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In the reign of Farouk the self-indulgent, she grew into a well-corseted, fur-and diamond-bearing woman of property.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 2,950-square-mile game preserve of India's multimillionaire Maharaja of Gwalior, the Maharaja and another potentate, Yugoslavia's well-corseted and bemedaled Marshal Tito, went hunting for tigers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Susan of to-day was an erect, well-corseted, well-manicured woman of the world; a person of noticeable nicety of speech, accustomed to move in the very highest society.
From Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris
But in truth her inward spirit was not nearly as determined as her well-corseted back.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
She was a handsome woman, still in the early forties, and the word "stylish" inevitably leaped to one's mind at the sight of her full, well-corseted figure, fashionable raiment, and carefully coiffured hair.
From The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler
