I knew an eminent engineer who habitually jotted his pencil memoranda on the well-starched wristband of his left shirt-sleeve, pushing back the cuff of his coat in order to expose it.
It was dreadfully wrong of him, of course, and Head-nurse would rightly cuff his ears if she overheard it!
Now to his grave was Roger Cuff conveyed, And strong resentment's lingering spirit laid.
I did have some cufflinks and things," said Peabody vaguely.
I had seen him one night, a month or so before, at Monte Carlo, where he wound up a run against the red by snapping the sovereigns off his cuff links.
Ere I had time to give him a cuff he had jumped aboard, the ropes were cast off, and her nose was seaward.
I lent him a cuff on the ear that laid him across his foolish engine.
I had not proceeded two sentences, when one little fellow gave his neighbor a tremendous dig in the side; I instantly stepped forward and gave him a sound cuff on the side of his head.
Then he found another jewel case, and from it extracted a second diamond stud and a pair of very fine cuff buttons.
More than this, the diamonds and cuff buttons had been gifts of which they were very proud.
For it belongs to us--at least two hundred and seventy-five dollars of it--not counting what he may have got on the diamonds and the cuff buttons.
Rufus Dawes, swaying to and fro from weakness, passed his shred of a cuff over his eyes.
The weight of the water pressing between the cuff and the rest of the gut, bore down a further portion; and so, by repeated dippings, the whole length was turned inside out.
This he did by turning up a short piece of it, as though it were a coat-sleeve, and dipping the turned-up cuff into a pool of water.
On the pin cushion lay the agate cuff buttons and the silver-rimmed fountain pen.
That night Cuff was dreaming the old haunting dream about waking up in the gutter when something startled him.
Cuff denied this by a vigorous whack of his stumpy tail.
Once in New York, with Cuff trotting behind, Joan seemed to gather strength--but not clear vision.
At the mention of her name Cuff whined pathetically, and Joan bent and gathered him in her arms.
She clung to Joan with one hand and pattedCuff with the other.
Then she turned wearily, aimlessly--homeward, with Cuff in her arms.
However, Cuff rose to the emergency and bore himself with credit.
She held Cuff in her arms as she repeated: "It cannot be, Cuff, dear, it cannot!
It was three weeks after Patricia went that Cuff met Joan as she entered the room--with Patricia's slippers which he had found where Joan had hidden them!
He had just reached the place where Sergeant Cuff looks up at Rachel's window and whistles The Last Rose of Summer.
He could not desert Sergeant Cuffat such a point for a pair of football boots, and at three o'clock, with the whole afternoon before him.
Put your hand back on the chair arm," he ordered, and locked the cuff into place again.
Yeah, the chain goes through these iron cuff things and holds the whole row of slaves together, the other end goes out through a hole in the wall.
Many a cuff it got, and many a hard word, when its straying feet brought it into the way of the rough life up at the tavern.
Who knew but that the white woman's ghost would rise out of the kopje there, some dark night, and pinch and cuff and thump and beat people who had ill-used her bantling?
Of course the mere idea of the cuff having sailed as fast as we did all day used us up completely, and Uncle in particular had to hang to the rail for support while he sort of wove back and forth in an ecstasy of speechless joy.
And then, when we got ourselves selves under control once more, Mr. Chopstone explained that what he had thought was that the cuff had caught somewhere on the outside of the steamer and that Uncle saw it hanging there.
An edge of eyelets is very handsome on a collar and cuff set or handkerchief.
The turns or folds are opened out and now turn the cuff inside out.
Hem the inner side of the cuff to the wrong side of the sleeve.
Notches of sleeve put together] Turn the sleeve inside out and fold the cuff in the creases.
Hemstitching for Handkerchiefs and Collar and Cuff Sets--Simple Drawn Work Stitches 207 XX.
Place the cuff around the sleeve so that cuff seam rests on the seam of the sleeve.
It was a fortnight before he 'left the house,' but he learned a little piece of wisdom by that cuff that sent him down the bank, and got a little insight into the nater of an angry bear.
Remove basting, turn sleeves right side out; and press all around cuff as explained.
Place on coat hangers and when dry, proceed to press as follows: Have coat lying on the table or tailor's bench to the right, draw the right cuff over the small end of the press-jack which should be pointing to the right.
Then turn sleeve lining in on the turn up two inches from the bottom of cuffwith basting stitches, and fell lining with silk same color as the cloth or lining.
Well, out come the jets o' water an' give them buckets a cuff that sets the wheel goin'.
And the Cuff and Collar Captain, when he tumbled off to die, Was the last surviving player -- so the game was called a tie.
Hold out your other hand, sir," roars Cuff to his little schoolfellow, whose face was distorted with pain.
There has been a fight here between Cuff & Dobbin.
Cuff was licking me for breaking a bottle of milk, and Figs wouldn't stand it.
Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him.
Cuff goes home every Saturday, but can't this, because he has 2 Black Eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
