Her dainty foot came out of the coach door under ruffles of silk.
The south wind fluttered the ruffles on that and the yellow telegram as she read.
Maria looked down disconsolately at the lace-trimmed ruffles on her skirt, but even then she thought how pretty it was, and how pretty she must look herself standing so forlornly before her mother.
All unconsciously she glanced sideways over the fall of lace-trimmed pink ruffles at her slender shoulders at Wollaston Lee.
In the morning I had to throw on his Persian nightgown and in the evening go about the room in the black costume of a page; white lace rufflesat my neck, my knees and my wrists.
There were no velvet coats and lace ruffles here, except in the small group which formed the Governor's court.
There were full rufflesof lace on his breast and wrists.
But can they, even in that chaste and splendid nudity, dispense withruffles and flounces?
The cradle and the tomb, are they not the first and last ruffles of Man?
So, you will buy me a sky-blue silk dress, ya habibi and a pink one, too, with plenty of ruffles on them?
But that was, when man went forth in native buff, brother to the lion, not the ox, withoutruffles and without faith.
And the ruffles shall be as many and as long as you desire them.
It is humbugged into health by the malodorous flounces of the apothecary and the medicinal ruffles of the doctor.
Behold, meanwhile, how the world parades in ruffles before us.
Look at your huge elaborate monuments, your fancy sepulchers, what are they but the ruffles of your triumphs and defeats?
I never saw a bride in a plain gown; they all have ruffles and flounces to them.
I had tucked in my superb ruffles of English point lace, but my frilled shirt front of the same material protruded slightly through my vest, which I had not buttoned carefully.
I wore a very fine suit, but my open ruffles and the buttons all along my coat shewed at once that I was a foreigner, for the fashion was not the same in Paris.
The doctor left in disgust, with his neat wristruffles torn.
A smaller and shorter sleeve began to appear with a turned-up cuff, and the gathered-in lawn sleeves and ruffles caught here and there with pearls or clasps as before, besides the same light drapery clasped about the breast front.
She rose impetuously and leant against the spinet, her muslin ruffles touching the white roses.
Rose Lyndwood very faintly smiled, his lids had a weary droop, but under them his glance was keenly on his brother, who had begun to fumble in the ruffles at his breast.
There was a lamp on the larger of the nursery tables, a tall lamp, almost flower-like with its petal-shaped ruffles of lace and chiffon.
For one instant Gwendolyn did not move--though her heart beat so wildly that it stirred the lace ruffles of her dressing-gown.
Even now the blue shimmer and clouds of white ruffles seemed to belong to some other state.
Hoffman came in Continental costume, with buff small-clothes and black velvet coat, great buckles of brilliants at his knees and lace ruffles at his wrists and shirt front, and his hair powdered, they all exclaimed.
The wide cap-ruffles caught the breeze, for one always found a breeze in this vicinity.
Then it was covered with narrow ruffles that suggested drifting clouds over an azure sky.
Cousin Jane changed her gown every afternoon, and wore lace ruffles at the neck, just plain strips of what was called footing, that she pleated up herself.
Reaching out a white hand, she chose a cake, and began to nibble it slowly, her elbows resting on the table, the ruffles of white lace falling back from her bare and rounded arms.
In the dusk of the declining afternoon the black satin and white ruffles of her dress, her white head in its lace cap, her thin neck and shoulders, her tall slenderness, and the rigidity of her attitude, made a formidable study in personality.
The figure of the exquisite of 1670 from Jacquemin wears the petticoat breeches, but without the ruffles or frills at the knees.
I saw in the door the most splendid young man I had ever seen; he was richly dressed, though his coat and ruffles showed some disorder, in crimson coat and sash, with flowered silk waistcoat, and sword whose hilt gleamed with jewels.
I am at thy service, though, for a Norfolk baronet, my ruffles are of the shabbiest.
His dress was worn in the same easy disorder, the ruffles being limp, his wig tied carelessly, the lace upon his hat torn, as if in some scuffle, and the buckles of his shoes were an odd pair.
I saw an old gentleman already dressed for the morning, with lace ruffles and a handkerchief for the neck of rich crimson silk, who sat on one of the benches beneath the trees, his hand upon a stick, looking at me with a sort of earnestness.
Villiam, catching his case-bottle just in time to save it from sliding through his ruffles to the floor; "I shall work upon human Instink.
And the sight of those tornruffles around his long white hands made the boy's hair rise.
Conrad sighed as he smoothed the ruffles at his wrists to think that it might not be the latest mode.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruffles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
