He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.
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Ruff
/ɹʌf/
Synonyms for "ruff" (123 found)
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9 entriesCollocations
11 entriesElizabethan ruffbreeding plumage rufflace ruffmale ruffoverruff in bridgeruff a trickruff the trickruff with a trumpruffing a trickstanding ruffwhite ruff
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3 entriesSample sentences
38 total sentences available.
You a Captaine? you ſlaue, for what? for tearing a poore Whores Ruffe in a Bawdy-houſe? Hee a Captaine? hang him Rogue, hee liues vpon mouldie ſtew'd-Pruines, and dry'de Cakes.
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"Just look here! I am a parson now. Here is both the gown and the ruff!"
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"When we first forgathered, I was sitting on the floor with a chair round my neck." "Like an Elizabethan ruff, as worn by Thomas Botway." "Otway," I said stiffly.
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