pulled-out

Updated: May 15, 2025

The pulled-out style, in bad imitation of Japanese hair dressing, gives a dirty and untidy appearance, and looks perfectly hideous on horseback, and especially when the place where the back hair ought to be, is adorned with a round brooch! If ladies who adopt this bad style could only see how much it vulgarises an otherwise nice appearance, they would at once abjure it.

Alice M. Hayes - The Horsewoman: A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.

Now these people are controlled. They neither think nor act for themselves, as a general rule; somebody does that for them. Now, as he spoke, trying to take me by a pulled-out button-hole, 'you might as well be that somebody as any man I know. "'Why, Lord bless you, Mr. Simpson, I can't do my own thinking, and as to acting, my wife says I am acting the fool all day long.

William H. Armstrong - Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals: As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Flakes like pulled-out bits of cotton floated to their shoulders, resting there. Seventh Avenue, for the instant before the eye left the great Greek façade of the Pennsylvania Terminal, was like a dream of Athens seen through the dapple of white shadows. Immediately the eye veered, however, the great cosmopolis formed by street meeting avenue tore down the illusion.

Fannie Hurst - Every Soul Hath Its Song