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In this parish, conventionality, which is the one true synonym for morality, called for bare shoulders and arms unsleeved.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

He wore a long unsleeved garment of recently flayed oxhide reaching to the knees in a loose kilt and this was bound about his middle by a girdle of plaited straw and rushes.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

I could not help admiring him as he stood in the middle of the floor with his unsleeved arms folded, uttering quiet jets of simple speech to my friend, who had known him before.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin