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He was a massive, rotund, bull-necked individual, with a face the colour of a ripe tomato, and wore on the sleeves of his jumper two red good conduct badges and the single gun and star of an able seaman, seaman gunner, of His Majesty's Navy. His name was Smith, I discovered, and he was home on seven days' leave.
The sleeves, however, are often wide and loose, and others again, though nearly tight, reach not far beyond the elbow, especially of those worn by the younger females, which, as well as those of the young men, are open in front no farther down than the bosom, and reach no lower than the waist, whereas the others hang loose to the knees, and sometimes to the ankles.
Before he proceeds to business, he examines the sleeves and front of his jacket, and having brushed off with the palm of his hand a variety of blanket-hairs, adhering to the cloth, he is satisfied, and now turns to the right and to the left, and forward and aft in less than a minute he goes right round the compass. What can Corporal Van Spitter want at so early an hour?
"If you vote with us, you will have the pleasant consciousness of knowing that you have advanced woman's cause just so much." "You may count on my vote." Selma stopped on her way home, although it was late, to purchase some white cuffs. As she approached, her husband stood on the grass-plot in his shirt sleeves with a garden-hose.
Salammbo crouched down upon the onyx step on the edge of the basin; she raised her ample sleeves, fastening them behind her shoulders, and began her ablutions in methodical fashion, according to the sacred rites.
"Yes, ma'am," said Topsy, as before; but we will add, what Miss Ophelia did not see, that, during the time when the good lady's back was turned in the zeal of her manipulations, the young disciple had contrived to snatch a pair of gloves and a ribbon, which she had adroitly slipped into her sleeves, and stood with her hands dutifully folded, as before.
If you had only been there before he jumped! His eyes were so sweet under your frills, and his paws were so enchanting coming out of your sleeves. And if it hadn't been for your spectacles Now, tell me a story, Nancy, till it is time to go to Gran'ma."
She had a fashion of absently sweeping the loose sleeves of her wrapper and "artistic" house-gowns up to her shoulder and revealing a plump and charming arm; and the pointed toe of shoe or slipper was always visible. Her arts were lost on Isabel, who understood and despised her, but who regarded her as a sacred legacy from her mother; Mrs.
"Will you, then, be good enough to tell us what sort of a dress Mrs. Van Burnam wore when she left your house for the city?" "It was a black and white plaid silk, very rich " Why, what did this mean? We had all expected a very different description. "It was made fashionably, and the sleeves well, it is impossible to describe the sleeves.
You see' she leaned over and spoke confidentially 'we've never dared break it to them. 'Haw! Haw! 'We know they couldn't bear it. 'Oh-h! 'So we've done all our laughing in our sleeves. Yes and some years our sleeves had to be made like balloons! She pulled out the loose alpaca of her own while the workmen chuckled with appreciation.
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