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  • Her hair was flying in frozen tresses about her unshawled bosom, and no outer covering protected her from the chill blast.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • _Christian Inquirer_, a Unitarian paper, edited by the Rev.Mr. Bellows, of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of Woman's Rights, in which he strenuously opposed her taking part in anything in public, he said: "Place woman unbonneted and unshawled before the public gaze and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue?"

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • After last year's Convention of women, I saw an article in a Unitarian paper edited by the Rev.Mr. Bellows of New York, where, in reply to a correspondent on the subject of woman's rights, in which he strenuously opposed her taking part in any thing in public, he said, "Public woman unbonnated and unshawled before the public gaze, and what becomes of her modesty and her virtue?"

    An Address On Woman's Rights 1851

  • Screaming at the top of her voice, whilst her unshawled and dusky shoulders, as well as the soiled ribands of her dirty cap, were gently fanned by the sea-breeze, she commanded the men to return to their duty, in a volume of vociferation that seemed perfectly inexhaustible.

    The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844

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