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...e king, who looked at me with watery eyes gleaming with greed, should have figured out that little logical truth, too. He leaned across the seats, corset creaking as it struggled to contain the bulge of a belly swollen with too much fine, rich food and wine, and patted my knee in an overly familiar gesture that made my skin crawl. “You’re a pretty lass,” he complimen...

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... Phelps Jacob - a rich socialite - received the first patent for a bra in 1914. Her corset - replete with whaleback bones was visible under a brand ... ...on to replace the bones. The bra was born. she sold the patent to Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for $1,500. They made... ...war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28,000 tons of metals were thus made available to ... ...k.tripod.com/euthanasia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_vegetative_state Corset Catherine de Médicis, wife of King Henri II of France, h... ... waists of women attending court receptions. So, in the 1550s, she introduced the corset (sleeveless "payre of bodies") - an undergarment designed... ...and to yield a cylindrical shape with a flat, breastless, torso. The Elizabethan corset - as opposed to the Victorian one - was comfortable and s... ...contemporaries as maintaining a 43 centimeters waistline with the aid of whalebone corsets. But period advertisements for corsets cater to waistlin... ...stlines of up to 107 centimeters with an average of 76 centimeters. Wearing a tight corset did constrain blood flow and cause fainting - but there w... ... corset did constrain blood flow and cause fainting - but there was no shortage of corsets of all sizes. Corsets dominated fashion between 1555 and...

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...ould not help matters. I stood before the pier glass and tightened my riding corset of pale green silk. My figure was more lush than the current fas... ...wondered what stratagem he employed to make it so. He picked up my regular corset, a pale blue China silk, and examined it somewhat disdainfully. ... ...sapphire gown from the modiste and a pair of matching slippers. An elegant corset, of black silk embroidered with roses, black lace stockings with ... ... back to me then, his breath ragged. “Put on the new chemise and hold up the corset for me to lace, Claire.” I did as he asked and he laced me up expe... ...ollowed as I stepped out of the slippers and turned my back for my gown and corset to be unlaced. He kissed my neck and shoulders repeatedly as he ... ...worsted stockings I had just purchased came out next, along with my everyday corset and chemise, and a pair of walking shoes. Erik dressed in loose... ...dressed in loose black trousers and an open shirt while I donned chemise and corset, hooking it in the front rather than having him lace me in the ba... ...He collected his valise and followed me upstairs. Erik unlaced my dress and corset, and I donned a fresh night rail from my clothespress. Erik chan... ...ust from our visit into town, and put it in the armoire. I then removed my corset, shoes and stockings, and slipped into the lacy green silk peigno...

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...notice. Vibrant red, with slits on both sides that reached mid-thigh. The corset underneath helped push up her breasts, a nice distraction for the b...

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...ene’s milky skin. He bent his rebellious fingers to the task of lacing her corset. “God help me, Helene, when will I ever be done with lovin’ you?... ...eap. She remembered how Camilla had pulled and tugged and grunted over the corset laces, cinching in her waist and pushing up her breasts to force M... ...Morgan let her panic spill over into hiccuping sobs. She wrestled with the corset strings until her blistered fingers were raw. Exasperated, she c... ...nnolly, I—” “Daniel.” He took the rest of her bundle and sent it flying. Corset and petticoats scattered over table and floor. Her arms and his ... ...ly to gain precious time. “These wretched fingers of mine can’t manage the corset lacin’s.” “I’ll do them.” Her lush breasts were thrust forwa... ...skimpy costume, pushed into bulging display by the pinching tightness of her corset which squeezed the breath from her lungs and cut her in two. “S... ...n interrupted in a voice made high pitched and breathless by nerves and her corset, “Perhaps if we raised the waist a bit and tried that lace fichu I... ... Daniel said. “Go to your dressin’ room and let Gertie get you out of that corset before you faint.” “Hey, Mr. Producer, I thought you hired me to... ... distracted with the production.” Gertie loosed the cruel bindings of her corset with blessed speed. “No man could be that distracted.” Taking ...

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...ed in a loud whisper, glancing toward the door. “Perhaps I can make a special corset for you, one that can keep your breasts bound tightly but loose... ...Lady,” Aislinn said, dressing again. “Come back in a week. I shall have your corset then.” “Thank you.” “’Tis nothing. Don’t hesitate to come to ... ...e to come to me for help in the future.” ***** When Aislinn tried on the corset a week later, she was greatly relieved. Her breasts were flatte... ...hin shook her head and made a tut-tut sound before handing Aislinn yet a third corset. “Here’s the last one. ‘Tis in between the other two, made fo... ...early hidden. “Thank you,” Aislinn said enthusiastically. She left the third corset on and scooped up the first and tightest garment “Aislinn, don... ... before wrestling, Aislinn slipped back into her room and donned the tightest corset. Her breasts felt squashed but she couldn’t bear to have them v... ...ore his hand slashed upward, under her shirt, and cut through the ties of her corset. Her breasts, free from their constraints, were now very visib... ...shirt and the torn garment slipped from beneath her tunic. Aislinn ripped the corset away, not wanting it to hinder her. She didn’t have time to fee... ... and weep,” Lady Blaithin scorned as she forced Aislinn into her most dreaded corset and tugged the dress over her head. “Say what you will, nor say...

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...'s room. Upon entering, I see her wearing an exquisite red satin, strapless corset with matching lace thong panty and fishnet stockings I'm a deer c... ... me in lingerie, Emilie declares boldly, untying the ” front strings of her corset. Woah! “ ” 16 Today is the greatest day in the history of the wor... ...rls, wearing the sexiest and skimpiest outfits: lacy halter tops, strapless corset dresses, skinny satin pants, seductive swing skirts, and the most...

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...xt (or non-text) and the reader (contemplator), removed from the cultural corset, but involving the conscience of the universal literalness., like al...

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...rrassing!” I can see the funny side. “I take it your dad is prudish; sees corsets and long johns as pornographic.” “Yes.” Michael nods. “Very traditi...

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...ly curved. She put on new stockings and her prettiest shoes. She laced her corset straight, without skipping a single eyelet. And then, wishing for th... ...l sleeves, deceptive pads, puffed dresses amply trimmed, and high-pressure corsets, she had obtained such curious feminine developments that she ought...

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...mself. A standing joke in the two bureaus was the question whether he wore corsets, and bets depended on it. Vimeux was originally appointed to Baudoy... ...strial avocations.” Bixiou. “What! have you managed to invent a mechanical corset, or a baby’s bottle, or a fire engine, or chimneys that consume no f...

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...ose the little Tiphaines wore, very fine 52 Pierrette cotton stockings, a corset by the best maker, a dress of blue reps, a pretty cape lined with wh... ... her. Pierrette, inspired by a sense of danger, sewed the letters into her corset and covered them with calico. Here end the loves of Pierrette and Br... ..., exclaiming, “No, no, I will go to bed.” Sylvie had, however, touched the corset and felt the pa- pers. She let Pierrette go, saying to the company: ... ...rt of phantom. At this moment Sylvie’s eyes chanced to fall on Pierrette’s corset, and she remembered the papers. Releasing the girl’s wrist she spran... ... she remembered the papers. Releasing the girl’s wrist she sprang upon the corset like a tiger on its prey, and showed it to Pierrette with a smile,—t... ...e will see what we must do.” She went back to her own bed, ripped open the corset, and read Brigaut’s two letters, which confounded her. She went to s...

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...that her primitive proportions were destroyed. At the present mo- ment, no corset could restore a pair of hips to the poor lady, who seemed to have be... ...rector, who bade her converse with amenity, the poor soul perspired in her corset when the talk around her languished, so much did she suffer from the... ...m, where he laid her out on the bed. Josette, armed with scissors, cut the corset, which was terribly tight. Du Bousquier flung water on Mademoiselle ... ...ng water on Mademoiselle Cormon’s face and bosom, which, released from the corset, overflowed like the Loire in flood. The poor woman opened her eyes,...

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...lie, Subsiding slowly where they fell, A disinvested citadel; The obdurate corset, Cupid’s foe, The Dutchman’s breeches frilled below. Those that the ...

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...y. The amazing old woman became very explicit. She suggested to the girl a corset and a petticoat with a cynical unreserve which humiliated me. Was I ...

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...onger worried about not having reticences. She was in a petticoat now, and corsets which bulged, and unaware of being seen in bulgy corsets. She had b... ...about these demi-vierges in stories—” “These whats?” “—but the wise, hard, corseted, old married women like Zilla are worse than any bobbed-haired gir... ...nd puffy and mature, where Zilla, at forty-five, was so bleached and tight-corseted that you knew only that she was older than she looked. “The idea o... ...thletic Club called “goings on” at young parties; of girls “parking” their corsets in the dressing-room, of “cud- dling” and “petting,” and a presumab... ...hs. 199 Sinclair Lewis He had it, upon urgent and secret inquiry, that no corsets were known to be parked upstairs; but certainly these eager bodies ... ... public appear- ances Zilla was over-coiffed, over-painted, and resolutely corseted, for private misery she wore a filthy blue dress- ing-gown and tor...

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... maternity, like those of girls who seek beauty by the fatal pressure of a corset. Steel and dimity and lacings defined but did not create the ser- pe... ... and masked. So this was the letter she had worn between her flesh and her corset above her palpitating heart throughout one whole day! For this she h... ...r religion, and her man- ners; for Philoxene stripped her for me, soul and corset. I went to the opera expressly to see her, and I didn’t grudge the t...

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... as she stood there in the Norman dress of that period? Gabrielle wore the corset pointed before and square behind, which the Italian masters give alm...

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... hung like dews of morn- ing on her grape-stained lips. She wore a scarlet corset with bands of black velvet across her shoulders. The girlish gown wa...

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...lar structure; also for affording glimpses, in the region of the back, of a corset, or pair of stays, in colour a dead green. Being always in a state...