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If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.
Jessica Raine / Actress
Feathers
Ifs
Ruffles
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
Alexander Pope / Poet
Rags
Rogues
Ruffles
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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
England
Ruffles
Shirts
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
Nicolas Chamfort / Writer
Generosity
Needs
Ruffles
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
Oliver Goldsmith / Novelist
Healthy
Hurt
Ruffles
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Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.
William Shakespeare / Poet
Night
Ruffles
Wind
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I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills
Novala Takemoto / Author
Believe
Growing Up
Ruffles
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I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.
Anne Heche / Actress
Feathers
No Problem
People
Problem
Ruffles
Taught
Course
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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
Alfred Lord Tennyson / Poet
Cold
Ruffles
Swans
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You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
Marissa Mayer / Engineer
Computer
Jocks
Ruffles
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You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.
Christine Feehan / Writer
Calling
Names
Ruffles
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I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.
Totie Fields / Comedienne
Clothes
Ostriches
Ruffles
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Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.
Alan Lewis / Referee
Jobs
Bother
Coaches
Feathers
International
Reason
Referee
Ruffles
Your Me Will
Me Doing Will
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
Beatrix Potter / Author
Gentleman
Gold
Ruffles
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I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.
Giambattista Valli / Fashion Designer
Design
Feathers
Flower
Ruffles
Bouquet
Flowers
Held
Something Else
Tightly
Waist
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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.
Robert Penn Warren / Poet
Jewels
Ruffles
Steel
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I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Color
Doe
Ruffles
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Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to be having a difficult time negotiating Alexia's multiple layers of skirts and ruffles, which formed a particularly efficacious barrier in the tight confines of the hackney.
Gail Carriger / Archaeologist
Hackney
Missing
Ruffles
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She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.
Gail Carriger / Archaeologist
Fighting
Important
Ruffles
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[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to power, to status, to money, to position, to each other, you're going to ruffle a lot of feathers.
Kellyanne Conway / Strategist
President
Roots
Ruffles
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