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From thrut to waist wide yawns Hiz coarse and starchless shirt, And over all, loose and ragged Whips the wind, what once waz Master’s Sunday koat.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

Even in a state of complete inertia, a shirt-collar will fall starchless in five minutes.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

His necktie was always crumpled and starchless, and he never set his dog-eared shirt collar straight after his judge's bands had disordered it.

From The Commission in Lunacy by Balzac, Honoré de

Is there nothing for New York analogous to rolling on the floor, to the straight-front corset, to the sugarless, starchless diet?

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean