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A stiffened bodice; early form of corset.
bodies
stays
whalebone stays
pair of bodies
bodies
stays
whalebone stays
pair of bodies
1
However, Australian industry
bodies
and state governments back new investment in agriculture.
2
Industry
bodies
would be in a good position to help, she said.
3
Police have said the search for
bodies
will not continue much longer.
4
Government departments and commercial semi state
bodies
take 50 days to pay.
5
When the main
bodies
come into contact, the issue is decided quickly.
1
Northern Territory: All travel within the state is permitted, including overnight
stays
.
2
No one
stays
long on Sea Island without hearing of Mrs. Parrish.
3
The water
stays
fairly chilled all year so don't forget your steamer.
4
However, his composed tone
stays
intact, calling for help inside the property.
5
The parties will soon learn if the cigarette ban
stays
or goes.
1
There's the corseted caper when JC appears, wielding a sword and strapped into
whalebone
stays
with powder-blue lace trim and peach suspenders.
1
Even while he blew, Ralph noticed the last
pair
of
bodies
that reached the platform above a fluttering patch of black.
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
.