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Examples

  • Chris wore white frilled shirt-cuffs over the thick wrists, and a small discreet white frill round his neck.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • Yonder comes Frank Leveson, in a huge broad-brimmed hat, his shirt-cuffs turned up to his elbows.

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

  • He had a fat face, but was not too plump in figure, and very muscular wrists showed below his shirt-cuffs.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Dropping the silk shirt, he held his coat-sleeves down and worked the frayed shirt-cuffs up till they were out of sight.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • He stared involuntarily at his own shirt-cuffs — they were ragged and linty at the edges and soiled to a faint gray.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • Chris wore white frilled shirt-cuffs over the thick wrists, and a small discreet white frill round his neck.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • "I know you, " the Army surgeon, his shirt-cuffs thick with dried blood, said.

    Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

  • I watched Mary, her face expressionless and carefully not looking at me, button my shirt-cuffs -- with both wrists bandaged and my fingers heavily scratched it was a bit much for me -- and went on, "Well, it'll certainly provide the British public with a conversational change from the football pools, what so-and-so said on TV last night and the latest rock and roll sensation."

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • I watched Mary, her face expressionless and carefully not looking at me, button my shirt-cuffs -- with both wrists bandaged and my fingers heavily scratched it was a bit much for me -- and went on, "Well, it'll certainly provide the British public with a conversational change from the football pools, what so-and-so said on TV last night and the latest rock and roll sensation."

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • I watched Mary, her face expressionless and carefully not looking at me, button my shirt-cuffs — with both wrists bandaged and my fingers heavily scratched it was a bit much for me — and went on, "Well, it'll certainly provide the British public with a conversational change from the football pools, what so-and-so said on TV last night and the latest rock and roll sensation."

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

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