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  • Her fingers were thick and awkward as she struggled to lace up her bodice and knot a drab brown cloak about her neck.†   (source)
  • "Now, Katniss, because this bodice is so fitted, I don't want you raising your arms above your head.†   (source)
  • Her dress matched Peony's with its snug bodice and flouncy skirt, only it was made of stardust gold.†   (source)
  • It fit her perfectly in the bodice and the sleeves, but came down way over her knees.†   (source)
  • Natalie's dress had flowers blossoming on the bodice, and her full skirt was fluttery blue tulle.†   (source)
  • Her yellow pagne is double-wrapped and her ornate bodice cut low on her large bosom.†   (source)
  • The book was in novel form, short enough not to intimidate the potential buyer at Food Mart checkout stands, and the cover was a twenty-second interactive holo wherein the tall, swarthy stranger-Amalfi Schwartz, I suppose, although Amalfi was short and pale and wore corrective lensesrips the bodice of the struggling female just to the nipple line before the protesting blonde turns toward the viewer and cries for help in a breathless whisper provided by porn holie star Leeda Swann.†   (source)
  • The Tribune, in an unintended parody of its own penchant for describing the gowns of the rich, noted that Lola, a South Sea Islander, wore her "native costume of bark cloth covering about half the body, with low cut and sleeveless bodice."†   (source)
  • She put the money into her bodice.†   (source)
  • He's after more dangerous game than some low-bodiced councilman's daughter."†   (source)
  • She thanked him with her first smile and almost snatched the letter away from him, folded it, and hid it in her bodice.†   (source)
  • What if we take the skirt off that one and combine it with the green bodice?†   (source)
  • I know you came prepared for violence with a weapon in your bodice.†   (source)
  • And when my picture came out in the magazine the twelve of us were working on-drinking martinis in a skimpy, imitation silver-lame bodice stuck on to a big, fat cloud of white tulle, on some Starlight Roof, in the company of several anonymous young men with all-American bone structures hired or loaned for the occasion-everybody would think I must be having a real whirl.†   (source)
  • I lift out the one arm, and then another arm, then the bodice, and more parts below.†   (source)
  • She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.†   (source)
  • Girls in dresses with low backs, with scooped bodices showing actual cleavage, with Empire waists.†   (source)
  • I stepped out into blue light that covered the first sheet, walking very slowly, like you do at weddings, carrying against the white bodice of my gown a bouquet of pink carnations.†   (source)
  • Without pausing to think, Nasuada drew the four-inch knife from the sheath sewn within the bodice of her chemise.†   (source)
  • Her gown had a low-cut bodice of pink silk and a three-tiered hoop skirt with white scalloped lace.†   (source)
  • My dress, black silk with a corset-tight bodice and diamond-patterned skirt, is the finest thing I've ever worn.†   (source)
  • It made something down in the left side of poor Mandy's slovenly dress-bodice vibrate and tingle.†   (source)
  • I slipped my arms into his sleeves and then buttoned it swiftly over my ragged bodice.†   (source)
  • She had chosen to wear a yellow sundress, which showed off her tanned, muscular arms and hugged her bodice tightly.†   (source)
  • He approached a woman not only masked but wholly medieval, it seemed, a cloth wound about the head and a long plain cloak sashed at the waist and a tight bodice girdled high under her breasts.†   (source)
  • Bare neck peeking out from the bodice of a blue gown.†   (source)
  • Okay, Heaven honey, drop your arms so I can check this bodice.†   (source)
  • Each eye of her corset he toyed with (and there were forty—twenty on each side); each gros-grain ribbon that threaded its pale-blue way through the snowy top of her bodice he unlaced.†   (source)
  • Close up, giants were whatever part was nearest—a skirt, a bodice, a trouser leg, or a face.†   (source)
  • And there they stood, seven vampires, the women vampires three in number, their molded white breasts shining over the tight black bodices of their gowns, their hard luminescent faces staring with dark eyes beneath curls of black hair.†   (source)
  • Nobody was certain how many rooms Major — de Coverley had rented, not even the stout black-bodiced woman in corsets on the first floor from whom he had rented them.†   (source)
  • She wore a long, white satin gown, with embroidered black snowflakes adorning the bodice.†   (source)
  • Genet, too, was transformed, radiant, wearing a traditional cotton skirt and tight bodice, with a matching shama around her shoulders.†   (source)
  • But obviously she wasn't going to take off her bodice or her pantaloons or her stockings.†   (source)
  • I jumped up, fumbling and tugging at my bodice.†   (source)
  • Even on the day before her wedding, the seamstresses took in her bodice, begging her to eat and fill out her gown.†   (source)
  • The oil washed Lisa, but somehow the slithering spot of flame slipped along the bodice and waist of her dress and was extinguished in the skirt.†   (source)
  • The bodice of her dress was ragged, a nondescript tawny colour, with stains on it.†   (source)
  • It was a black dress with a bodice that fell as a cape over one arm and shoulder, leaving the other bare; the naked shoulder was the gown's only ornament.†   (source)
  • It was entirely too easy to imagine herself in a great torch-lit hall, with jewels winking from her hair and from the bodice of a rich silk gown.†   (source)
  • Whenever her hands hit bass and treble chords at the same time, the bodice stretched tight across her bust, and on fast pieces, the jiggle was something to see!†   (source)
  • But they were such large breasts, straining against the bodice of her polka-dot dress, and she was wearing big white sandals with high heels.†   (source)
  • There is lace everywhere…the poufed sleeves…the insert above the neckline…dripping from the bodice and skirt, then looped up in bunches all around the hem.†   (source)
  • Sashes, belts, hats, and veils crowded with half-finished outfits of shimmering materials and studded bodices.†   (source)
  • With her bandaged forefinger she dug out a slender chain which hung around her neck and pulled the chain's burden up from her bodice.†   (source)
  • It was mostly skirt, with a little bodice that supported without concealing—a style favored in ancient Crete, I hear, and still popular in the Overseas Weekly, Playboy, and many night clubs.†   (source)
  • I felt in my bodice and again in my waistband, I shook out the folds of my sari, but there was no doubt the money was gone.†   (source)
  • There was a bodice of browning lace.†   (source)
  • Celaena kept her hands pressed against the maroon bodice, trying not to wring them.†   (source)
  • I removed my bodice and hung it on a nail.†   (source)
  • Swiftly, Mapes grabbed the sheathed knife, concealed it in Jessica's bodice.†   (source)
  • I didn't bother putting a skirt or bodice over my shift to haul water from the well.†   (source)
  • She clutched the torn cloth of her bodice to her heavy breasts.†   (source)
  • "A modest bodice is what I'm thinking, with a minimum of frill.†   (source)
  • I was nearly as tall as she, even if I didn't fill out a bodice the way a grown woman did.†   (source)
  • I'd let out the seams of the bodice as much as I could and taken out the hem of the skirt.†   (source)
  • She's worn the same dress all week, and her bodice is soiled.†   (source)
  • Tucked into her bodice, the makeshift knife poked her skin.†   (source)
  • I stepped into my woolen overskirts, laced my stays, and wrapped a heavy shawl over my bodice.†   (source)
  • The makeshift knife in her bodice felt like a dead weight.†   (source)
  • But first I wanted to shed my bodice; it pinched something awful under my arms.†   (source)
  • Mother tugged at my bodice to straighten it.†   (source)
  • She was twelve, tightly laced into a stiff new gown, its bodice bright with garnets.†   (source)
  • As he was speaking he reached into his bodice and took out a small gold fish.†   (source)
  • He reached for the laces of her bodice and began to undo them, his fingers deft and practiced.†   (source)
  • "Hi," he said as he got close, reaching out with the pin toward my bodice, his breath hot and sweet.†   (source)
  • It has a tight bodice, a low neck, a full skirt; it brushes against my bare legs as I walk.†   (source)
  • "I'd ask you to open your bodice, but from the look of you that wouldn't prove much."†   (source)
  • Bring the grey linen gown with the pearls on the bodice.†   (source)
  • Septa Donyse padded out the bodice, to give it that shape.†   (source)
  • I about shoved a kabob skewer through that bursting bodice of hers.†   (source)
  • Boros shoved a meaty hand down the front of Sansa's bodice and gave a hard yank.†   (source)
  • With a sigh of impatience, she tapped her bodice.†   (source)
  • Sophie dropped the bodice into the water with a plop.†   (source)
  • Then his eye caught the broken pink blossom which Johnnie had pinned to the front of her bodice.†   (source)
  • "The Winged Knight was brave, and so am I," he boasted to her bodice.†   (source)
  • Now she leaned forward, and her bodice gaped carelessly.†   (source)
  • We watch in horror as it begins with the sleeves and travels quickly up her arm to the bodice.†   (source)
  • Her full breasts strain at the bodice of her gown.†   (source)
  • Her small form trembled, her hands hovering over the pleated bodice of her yellow gown.†   (source)
  • Ursula took the revolver out of her bodice and put it under the mattress of the cot.†   (source)
  • Sophie, still dabbling her bodice, shook her head.†   (source)
  • Beneath the lacy bodice of her pale blue gown, her breasts looked small but shapely.†   (source)
  • I say, tucking it back inside my bodice.†   (source)
  • The laces of my bodice are torn, revealing far too much of me.†   (source)
  • Yet Mikken had his hand down some woman's bodice, and she seemed not to mind.†   (source)
  • Genna Lannister had been a shapely woman in her youth, always threatening to overflow her bodice.†   (source)
  • The bodice was decorated with freshwater pearls, though.†   (source)
  • Lady Smallwood fussed at the bodice of the gown.†   (source)
  • Swirls of tiny emeralds brightened the ends of her wide sleeves and spiraled down her bodice.†   (source)
  • Polliver's hand was down the bodice of the girl on his lap, but now he slid it out.†   (source)
  • A tiny woman wearing a green calico skirt, a nut-brown bodice, and a dingy shift stood in the open door to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • The dress she was making was a light cream-coloured American print with sprigs and buds, and a tucked bodice coming to a point below the waist, and three layers of flounced ruffles to the skirt; and I told her it was very becoming.†   (source)
  • She kept damp cash in her bodice, which she tied tightly around her chest to flatten her unchristian breasts.†   (source)
  • Iko rolled to Peony's side as she pulled a velvet ribbon from her bodice, leftover trim from the seamstress.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Against a setting of white narcissi, white trelliswork bowers, and lighted tapers in silver sconces festooned with bunches of faux black Muscadine grapes bedecked with spiralling silver ribbon, Mrs. Prior received in a gracious Chanel gown of ashes-of-roses with a draped skirt, its bodice ornamented with discreet seed pearls.†   (source)
  • With a gasp, Mapes dropped the sheathed knife into Jessica's hand, tore open the brown bodice, wailing: "Take the water of my life!†   (source)
  • She stared down at the silver bodice with its trim of delicate lace, the full skirt, the tiny seed pearls, and wanted to shrivel inside the gown and disappear.†   (source)
  • He hurried to help her, because her bodice was tightly fastened in the back with a long closure of crossed laces.†   (source)
  • The queen wore a high-collared black silk gown, with a hundred dark red rubies sewn into her bodice, covering her from neck to bosom.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • She's wearing a pretty purple flowered dress with a gathered bodice, and I wonder if she made it herself.†   (source)
  • Jessica felt the cold sheath of the crysknife beneath her bodice, thought of the long chain of Bene Gesserit scheming that had forged another link here.†   (source)
  • She took off the taffeta blouse with the beaded embroidery and threw it across the room onto the easy chair in the corner, she tossed her 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.†   (source)
  • The too-dark sky hung over the slope like a blot, and the milky light of the Arrakeen sun gave the scene a silver cast—light like the crysknife concealed in her bodice.†   (source)
  • Swirls of silk thread on the bodice made rose-like designs that could have passed for a work by any master painter.†   (source)
  • I was wearing my shift, still stained with blood at the neckline, but my skirt, stockings, and bodice were not to be seen.†   (source)
  • A round young woman with frizzy brown hair kneels on the floor in front of a cloth mannequin, stitching tiny pearls onto a bodice.†   (source)
  • The red skirts were the size of a tent, and her bodice was so tightly bound that Celaena wondered if her waist were any more than sixteen inches.†   (source)
  • An ugly yellow scrap from a ripped bodice was still tied to the handle of the front door, which was open.†   (source)
  • When my chores were done, I climbed to my attic room, kicked off my shoes, and laid down on the bed without even removing my skirt or bodice.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Tucked inside her bodice was the small makeshift hairpin dagger, though it poked mercilessly at her chest.†   (source)
  • A red sash covered the waist, forming an inverted peak that separated the bodice from the explosion of skirts beneath.†   (source)
  • It was not pure white, but rather a grayish offset, and its wide skirts and bodice were encrusted with thousands of minuscule crystals that reminded Celaena of the surface of the sea.†   (source)
  • The clock struck nine, and Philippa glanced toward the doorway, giving Celaena the opportunity to slip her makeshift knife down her bodice without being noticed.†   (source)
  • Her dress was void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula, as if galaxies were being born in her bodice.†   (source)
  • Her dress has a high collar and an elaborate ruffle running down both sides of the bright green bodice—no sedate gray or black for Eugenia Spence.†   (source)
  • Seated there were Jormundur and two other men, one tall and one broad; a woman with pinched lips, close-set eyes, and elaborately painted cheeks; and a second woman with an immense pile of gray hair above a matronly face, belied by a dagger hilt peeking out of the vast hills of her bodice.†   (source)
  • "Get rid of all this," Vicky says with a sniffle, lifting up a limp layer of lace that hangs, inexplicably, from the gown's bodice.†   (source)
  • In a few of the sketches, I paint Abuela Celia just the way she wants—dancing flamenco with whirling red skirts and castanets and a tight satin bodice.†   (source)
  • I Ier old, much-mended bodice had given way with the tugging, exposing one withered pap, purple from bruising.†   (source)
  • Her sleeves and bodice were sewn with freshwater pearls, and on her feet were white doeskin slippers—pretty, but not warm.†   (source)
  • The huge hoop skirt of the wedding gown brushed against the walls when she moved, her slender figure swaying above the skirt in the dramatic contrast of a tight, severe, long-sleeved bodice; the gown had been made by the best designer in the city.†   (source)
  • These skimpy skirts and tiny bodices were designed for women a lot skinnier than I am, of which there now seem to be dozens, hundreds: weasel-faced girls with long hair hanging to the place where their bums ought to be, their chests flat as plywood, making me feel bulbous by comparison.†   (source)
  • The pair of them started as Greta cast herself upon the ground and began to weep and wail while pulling at her thin hair, beating herself on the face, and ripping at her bodice.†   (source)
  • I tried to keep the tears out of my voice, but at the mention of lOm my aching breasts began to seep milk until it soaked in great dark patches right through my bodice.†   (source)
  • My hand sinks into those waters until it is flush against the soggy fabric of Circe's bodice, and I stifle a scream.†   (source)
  • Eve paid little attention to the billowing balloon skirt and sheer bodice that caused such a furor of approval from the attendees.†   (source)
  • The ordeal lasted until morning when skinny women in sequined bodices served us scrambled eggs and bacon.†   (source)
  • Glumra removed an amulet of gold and silver from within her bodice, which she kissed and then held against the hollow of her throat as she knelt before the alcove.†   (source)
  • He'd unlaced her bodice and was tilting his cup to pour a thin trickle of wine over her breasts so he might lap it off.†   (source)
  • In the course of her self-inspection she discovered new stains that had not been on her bodice half an hour before.†   (source)
  • Long lines, the most subtle of accents at the bodice, sleeves that came to soft, rounded points just at the back of the hand.†   (source)
  • I grab the scrap of fabric, tuck it into my bodice, and chase her through misty woods to an ancient ruin of a temple, its floor scattered with the petals of lilies.†   (source)
  • I wore a gown of ivory lace, with freshwater pearls on the bodice, but the septas laid their hands on me and stripped me to the skin.†   (source)
  • Lord Varner dandled a serving girl on his lap, nuzzling at her neck while one hand went exploring down her bodice.†   (source)
  • She had a dagger hidden in the folds of her dress, and an even smaller knife in the bodice of her undergarments, and the prescient witch-child, Elva, was standing just behind the curtain that backed Nasuada's chair, ready to intercede if need be.†   (source)
  • This remnant in your bodice.†   (source)
  • The dress she picked was lambswool, dark brown and simply cut, with leaves and vines embroidered around the bodice, sleeves, and hem in golden thread.†   (source)
  • Katrina looked down and was silent for a span, then she removed a red kerchief from the bodice of her dress and said, "Here, carry this favor of mine, so that the whole world may know how proud I am of you."†   (source)
  • Cedra hid the message in her bodice.†   (source)
  • As ever, she wore red head to heel, a long loose gown of flowing silk as bright as fire, with dagged sleeves and deep slashes in the bodice that showed glimpses of a darker bloodred fabric beneath.†   (source)
  • When it was time to dress, she chose a simple gown of ivory linen, with vines and purple grapes embroidered around the sleeves and bodice.†   (source)
  • Thick auburn tresses fell down past her waist, but beneath the costly velvet gown and jeweled bodice her body sagged and bulged.†   (source)
  • It had stripes of shiny green satin alternating with stripes of plush black velvet, and intricate black Myrish lace above the bodice.†   (source)
  • His hand went to her bodice and yanked, tearing the silk so her breasts spilled free, and for a time the Stark boy had been forgotten.†   (source)
  • He thrust his fingers inside the bodice of her gown and yanked, and the silk parted with a ripping sound so loud that Cersei was afraid that half of the Red Keep must have heard it.†   (source)
  • The candlelight woke fires in the rubies that decorated the bodice of Cersei's mourning dress as well.†   (source)
  • He's like to make me pray with him" In the end, she chose a soft woolen dress that covered her from throat to ankle, with only a few small vines embroidered on the bodice and the sleeves in golden thread to soften the severity of its lines.†   (source)
  • The bodice was slashed in front almost to her belly, the deep vee covered over with a panel of ornate Myrish lace in dove-grey.†   (source)
  • Margaery had exchanged the demure gown that she had worn in the sept for one much more revealing, a confection in pale green samite with a tight-laced bodice that bared her shoulders and the tops of her small breasts.†   (source)
  • And afterward, they insisted she dress herself in girl's things, brown woolen stockings and a light linen shift, and over that a light green gown with acorns embroidered all over the bodice in brown thread, and more acorns bordering the hem.†   (source)
  • There she was now, standing scared at the window again in her petticoat, a little of each color of the rainbow dropped on her-bodice and flounce-in spite of reasonable care.†   (source)
  • Gingerly she fished the chain out from her bodice, unscrewed the little tube, and shook the capsule into her hand.†   (source)
  • Those puffed sleeves, the flounce, and the little bodice.†   (source)
  • She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district.†   (source)
  • There they had seen an irritable girl in a soiled bodice mending her stockings before a mirror while her stage director read aloud her lines for memorization.†   (source)
  • In bright bodices with their waists under their armpits, in long skirts and flowing sleeves, in camelin de Tripoli or taffeta or rosete, the delicate creatures swam into their places with an aroma of myrrh and honey —with which they had washed their teeth.†   (source)
  • Now they twist their copy-books, and, looking sideways at Miss Hudson, count the purple buttons on her bodice.†   (source)
  • He did not appeal to this bodiced functionary in the same pleasant way.†   (source)
  • Next moment the stairs creaked and Mrs Perks came down, buttoning her bodice.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, she raised her head and hid the sheets in her bodice ….†   (source)
  • In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle.†   (source)
  • You won't mind if I put the flowers straight on your bodice; the jolt has loosened them.†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Bread stroked her black satin bodice.†   (source)
  • In the center of the stage sat some girls in red bodices and white skirts.†   (source)
  • I said at the time that the bodice should be cut longer, and made of two widths.†   (source)
  • But she—the naughty baggage—little will she care what they put upon the bodice of her gown!†   (source)
  • She had, like a man, thrust in between two buttons of her bodice a tortoise-shell eyeglass.†   (source)
  • She put on a black skirt, but chose the bodice of the evening dress which she liked best: it was of a white damask which was fashionable in those days.†   (source)
  • The voice fell low, sank into her breast and stretched the tight bodice over her heart as she came up close.†   (source)
  • Why do you and I wear open-work silk stockings, skirts to our knees, gowns without sleeves or bodices?†   (source)
  • One lost the contour of faces and figures--indeed, any effect of line whatever-and there was only the color of bodices past counting, the shimmer of fabrics soft and firm, silky and sheer: red, mauve, pink, blue, lilac, purple, ecru, rose, yellow, cream, and white, all the colors that an impressionist finds in a sunlit landscape, with here and there the dead shadow of a frock coat.†   (source)
  • She did not wear a low-cut bodice and the large brooch which was fixed in the front of her collar bore on it an Irish device and motto.†   (source)
  • These pedestrians turned to stare at the extraordinary spectacle she now presented, bonnetless, her dishevelled hair blowing in the wind, her bodice apart, her sleeves rolled above her elbows for her work, and her hands reeking with melted fat.†   (source)
  • Marie wore a short red skirt of stoutly woven cloth, a white bodice and kirtle, a yellow silk turban wound low over her brown curls, and long coral pendants in her ears.†   (source)
  • Never were hands more exquisite than hers, and it was a joy to look at them when she threaded her needle or adjusted her gold thimble to her taper middle finger as she sewed away on the little night-drawers or fashioned a bodice or a bib.†   (source)
  • But let the elder be passed over here for those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm.†   (source)
  • Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can.†   (source)
  • The most disturbing thing about her was that her bodice was cut very low—he dared scarcely look at her there—and her cheeks and lips were painted—most assuredly the marks of the scarlet woman.†   (source)
  • The woman was positively known to have worn handkerchiefs in her bodice as padding—oh, the town had simply roared at her.†   (source)
  • He regarded the delicate lines of her profile, and the small, tight, applelike convexities of her bodice, so different from Arabella's amplitudes.†   (source)
  • Some evenings, I find flowers in the box, a rose that must have dropped from his lady's bodice …. for he brings a lady with him sometimes; one day, they left a fan behind them."†   (source)
  • She always wore a little black bonnet and a white apron; her sleeves were tucked up to the elbow; she cut the sandwiches with large, dirty, greasy hands; and there was grease on her bodice, grease on her apron, grease on her skirt.†   (source)
  • This time the young lady was seen in a black satin evening bodice, cut square, with little puff sleeves, and black lace hanging down her beautiful arms.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Fanny walked before him: her black bodice was short—the waist was under her armpits—and her green-black cashmere skirt seemed very long, as she strode with big strides before the young man, himself so graceful.†   (source)
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