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Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced.
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Yet the tight-laced bodice of her gown and rounded breasts proved her a woman.
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A tight-laced chest and a good disposition cannot go together.
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In this, too, you will perceive the tight-laced lady taking a flight beyond the sublime philosopher.
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She herself was wearing the tight-laced, dark blue dress Aunt Bieja had given her so many years ago.
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Mostly heavy, tight-laced gowns suitable for mountain weather, with a few looser high-waisted designs hung to one side.
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It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight-laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery.
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On days such as these Laure, sleek and tight-laced as ever would kiss everyone with an air of expanded maternity.
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She took to her rooms for her confinement; after a time, she emerged tight-laced, with a flat belly, and no baby.
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And again, the girl not being able always to have her body cased in the tight-laced stays, some relaxation must take place.
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The orange was nearly the same shade as her uniform, but the low-cut and tight-laced bodice drew a different sort of attention.
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The question naturally arises why so debauched and dissolute a king should prefer such tight-laced Christians to be the peculiar objects of his mercy.
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Respectable Edict-of-Nantes French ladies, with high head-gear, wide hoops; a clear, correct, but somewhat barren and meagre species, tight-laced and high-frizzled in mind and body.
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"You know the type, some tight-laced spinster with a mouth like a cat's ass."