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Translations garters → حمالات البنطلون podvazky seler Strumpfhalter τιράντες liguero sukkanauhat porte-jarretelles halteri giarrettiere 靴下留め 멜빵 bretels bukseseler szelki suspensórios подвязки strumpeband สายที่แขวนกางเกง jartiyer dây nịt móc bít tất 吊带 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles. I have seen corsets thus made beautiful by him valued at five hundred pounds, and he never paints a pair of garters for less than a hundred. But to a large and thorough sweeping comprehension of him, it behoves me now to unbutton him still further, and untagging the points of his hose, unbuckling his garters, and casting loose the hooks and the eyes of the joints of his innermost bones, set him before you in his ultimatum; that is to say, in his unconditional skeleton. |
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