with a bubbly, bindaas girl like her? “Maybe it was a case of opposites attracting. †‘Khada Dupatta for wedding! †™
The Times of India
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In such works, the serene surface of domestic placidity is only occasionally ruffled by dissonant details: Lou presents a world that is as familiar as it is banal.
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In the Sushikiri ceremony in front of the shrine steps, two select young men, with slow, elaborate ritual, each slice up 10 funazushi, remaining unruffled as their elders shout humorous advice at them from their seats on the steps.
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The evening breeze ruffled the pond.
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All afternoon he's successfully impersonated a man who's not hurried, not ruffled, and not full of his own importance.
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He had managed to tame his usually ruffled hair and he had shaved.
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A dozen girls in ruffled skirts stand, shifting their weight from foot to foot, gazing shyly at their reflections in the mirror.
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But it now seems that the news of a new director has calmed the ruffled kilts and sporrans, and there is peace in the glens once more.
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We arrived with good memories of a truffled beef carpaccio, a delicious tender steak and a waitress who bought us free wine as an apology for being slow (even though we hadn't even noticed).
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A cool night breeze ruffled the curtains of the window and swept in a fragrance of spicy earth.
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Ruth spread out the ruffled skirt, sundrily torn and soiled.
The Ragged Edge
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The synthetic surfaces are inert, unruffled by the natural.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Melstead sat on the edge of his armchair, the remainder of his whisky quivering like a ruffled puddle in the tumbler.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Acutely aware of how she is perceived in the public eye, she once invited PS to lunch and, over truffled beans, she revealed she had been forced to '' decommission '' me from her Facebook friends because one of her other virtual friends,
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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A layered and truffled potato cake, and a strangely matched champagne sabayon sauce, could not make the dish click.
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She was obviously ruffled by his question.
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The wind ruffled his hair.
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I was too ruffled and crossgrained to talk to him, but I could not keep myself from watching him.
Montlivet
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I smiled and ruffled his hair, messing it up even more.
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There was a painting in gray and white before me, serene and unruffled as a frozen pond.
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He appears remarkably unruffled, even after another day of questions, more questions, excitable headlines and warnings that the 178-year-old institution is on the slippery slope.
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Now and then came the unruffled voice of a female dispatcher, droning numbers and code words.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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Wren walked in, wiping his hands on his trousers and trying to pat down his ruffled hair.
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There is an unexpected ease to the ruffled shirt: it has a relaxed silhouette, but the central ruffle gives a nod to fun.
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But for those of us just yards away there was a faint flicker of panic behind her unruffled cool.
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The wind ruffled her hair and she watched the leaves dance, lightly, beneath the soft breeze.
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When the wind is blowing off the river, kite-fliers weave their crafts in and out of the air pockets above, and the para-gliders and windsurfers do the same upon the ruffled waters.
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with ruffled flags flying
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A black collie ran back towards her, her fur ruffled in the wind, tongue lolling out.
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Everything's looking rosy, and then all of a sudden you wake up on your own on the floor with your bedclothes unruffled.
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After the interval the home side emerged, feathers ruffled.
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Helicopter downwash ruffled the river's waters as Lynx, Gazelle and Sea Kings hovered over the action.
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Griffin ruffled feathers, yet here was a space engineering type that knew from where he spoke.
Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch
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She was wearing a pretty blue shirt with ruffled sleeves and a high waist with lace.
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A girl in a ruffled jean miniskirt with a colourfully striped v-neck, her light hoodie zip-up flying behind her, came bounding down the stairs.
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He looked a little messy, with his hair desperately needing a trim as it was always ruffled.
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The varieties most sold in Paris in the late eighteenth century were vinegars flavored à la ravigotte, with tarragon, mixed flowers, elder-flowers, truffled, and with fines herbes.
Savoring The Past
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If you can impassively read about truffled taleggio on toast, tuna melt with paprika or a hot muffaletta while gazing at photographs of gooey cheese slathered over toasted bread, you are far stronger than me.
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Wear them with a ruffled blouse and a tailored jacket, she reckoned, and you had the perfect contemporary replay of the classic suit.
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The drawing of a woman with big eyes, dark lashes and tightly knotted hair, dressed in a ruffled frock and sporting a fan, gave it away.
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Broadway, and the dolly with the "shash" and "pairesol" which she had seen the day before under its glass case was hers for twenty-five dollars, and the plainer bit of china, who was to be dollie's mother and perform the parental duty of "panking her when she was naughty," was also purchased, and the dishes and the table and stove and bedstead, with ruffled sheets and pillow-cases and blue satin spread and the washboard and clothes bars and tiny wringer, with divers others toys, were bought with a disregard of expense which made Miss McDonald a wonder to those who waited on her.
Miss McDonald
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And the crown prince has won enormous public support but also ruffled feathers in court circles by speaking out for his wife.
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Paragraph after paragraph gives the details of a new crime, always delivered in an unruffled reportorial tone.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘This is a good year for me,’ agrees Imtiaz, looking characteristically unruffled on an unseasonally hot day in uncrushed white linen.
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Mills, seen here reviewing his troops, of course, saying the formal greetings in his tux and tie and all, seemed unruffled by this new rank, and even by the new statue cast in his honor.
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‘Yes,’ the queen replied, curtly, still ruffled by her husband's impudence.
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After the interval the home side emerged, feathers ruffled.
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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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Her immaculate appearance in sleek-fitting slacks and Jaeger sweater contrasted noticeably with the ruffled inelegance of the workers.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Could I aspire to become a 21st Century Nick, as I looked at the unruffled picture post card water?
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He wore one of those ruffled shirts that Alora associated with artists in eighteenth-century France.
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Its feathers were ruffled by the chill breeze.
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Chasing a target of 407, Yorkshire resumed on 12 without loss and never looked like saving the match, despite Lumb's unruffled 86 off 146 balls, with ten boundaries.
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He grinned contentedly as he ruffled my already tangled hair.
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The glassy surface of the lake was ruffled by the breeze.
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With short, ruffled tops and skirts and headpieces for the women, and large, ruffle-sleeved tops and white pants for the men, the group danced conga oriental, a common diversion during Cuba's Carnaval.
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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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Before she could stop herself, she had leaned over and ruffled his blond hair affectionately.
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A ruffled lace blouse will be your new best friend this summer.
The Sun
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At that time, a film in which adulterers are the protagonists must have ruffled some crinolines.
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The wind ruffled her coat as well as her long red hair, as she rode towards the forward camp.
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Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.
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Her short hair was oddly ruffled and then flattened around her head.
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You never saw him with a desk full of clutter-you never saw him ruffled, hurried, disorganized.
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The young man's friend, a dour bespectacled sort, was unruffled.
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I was not aware of any restrictions and so unaware, had a good time unruffled and blithely went on working.
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The clear unruffled bosom of the water, which softly glided at the foot of the alpine hills, was environed with pastoral and arcadian landscapes, which softening the wildness of the steep mountains, conspired to render this spot as inviting as it was lovely.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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But though by concealment he may preserve the unruffled surface of their happiness, yet the longing to be roving is not completely extinguished.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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The bed in a corner was hung in blue shalloon over ruffled white muslin, and there was blue at the windows.
The Three Black Pennys A Novel
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A breeze ruffled her cloak and brought up little clouds of dust from the ground.
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The sleeves flirt with flared puffs and completely slit up, ruffled and smocked sleeves.
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There were pools that dreamed black and unruffled, there were a few white lilies, crocuses and violets; purple or pale, snake-like frittilaries.
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The expanding of the flower bud is a pretty process; each lobe, supported by a strong midrib, spreads out into one of the points of a five-pointed star; each point is very sharp and angular because, folding in along these edges in one of the prettiest of Nature's hems is the ruffled margin of the flower.
Archive 2007-07-01
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At age 11 my attempt at sewing a pink ruffled miniskirt turned out unwearable, and the experience left me so discouraged that I didn't tackle another sewing project for many years.
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Music-hall dancers called for shortened skirts, and their high kicks gave more emphasis to the ruffled underside and bloomers than to the exterior of the garments.
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Even though the underground newspaper wrote a questioning article in regard to Lauren's mother and her accusations, Lauren came out for the Fall Retreat and she and Andy seem to be doing well although a bit "ruffled" by all the accusations even towards Andy and his lovely family.
Chris Rodda: Cadets For Christ: Women, Evangelicals And The Air Force Academy
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Each other or look calm and unruffled, motionless.
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Try dressing your room with wicker baskets, and look for flounced or ruffled curtains, tablecloths and bedding.
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Superficially, the humdrum of life continues, with routine largely unruffled.
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She had managed to stay completely unruffled during the entire conversation, defying what he knew about humans and their unconquerable pride.