He had on awful nice clothes, but thin toes on his boots, sharp as needles, and gray socks with dots on them, and a waist on his coat like as if he wore corsets, and gray glovesand a cane, Swell!

All of a sudden, and without any previous notice, a decree was issued to suppress the corsets, (or assignats of five livres,) bearing the King's image;* and as these were very numerous, and chiefly in the hands of the lower order of people, the consternation produced by this measure was serious and unusual.

Of course, one could have a moment's real talk by chance meeting, and there were the natural griefs of life to break the corsets of this etiquette, although in general, the griefs seemed to be long drawn out and conventional affairs, as if nature herself at last yielded to the system, conquered by the invincible conventionality and stubbornness of the ladies of Fairfield.

Yet inspect in the shop-windows (where the facts of female costume are obtruded too pertinaciously for the public to remain in ignorance) the light and flexible corsets of these days, and then contemplate at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth the stout buckram stays that once incased the stouter heart of Alice Bradford.

Likely enough Hugo intends simply the corset.

And they will have corsets offered them whose aim is to prolong the waist to the farthest possible limits and compress the fairest formsa fact, for report says they lace in London, whilst here we have nearly abandoned the corset.

He ripped up the foreign corset in a truculent manner.

She told the clerk she was on the road, selling corsets, and was much disappointed to find no store of any size in the town.

I fear you will wonder at what I am sending; but, knowing that you are nearly thirteen years old and must be growing very fast, I have decided to send you a corset.

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

The straight, correct, hideously modern lines of her figure bespoke a real eighteen-dollar corset.