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A stiffened bodice; early form of corset.
bodies
stays
whalebone stays
pair of bodies
1
On the floor a
pair
of
stays
,
old and soiled, sprawled with unconcern.
2
She could not cry in a
pair
of
stays
.
3
Her figure wouldn't be bad if her mother bought her a decent
pair
of
stays
.
4
It is nothing (between ourselves) but a hook-nose and a stiff
pair
of
stays
.
5
A
pair
of
stays
became her well, and a loose white kerchief for her bare neck.
6
Good lissom figure, that looked as if it had never been boxed up in a
pair
of
stays
.
7
She sat by the open window mending a
pair
of
stays
;
at her side was her work table, upon that her three-wicked lamp.
8
The friends of the government carried Paine in effigy, with a
pair
of
stays
under his arms, and burned the figure in the streets.
9
Each felt the chill of steel against the naked side, and seeing the
pair
of
stays
on the table, they calculated its resisting force.
10
I've fetched and carried for her-infact I once had the honour to be despatched by her mamma to buy her a
pair
of
stays
.
11
You talk of hampering and cramping Regina's faculties, as if I had put her brains in a
pair
of
stays
,
and daily tightened the lacers.
12
For these twenty years past, the Lord be praised, I have not dared to put on a
pair
of
stays
under pain of sudden death.
13
"I think so, so far as a
pair
of
stays
allows me to judge."
14
"Going to fit her with a
pair
of
stays
.
"
15
"Oh, by the way, I mustn't forget, Olga asked me to get her a
pair
of
stays
!
"
16
"I may let in this honest woman," thought Snow-White; and she unbolted the door and bargained for one
pair
of
stays
.