ungirdled

Is it the woman enrolled in a writing workshop I teach, who emailed an ungirdled manuscript unimpeded by the Microsoft doodad that lets an author know she's repeated "really" seven times in a paragraph, caused the entire group (me, too, drat) to spend an ice age ruminating on her submission, then dropped the class?

Sally Koslow: The Schadenfreude Club: When Friendships Turn Sour Sally Koslow 2010

A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air.

Bloomsday 2010: 'Ulysses' Celebrated Around The World (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010

A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blasphemy Made a Crime in Ireland: 2009

A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air.

Archive 2009-06-01 Dave 2009

A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air.

Happy Bloomsday the rev. paperboy 2009

In a single traveling shot, held an outrageously long time, De Sica simply records the the astounding sight of an ungirdled Ms Loren...as she walks the length of a crowded street, moving in ways that definitely do not bring marble to mind.

Overratedly, adverbly, annoyingly, Ms Robinson 2008

A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air.

"Hence we shave our beards that we may seem purified by innocence and humility..." Ann Althouse 2008

The poor man, with emotion, raised her and clasped a girdle of diamonds round her waist, which was before ungirdled; it was part of her dower.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The light fell — as on a cliff of crumbly gray rock — on Mrs. Zapp, in the open door, vast in her ungirdled gray wrapper, her arms folded, glowering speechlessly.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air.

Miguel Cohen’s “Ulysses,” Part 1 : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004