Uncorseted

Word UNCORSETED
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The word "uncorseted" in example sentences

I don't understand why candidates allow themselves to be strait-jacketed by debate formats that force them to perform Houdini acts to show the slightest animation or spontaneity and penalize any uncorseted expression of passion or emotion. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

The result was what we think of as uncorseted flapper looks that dominate the 1920s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Harris has distilled these themes into a superbly uncorseted evocation of life in Victorian Scotland that never falters. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The woman was a good deal shorter than I, and pillowy in aspect, with large, drooping breasts and several comfortable rolls corrugating her uncorseted middle; she was in her shift, with her gown and stays hung from a nail in the wall. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

Her shyness defines an attitude; her uncorseted fleshiness indicates a simple voluptuousness; and her stray ends of hair mark a minimal rebelliousness or at least freedom to be something other than her husband's possession. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His glimpse is not unlike her uncorseted presence, a slight escape from being possessed. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Then again she comes to the curb to call the ice-man, fish-man, and stands shy, uncorseted, tucking in stray ends of hair, and I compare her to a fallen leaf. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway — pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Only she smiled, a knowing little smile, a condescending smile that immediately made Eleanor aware of her untidy hair that was loosely tied with a ribbon like a child's, her very plain linen day-dress, not in vogue and not new, of her uncorseted figure, and her thick, clumsy walking shoes. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

She took great pleasure in her riding habit, of black wool and trimmed with fur, not the least because it came with a riding-corset that allowed her almost as much freedom as going uncorseted. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

Donning a far more comfortable flannel wrapper dress of a chocolate brown over her uncorseted petticoat, she went back out into the hall, then descended the stair at her end of the upstairs hall, passing the kitchen on her way to the conservatory. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

His wife was a magnificent Amazon, with saffron face and shining hair, uncorseted and barefooted, and the children were strong and beautiful. ❋ Various (N/A)

It usually fastens behind, and the uncorseted figure is outlined. ❋ Emily Burbank (N/A)

On this night her absurdly small feet made her head look almost top heavy, just as the uncorseted small waist emphasised the width of her shoulders, and the violet shadows enlarged the opalescent weird eyes looking wearily on the scene around her. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

There was a Spartan vigor and severity in the lean, uncorseted shape, with the bust thrown out against the sky -- the bust of a young warrior rather than a woman. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)

They were heavy old women, in worn flapping slippers and uncorseted figures. ❋ Various (N/A)

After a thousand years of education for women, of physically de - veloped women, of uncorseted women, he said, we might have the ideal woman, and could then begin to talk about freedom for her. ❋ Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 (1929)

She had the dough look of the comfortable and the uncorseted fat, her chin adding a scallop as, watching, her smile grew. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)

Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway -- pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)

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