She threw back her head, pressed her muff closer to her chin, and watched them with a smile of amazement and delight.
Jules handed her her muff with a quick, sympathetic glance.
She threw her muff on his writing table and sank into the deep chair.
The children who were streaking over the asphalt on roller skates saw a lady in a long fur coat, and short, high-heeled shoes, alight from a French car and pace slowly about the Square, holding her muff to her chin.
If you muff it I'll expect you to throw it down again.
Look here, if I got you some sweets and chucked up the bag would you catch it or muff it?
Bab wisely had tucked herself in furs, a muff and scarf of silver fox.
Bending forward, hermuff tucked beneath her chin, she looked about her with eyes glowing.
Of course we were very sorry and all that, but we never thought he'd be such a muff as to be frightened of three Red Indians and a wigwam that happened to upset.
It's bad enough to have a muff in the house at all, and at Christmas time, too.
She pressed her muff against her face to hide the sudden grimace she was sure contorted it; there had been few moments in her life when she had not been mistress of her features, but this was one of them.
Alexina had lowered her muff and her face expressed only the warmest surprise and welcome.
Freezing weather had begun to exhaust her extra supply of warmth, and she had purchased a heavy coat of soft brown material trimmed with brown fur and with a fur muff to match.
Hertha still stood hesitating, pushing one foot over the other, clasping her hands together in her muff and striving to decide in her mind what to do.
The snow was brushed from her dress and she was standing, her muff pulled over her arm, settling her hat in place.
When a little girl once went down Broadway with her muff and her doll, the hand outside the muff told the hand within that he had no idea what a cold day it was.
Nanny’s fur tippet kept all the cold wind out of her neck, and her little muff kept one hand warm while the other was given to her mamma.
When that got cold Nanny changed about, and put it in the muff and the other out.
As they entered the Park he happened to glance under her wide black hat at her black eyes and hair--the muff hid everything else--and discovered that she was crying.
She sank back into the hansom and held hermuff before her face, lowering it occasionally to utter laconic remarks about the people in the carriages they passed, interrupting Fred's narrative in a disconcerting manner.
Mr Fitzpatrick declared that the law concerning daughters was out of the present case; that stealing a muff was undoubtedly felony, and the goods being found upon the person, were sufficient evidence of the fact.
The muff was so very remarkable, that our heroe might possibly have recollected it without the information annexed.
Don't you remember putting your hands in my lady's muff once?
I believe they got into your chamber whether I would or no; for here lies the muff of one of them on the ground.
He then produced the evidence of Mr Partridge, as to the finding it; but, what was still more, Susan deposed that Sophia herself had delivered the muff to her, and had ordered her to convey it into the chamber where Mr Jones had found it.
This so disconcerted the squire, that he snatched the muff from her, and with a hearty curse threw it into the fire.
He kissed it again and again, and said it was the prettiest muff in the world.
She read over more than once the letter which she had received from Jones; her muff too was used on this occasion; and she bathed both these, as well as herself, with her tears.
You must know then, sir, that my lady had given this muff to me; but about a day or two after I had told her the story, she quarrels with her new muff, and to be sure it is the prettiest that ever was seen.
Indeed, as Jones returned to his bed in the dark, he had never perceived the muff on the quilt, and, in leaping into his bed, he had tumbled it on the floor.
And now Jones, upon further enquiry, was sufficiently assured that the bearer of this muff was no other than the lovely Sophia herself.
The kitchen was now a scene of universal confusion, Western enquiring after his daughter, and Fitzpatrick as eagerly after his wife, when Jones entered the room, unfortunately having Sophia's muff in his hand.
She was playing one of her father's favourite tunes, and he was leaning on her chair, when the muff fell over her fingers, and put her out.
But the mufflay in her lap, ponderous with its rich enclosures.
How unlucky," thought Lucy, "that she has not got my muff with her!
And then Lucy began petting the little boy, and by degrees slipped a small bag of gingerbread-nuts out of her muff into his hands.
In a house full of birds Muffnever touched one, although he was an excellent mouser (who says cats have no conscience?
But Muff was a real nobleman among cats, and extraordinarily handsome.
To all further entreaties she returned the same answer, standing there a haughty, though drenched and battered infant, in her soiled white cloak and her red shoes, holding her mop of a muff tightly in both hands.
I remembered her as she had stood in our little kitchen on that stormy October evening, holding her mop of a muff in her cold little hands, and looking back at me with her sparkling defiant gaze.
He is no muff at all, I can tell you, but an exceedingly clever man.
She shall give me her muff and her beautiful dress, and she shall sleep in my bed.
They gave her a muff as well as some shoes; she was warmly dressed, and when she was ready, there in front of the door stood a coach of pure gold, with a coachman, footmen and postilions with gold crowns on.
Dee stooped and quickly scooped into her muff the poor pussy.
He was holding my hand in my muff again, the other arm round my waist.
It is a great, big, granny muff of sable I have, Mrs. Carruthers's present on my last birthday.
Lady Sellingworth picked up a big muff and went down to the motor, leaving Cecile smiling behind her.
As she spoke she drew it out of the muff she was carrying.
Then she went to the sofa where her muff was lying, drew out the letter that was in it, went over to the fireplace and threw the letter into the flames.
Then she picked up the muff in which the letter lay hidden.
And now, even at sixty--Presently she saw by the look of the landscape that she was nearing Coombe, and she drew a little mirror out of her muff and gazed into it anxiously.
And a man must be a muff who could look at this, and then trouble his head about their stupid little tricks.
Muff were to bounce in, why there was an end to all such schemes.
This thought made her love Muffall the more, but then there were Fred's birds.
When she arose the next morning she felt as we are all apt to feel after the excitement of new and sudden resolves, rather flat; and the sight of Muff sitting near a laurel bush in the garden, enjoying the morning sun, quite unnerved her.
Edith had only that day made her a new red leather collar, and Muff looked very smart in it.
I never advised her to give up that little room to you nor to send poor Muff away.
Her own dear old Muff sleeping on the hearth of the kitchen which she had not yet entered.
She sat back in the corner of her car with her muff tightly held against her breast as though to cherish close some knowledge treasured there.
My duties are light just now," he protested, but Cynthia lifted up her hands in her great muff appealingly and coaxed him.
So they left the outcast perched on a wall, waving her muffat them, and calling out, 'Nater for ever!
Her face was quite colourless, even to the lips, and her hands were clenched in the shabbiness of the cheap little muff she carried.
The muff did not come nor send by the first train.
You know the law from me, and you are a daring man that would try this sort of thing; but a timid woman, advised by a respectable muff like Oldfield!
You're not such a muff as the others, old 'un, not by a long chalk.
Be still, Paul, and let Muff alone," said Paul's mother.
Bruno was always ready to give Muff battle whenever Paul tipped him the wink to pitch in.
Muff went with a jump upon the bureau in the corner of the room, her tail as big as Paul's arm, and her back up.
It was glorious to see Muff spit fire, and hear her growl low and deep like distant thunder.
Paul made a hiss which Bruno understood, for he went at Muff more fiercely.
Paul would not have Muff hurt for anything, but he loved to see Bruno show his teeth at her, for she was gritty when waked up.
As he turned his head, he saw, on the little cotton muff of Mary's doll, the butterfly for which he had so patiently watched.
It remained on the muff several hours, and then flew to the window, and alighted on the curtain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
