Often I am annoyed by KH's breathiness; but I watched this movie again when I was working on Uganda a few years ago--a smidge of it was filmed there--and she's nothing but great as Rose, the tight-laced missionary lady who relaxes into her hitherto undiscovered gifts for sex and sabotage. ❋ Fresca (2009)
Nevertheless, she was simple and clumsy in her ways; her vacant smile had nothing criminal in it, and you would have pronounced her innocent only from seeing the large red and blue checked kerchief that covered her stalwart bust, tucked into the tight-laced bodice of a lilac — and white-striped gown. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced. ❋ Unknown (2006)
An hourglass figure–a soft, plump 150 -pound 5′4″ woman in a tight-laced corset–is not at all the same as a size 2 fashion model. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Prussian Captain of Lancers (Those tight-laced, whiskered prancers) ❋ Unknown (2004)
Thin, tight-laced, with a shrill voice and an acidulated temper, ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sisters-in-law, faithful to their upbringing and tight-laced in their respectable stays, think that they have overflowed into the most distressing enthusiasm if they have written: ‘my kindest regards.’ ❋ Unknown (2003)
She ran, and somehow never reached the back wall of the set, and Lilith floated on ahead, tauntingly just out of reach, her long blond hair (a wig, certainly, Romy's hair was nothing like that long) shimmering down her tight-laced red satin back beneath her lace-edged Elizabethan headpiece. ❋ Edghill, Rosemary (2002)
“Lady Cassandra Abbott?” he rasped, astounded that Lady Perth would ever consider him a good match for such a tight-laced prig. ❋ VICTORIA MALVEY (2001)
Impervious to the weather, Constantine never wore a shirt—just trousers cinched to his calves by high, tight-laced boots—so that his torso, with its embossed, smooth clusters of muscle, could be readily examined by me. ❋ Diane Leslie (1999)
She sped gasping up the long hill, her wet skirts wrapping coldly about her ankles, her lungs bursting, the tight-laced stays pressing her ribs into her heart. ❋ Margaret Mitchell (1996)
She rested hands on well-curved hips, while her breasts all but spilled out of her tight-laced costume. ❋ Asprin, Robert (1996)
There were women leaning over the balconies and out of the windows; most disheveled, most wearing only the briefest of clothing, tight-laced bodices and sleeveless under-shifts that fluttered like the drapes of the Ghost - ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)
There were five or six girls in bright, cheap skirts and tight-laced bodices, and young men in leather aprons, breeches, and no-color shirts scurrying about the room, tending to the customers. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)
