Even the notions and dry-goods, flanking the right wall in stacks and bolts, merge into blur, the outline of a white-sateen and corseted woman's torso surmounting the topmost of the shelves with bold curvature.

"Sounds like one of them fancy names for a corset or a patent lamp," he complained.

This small, unobtrusive paper, upon which, according to Madame, the destinies of nations depended, was hidden alwayshappy paperin the bosom of her corset.

Many of the clothing trades come under this class, as for example, the tie- making, trimmings, corset-making trades.

The "corset" manufacture is fairly representative of these trades.

the customer would ask feebly, panting in her tightened corset. 'Is it that I think so?

She had put, she said, all the ready money they had inside her corset, and a little box which contained all her dead father's decorations also, and she was ready to go.

That made me laugh, but I didn't think it necessary to explain to her that, once away from the shelter of my own walls, I should be just as liable to a panic as any one else, or that I knew we should not find a conveyance, or, worse still, that her money and her jewels would hardly be safe inside her corset if she were to meet with some of the Uhlans who were still about us.

She was tightly incased in a gray cloth suit, and there was no mistaking the presence of a corset underneath.

Evoa was sixteen years old, tall, like most Tahitians, finely figured, slender, and with the superb carriage that is the despair of the corseted women who visit Tahiti.

The girls in a corset factory in Newark, New Jersey, if not inside when the whistle stopped blowing (at seven o'clock apparently) were locked out till half-past seven, and then they were docked two hours for waste power.

Whether it has been button-workers in Muscatine, or corset-workers in Kalamazoo, shoe-workers in St. Louis, or textile-workers in Lawrence, whether the struggle has been crowned with success or crushed into the dust of failure, the workers have been heartened to fight the more bravely because of the thrilling example set them by the garment-workers, and have thus brought the day of deliverance for all a little nearer hand.

There she sat facing me once more, "a feasting presence made of light"her hair like a golden wheat sheaf, her eyes like blue flowers amid the wheat, and her bosom, by no means parsimoniously concealed, literally suggesting that the loveliness of all the water lilies in the world was amassed there within her corset as in some precious casket.

Poor dear Madame de Staël, I shall never forget seeing her one day, at table with a large party, when the busk (I believe you ladies call it) of her corset forced its way through the top of the corset, and would not descend though pushed by all the force of both hands of the wearer, who became crimson from the operation.

Poor dear Madame de Staël, I shall never forget seeing her one day, at table with a large party, when the busk (I believe you ladies call it) of her corset forced its way through the top of the corset, and would not descend though pushed by all the force of both hands of the wearer, who became crimson from the operation.

The portières would part and through them would advance a huge bosom protruding above an abdomen cruelly corseted.

" And Freya, as though irresistibly affected by these counsels, threw one arm around the doctor's globular, corseted figure, while convulsively clasping Ulysses' right hand.

And through the whale-bone of her corset Tries unsuccessfully to force it.

She has not yet put on her cap, but her grey hair is profusely powdered; and, with no other garments than a short under petticoat and a corset, she stands for the edification of all who pass, putting on her rouge with a stick and a bundle of cotton tied to the end of it.

Et moi qui, ce matin, lui nouais son corset!

vit la hideuse bête, Et, frémissant, lui mit son talon sur la tête; C'etait un prêtre ayant un livre qu'il lisait; Puis une femme, avec une fleur au corset, Vint et lui creva l'oeil du bout de son ombrelle; Et le prêtre était vieux, et la femme était belle.

Likely enough Hugo intends simply the corset.

Her corset was thrown down in a corner; shoes and stockings littered the floor; her comb was clogged with red hair like a wire fence with dead grass after a freshet; dingy, grimy underclothing lay about.

3. THE THROAT CORSET.]

At a ball given in her honour at Rome by the banker Tortonia, the Princess shocked even the least prudish by the abandon of her dancing and the tenuity of her costume, which, we are told, consisted of "a single embroidered garment, fastened beneath the bosom, without the shadow of a corset and without sleeves."