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  • Also, God made me short, shortwaisted and very curvy.

    What Women Are Saying About Clothing Today 2009

  • Yep -- if you're shortwaisted, as I am, that should hit you perfectly at the top of the hip, which is where sweaters should fall.

    Answered Prayers - A Dress A Day 2008

  • Yep -- if you're shortwaisted, as I am, that should hit you perfectly at the top of the hip, which is where sweaters should fall.

    May 2008 2008

  • Castro made waves in the office by adding a shortwaisted black mink coat to his high-style wardrobe and arriving for work in a steel-gray Mercedes 450 SL.

    Tuesday Open Thread: L.A. Political Cartoons. . . 2006

  • And the vain person in me has to say that I REALLY don't look pregnant, I'm just a little shortwaisted.

    Unstoppable Factor: 3% 2005

  • He was a young man with a beard, wearing a full, shortwaisted coat, and looked like a messenger.

    Chapter III. Part II 1917

  • Let but Pumpkin have a figure which would sustain the disadvantages of the shortwaisted swallow-tail, and everybody felt it not only natural but necessary to the perfection of womanhood, that a sweet girl should be at once convinced of his virtue, his exceptional ability, and above all, his perfect sincerity.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • Let but Pumpkin have a figure which would sustain the disadvantages of the shortwaisted swallow-tail, and everybody felt it not only natural but necessary to the perfection of womanhood, that a sweet girl should be at once convinced of his virtue, his exceptional ability, and above all, his perfect sincerity.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • Let but Pumpkin have a figure which would sustain the disadvantages of the shortwaisted swallow-tail, and everybody felt it not only natural but necessary to the perfection of womanhood, that a sweet girl should be at once convinced of his virtue, his exceptional ability, and above all, his perfect sincerity.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

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