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  • I'd much have preferred going to watch Nala Damajanti and her Amazing Snakes at the Palace, or the corsetted fat bottoms and tits in George Edwardes 'show, but being a besotted grandparent I'd have let my little Selina coax me into watching three hours of steady rain and been happy.

    Watershed 2010

  • Although, even then I think I'd need to be one of these be-corsetted super heroes or I'd end up knocking myself out as I run down the street.

    Superheroes and Lingerie Gordie 2008

  • Purses lips, adjusts corsetted bosom, raises nose and marches haughtily off stage right

    Comment Moderation 2007

  • I mean as a dewy and sexually aquiver Mary Shelley in that weird and campy and totally unnecessary prologue in which a strutting and clearly corsetted Lord Byron attempts to seduce her right under the nose of her passive, nose in a book, and clearly gay husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and which probably inspired Ken Russell's weird, campy, and totally unnecessary film, Gothic.

    Lance Mannion: 2004

  • I mean as a dewy and sexually aquiver Mary Shelley in that weird and campy and totally unnecessary prologue in which a strutting and clearly corsetted Lord Byron attempts to seduce her right under the nose of her passive, nose in a book, and clearly gay husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and which probably inspired Ken Russell's weird, campy, and totally unnecessary film, Gothic.

    A World of Gods and Monsters 2004

  • I'd much have preferred going to watch Nala Damajanti and her Amazing Snakes at the Palace, or the corsetted fat bottoms and tits in George Edwardes 'show, but being a besotted grandparent I'd have let my little Selina coax me into watching three hours of steady rain and been happy.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • The only other occupant of the drawing room, a handsome if zaftig woman, brutally corsetted into yards of lilac faille, regarded them for a moment and then turned away with a sniff at the sight of Caris 'plain livery and Antryg's shabby coat, crystal beads, and bruised face.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • And her face looked almost corsetted, the loose flesh coerced into something like firmness by some invisible method Oliver could not guess at.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • As they stood in George-street, waiting for their 'bus, a high-heeled, tightly-corsetted, gaily-hatted larrikiness flounced out of the side door of a hotel near by.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • He cannot be there still, for he was elderly then: a military-looking man with a very upright, almost corsetted, form, a reddish face and a gingery moustache that in its prime might have graced a major.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Various

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