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  • Grandma Clay must not be forgotten, for in her immaculate silk-cloth dress and cape, her bonnet of the best material, and her "lastings," with her spectacles in one hand and her properly-prized electoral right in the other, and her irreproachable respectability oozing from her every action, she could not be overlooked.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • This costume or toilet, always fresh and never shabby, was invariably completed by a style of light house-boots, introduced to me as "lastings"; and there was an unimpaired vigour of intellect in their wearer good to contemplate in a woman of the people aged seventy-five.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • And in this also, I doubt not, lies the deceit of what is thirdly insisted on, namely, “his observation of the ways and spirits of men, their firstings and lastings in religion.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • That she would be disposed of by no one but her grandmother rather pleased the old lady than otherwise; so she invested in yet another black silk gown, over which she was to wear a seldom seen cape of point lace worked by Dawn's mother; and she also purchased a wonderful bonnet, and armed herself with a new pair of "lastings."

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • The flowers used were mostly the yellow death-flower and purple ever-lastings.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • Worsted goods formerly consisted chiefly of bombazets, shalloons, calamancoes, lastings for ladies 'boots, and taminies.

    Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

  • Nationals: Sent OF lastings Milledge to Syracuse (AAA).

    MVN 2009

  • Nationals: Sent OF lastings Milledge to Syracuse (AAA).

    MVN 2009

  • Nationals: Sent OF lastings Milledge to Syracuse (AAA).

    MVN 2009

  • Nationals: Sent OF lastings Milledge to Syracuse (AAA).

    MVN 2009

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