| 单词 | duff |
| 例句 | So Grandma was smart—she was trying to get Ernie off his duff. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The larvae eventually drop to the ground and form cocoons in the peat of tamarack bogs or the duff under spruce or pines. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Beneath each one a precious circle of dark earth and cedar duff. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And again he breathed in the green in the strawberry runners, the rain in the cedar duff, and the salt water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Out under the trees, some rangers had found enough duff and dry wood to start a fire beneath a slanting ridge of slate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “We aren’t just going to sit around on our fat duffs and do nothing, are we?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When he got to the pines he knelt and laid him in the gritty duff and covered him with the blankets and sat watching him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Just in case my dad decides to get his lazy duff off the TV couch and go fishing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z This work is a full-throated, theatrically inventive cry to the young and disaffected to get off their collective duff, shake off their shackles and do something. Theater Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z This will break down to create the sort of woodland duff that dogwoods like. The dogwood tree — the living symbol of the American spring — makes a comeback 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z While it's no masterpiece, it's not nearly as duff as some reviewers said. Your next box set: The Kennedys 2011-08-25T20:59:02Z Crude is dirty stuff, Off your duff now; it’s time to get a Much cleaner alternative to those fuels; Or get your jewels kicked in by Greta. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In action and horror movies, there are plenty of duff storylines, unreal heroes and unsavoury goings-on. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z The makers have assembled a quality cast round their quality lead – Steven Mackintosh, Ruth Wilson and Saskia Reeves – but they are plums in a very duff pudding indeed. Theo's Adventure Capitalists, Luther and The Story of Science 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z The quality isn't always high: the first half is scrappy, and there's much generic mockery of local towns, as well as duff gags like the one about his brother's reaction to Manford's hypochondria. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z It was the only duff note in Natalie Press's otherwise haunting portrayal of Catherine, and sounded absolutely ludicrous, smashing the poetic beauty and structure of the speech. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z After 45 minutes of nothing much happening, there's finally some drama when Michelangelo gets drunk and decides his first set of frescoes are duff. The Agony and the Ecstasy: more passion would've been less painful 2013-05-24T08:57:47Z Put your nose in a bag of dried porcini and inhale— and be prepared to suck in the woods and the duff and the very dirt where the mushroom lived. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z Another duff move was during the closing moments where religion crept in. Falling Skies: episode four 2011-07-26T21:00:02Z As one of the doctors noted, gone are the halcyon days when getting up the duff was all you had to worry about. TV review: The Hospital and Who Do You Think You Are? 2010-07-27T06:59:00Z Everest also employed the same strategy last month, with equally duff results, suggesting that audiences aren’t prepared to shell out in large numbers for a premium visual experience alone. Global box office: Pan cold as Sicario brings the heat 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The Heaton Park shows proved this to be untrue anyway – the set list was packed with 19 songs and not a duff one on there. The Stone Roses at Heaton Park: five talking points 2012-07-02T14:46:07Z Save for the sound of footsteps on dry redwood duff and the occasional chirp of a small bird, high overhead, the forest is eerily quiet. Overnighter: California Farmland, Known for Its Drinks 2010-10-16T03:00:00Z I was one of the 0.1% that managed to get up the duff anyway with it in. Unsafe sex: why everyone's at it 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The Guardian said his "egotistical material about The Office made a duff start" while the Daily Mail noted that his routines left "Hollywood's A-list distinctly unamused". 2010-01-19T09:24:00Z But there are also duff jokes about the Duchess of Cornwall and Ann Widdecombe's looks, and material aeons past its sell-by date. Rory Bremner 2010-04-18T21:15:00Z Even the snacks that Mertis serves—Vienna Fingers, homemade sailor’s duff—evoke romantic other worlds. The Funny, Empathetic Genius of Annie Baker 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z And yet, fancy this – we’re halfway through the series and there is yet to be a duff episode. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode six – The Caretaker 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Certainly, if these four terrific slabs of sunny psychedelic pop are the duff ones, then the other six are worth getting quite excited about. Click to download: Amoeba Music online 2010-07-15T21:45:00Z Jimmy, that trunk of a man with his duff eye and his bear hands and her pal Yvonne are arguing about a fish. Extract: The Whales by Evie Wyld 2010-09-06T13:47:00Z Growing up is accelerated by family falling apart, by meeting boy, and then by girl getting up duff. TV Review: Dive 2010-07-09T05:45:00Z Eight or more duffs were used for the beats, primarily supported by timpani and other percussion from a synthesizer and mandolins for the melody, along with further processed elements. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Also on the wee screen, a new Saturday night panel show with a patriotic bent and a duff title is announced: I Love My Country. Alan Davies in hot water – and some undignified comic scraps 2012-11-20T18:04:43Z Surely, you reckon, he’s also seen some duff dates in his decades as a regular habitué of the city’s nightclubs, concert halls, lofts and provisional spaces. Music Review: Steve Dalachinsky and Charlemagne Palestine at Issue Project 2013-09-05T21:54:11Z The old One Show was like a plum duff. The One Show: New dressing, same tasty morsels 2010-08-16T20:53:00Z Instagram is breaking under the weight of Peaches' love for her little grub – and, seeing as she's up the duff again, it will have to migrate to new servers when she has the second. Women we love to love and women we love to hate 2013-03-22T22:00:00Z They rose from the duff and moss with their classical mushroom form: bell-shaped cap and thick stem. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z But if there was a lovely brown duff in these woods six weeks ago, it is now gone, hidden under a tapestry of vegetation. What you can learn from a walk through the woods 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Act IV: A church Marguerite: Oh dear / I am up the duff / Faust has had enough / And dumped me / So I am in deep do-do. Digested opera: Faust 2010-09-22T15:58:00Z Often their caps were barely visible in the duff. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z For my true love gave to me … four collie burrs, three friend chins, two Turtle duffs, and a park ridge in a bare tree. Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z But then, as she says, she “got off my duff,” bought a chic red coat from Neiman’s and moved to D.C. Jane Fonda, Intergalactic Eco-Warrior in a Red Coat 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Well, obviously Joseph is going to be mightily unchuffed when his "virgin" suddenly turns out to be up the duff. TV review: The Nativity; Come Rain Come Shine 2010-12-21T08:00:01Z “The duff will give you a pungent, resonant, very bright sound,” he said. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Is a Worldwide Hit, but It Draws on Very Local Traditions 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z But no era has been immune to duff episodes; even the Davies years gave us Fear Her and Planet of the Dead. Doctor Who: Steven Moffat's highs, lows and time-travelling hijinks 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z There wasn't anything flashy or showy about her but you never got a duff deal. The Hairy Bikers' favourite TV 2013-02-02T06:00:04Z The main distinction is that the crowdsourced are active collaborators in the commodification of their opinions, while TV viewers just get to sit on their duffs. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z If they'd just get off their duffs, go to church and stay married, everything would be OK. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z The best mulch is the duff of the fallen leaves. These native woodland plants deserve a spot in any garden 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z M. M. Keeravani, the song’s composer, used duffs, an Indian skin drum, for the main beats, adding in mandolins for the melody. ‘Naatu Naatu’ From ‘RRR’ Wins Best Original Song 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z “Are you just going to sit on your duffs and do nothing, or just carry signs and protest?” 50 years after Robert Kennedy’s assassination: Don’t get caught up in conspiracy theories 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The comical copycat starts to outpace his idols; the duff tribute act takes on a life of its own. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z In this she was following the philosophy of Charlie Chaplin: at the end of the 1915 film The Tramp, he duffs up some hobos who were molesting a farmer’s daughter. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z But it’s likely to boost CrossFit studio memberships much in the same way that “The Biggest Loser” inspired couch potatoes to get off their duffs and join a gym. American spirit, as seen on TV via "The Masked Singer" and "The Titan Games" 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Right away we saw the handsome tan caps of porcini buttons peeking from the duff. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z They grow fast, much faster than chanterelles, and it’s likely they hadn’t even broken through the duff when the competition cleaned out the chanties a couple of days earlier. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z Robins, flickers and flocks of tiny chickadees rustle around in the duff on the garden floor. It’s winter; the garden is resting, and we should, too 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z From staying up to watch the Oscars a few times, I had expected duff skits, rambling speeches and a Book of Numbers quantity of technical awards. My Baftas adventure: Dev Patel, liquid diabetes and clapping injuries 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Sesame Street — and to a lesser extend 3-2-1 Contact and The Electric Company — taught us to read, spell, count, and be nice to furry puppets, all by sitting on our duffs. A Guide to Determining the Quality of Your Kid’s Screen Time 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The album's one duff point is the duet with Prince, Love Song, which is barely a song, let alone a love one. Like a Prayer by Madonna 2011-08-23T15:22:20Z Even the working classes preferred euphemisms, though theirs were decidedly better: “in the pudding club,” or “up the duff.” A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z When he duffs up five men in a car park, bystanders are duly awed, but no one remarks that it's especially impressive for a little fella. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-15T00:00:05Z However, he did not touch the ball once in the first half and gave away a penalty with a duff kick when afforded space for the first time in the second. England sneak past Pumas to win World Cup bronze 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Even when individual World Cups have resulted in duff events, there have still been magical moments produced. 'Imperfect World Cup is a fight for survival' 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z But something transformative occurs in a primordial world where a sorrel-carpeted floor and waist-high sword ferns surround towering redwoods, where duff from the needles floats above the understory like soft snow. Seattle’s ‘Big Tree Bob’ measures the world’s tallest trees 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Water trickled through the canopy of old-growth trees, then the understory, forest duff, soil and rocks, before hitting the water table. All about meadowscaping: The low-maintenance ecolawn with ancient allure | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Now, young stages of butterflies, moths and other beneficial insects are nestled in last year’s leaves, some of them munching on decomposing duff — leaves, twigs, bark and other plant litter. The case for a (somewhat) messy spring garden 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The song’s composer used Indian skin drums called duffs, whose sound he compared to the traditional beats of folk songs celebrated in villages. Your Thursday Briefing: Key Meetings for Biden and Putin 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Crouching low, Simard pulls a trowel from her pocket and cuts deep into the earth, through layers of moss, duff and debris. With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ “The backbone is the beat — we call it ‘duff.’ These songs consider loneliness, connectedness and a wild dance-off 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z They spent the day “raking up the duff” under the tree like fallen leaves, removing nearby brush and trimming the oak’s lower limbs. Native voices were finally heard at California's biggest native plant conference 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Smoke and low-intensity flames are expected to continue until soils and fuels in the duff layer become saturated. Firefighters at Goat Rocks fire head home as ‘season-ending’ rain continues 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z It would light up the “duff,” a dense, peaty layer of partially decomposed moss and litter, and the understory would catch fire. Inside the Bolt Creek fire — and the newly burning forests of the western Cascades 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The duff — needles, branches and other plant detritus — is 2 to 3 feet deep in some parts of the Angeles National Forest, he said. Not even soaking rain can ease fire risk in a California hit by record heat, dry landscape 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z “That should tell us something about our need to get off our duff.” A new space race? China adds urgency to US return to moon 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Another challenge in many fire-ravaged landscapes in Alaska is the duff, a layer of slowly decomposing moss, lichen and tree needles on forest floors that is generally about a foot deep. As Alaska Warms, Fires Burn Over (and Under) More Wild Land 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Conditions today are on the cusp, he warns me as he grabs damp duff from beneath a stand of alders and stuffs it into a garbage bag. The Burke Museum’s ‘spiderman’ searches high and low to find Washington’s arachnid species 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Parts saw an early snow melt and then a largely rain-free June that dried out the duff layer — the band of decaying moss and grasses that blankets the floors of boreal forests and the tundra. Alaska experiencing wildfires it’s never seen before 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z As if to demonstrate that they can get off their duffs when circumstances so require, congressional Republicans moved swiftly Wednesday to demand action on a measure to protect U.S. Column: The threat to Justice Kavanaugh reveals a path to a gun control deal 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z It's one thing having a duff policy, one MP tells me. Partygate: How much political danger is Boris Johnson in? 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Fire can smolder below the surface in the duff for weeks. As Alaska Warms, Fires Burn Over (and Under) More Wild Land 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Recumbent, he tosses a few handfuls of duff into a sifter fashioned from a cat litter box with its bottom cut out and replaced by a screen. The Burke Museum’s ‘spiderman’ searches high and low to find Washington’s arachnid species 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z On May 31, a lightning strike on the duff layer in the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta started the East Fork fire, an area in southwest Alaska that rarely burns. Alaska experiencing wildfires it’s never seen before 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z The fire had burned so hot, Daniels said, it killed not just trees and plants but also the layer of decomposing material known as the “duff.” A megafire raged for 3 months. No one’s on the hook for its emissions. “Merrick Garland has not gotten off his duff and gotten the DOJ to prosecute anyone, and it’s simply because they’re picking winners and losers,” Ms. Sears, a Republican, said Thursday on “Fox & Friends.” Frustration builds over DOJ’s lackluster response to protests at Supreme Court justices’ homes 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z When conditions are dry, said Zav Grabinski with the Alaska Fire Science Consortium, flames can travel below the surface of the duff for several kilometers. As Alaska Warms, Fires Burn Over (and Under) More Wild Land 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Some sank to the pine duff to rest, gazing at the spectacle of the destroyed vehicle where Russian soldiers had died. In Kyiv suburb, Ukrainian military claims a big prize 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelson cites an “aggressive” China as a reason for Americans to “get off our duff,” but a few national security questions require a fuller airing. Opinion | Don’t Cede the Space Race to China and the Billionaires 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Our Northwest forests and natural areas, where plants intermingle in layers from the canopy overhead to the duff underfoot, perhaps offer the most satisfying model. A surprising win at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2015 planted hope for wild gardening 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z But, perhaps most importantly, she’s here to remind others to get off their duffs and out into the world, no matter their ages. On her 70th birthday, Alex Honnold's mom became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Going back on a line with the hole, he found a fairly sparse area only to duff it toward the wall and more rocks. Robert Streb leads a day of low scoring in CJ Cup at Summit 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Hotshot personnel lighted low-intensity fires to burn off duff and litter. The firefighting strategies that saved some of the world's largest sequoias 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z “We remove the duff layer under plants that have pests or diseases that could spread,” McMackin said. Why you should do your spring planting in the fall 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Hotshots specially trained in setting low-intensity fires were also prepared to light off duff around the trees if necessary, depending on how the fire progresses, he said. Wildfire reaches Giant Forest; fate of giant sequoias unknown 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Zombie fires are smoldering through the winter, permafrost is melting, and the insulating layer of duff is drying and easily ignited by lightning strikes, which are also increasing because of the climate emergency. A Big Day Birding and a Possible Fifth Force of Nature 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z He walked a path of soft forest duff through the forest to trees he knows as individuals, from years of long acquaintance and deep sense memories. Meet the eminent scientist, now 84, who vowed as a boy to protect Washington’s old-growth forests 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z He leaves his second short and right, then, to pantomime gasps from the gallery, duffs a chip into the face of a bank. The Open 2021: first round – live! 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z “That should tell us something about our need to get off our duff,” he testified. Opinion | Americans should worry more about China than Russia. The new space race shows why. 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “There aren’t enough people who understand that this is the only way to make a change and they have to get off their rusty duffs,” she said. Terry McAuliffe wins Democratic nomination for Virginia governor 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Scrape away litter, duff, and any burnable material within a 10-foot-diameter circle. Editorial Roundup: New York 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z There was a mushroomy scent to the air, rising from deep forest duff. Meet the eminent scientist, now 84, who vowed as a boy to protect Washington’s old-growth forests 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z On Sunday, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the GameStop episode underlined that S.E.C. regulators needed to “get off their duffs” and work to make the market more transparent. Gensler Faces Big Challenge in Tackling GameStop’s Wild Ride 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z We’ve seen this company duff a console launch before, after all. The Xbox reviews are in and Microsoft is off to a good start 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Which caused this Christian to get off his duff, rush to the nearest store and buy as many Oreo cookies as he could carry. Opinion | The latest sheer idiocy from conservative homophobes: Boycotting Oreos 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z But nobody will ever discover those capabilities if Siri duffs the basics on an equally regular basis. The Apple Watch is being held back by Siri 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z He said decades of fire suppression, as well as severe cutbacks in logging, had created a buildup of fuel — downed logs, grass, shrubs and duff — that he had predicted would someday power catastrophic fires. Climate change brings Santa Ana-like winds and explosive wildfires to Oregon 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The wildfire was even more effective: nearly two and a half inches of duff were reduced to around one third of an inch. California Looks to Battle Mega Wildfires with Fire 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z I was a sudden convert, an acolyte of leaf duff and rotting logs. The Unexpected Beauty of ‘Dog Vomit’ and Other Slime Molds 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z She patted down the soil around the baby trees and spread duff and litter, old decaying and bark and pine needles from the forest floor, to protect the soil underneath from drying out. In the Sierra, scientists bet on 'survivor' trees to withstand drought and climate change 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But as I improve, I can feel the slight irritation returning as well: The annoyance when I decel/duff a short pitch from off the green with my 60-degree wedge. Is it possible to golf without anger if you’re an angry person? - Golf Digest 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z I had been told 10am, but that may have been duff information. Brexit: Boris Johnson claims EU has not explained in detail why it objects to his alternative backstop plan - live news 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z While the park swelled with tourists, hikers, bikers and climbers, dozens of firefighters meticulously worked nearby — torching trees, duff covering the soil and jackpots of fuel made up of logs, dead leaves and brush. California fire mystery: No major summer brush fires after years of record destruction 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Their task was to carry out a prescribed burn—a carefully controlled, low-intensity fire that clears duff and deadwood, reducing the risk of a catastrophic wildfire. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In other words, the humus-rich duff of the forest floor in Western Washington is home to different plants than those that thrive in the relatively lean soil of a rocky alpine slope. Washington’s diverse ecotopes nourish a bounty of wildflowers that in turn nourish us 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z VAR intervened successfully, overruling a duff offside flag, and leaving Suárez dancing around on his own, taunting the crowd, leaping about weirdly as the referee suddenly conjured a goal from his earpiece. Manchester United defence proves no match for Messi’s footballing third eye | Barney Ronay 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s because by the age of 20 I was up the duff in the Welsh countryside with baby brain, no signal and no wifi. I ditched my iPhone and it changed my life | Charlotte Church 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z No longer would trees, shrubs and duff soak up precipitation. How a crumbling dam in the Enchantments could change our understanding of the PNW wilderness 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Still, only 51 percent of us could get off our duffs and to the polls. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He said the idea behind the group is to get Trump supporters “off their duff” and start driving the midterm agenda. Steve Bannon planning to campaign in Virginia amid battle for U.S. House control 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But even though the collapse of 2008 was the result of failed economics, those responsible for the duff theories remain well dug in on university campuses. Ten years after the financial crash, the timid left should be full of regrets | Larry Elliott 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “I am not going to be lectured to by Trump fanatics making up duff information without any evidence at all,” he said. Jeremy Corbyn's Anti-Semitism Crisis 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The amount of fibers in the duff and bark is relatively low. Firefighters use respirators in asbestos-contaminated forest 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z He has worked so many forgery cases with such success that he also serves Sotheby’s as a line of fortification against the swells of duff art lapping into the market. How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Nor any for the millions of gullible fools who can't get off their duffs to socialize, just like the good old days. Facebook Falls From Grace, and Investors’ Stock Holdings Tumble Too 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z In Seattle’s bird count these days, one thing quickly becomes clear: Birds vote with their feet for parks, for greenbelts, for any bit of scruff and duff as Seattle grows. A day with Seattle bird counters reveals a wonderland of nature — amid dog parks, neighborhoods and urban playfields 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Because my theory is a lot of you won't turn off Hannity, get your duff off the couch, take some classes, and move to where the work is like the rest of us did. Futures in Jeopardy, ‘Dreamers’ Get Backing of Big Names and Businesses 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z He added that Democrats should “get off their duffs” and support the plan. Senators Scramble to Advance Tax Bill That Increasingly Rewards Wealthy 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Hatch, Utah Republican, said the process would go more smoothly if Democrats would “get off their duff” and work with the GOP on the legislation, rather than remain in lockstep opposition. Republican Senate tax cut bill scaring off some lawmakers 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z And Hatch is calling for Senate Democrats to “get off their duffs” and work with Republicans on the bill. The Latest: Montana GOP senator withholds tax bill support 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Yet the GOP tax bill offers the biggest windfall to those who sit on their duffs and do nothing. Opinion | Who wins biggest in the GOP tax plan? The lazy rich. 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The most damaging thing for a 20-handicapper is the two-chip: When you duff one or hit it over the green, then hit a mediocre second chip, you're looking at double bogey. How Good Can You Get? - Golf Digest 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z And homeowners often resist taking precautions such as clear-cutting a substantial buffer zone, cleaning duff and building with fire-retardant materials. Author covers what’s kindling the increase of megafires 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The Boy Scout Vision Statement, easily found online, doesn’t say anything about learning hitch knots or making your own granola from pine cones and forest duff. Opinion | Politics are part of Scouting 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Worse, on the short par-4 14th, McIlroy dumped his drive in the drink and proceeded to duff his chip, leading to a unsightly six. PGA Championship morning rundown: Uneven starts for Spieth and McIlroy, Beef's shaky future and the Tiger movie you don't want to see - Golf Digest 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z We barely know who the players are, let alone get off our duffs to vote them All-Stars. Letters: Dodgers fans finally rock the vote 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z If Washington leads start turning into Chicago wins, this could be the week ownership gets off its collective duff and takes the bullpen mess seriously. Perspective | A potential playoff preview? Nationals-Cubs not quite as good a matchup these days. 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z In the duff at its feet were fungi and tiny ferns, amphibians, roots and reptiles. In ‘Witness Tree,’ a writer spends a year exploring a red oak’s changes 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “Get off your duff and do something,” she said. Missionary, nurse, activist reflects on growing old 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Fierce platoons of new growth poke through the lush, chocolaty brown forest duff. In flower, bud and ‘rib-it,’ signs of spring appear 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Trump is doing what he needs to do so that folks who would normally sit at home on their duffs take to the streets. A Concerned Citizen’s Plea to America’s Business Leaders 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The plan to securitise its portfolio was intended to kick-start a market in duff debt. Italy presents the European Union’s new bank-rescue rules with their first big test 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Tools of the trade usually involve a comfy cart, a cooler, and a paperback to peruse between duffs. How a plumber won $10K with a new golf app - Golf Digest 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Finding investors to put up money for a third capital increase in as many years, even in a bank cleansed of duff loans, was always going to be hard. Spectral forms 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z A man who as recently as the 2013 Masters boasted about the ability to play an approach shot two yards differently to the one before is now conjuring visions of shanks and duffs. Tiger Woods has to be careful over this comeback as there will not be another | Ewan Murray 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z I take a picture of the hyaline waters sitting on my duff. Take 2: The Passport to Pain (P2P), or a dummy's guide to being an idiot 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “When you learn what birds eat, you start to appreciate all the worms, larvae and insects in the duff,” Joy says. This Whidbey Island couple’s backyard is for the birds — really, any and all birds 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z He plays three fabulous points to earn a 40-0 lead, ruling at the net, and he holds to love when Gasquet duffs a backhand return. French Open 2016: Andy Murray v Richard Gasquet – live! 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z He surprisingly duffs his attempted pass inside to Toure, which kind of sums up this game so far. Manchester United v Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z She’s just what we need to get people off their duffs. After Scott Walker’s exit, it’s an all-out scramble in Iowa 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Intense wildfires burn not only trees — sending the carbon they contain into the atmosphere — but also deep into the duff layer, sending up still more carbon. Alaska’s terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Just don’t use that one session as an excuse to rest on your duff the rest of the day. Deskbound? Here’s how much you need to stand or move to stay healthy. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z He plays three fabulous points to earn a 40-0 lead, ruling at the net, and he holds to love when Gasquet duffs a backhand return. French Open 2016: Andy Murray v Richard Gasquet – live! 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z He surprisingly duffs his attempted pass inside to Toure, which kind of sums up this game so far. Manchester United v Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He would either duff them short or blade them over the green. Tiger Woods to return at the Masters 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Clubs are used to the odd duff signing. Cows, coconuts, goats & Dion Dublin 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z They were being fed duff information and the investigation is crystal clear - the roots of this ignorance lay in the outsourcing of the bank's IT systems. Bank fined £2.75m over IT meltdown 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z During the fire, conditions and fuels — like needles and the duff layer — were exceptionally dry. Salvage logging begins after 35,000-acre Oregon wildfire 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z If you're standing up thinking 'oh no, I hope I don't duff it' then you're going to hit a bad shot. Gallacher ready for 'life-changing' Ryder Cup 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z There are entire syllabuses full of their lacklustre texts - galleries hung with their bland daubs, concert halls resounding with their duff notes, and of course, radio stations broadcasting their tepid lucubrations. Why Orwell was a literary mediocrity 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z It just needed to get off its corporate duff and react quickly. As The Wireless Wars Boil And A Big Cable Merger Simmers, Let's Pause To Thank ... The Government 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Mercedes’ mistake in the Hungarian Grand Prix was not in giving Lewis Hamilton a duff call but in making any call at all. High time Mercedes allowed their F1 drivers to just get on with racing 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z And you can be sure that trend will lead to plenty of duff decisions, too. Business in emerging markets: Submerging hopes 2014-03-06T16:01:17Z And without the duff layer, some lack a place to live. Invasive Earthworms Harm Forests Near the Great Lakes 2013-10-29T19:15:02.280Z The majority are in GB systems, so I think it's a bit of a duff statistic. 'Scotland could have Rio Games team' 2013-09-18T07:15:07Z These exercises were recommended by experts whose jobs involve studying motion, preventing obesity and generally getting people off their duffs. Desk jobs can be killers, literally 2013-07-15T20:05:19Z There, one minute, you're the genius who picked Call the Midwife, a sudden hero – but one duff White Queen can wipe that away. Charlotte Moore can forget choirs and bake-offs: BBC1 means showbiz 2013-06-29T23:04:21Z But the challenge facing Republicans is larger than one duff candidate. Lexington: Demography is not destiny 2013-04-11T15:18:13Z Having been fingered for selling a duff product, LBG was swamped with complaints. Latest PPI fine shows banks still don't know how to treat their customers 2013-02-19T17:00:13Z And the Starbucks representative bleated that duff property decisions at least partly explain the firm's supposedly chronic losses in the UK. Taxing time for multinationals 2012-11-12T19:14:10Z There is a structural issue here that over-the-counter markets with low liquidity can be manipulated by traders putting through visible trades at a duff price. FSA examines whistleblower's claims of 'Libor-like' manipulation in gas prices 2012-11-12T17:30:12Z Charlotte Moore: an original talent - but one duff White Queen could spell disaster. Charlotte Moore can forget choirs and bake-offs: BBC1 means showbiz 2013-06-29T23:04:21Z A dedicated Twitter feed, @StopGriffining, is developing a following of people who find the act of posing on your duff with your hands in the air just plain silly. Morning pixels: The anti-Griffining movement 2012-09-12T13:57:00Z Given the Bank's duff forecasting record, there were some in the City on Wednesday who took that prediction with a large pinch of salt. Bank of England's growth forecast fails to meet the gold standard 2012-08-08T17:16:17Z The uneventful days passed by, and I grew stout on laziness, salt beef, and duff. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z No wreath�d pamphlet warned readers in the most choice preliminary duff that a sarcastick comet would presently singe their vices, their follies and their vanities. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z On the ground, leaves are so thick that we slip and slide, misjudging the terrain and missing hazards hidden below the duff. City Room: Familiar Last Week, Forest Is Now a Stranger 2011-11-18T20:05:36Z Also target areas with huckleberry and rhododendrons, which create shaded spots, and forest duff like fern and moss, leaves and dense soil that retain rain water. The time is right for mushroom hunters to begin foraging 2011-10-15T04:12:03Z Duffer, duf′ėr, n. a peddler of dubious goods, sham jewellery, &c.: one who fakes up sham articles, or duffs cattle. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Then, for desert, the steward, the hot beads touring about the mounts of his large pale face, brings along oleaginous fritters of plum duff. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z It's like getting a birdie after you duff it off the tee block. A visit with Ed Cunningham 2011-08-22T00:22:12Z Make a right when you reach a sandy, duff trail, and you're on your way. A great trail with the reward of Folsom Lake at the end 2011-08-11T17:13:04Z They're often covered by duff and as they grow, it pushes up the soil and duff creating raised areas or bumps. The time is right for mushroom hunters to begin foraging 2011-10-15T04:12:03Z If fresh beef was not available, venison was, and there was plenty of material for the manufacture of the time-honoured "duff." The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z Only the steady expansion of trunk and root, the slow pileup of duff and debris, the lap of water before it becomes ice, the patter of raindrops before they turn to snowflakes. Anne LaBastille, Advocate, Author and ?Woodswoman? of Adirondacks, Dies at 75 2011-07-10T01:23:01Z The last stroke was hardly off the bell at seven bells before I was at the galley with the kid, my mouth watering in anticipation of this superlative duff. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z For an easier route, do an out-and-back on the first mile of the trail, which is mostly flat and soft, cushioned with dirt and duff. A great trail with the reward of Folsom Lake at the end 2011-08-11T17:13:04Z I think, at election time, it is inevitable isn't it that people want to get more tribal, they want to duff up the other side. Stop AV 'mudslinging' urges Clegg 2011-04-20T16:00:35Z “The whole point of filing this case back in the Bush administration was to get EPA off its duff to regulate greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, and they are.” Obama Joins AEP to Fight Climate Suits With EPA ‘Off its Duff’ 2011-04-19T13:20:48Z About 60 percent of burned carbon comes from litter on the forest floor, underlying duff and mineral soil, and most of the rest comes from snags and other dead material. Living on Credit 2011-04-18T15:38:00Z Cook's awful sorry he spiled the duff, but he's coming forrard presently with a tin o' soup and bully as soon's the old man's back's turned. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Coffee and eggs and plum duff and white bread and bully beef. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The mass of standing trees tempers the force of the wind, which might overthrow some of them, and hinders the drying up of the duff. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z He belonged to a mob of cattle-stealers that used to duff cattle in the back country, and pass them over to Queensland. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Other good sources for mushrooms to breed are huckleberry and rhododendrons that create shading, forest duff like fern and moss, leaves and dense soil that retain water from rain. Time has come to search and find your mushrooms 2010-10-09T04:27:00Z What is usually done is to make "duff." The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z He wants to show how duff information can spread round the web like wildfire. Is the News of the World's phone-hacking really justified? Yes, sometimes 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z A common method of limitation is to cut trenches thru the duff so that the fire cannot pass across, Fig. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The moral of the tale is that Rock's downfall was not caused primarily by duff lending decisions but by the crazy reliance of wholesale financing. Northern Rock: Where bad is good and good is bad 2010-08-04T05:09:00Z Often times the matsutake are covered by duff and are hard to find without considerable practice. Time has come to search and find your mushrooms 2010-10-09T04:27:00Z Every other day except Saturday was "duff" day, when the modicum of flour allowed us was made into a plain pudding by the addition of yeast and fat. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The whole concept, in short, is politically correct, but practically duff. The BBC wants to have breakfast in Salford. What a dog's dinner 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Especially in the fall there are great quantities of inflammable material, such as dry leaves, twigs, and duff lying loose ready for ignition. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z A year ago, they were making big provisions – not just against duff investments in the past but against losses that recession would produce. Bailed out banks are feeding off our savings 2010-04-26T19:53:00Z In some cases as it grows, it pushes up the soil and duff creating raised areas or bumps. Time has come to search and find your mushrooms 2010-10-09T04:27:00Z Now the duff for the half-deck was boiled in a conical bag, and turned out very similar in shape and size to a sugar-loaf. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Some were for taking one solid lump of duff instead of biscuits, but the latter won the day as containing less water and being therefore of more value weight for weight. A Kut Prisoner This collection of "duff" or "the forest floor" retains the moisture about their roots, and this moist mass tends to keep the temperature of the forest warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z He found Serge and Jalap Coombs concocting a huge plum duff, while from the brass kettle a savory steam was already issuing. Harper's Round Table, April 30, 1895 Sunday came again, day of washing for Meacock and others; day of eggs and bacon for the Saloon’s breakfast, and with it special duff and crimson sauce for dinner, tinned pineapple and cake for tea. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday As may be imagined, we were in high glee at the prospect of such a notable benefit as high-class duff would be. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z One awkward boy had cooked the "duff" for dinner and burned it. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North After describing the steady, slow progress of a duff fire, he proceeds: But there comes an evening when nobody thinks of going to bed. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z But when there is much small duff, with intermixed shale, more elaborate sizing and washing plant becomes necessary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Can he ever be forgotten for those diurnal and immortal questions of his, “Did your men have porridge this morning?” and “Why did you not order your cook to give your men duff to-day?” The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday "If the sea gets much higher, Cookie won't have to stir the plum duff at all!" The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers Not unless you duff in and help, old chap. The Come Back The fifth time was lucky; and you may judge if he were pleased to be aboard ship again, at his old work, and with duff twice a week. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The larger or “nut” sizes, from � in. upwards, are washed on plain sieve plates, but for finer-grained duff the sieve is covered with a bed of broken felspar lumps about 3 in. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" He looked voracious— "Ah," said he, with a savage growl, "that's your sort; thunder and oakum, I'm as peckish as a shark, and here's the duff for me!" The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes All he's got to do is to leave the raisins and the flour and the currants and whatever else goes into the duff lying loose on a table. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers Why, most on ’em aboard here, and glad to get the duff—been begging before that, some on ’em. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) Now Ian’s military suit in his department had been of white duff or linen, plentifully adorned with gilt buttons and bands representing some distinctive service. An Orkney Maid No one rightly knows, ’cep’ he’s real ‘bad,’ an’ duffs nigh on to a thousand head o’ stock most every year.” The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana But we haven't any goose or anything else except salt junk and plum duff. The Sandman: His Sea Stories The significance of the community reaction is especially well shown in the case of leaf mold and duff. Introduction to the Science of Sociology He who first got outside his "duff and water" started, and so on with the next. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 I’ve been thinking, though, that I should like to shy a bottle o’ rum overboard, corked up, say, with a bit o’ the cook’s duff. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop Why, most of 'em aboard here, and glad to get the duff—been begging before that, some of 'em. Treasure Island “A double portion of plum duff for every man on our side who makes a run!” cried one enthusiastic sailor boy. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Last of all, and borne in triumphantly by the cook himself, was a big smoking “plum duff” with cream sauce. Killykinick Once 'Gene Frady tripped on a root and fell headlong, pitching his torch into the dry duff a man's length before him. A Tar-Heel Baron Back to the ship for our diving suits—booty for everyone, and plum duff for dinner!' Explorers of the Dawn “All right,” said I, bolting as quickly as I could a piece of “plum duff” which Dobbs had just brought me. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant We were told that on Sundays the men usually had pudding; but "Bill," who was the cook that week, was pronounced to be "no hand at a plum duff." A Boy's Voyage Round the World There is a base imitation of “duff” known to landsmen as batter pudding; but the real plum duff of shining golden yellow, stuffed full of plums like Jack Horner’s pie, is all the sailor’s own. Killykinick You can count on him to duff into this job with the same spirit. Walter and the Wireless A sailor’s food on a long voyage is salt beef and pork, and biscuits, and tea, and cocoa, and sugar, and sometimes flour, with raisins and suet for a pudding, which is called “duff.” Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading I simply said I was duff and dem, and I defy you to prove to the contrary,” said the Executioner, stubbornly. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo There is a second crop of peas to plant in the further lot and as Mr. Stevens is short of men, I'm going to duff in and help, even if it isn't my job. Ted and the Telephone On Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, it was beef and duff, according to scale; Saturdays, beef and "strike-me-blind," i.e., boiled rice; Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, pea-soup and pork. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century She drove the point of the cant dog into the soft duff with a manner after the heart of Flagg himself. Joan of Arc of the North Woods This I know, that if one 'duff' should contain an extra ingredient to any other, that same 'duff' is pronounced the best. From Lower Deck to Pulpit "Emilia, go and tell Morgan to say to mother, if she wakes, that we are in the galley, breakfasting on plum duff." Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport Two or three times a week the men would, as a change, have a meal of salt meat; and on Sundays a duff--or pudding--of flour and currants was made. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes The duff, which was made of flour, water and fat, was boiled in a canvas bag made in the shape of a nightcap; it was very leathery, and was responsible for much dyspepsia. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Figgy duff, a luxury hitherto reserved for Sundays, being also served out to them. Sea Urchins It consisted of boiled beef, with duff, carrots, and potatoes, and its grateful incense filled the cabin. A Master Of Craft “Nothing!” replied the doctor, through a mouthful of duff and potatoes. Hudson Bay “What a appetite you’ve got, Luke,” said Joe, as he helped his comrade to a second large plateful of salt beef, potatoes, and duff. The Young Trawler He was round, and fat, and oily, as one of his own “duff” puddings. The World of Ice They would be feeding him with salt beef and duff, or smothering him; and as for waking when he cries at night, there would be little chance of their hearing him. True Blue “Now, you don’t mean to say this duff is fit food for Christians,” he exclaimed, sticking his fork into a somewhat hard piece of pudding. Sunshine Bill Its jacket was much the same as usual—inch-thick duff; but its contents were beyond anything I ever saw, except the maw of an old shark. Hudson Bay There’s young Chaffey there, who has stowed away enough duff to kill a bull, and now he’s going to increase the evil by pouring this burning fiery liquid down his throat. Paddy Finn “Thank you for your good intentions, Rhymer,” said Ned, picking up the biscuit and continuing to eat the duff on which he was engaged. Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade “For why,” he used to remark, “if my duff hard, I fiddle much; you dance de more, and den de duff go down—what more you want?” True Blue “I means a puddin’, Johnny Green, with as many ‘gammies’ as the boys don’t ‘sneak’ when the cook’s working up the duff!” Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy However, what I want to say to you is this: the men in the foc's'le declare that the grub isn't well cooked, and that you haven't given them plum duff yet. Chatterbox, 1905. "There's mince pie and ham sandwiches and jam tarts and vinegar and plum duff and cakes and pickled cabbages." Piccaninnies Well, my duff is not a very considerable one, and the few plums in it I fear are almost wide enough apart to be out of hail of one another. The Honour of the Flag I don't guess this is any kind of scallawag outfit of toughs which just get around and duff a bunch, and hit the trail for safety till the froth they've raised dies down again. The Forfeit “But, what’s ‘gammy duff’—I never heard tell of such a thing before?” Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy "He says she's such a little duff—" Her natural politeness stopped the word on her tongue. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl With this turkey and a bountiful plum duff, we made out a dinner even on the Liberdade. Voyage of the Liberdade The first day Lorraine said quite out loud and very polite, ‘Did you say duff before meat, young gentlemen?’ and I couldn’t help laughing, and old Snuffy beat his head horridly with his dirty fists. We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys In consequence I was invited by the sailors to participate on Sundays, in the one delicacy of the sailors' mess, plum duff. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie It was made of solid metal, was fitted with a false bottom to contain hot water, and was divided internally into three compartments to hold meat, vegetables and duff. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital "Anything the matter with that duff?" demanded the irate cook, pushing the dish under Mr. Brackett's retreating nose. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul He lived for the most part on the tough sea biscuit of mixed wheat and pea flour, and on the occasional duffs of flour boiled with fat, which did duty as pudding. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India I fixed him up a bit of duff yesterday, what he used to like so much aboard ship, and Pitts wouldn't let him have it. A Man's Woman For custom was that they should have plum duff this day, and plenty of hot grog.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative You don't take no notice, do you, old lump o' duff? A Student in Arms Second Series "There's things about dry land and the people on it that ain't so full of plums as a sailor's duff ought to be," he mused, "but—" And then he dozed off, listening to the wind. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Unless, of course—but no, a man don't duff cattle to drown 'em in a swamp. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Many's the good lump of "duff" for which I was indebted to my good Viking's good care of me. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Several fellows came round to see me, and Williams brought some duff, and Ramsey some light literature; Williams also brought a Times, in which I read about the massacre in China. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. While we ate, Jackwell expanded more and more under the influence of duff and beer. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" Among them was a well dressed Californian who evidently did not greatly fancy American cooking, but got along very well till Mrs. Brier brought around the dessert, a sort of duff. Death Valley in '49 He was round, and fat, and oily, as one of his own "duff" puddings. The World of Ice "And this!" went on the Senor, picking up what purported to be plum duff: "Bog down a few currants in dough and call her pudding!" Arizona Nights Why, most on 'em aboard here, and glad to get the duff—been begging before that, some on 'em. Treasure Island Lots of duff—I had it morning, noon and night, until I found something fresh to cook—and I haven't made duff since. A Little Bush Maid Learoyd, my man," he sings out, "you're a pretty man av your inches an' a good comrade, but your head is made av duff. Indian Tales He washed up the tinware in the water the duff had been boiled in, and then, with the assistance of the dog, yarded the sheep. While the Billy Boils The storekeeper had sent them an unbroken case of canned plum pudding, and probably by this time he was wondering what had become of that blanky case of duff. Children of the Bush Then he would be railed at for his miserable "duffs," and other shortcoming preparations. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War "Double pay and duff on Wednesday generally means get your head broke." The Mystery All, with but one exception, desired a suet pudding of some sort—the “duff” beloved of sailors. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition For plum duff or Irish stoo there wasn't his equal in the land. The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff There was no duff nor roast because there was no firewood within twenty miles. Children of the Bush Slowly I undressed the duff, dandling it upon my knee, much as a nurse does a baby about bed-time. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War The lilacs and crocuses, the tulips and buttercups, have bloomed and faded; the lawn has had its sprinkling of dandelions, and the duff of their blossoms has drifted past the hemlocks and over the tree-tops. Tides of Barnegat He brought several barrels of flour home, but would not give us the usual twice-a-week duff, and so as to other stores. Two Years Before the Mast "Two more early risin's, and then duff and bruise," is said to be a Thursday remark of the fishermen. Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador We had plum duff, but it was too "soggy" for us to eat. Children of the Bush The first day there was "duff" to make—a business which devolved upon the mess-cooks, though the boiling of it pertained to Old Coffee and his deputies. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Her captain ranged between plum duff and his hammock. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million The only change was that we had a ``plum duff'' for dinner, and the crew quarrelled with the steward because he did not give us our usual allowance of molasses to eat with it. Two Years Before the Mast There was soup, vegetables, roast beef, roast mutton, lamb and mint sauce, plum duff, Yorkshire, and a lot more. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The horses, laboring slowly, sometimes sank knee-deep into the brown duff. The Man of the Forest No use, no use; I had failed; ever after, that duff lay heavy at my stomach and my heart. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War The only change was that we had a "plum duff" for dinner, and the crew quarrelled with the steward because he did not give us our usual allowance of molasses to eat with it. Two Years Before the Mast Many a rascally captain has made up with his crew, for hard usage, by allowing them duff twice a week on the passage home. Two Years Before the Mast I dug into the soft duff under the pines. The Young Forester Well," I said, "more better stop 'way than look like big fool, boil all away, same like duff in pot. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales The first time he was given a piece of "duff" to eat, he was observed to pick out very carefully every raisin, and throw it away, with a gesture indicative of the highest disgust. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Many a rascally captain has made friends of his crew by allowing them duff twice a week on the passage home. Two Years Before the Mast To enhance the value of Sunday to the crew, they are allowed on that day a pudding, or, as it is called, a ``duff.'' Two Years Before the Mast They worked with their tomahawks on the soft duff and soon their task was completed. Betty Zane I've a great mind to "duff" him myself one of these days.' Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields If I had stopped dead and bucked at father's wanting me and Jim to help duff those weaners, I really believe all might have come right. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields To enhance the value of the Sabbath to the crew, they are allowed on that day a pudding, or, as it is called, a "duff." Two Years Before the Mast |
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