1 He put his arm round her waist.
2 She sat against him, putting her arm round his waist.
3 He held Julia's supple waist easily encircled by his arm.
4 The girl's waist in the bend of his arm was soft and warm.
5 'You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.
6 He noticed how much softer her waist seemed to feel now that the sash was gone.
7 It was that her waist had grown thicker, and, in a surprising way, had stiffened.
8 He was standing a little behind her, and he put his hand on her waist to steady her.
9 She was lying on her side, naked from the waist upwards, with her cheek pillowed on her hand and one dark lock tumbling across her eyes.
10 Then, as though touching her waist had reminded her of something, she felt in the pocket of her overalls and produced a small slab of chocolate.
11 She became alert and business-like, put her clothes on, knotted the scarlet sash about her waist, and began arranging the details of the journey home.
12 They had left the clearing and were wandering again through the chequered shade, with their arms round each other's waists whenever it was wide enough to walk two abreast.
13 A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips.
14 He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.