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“And, here, the emotions of Mrs Kenwigs became so violent, that Mr Kenwigs was fain to administer hartshorn internally, and vinegar externally, and to destroy a staylace, four petticoat strings, and several small buttons.”
“Don't, my chiel," whispered a buxom staylace dealer in voluminous petticoats, who sat near the woman; "yer good man don't know what he's saying.”
“Serves the husband well be-right," said the staylace vendor.”
“More than that, she got a staylace, and, creeping up to her lord, in great stealth tied the lace in a tight knot to one of his long locks of hair, attaching the other end of the lace to the bedpost; for, being tired herself now, she feared she might sleep heavily; and, if her husband should wake, this would be a delicate hint that she had discovered all.”
“Her chaste drapery was of that revived classic order which the world of fashion was again laying aside to re-assume the medival bondage of the staylace; for New Orleans was behind the fashionable world, and Madame Delphine and her daughter were behind New Orleans.”
“You frighten me into fits almost; and if you did try to cane me you'd split that coatee of yours all up the back, or break your staylace, or do yourself some mischief, and --”
“I have taken to the sofa with my staylace cut, and have lain there hours, insensible, with my head over the side, and my hair all down, and my feet I don't know where -- ”
“It consisted -- if you are curious to know -- of pins and needles, and a staylace.”
“Mrs Kenwigs became so violent, that Mr Kenwigs was fain to administer hartshorn internally, and vinegar externally, and to destroy a staylace, four petticoat strings, and several small buttons.”
“But I should rejoice to see a staylace from England be thought scandalous, and become a topic for censure at visits and tea-tables.”
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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Words from the Works of Charles Dickens
A delightful collection of words found in my reading of Dickens.
perspicuity, farinaceous, superciliously, epergne, staylace, sanguinary, myrmidon, suborned, linchpin, depreciatory, unremunerative, propitiation and 18 more...
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