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Sleeve

noun

The part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm. Synonym: arm.

Small case into which an object fits.

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... You were about to tell me that in the sleeve of that arm, which is extended toward me over the table, you hold a weapon with which you could kill me before I could give the alarm a second time. Very well I know it, but all the same I am not afraid of it, Nick Carter, any more than I am afraid of you, and you know that I have ...

— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter

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... look good in dem clothes," she said patting his sleeve. "I can remember some wars, too; when we got back dem provinces what Napoleon took away from us, Alsace and Lorraine. Dem boys is passed de word to come and put tar on me some night, and I am ...

— One of Ours • Willa Cather

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... his porters eying him from under their burdens, and the runners from the different hotels plucking at his sleeve. ...

— The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis

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... opportunity to inquire just what Marcelle meant, for Lady Hermione had joined them. Sedulously keeping that tell-tale sleeve out of sight, Curtis took the lead, and opened the door, which Marcelle ...

— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

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... an invisible speck of dust from the sleeve of his checked coat, strolled rather casually ...

— The Air Trust • George Allan England

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