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Examples
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It was neat and fresh, however, and her neck and arms, exposed by her little tucked underwaist, were of a beauty to ravish a painter or a sculptor.
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Mr. Cross Moore had been to the bank, too; and the sum of money which he had drawn out in crisp twenty and fifty dollar bills was pinned securely to Janice's underwaist.
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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He could find only his cotton underwaist and his cotton shirt.
Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922
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Black spencer waist laced in front showing the white underwaist.
The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays Walter Ben Hare 1915
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Thomas Jefferson after his election to the chief magistracy; and so contemporaries saw him in the President's House, an unimpressive figure clad in "a blue coat, a thick gray-colored hairy waistcoat, with a red underwaist lapped over it, green velveteen breeches, with pearl buttons, yarn stockings, and slippers down at the heels."
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900
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As she sat under the oak-tree she even laughed at the remembrance of Aunt Mary's expression of perfect hopelessness as she held up the underwaist.
Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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Aunt Mary held up a pretty underwaist and sighed deeply.
Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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She thought I had my money pinned to my underwaist all the time. "
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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