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  • You will be laced with cruel force into vicelike corsets of soft dove coutille with whalebone busk to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course, with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie for Alice and nice scent for Alice.

    Ulysses 2003

  • It was his own houseflag, and with trembling hands he ran it to the fore and cast its wrinkled folds to the breeze of heaven.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • There is the houseflag of the _Cutty Sark_, and her sister ships the

    London River 1915

  • Anyhow, I think I can make out in it the houseflag of that ship.

    London River 1915

  • You will be laced with cruel force into vicelike corsets of soft dove coutille with whalebone busk to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course, with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie for Alice and nice scent for Alice.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • One boat, flying the Croonah's houseflag, made its way more leisurely through the still, clear water.

    The Grey Lady Henry Seton Merriman 1882

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