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How to use ruff in a sentence

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She stood, shucked her breeches then slipped into the steaming water, her fur floating out in a ruff at the waterline.
The dog trotted back out of the forest, trotting along happily, with the ruff of a pup in her mouth.
Behind the flock even the white tip of his tail and his ruff were quite invisible.
Rembrandt depicts himself in a burgher's hat and cloak, as does Rubens, although the hats are dissimilar and Rembrandt wears a neck ruff.
If honour meant wearing a great ruff around the neck, shame meant being denuded.
He wore a dark blue outfit complete with tights and a large ruff around his neck.
The tail has a dark band at the end, with a lighter tip, which, like the dark ruff around the neck, is evident when fanned open.
I can make a parka, mouton mittens, and sew a fur ruff to finish it all off.
The globe echoes the shape made by the Queen's head with its surrounding ruff, like a planet in relation to the sun.
A trip to a Leeds theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
A close ruff and wristlets, a ruby and gold carcanet, and a jewelled girdle complete this rich and dignified dress.
Accurate defense usually requires careful timing. Consider the alternatives before you routinely try for a ruff or an overruff.
About 50 species were recorded there including long distance migrants like pallid harriers, ruff and reeves, white ibis, comb ducks, etc.
A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
His blends of smooth sounds and ruff beats fuse old-school elements with the new, and his skill as a DJ is right up there too.
There is a rare Puss-in-Boots, white mohair with a dashing felt feather hat and ruff, black boots, yellow sash and steel sword.
The stamens are a dusty yellow and each flower has a ruff of leafy bracts at its base.
He is the presiding genius of the national spirit, a kind of Churchill in a neck ruff.
In addition, bicolors have a white ruff, white legs and feet and may have patches of white on their bodies.
A generous ruff about the neck, and breeches on the hind legs are preferred.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The best account we have of the starched ruff is by a man who wrote to abuse it.
Its froglike head, with a ruff of exposed filaments lifted, like an animal scenting blood.
Miss ruff saw how Lady Longspade passed on, but she was nothing disconcerted.
The only case in which it is not an evidence of strength is when it shows a desire to ruff.
Your ruff, your poker, are engendering together upon the cupboard of the court, or the court cupboard.
Swinging down by his legs and one hand, he thrust the thorned branch of acacia deep in under the ruff.
Then Mrs. Garded made two direct appeals to Miss ruff for mercy.
And very much, sir, the ruff and the slashed doublet become you!
He glanced at Retief, adjusted his ruff and looked into the banquet hall.
The ruff, Machetes pugnax, was believed by Montague to be polygamous.
You wore a close ruff, a small cap upon your head of the same color as your robe, and in that cap a heron's feather.
His garb, like that of his predecessors, was of an antique fashion, and there was a stain of blood upon his ruff.
Fine gentlemen though he was, the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff, and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it.
Who would wear for every sigh Blood's red flower upon his ruff?
His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff.
A small jacket of the same material was adorned with a high ruff at the back, and laid well open over the breast, to display some lace and a locket.
You might as well wear a standing ruff as such a dress as that.
Here, in gold-embroidered red doublet, jewelled surcoat, and gilt-edged ruff and wristbands, stood Sir Anthony Sherard, with his silver-and-black armour piled at his feet.
Imagine him a person of grave and benevolent aspect, dressed in a black velvet suit, with a broad ruff around his neck, and a peaked beard upon his chin.
He walked the plank at daybreak one grey stormy morning just off the Nethermost Ruff of the dogger.
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