... the inner sleeves tight to the arm, fastened at the wrist by a deep poignet, and finished a lace ruffle. A second pair of enormously loose sleeves over the tight ones, they reach a very short way below the bend of the arm, and left quite loose. A very ...

... several times near swamping, and had it not been for one of the females who sat in the stern of one of them having shawl on her arms, spread out, that received a tremendous surf, which had it come into the boat must have sunk her, all would have been lost ...