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单词 tight-laced
例句 tight-laced
Seated in the chair was a man in a tight-laced leather jerkin and breeches of roughspun brown wool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
For example, tight-laced Singapore is famous for its chewing gum ban. What Rice-Farming Cultures Can Teach Us about Pandemic Preparedness 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z
Fortunately, the twentieth century girl is less of a butterfly than the tight-laced hoop-skirted young miss of the latter part of the nineteenth century. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z
Their old-fashioned, stately, tight-laced, shrivelled figures formed a strange contrast with the easiness of the young people in their simple serge summer suits: they made Princess Wanda's tangled hair and rumpled blouse look perfectly disreputable. Majesty A Novel
But to-day, instead of being the most tight-laced of the arts, architecture is the freest and most wanton of them all. Underground Man
She is very stiff and tight-laced, and very long in the waist; and at the waist where the gown opens and at the loopings of it the richer wear jewelled brooches. English Costume
What if she had broken through some of the tight-laced rules with which all institutions of this kind hedge in their nurses? Leerie
There's nothing will improve your French accent like a winter abroad; and as to your carriage and air, it is all-essential you should be pressed in the waltz by some dark-moustached Hungarian or tight-laced Austrian. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands
So the women of fashion are compared with children in go-carts, their tight-laced waists rising from vast bells of petticoats over which the gown is looped up like a drawn curtain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume"
I play for him in the salon—oh, no, not in my room—that would be a crime in this tight-laced old town. Melomaniacs
The bodice was tight-laced, cut square in front where the neckerchief of linen or lace made the edge soft. English Costume
A little green lace skirt to the knee, all in ruffles, low-necked, of course, very low-necked and awfully tight-laced. Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts
A tight-laced hood of mail left only his face bare, and his helmet with its nasal bar covered part of his face. The Saracen: The Holy War
The fear of having her slip spoiled, recalled her strength; she forgot her weariness, pinched feet, and tight-laced waist, and made all the haste she could to get under cover. The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror
Her head stood nobly on her shoulders, giving to her bust that ease and grace of which sculptors are so fond, and of which tight-laced stays are so utterly subversive. The Bertrams
He is exaggerated, monstrous; he is tight-laced; his trunks stick out a foot all round him, and his walk is, in consequence, a little affected; but, for all that, he is a gallant figure. English Costume
They were chatting and talking to each other with great volubility, occasionally casting a glance behind them, where at least half a dozen infants stood bolt upright in their tight-laced cradles. Hudson Bay
In this, too, you will perceive the tight-laced lady taking a flight beyond the sublime philosopher. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies
Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
Sometimes I rallied him good-humouredly, and entreated him not to be more tight-laced than some other priests were, and even bishops, who by no means considered a mistress incompatible with a good and holy life.' Manon Lescaut
It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight-laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery. Middlemarch
She was a round, flat-faced, high-hipped, high-shouldered woman, short in the body, and tight-laced; and she had a trick of wagging her skirts and perking at a man when talking to him. The Heavenly Twins
Some silly fool, he understood, had fainted or something—probably a puling tight-laced fool of a woman who starved herself to keep slim. Snake and Sword A Novel
And again, the girl not being able always to have her body cased in the tight-laced stays, some relaxation must take place. The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease
"He ought to be tight-laced, I tell you," said the man. Many Cargoes
Asleep she exercised upon him an even more disturbing effect than when awake, for now he could study her beauty deliberately, from the loose pile of warm, red hair to the narrow, tight-laced boots. Heart of the Sunset
Why, the child is tight-laced!" he said; "surely you must have noticed it, madam. Seven Little Australians
There's a regular tight-laced mob about her, and they all hate you. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
The idea! telling a young lady, before her father, she is tight-laced! A Simpleton
The Parisiennes were tight-laced, artificial women, who had a peculiar way of walking; and Gaud was too intelligent even to have attempted to imitate them. An Iceland Fisherman
Well, Captain, even in these tight-laced days, the obscurity of a learned language allows a little pleasantry. Crotchet Castle
On days such as these Laure, sleek and tight-laced as ever would kiss everyone with an air of expanded maternity. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
Or is it her tight-laced hypocrite of a father, that comes whining here with his good advice to me who know the world so well? Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
These discontinued, she might linger on for years, existing, though not living—the tight-laced cannot be said to live. A Simpleton
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