1 The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
2 They noticed for the first time how her green eyes danced, how deep her dimples were when she laughed, how tiny her hands and feet and what a small waist she had.
3 These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starred young magnolia trees.
4 And as for her waist--there was no one in Fayetteville, Jonesboro or in three counties, for that matter, who had so small a waist.
5 The thought of her waist brought her back to practical matters.
6 The green muslin measured seventeen inches about the waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
7 Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes.
8 Maybelle Merriwether went toward the next booth on the arm of the Zouave, in an apple- green tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to nothingness.
9 Her waist is as big as a cow's.
10 He was dressed in black broadcloth, a tall man, towering over the officers who stood near him, bulky in the shoulders but tapering to a small waist and absurdly small feet in varnished boots.
11 "If you hadn't been brave enough to do it, I would never have been either," said Melly, putting her arm about Scarlett's waist and giving her a gentle squeeze.
12 She wrapped the bright lengths about his slender waist, above his belt, and tied the ends in a lover's knot.
13 Then his arms went around her waist and shoulders and she felt the hard muscles of his thighs against her body and the buttons of his coat pressing into her breast.
14 She untied the waist tape and slipped it down over her feet, crushing the soft linen folds between her hands.
15 Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.