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  • "Cost the same," says Herb, meaning the new cuffless pants.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • And the final one was an interesting foray into cuffless mittens having seen a lot of Latvian style ones on Ravelry which usually have no cuff.

    Archive 2008-01-01 miya^^ 2008

  • And the final one was an interesting foray into cuffless mittens having seen a lot of Latvian style ones on Ravelry which usually have no cuff.

    Chunky, love it! miya^^ 2008

  • I'd stood at the door in my black, unpressed, cuffless wool pants; wide suspenders; heavy black buttoned shoes; green-and-white-striped shirt with no collar, though both front and back studs were in the neckband; and I wore a double-breasted black vest with braided edges, a heavy gold watch chain stretched across it.

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

  • A man in cuffless shirt-sleeves with pink arm-garters, wearing a linen collar but no tie, yawned his way from Dyer's Drug Store across to the hotel.

    Main Street 1920

  • A man in cuffless shirt-sleeves with pink arm-garters, wearing a linen collar but no tie, yawned his way from Dyer's Drug Store across to the hotel.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • If it pleases us to dine together coatless and cuffless, we do so; and no one suggests that a national upheaval is likely to result.

    Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures Edgar Franklin 1918

  • His hat of brown felt slouches over bright red hair; one cuffless hand, lank and long, hangs down inert, the other sleeve falls loose; he is one-armed.

    The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900

  • Skjarsen, the cuffless wonder from the lumber camps, for the affections of the prettiest girl in college.

    At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896

  • Patched, half-starved, cuffless, and as scornful of the Hook as an interpreter of Ibsen, he had danced his way into health (as you and I view it) and fame in sixteen minutes on Amateur Night at Creary's (Variety) Theatre in Eighth Avenue.

    Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

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