and how shall fame be possibly distributed among the tailors and bodice-makers of the present age?

"Tell him it wasn't a practised writer, You guessed, from the way the sentence toiled; You could hear the bodice tug, behind you, As if it held but the might of a child; You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.

It made something down in the left side of poor Mandy's slovenly dress-bodice vibrate and tingle.