Word: ruff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...asked, remembering that my mother draws the line somewhere. No he said it was not a union dance but another kind of dance in the real colleege stile, so I said where and he said at Brattle Hall the night of the 14th. So I said will it be ruff as those club dances and he said No it wouldn't because their wouldn't be none of the clubs there. Ha. Ha. So I said yes since Harvard was getting colleege too and running a brawl like Sweeny's which is funny. And he said as times was changing...
...cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled as the burly 22-year-old inventor and his clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. Farmer Ruff, owner of the oats, called a halt; he thought his grain was being thrashed standing. But a local politician rode up and invited McCormick upon his land. There the contraption reaped six acres in half a day-six men's work. Young McCormick devoted himself to his invention with...
...Philadelphia, a boy and a dog played together. The name of the one was Dick McDevitt (six years old)*; the name of the other was Ruff (an Airedale). While they did not actually talk to each other, they had found that by pats, grimaces and tender looks, they could communicate better than much older people. In the daytime the great crinkly dog padded by the side of the boy, whose head barely reached his shoulder; at night he curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something...
...sought otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction." Elizabeth would only offer vague suggestions as to the English succession and renew her futile suggestion of Dudley, whom she had lovingly tickled under his ruff as he knelt before her to be made Baron Denbigh and Earl of Leicester...
Frans Hals is represented in this group by his Portrait of a Man-a Cavalier in a rakish hat, white ruff, glancing over his shoulder. Hals reproduced this gentleman's debonair carriage, reproduced also, in delicate red, the warts that marred his countenance...