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“I can’t,” she wheezed, dragging her skirt and bodice onto the bench at the side of the room
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The lady circled behind the young man without his noticing, as his eyes were fixed on the face and bodice of the young girl
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Maybe they’d soon grow enough to fill out the peplos’s bodice
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The bodice shimmered with the gold-coated plastic and sequins of a dozen cat brooches she’d collected
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I straightened the A-lined skirt of my white chiffon dress with its V-neck lace bodice and checked that the long, wide laced elvish styled sleeves had not caught onto anything and left loose threads
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A shimmery, ethereal green, it was strapless, with a sweetheart neckline made of many-pleated wrapped layers in a figure-hugging bodice that went down to the hips and met a tight skirt that flared out in a mermaid’s tail at the knees
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“‘Let not the marriage of true minds admit impediments,’” he recited as the stiff fabric of the dress’s bodice came away from my body
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This was a full skirt down to the feet, cinched at the tiny waist; fitted bodice with high neck (one could visualise a cameo at the throat); long tight sleeves to the wrists and puffed shoulders
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It had a black lace bodice with crisscrossed straps, the bodice was not low cut but it showed off her magnificent chest
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The neckline was square coupled with wide set straps and a brocade bodice
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On the bodice just under the lace-lined square neckline was an abridged version of the embroidery pattern
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far out of her bodice it seemed they were capable of escaping her
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was under the bodice, stood demurely beside his friend Chris
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The girl in the rags put me inside her bodice and I nestled against warm flesh that made my chill abate somewhat
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“…Nonsense Ricky! It was too long on me, and there’s a two-inch tuck just under the bodice, we could let that out and…
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The bodice was strapped and plain, but the skirt was full and trimmed in a white lace
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She’s dressed in a disheveled periwinkle day dress, with a notched collar and front-closing, princess seam bodice that pinches at her waist above a gathered skirt that looks it was slept in
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He had fashioned a bodice out of one of the women’s skirts, which was
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chest of the bodice was too large for him –its owner, Mammary L’amour, having been by far the
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quite complicated as it comes with a bodice, and, well
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“The dress and bodice are on the bed, Rad, dear
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Concluding with the project of making her bodice straighter, Anne ran her hands down
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She didn’t have the strength to tense her body in preparation so she just collapsed and fell completely onto the vanity, her breasts flattened out and bulging from both sides of her loosening bodice
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The velvet burgundy bodice on the two piece gown was gently scooped at the neckline and evolved into a deep v at the waistline
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The long v-neck collar with the inserted bodice was decorated in ivory braided trim
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The bodice featured a gently scooped neckline which was accented with black beading
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The silk petticoat was satinrose’ pink with a hoop and the collar of the heart-shaped bodice was trimmed in the same French lace
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” It was made of pure white satin, overlaid with white lace and luminous seed pearls embroidered in rosette patterns on the heart-shaped bodice, which ended with a flattering V waistline both in the front and back
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The sleeves had three-quarter Victorian style cuffs adorned with silver lace and pearl brooches and were made of the same white lace that was on the bodice
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The skirt was attached to the bodice and lined with an Italian cotton petticoat over crinoline and had a detachable hoop
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It was pale blue, with fine straps, an empire waist and a flowing bodice that was cut asymmetrically across the hem
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My floral brocade ballgown glimmered with elegant black sequins, and I thought of Regina as Sher tightly laced the bodice into a perfect fit
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" He brought out an ivory colored peasant dress with a rounded neckline, the bodice intricately embroidered with gold and orange butterflies
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“Okay, so, here’s the one I brought for you,” Sydney said, pulling out a long red dress with intricate flounces along the bottom, all edged in black sequins, and with red and black beading on the bodice
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Anne looked at the invitation and then at the slip of paper poking out of the red bodice, a small crease between her eyebrows
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She touched the beaded bodice of
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David was bewildered: who could that be? It dawned on him as if in a dream, and then it struck him hard: the girl in the black bodice, short black skirt twirling about her shapely legs in the black tights, shining black shoes and with a little black hand-bag, was Irena! No patchwork dress going all the way down to her ankles, no long hair falling about her shoulders and none of the melancholic dreaminess and shyness that had struck him in her when he had first seen her
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His lips were on hers again, and he began to undo the hooks on the back of her bodice
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The bodice was shaped in the latest cuirass style, which hugged my frame all the way down to my thighs, emphasizing my small waist and the curve of my hip
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She pulled her gown free at the bodice exposing her small breasts, gently directing his hand over one
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The woman sobered enough to hitch her bodice and slink quickly away
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beloved, „my dear, I would pluck the moon and stars and stitch them on your silk bodice, I would
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Said Cherish as she pulled the bodice down feeling the soft lines of the
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neckline and sleeves with finely embroidered flowers over the bodice
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When she flipped the page there was another picture of her waiting on a curb in NYC, with one arm in the air as if she was trying to signal a taxi in a white strapless Chanel mini dress with a sweetheart bodice and Christian Louboutin white suede pumps
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Ingrid lowered her still shaking hands away from the bodice
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Shaking at its bodice to fan her chest helped a little, but by mid-afternoon, she was frustrated with all the sweating
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Ingrid folded the letter and pushed it down into her bodice, where it could rest over her heart
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It had a lace bodice surrounding my chest and led to a mock turtleneck
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Finally the landlady dressed up the curate in a style that left nothing to be desired; she put on him a cloth petticoat with black velvet stripes a palm broad, all slashed, and a bodice of green velvet set off by a binding of white satin, which as well as the petticoat must have been made in the time of king Wamba
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I send thee here a green hunting suit that my lady the duchess gave me; alter it so as to make a petticoat and bodice for our daughter
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"It's past comprehension! Such a cookshop as that!" And with a shrug of the shoulders that stretched out over her breast the stitches of her knitted bodice, she pointed with both hands at her rival's inn, whence songs were heard issuing
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" At these words her mother Teresa Panza came out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey petticoat (so short was it one would have fancied "they to her shame had cut it short"), a grey bodice of the same stuff, and a smock
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Her cap was embroidered with pearls, the pins in her hair were of gold and diamonds, her girdle was of Turkey silk, with large embroidered flowers, her bodice and skirt were of cashmere, her apron of Indian muslin, and the buttons of her corset were of jewels
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Ruth had just been putting the child to sleep and she stood up as they came in, hastily fastening the bodice of her dress as she did
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She wore the picturesque costume of the Catalan fisherwomen, a red and black bodice, and golden pins in her hair
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She wore a blue and white-striped vest, with long open sleeves, trimmed with silver loops and buttons of pearls, and a sort of bodice, which, closing only from the centre to the waist, exhibited the whole of the ivory throat and upper part of the bosom; it was fastened with three magnificent diamond clasps
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The junction of the bodice and drawers was entirely concealed by one of the many-colored scarfs, whose brilliant hues and rich silken fringe have rendered them so precious in the eyes of Parisian belles
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Mulveys was the first when I was in bed that morning and Mrs Rubio brought it in with the coffee she stood there standing when I asked her to hand me and I pointing at them I couldnt think of the word a hairpin to open it with ah horquilla disobliging old thing and it staring her in the face with her switch of false hair on her and vain about her appearance ugly as she was near 80 or a loo her face a mass of wrinkles with all her religion domineering because she never could get over the Atlantic fleet coming in half the ships of the world and the Union Jack flying with all her carabineros because 4 drunken English sailors took all the rock from them and because I didnt run into mass often enough in Santa Maria to please her with her shawl up on her except when there was a marriage on with all her miracles of the saints and her black blessed virgin with the silver dress and the sun dancing 3 times on Easter Sunday morning and when the priest was going by with the bell bringing the vatican to the dying blessing herself for his Majestad an admirer he signed it I near jumped out of my skin I wanted to pick him up when I saw him following me along the Calle Real in the shop window then he tipped me just in passing but I never thought hed write making an appointment I had it inside my petticoat bodice all day reading it up in every hole and corner while father was up at the drill instructing to find out by the handwriting or the language of stamps singing I remember shall I wear a white rose and I wanted to put on the old stupid clock to near the time he was the first man kissed me under the Moorish wall my sweetheart when a boy it never entered my head what kissing meant till he put his tongue in my mouth his mouth was sweetlike young I put my knee up to him a few times to learn the way what did I tell him I was engaged for for fun to the son of a Spanish nobleman named Don Miguel de la Flora and he believed me that I was to be married to him in 3 years time theres
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He imagined, probably mistakenly, that this low-necked bodice had been made on his account, and
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felt that he had no right to look at it, and tried not to look at it; but he felt that he was to blame for the very fact of the low-necked bodice having been made
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To Tess's horror the dark queen began stripping off the bodice of her gown—which for the added reason of its ridiculed condition she was only too glad to be free of—till she had bared her plump neck, shoulders, and arms to the moonshine, under which they looked as
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The Caroline bodice of the portrait was low—precisely as Tess's had been when he tucked it in to show the necklace; and again he experienced the distressing sensation of a resemblance between them
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This black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life- with childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers- was just at that charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not yet a young woman
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Then the violins played very shrilly and merrily and one of the women with thick bare legs and thin arms, separating from the others, went behind the wings, adjusted her bodice, returned to the middle of the stage, and began jumping and striking one foot rapidly against the other
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She patched her bodice, which was old and worn out, with scraps of calico
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Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and said to her, "Follow me!"
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He moved in the hell-fire steams and sudden baking-powder flurries of snow in this miraculous climate where Grandma, with the look of the Indies in her eyes and the flesh of two firm warm hens in her bodice, Grandma of the thousand arms, shook, basted, whipped, beat, minced, diced, peeled, wrapped, salted, stirred
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She arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent
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He dreamed that he was the lord of those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was not his
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Marius glanced at Cosette's charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' glance, blushed to her very hair
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bodice over her shoulder to the other side of the bed, with one pull she removed her long ruffled skirt, her satin garter belt and funereal stockings, and she threw everything on the floor until the room was carpeted with the last remnants of her mourning
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She defended herself with a pair of gardening shears that she had hidden in her bodice, and six men were needed to put her in the strait jacket while the crowd jammed into the Plaza of the Customhouse applauded and whistled with glee in the belief that the bloody capture was one of many Carnival farces
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He advised her to cry to her heart’s content, and to feel no shame, for there was no greater relief than weeping, but he suggested that she loosen her bodice first
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He hurried to help her, because her bodice was tightly fastened in the back with a long closure of crossed laces
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He did not have to unlace them all, for the bodice burst open from sheer internal pressure, and her astronomical bosom was able to breathe freely
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He imagined, probably mistakenly, that this low-necked bodice had been made on his account, and felt that he had no right to look at it, and tried not to look at it; but he felt that he was to blame for the very fact of the low-necked bodice having been made
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Not prudery at all! If the bodice were completely altered, then it would do
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She had barely said that when Malásha plumped her foot into the water and bespattered Akúlka's bodice, and not only her bodice, but also her nose and eyes
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When Akúlka saw the spots on her bodice, she grew angry at Malásha, and scolded her, and ran after her, and wanted to strike her
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While the women exchanged words, Akúlka wiped off her bodice, and went back to the puddle in the lane
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At the same time, that love in no way hindered her, not only from being averse to parting with her adored husband, but also from desiring to visit Madame Annette’s and order there a lovely cap, a hat trimmed with a magnificent blue ostrich feather, and a blue Venetian velvet bodice which was to expose to the public gaze the snowy, well shaped breast and arms which no one had yet gazed upon except her husband and maids
