New life came with this gain, and he pecked away, till just before the sun went down he had made a hole that his head, his neck, and his ever-beautiful ruffs could pass.
And, in the third place, they are so dreadfully quarrelsome when the nesting-season begins, that two male ruffs can never meet without fighting.
RUFFS The ruff, a relative of the curlew, is remarkable for three reasons.
Ruffs are hardly known in America, except in Alaska, but at one time they were very common in the marshy parts of England.
In the next place, two male ruffs are never colored alike, while sometimes they look so wholly different that it is quite hard to believe that they can really belong to the same species.
It appears that when the introducer of the custom was led to the gallows she was conspicuous in a yellow ruff worn about her neck, and after her execution the wearing of such ruffs rapidly declined.
Having said this much about the ruffs which were a characteristic feature of the dress of the day of both men and women, it may be well to add that starch was not wholly depended upon for the support of these preposterous neck dresses.
These ruffs are often referred to in the literature of the period.
My Aunt being extreamly proud, used to wear Lawn Ruffs of a great value.
We saw no game of any kind, yet the cassowary must abound somewhere near, as every one of the natives wears great head-dresses and neck-ruffs made from the feathers.
Some are quite light copper-coloured, others are very dark; nearly all are dressed with cassowary feathers; many with ruffs round their necks made from these feathers.
Large circular ruffsbecame all the rage besides the small turned-over collar.
Ruffs both large and small surrounded the neck, and a flat fan-shaped collar was seen in the earlier years.
Stow describes ruffs growing to a quarter of a yard deep; these were no doubt supported by piccalilloes, though they are not actually mentioned till after 1600, but they surely came with the fan-shaped structures of these later days.
Fine linen ruffs and collars were often edged with this work, as well as with gold lace.
Most bodices took a very deep curved front at the neck, and large padded sleeves narrowed at the wrist still continued, besides the high fan collar at the back of the neck, and large ruffs were used by many.
Square starched collars, rounded at the back, sometimes set up at the back of the neck or flat on the shoulder, and ruffs were still seen round the neck with collars as well, but they were seldom met with after 1635.
Ruffs and collars were no longer seen amongst the upper classes.
In England, where they were formerly very numerous, and in Holland, where they are probably so still, Ruffs are reared and fattened for the table.
The lad looked piteously at Dave and his companion of the rabbit warren--two inseparable friends--and felt that his chance of seeing the ruffs and reeves captured was very small.
In another week there'll be a deal more dry land, and the ruffs and reeves'll be ower in flocks, I dessay.
Look here, Dick, at the decoys," cried Tom running to a large wicker cage in which were four of the curious long-legged birds known as ruffsand reeves.
Moreover, we know that secondary sexual characters are remarkably subject to variation, as may be well seen in the case ofruffs (Machetes pugnax) in the British Natural History Museum.
Observe, as you enter the central hall, the case containing stuffed specimens of ruffs (Machetes pugnax).
Above all, the most severe orders were given against the wearing of ruffs and the using of starch for any purpose.
And, off fur as the eye could see, way through between and around, wuz other beautiful islands and trees covered with spires and ruffs peepin' out of the green.
Ruffs have been known to fall in, and I wanted to ensure Tirzah Ann's havin' a ruff over her head anyway.
And somewhere there under them flimsy ruffs was my Josiah!
They painted the hull concern a soft buff color, with red ruffs that looked real picturesque settin' back aginst the dark green of the trees.
And as Josiah said bitterly, the ruffs wuzn't any higher than the prices.
Eustacie's chamber was freed from the bustle of all the maids of honour arraying themselves, and adjusting curls, feathers, ruffs and jewels; and such relief as she was capable of experiencing she felt in the quiet.
Her silken farthingales hung like serge robes, her ruffs looked like mufflers, her coifs like hoods, even necklaces seemed rosaries, and her scrupulous neatness enhanced the pure unearthly air of all belonging to her.
She seemed to be promoted to belong to him just as she had grown up to curl her hair and wear ruffs and farthingales.
But allruffs grew obsolete in Charles's reign, and a lady of that day would scarcely be distinguished from a lady of this.
The ladies' dresses of Charles's time rapidly changed from the stiff ruffs and farthingales to a more natural and elegant style.
The costumes are peculiarly rich and the sashes gaily ample; whilst the variety of ruffs and collars, and the trimming of the beards, indicate the vagaries of fashion.
She put on her best black brocade gown, with its modish heliotrope bodice, and went to the expense of the newest things in ruffs and cuffs.
Some of his bands were of silver cloth with ruffs to them, others, as I have shown, were wonderfully embroidered.
With great care she seats herself on a broad chair, and a perfect army of ruffs is laid before her.
Sashes still held good, but of larger size, ruffs at the wrists were worn, but of plain linen.
Mary brought in a law against the use of silk, and a little later on the great ruffs claimed attention, for in 1562 it was ordered that no more than a yard and a half of kersey should be used in making a ruff.
In recalling the great ruffs and expanded collars of Queen Elizabeth's reign, one may be inclined to smile at the lengths to which a fad may be carried, and the curious, not to say monstrous, structures that are its culminations.
No longer do the ruffs trample the sedge into a hard floor in their fighting-rings, while the sober reeves stand round admiring the tournament of their lovers, gay with ears and tippets, no two of them alike.
This Frederick de Vinciolo is doubtless the same person who was summoned to France, by Catherine de Medicis, to instruct the ladies of the court in the art of netting the lace of which the then fashionable ruffs were made.
In the year 1580, sumptuary laws were published by proclamation, and enforced with great exactness, by which the ruffs were reduced to legal dimensions.
As to ruffs and puffs, cuffs and muffs, she troubled herself with none of those ridiculous vanities.
She may have exacted presents on her birthday; but the courtiers who gave her laces and ruffs and jewelry received monopolies in return.
Then fell she to swear and tear, to curse and damn, casting the Ruffs under feet, and wishing that the Devil might take her when she wear any of those Neckerchers again.
The skirts, then, of these great ruffs are long and side every way, pleted and crested full curiously, God wot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
