"Tight-laced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only shut to, [no need of fastenings;] her arms crossed upon the table, the fore-finger of her right-hand in her Bible. She had perhaps been reading in it, and could read no longer. Paper, pens, ink, lay by her book on the table. Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced. I was told afterwards, that her laces had been cut, when she fainted away at her entrance into this cursed place; and she had not been solicitous enough about her dress to send for others. Her head-dress was a little discomposed; ...
— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson
... specimen. Such Savans, too, as wisht to trace The manners, habits, of this race— To know what rank (if rank at all) 'Mong reasoning things to them should fall— What sort of notions heaven imparts To high-built heads and tight-laced hearts And how far Soul, which, Plato says, Abhors restraint, can act in stays— Might now, if gifted with discerning, Find opportunities of learning: As these two creatures—from their pout And frown, 'twas plain—had just fallen out; And ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... 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 ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... lace skirt to the knee, all in ruffles, low-necked, of course, very low-necked and awfully tight-laced. Bright green petticoat, then brighter and brighter. Snow-white underclothes with a ...
— Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) - A Tragedy in Four Acts • Frank Wedekind
... and Carthew wandered among the sleeping bodies alone, and cursed the incurable stupidity of his behaviour. Day brought a new society of nursery-maids and children, and fresh-dressed and (I am sorry to say) tight-laced maidens, and gay people in rich traps; upon the skirts of which Carthew and "the other blackguards"—his own bitter phrase—skulked, and chewed grass, and looked on. Day passed, the light died, the green ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne |
