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chemise
1. He removed his jerkin and doublet, leaving only his under chemise
2. That winter I had little but a horse blanket, my chemise, and the rags I tied around my arms and legs
3. I shook my head and took a step, and my chemise swung forward as though the pockets were filled with stones
4. ” I bit my chemise and shook
5. Desperate with need, I rubbed myself against him, and he groaned in return, reaching up and pulling the straps of my chemise down over my shoulders and dragging the neckline down over my breasts
6. I turned away as I straightened my chemise, and stepped back into my dress
7. He kissed my neck where it was uncovered by the hair, still stroking my waist through my chemise
8. My breath was shallow as the stroking continued, softly, beneath the shoulder straps of my chemise, down towards my chest
9. Reaching for the dress with the chemise sleeves and ebony designs, Rad returned and
10. “Mary called it a chemise
11. ” Dropping the folds of her chemise, she tugged at the back of his shirt and lifted it to expose the broad unblemished plane of his back
12. The moonlight pierced her chemise, revealing every one of her curves
13. Unable to tear his eyes away from the shimmery chemise, exposure seemed the appropriate word
14. Picking up her chemise by the handfuls, she started toward the manor
15. "Why would Cam and Derrick fly all the way out here during a school week?" Monica wondered aloud as she pulled a white Ralph Lauren baby doll chemise and held it up to herself, looked down at it, and threw it back in the suitcase
16. She stood before the mirror dressed only in a white chemise; the beautiful white wedding gown lay on the floor behind her
17. Is the water ready? Give me the shirt, and the stockings! Lida," said she to the youngest one, "you must manage without your chemise to-night
18. Is the water ready? Give me the shirt, and the stockings! Lida," said she to the youngest one, "you must manage without your chemise to‐night
19. She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something alarming at the other extremity of the room
20. Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap
21. These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers and nervous spasms
22. Even with this palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, they suffer from fever for three or four days
23. This child was well muffled up in a pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother
24. 'Bah!' you will say to me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin
25. Her girdle was a string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collarbones, red hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those to shudder whom they do not cause to weep
26. She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:—
27. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, to be seen
28. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which his toes projected were visible
29. She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched with bits of old cloth
30. Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist
31. "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance
32. "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a coat
33. Then he spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise which he wore into his trousers
34. "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said
35. were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as the clouds of dawn,—it is not fitting that all this should be narrated, and it is too much to have even called attention to it
36. I have read a great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup
37. And I was NOT riding over the lake in the car with that unforgivable Valkyrie in her sequined chemise! I would take to the clouds, thank you
38. She went into the bathroom to change, but first she turned out the lights in the stateroom, and when she came out in her chemise she covered the cracks around the door with articles of clothing so she could return to bed in absolute darkness
39. She was no longer the little girl, the newcomer, whom he had undressed, one article of clothing at a time, with little baby games: first these little shoes for the little baby bear, then this little chemise for the little puppy dog, next these little flowered panties for the little bunny rabbit, and a little kiss on her papa’s delicious little dickey-bird
40. When it was set on fire I put on my wedding chemise and my burial garment
41. Behind her, in a very dirty grey chemise, stood a thin, miserable-looking pregnant woman, who was to be tried for concealment of theft
42. But her seven-year-old daughter stood in her little chemise, her flaxen hair done up in a little pigtail, her blue eyes fixed, and, holding the red-haired woman by the skirt, attentively listened to the words of abuse that the women and the convicts flung at each other, and repeated them softly, as if learning them by heart
43. She went about with bare feet, wearing only a dirty chemise
44. The fighting women were separated; and Korableva, taking out the bits of torn hair from her head, and the red-haired one, holding her torn chemise together over her yellow breast, began loudly to complain
45. His wife was putting straw into the stove with one hand, with the other she was holding a baby girl to her breast, which was hanging out of her dirty chemise
46. “She lay very high, upon pillows, with her chemise half open
47. When we had no guests with us she more often than not walked about the house in a semi-nude condition, and was not ashamed to appear before us—even before the servants—in a white chemise, with only a shawl thrown over her bare shoulders