'Empty sleeve?' 'Yes,' said I, 'an empty sleeve.' 'It's an empty sleeve, is it?

Uh, wait a minute. Did one of your cuff links fall off?

He had the sleeves shortened.

He threw off his coat and examined the sleeves.

Can you help me pull off his sleeve?

Is it those frayed cuffs that are worrying you?

And my sleeves are too tight, but there's my waist.

I'm afraid the sleeves may be a little...

Well? No hand just an empty sleeve.

I'll have to shorten the sleeves, I'll need a sash,

Then he told me to wash the cuffs.

That's one society where frayed cuffs don't matter.

That way you won't have to even shorten the sleeves.

There are fruits of all kinds on it , and date palms with their clusters sheathed ,

In which are fruits , and covered dates .

therein fruits , and palm trees with sheaths ,

Therein are fruit and palm trees sheathed .

Therein are fruits , date palms producing sheathed fruit stalks ( enclosing dates ) .

In it are fruits , and palms in clusters .

Therein are fruit and palm trees with their dates in sheaths ,

Wherein are fruit and sheathed palm trees ,

In it are fruits and date palms with sheaths ,

Therein are fruits and palm trees with sheaths ,

Therein is fruit and palm trees having sheaths of dates

There exists all kinds of fruits , palm trees with sheathed blossoms ,

Therein is fruit and palms having sheathed clusters ,

On it are fruits and palm trees with sheathed clusters of dates ,

Therein is fruit and date palms , producing spathes ( enclosing dates )

You saw it was an empty sleeve?' He stood up right away.

'How the devil,' said I, 'can you move an empty sleeve like that?'

Oh, yes. Cost said the shoulders would settle.

So now he's going to have the sleeves lengthened again and give it back to his secretary.

I then took off my coat, and thought a little more in my shirt sleeves.

What the devil keeps that sleeve up and open, if there's nothing in it?

And all this in the customary dress of her day, floor length gowns.

Jeeves, I said, haven't you any scheme up your sleeve for coping with this blighter?

Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl.

My 18 suits, my custommade shoes, the six dozen shirts, the cufflinks, the platinum keychains and the cigarette cases?

I didn't flinch, though I'm hanged if that bandaged knob of his, and those blinkers, aren't enough to unnerve any one, coming quietly up to you. 'You said it was an empty sleeve?' he said.

And there stood two boys, each about 19, in white, starched short sleeved shirts, and they had little name tags that identified them as official representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, and they said they had a message for me, from God.

The mother would pull him by the sleeve and speak flattering words into his ear the sister would leave her work to help her mother, but that would not have the desired effect on the father.

The shirt sleeve planted a shrewd blow in Hall's face that stopped his open armed advance, and sent him backward into old Toothsome the sexton, and in another moment the garment was lifted up and became convulsed and vacantly flapping about the arms, even as a shirt that is being thrust over a man's head.

Ye see ye get jist as much for him dead as alive in Kentucky, he said coolly, as he wiped his pistol on his coat sleeve.

Having said that, actually, your best form of protection and my best form of protection is a long sleeve shirt and a little bit of DEET to go with it.

Some were pictures of children little girls in thick satin frocks which reached to their feet and stood out about them, and boys with puffed sleeves and lace collars and long hair, or with big ruffs around their necks.