What is "shirtsleeve"

Usage examples of "shirtsleeve".

His shirtsleeves were rolled up, revealing beefy arms bristling with dark hair.

In one a man sat smoking in his shirtsleeves, from another a slavey leaned out watching a fourwheeler that had stopped next door, in a third a woman sat sewing, and in a fourth a woman was ironing, with a glimpse of a bedstead behind her.

She watched as the servant untied her one leg, and then, as she nibbled, deftly surrounded her other ankle with the soft, slick satin bonds before she untied the ragged shirtsleeve.

This madness was what they read about, what they versified on for the nourishment of a longing audience, humanity in shirtsleeves, warriors entering into battles they could never win, the stuff of poetry.

Cris Bellhanger, in his shirtsleeves and braces, banged his tray down beside mine in the canteen.

The photographs on the wall were striking: one little black girl with enormous wistful eyes, Jimmy Carter in shirtsleeves at a Habitat site, the Somalian bandit he had mentioned to Bess.

The National Security Advisor was in his shirtsleeves, his suit coat draped over one of the twenty or so chairs in the room where presidents had been meeting with their most trusted advisors since Dwight David Eisenhower.

Ernst, a rough jacket thrown over his shirtsleeves, put two massive hands on the door, stared first at 236 Avril, then studied Grant.

There had been seventeen contestants, avid for the Halitosis Crown, and by the time the puffing was completed, what with the ceremonial manner in which the man in shirtsleeves brought each one to the chair of trial, and the fuss that the phony nurse made in cleansing the megaphone, the platform reeked of Listerine, and I doubt if the Giant Blunderbore, after a heavy meal of human flesh, could have penetrated it with his dreadful breath.

The gunners were working in shirtsleeves, swabbing, ramming, then ducking aside as the guns pitched back again Only the gun commanders most of them sergeants, seemed to look at the enemy, and then only when they were checking the alignment of the cannon.

Despite the shirtsleeves and rumpled hair, Ish looked capable of playing pool for the rest of the night.

Buck Mulligan stood on a stone, in shirtsleeves, his unclipped tie rippling over his shoulder.

There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket.

Byrne came forward from the hindbar in tuckstitched shirtsleeves, cleaning his lips with two wipes of his napkin.

And there sits uncle Chubb or Tomkin, as the case might be, the publican of the Crown and Anchor, in shirtsleeves, eating rumpsteak and onions.