Yet I was hopeful, and though, as it turned out, he was busily engaged in talking to Thedosei Ivanovitch, I walked up to him from behind, and plucked at his
sleeve. He looked away from me, but I recited my speech about thirty roubles, et cetera, et cetera, of which, at first, he failed to catch the meaning.
You should have stuck the needle in your
sleeve.' 'Never mind, I'll do better next time.'
"Listen, Bilibin," said Helene (she always called friends of that sort by their surnames), and she touched his coat
sleeve with her white, beringed fingers.
Alexander faced her, resting his arm on the mantel behind him, and began to brush the
sleeve of his jacket.
Now give me the sleeve-- not that
sleeve, the other one.
"Any news of anybody?" whispered Fan, affecting to examine a
sleeve with care.
The ribbon was pulled out of Topsy's own
sleeve, yet was she not in the least disconcerted; she only looked at it with an air of the most surprised and unconscious innocence.
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's
sleeve. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
Odsbodikins, it was but a dull lie, a most indifferent invention, but you should have seen them seize it and swallow it, in the frenzy of their fright, as it were sal- vation sent from heaven; and all the while was I laughing in my
sleeve the one moment, to see them so cheaply deceived, and glorifying God the next, that He was content to let the meanest of His creatures be His instrument to the saving of thy life.
She had made them up herself, and they were all made alike--plain skirts fulled tightly to plain waists, with
sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as
sleeves could be.
That poor man certainly deserves it; for, after all, isn't he in his shirt
sleeves because he was good enough to buy a book for me?
She was a fresh, pretty woman, clad always in white with elbow
sleeves. Her starched skirts crinkled as she came and went.