How To Use Garter In A Sentence
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Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos.
Selling Sex at Auction
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No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship -- not though it be of the Garter -- confers so fair an honour.
Can You Forgive Her?
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However much the glamorous image of the corseted and gartered, smoky-voiced chanteuse remains, he says they never bought into that aspect of the culture.
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Wales, Prince of, calls Brother Jonathan _consanguineus noster_, but had not, apparently, consulted the Garter King at Arms. Walpole, Horace, classed, his letters praised.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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I know catching the bouquet traditionally (and superstitiously) means the bachelorette will be the next to get married … but I wasn’t sure if the same tradition rings true for the dude who gets the garter.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » There’s Something About Marry
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The Grandmother had told her all about the great libraries that Garter housed.
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Marquis Montagu may have used, he certainly did use the Gryphon, issuant out of a ducal coronet, as this appears alone for his crest, on his garter plate, as a crest for Montagu, he having given the arms of that family precedence over his paternal coat of Nevile; the king - maker, likewise, upon his seal, gives the precedence to Montagu and
The Last of the Barons — Volume 12
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At the same time, the expert Capuchin let his master see that he held upon his arm one of his victims, whom he was forming into a docile instrument; this was a young gentleman who wore a very short green cloak, a pourpoint of the same color, close-fitting red breeches, with glittering gold garters below the knee-the costume of the pages of Monsieur.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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when Felix first saw a garter snake
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She opened the next box, and it contained two bras, a pair of stockings that had a garter belt built in and pasties.
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He was preceded by Black Rod, Garter King of Arms, girt in an Alice in Wonderland tabard, festooned with harps and other armorial devices.
The peerless John Prescott takes his place in House Of Lords
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Black Rod originated as an officer of the Order of the Garter.
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Iggy himself is tastefully arrayed in leather jacket, miniskirt, garters, nylons and heels; dipping and thrusting, hunching and high-kicking, he seems to be in peak condition.
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The plays that fill the Canadian theatres are not the literary plays-but plays such as "Up in Mabel's Room," or "Getting Gertie's Garter.
Canadian Letters and the New Canadian
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The garter snakes mentioned in the letter generally eat frogs, worms, mice and smaller snakes.
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A checkered garter snake gave birth to three baby snakes in the ginger belt at the edge of the rain forest.
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Within the Garter are impaled (dexter) the Arms of KING EDWARD VII. and (sinister) the undifferenced Arms of
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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The garter snake is the least dangerous snake
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Not for nothing is Alastair clad in the finest cloth, his plaid trimmed in gold, his stockings tied with silk garters.
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Draining a second Stoli, I took out my pad and pencil, and adjusted my garter belt, hoping he wouldn't notice.
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In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards.
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Besides, I'd better go and put AC Hartnell in the picture or he'll have my guts for garters.
AFTERMATH
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He served as steward of the household to Edward IV and then to Richard III, who gave him the Garter.
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Over the back of a chair was thrown the work she had been busied with; and on the bed, almost hid by the curtains, was a pair of the prettiest little blue garters I ever saw, even in Paris, -- span-new they were, and had evidently been bought no longer ago than the evening before, -- and some other articles of feminine apparel, which I will not attempt to describe.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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Be totally over-the-top with leather bustier, garter belts and sexy tousled bed head.
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P.S. could you find a section of the stole that is reversible (at least when done in garter stitch) and add a segment of that in the exact center?
Jean's Knitting
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The Order of the Garter is an ancient order of chivalry.
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Kaylin happily inherited these, having been taught to knit by the ballerina, and she turned out an endless supply of garter-stitched scarves.
Places You Haunt
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You can eat in a lovely little garden lit by fairy lights; the food's served by Thai waitresses, who wear long silk skirts but have pistols in their garters.
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Ajuga reptans in bloom with cerastium far left, scilla peruviana in bud and dwarf ribbon grass, phalaris arundinacea picta ‘Dwarf’s Garters’.
Blue In The Garden-Part Two « Fairegarden
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IV. i.93 (416,7) [garters of an indifferent knit] What is the sense of this I know not, unless it means, that their _garters_ should be _fellows_; _indifferent_, or _not different_, one from the other.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Is it the unadorned simple man that you welcome to your bosom, or a thing of stars and garters, a patch of parchment, the minion of a throne, the lordling of twenty descents, in which each has been weaker than that before it, the hero of a scutcheon, whose glory is in his quarterings, and whose worldly wealth comes from the sweat of serfs whom the euphonism of an effete country has learned to decorate with the name of tenants? '
He Knew He Was Right
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Suave and a touch oily, the magician, all in black with a red-lined cape and red cummerbund, passes his hoop around a young woman in a black corset, garters and stockings who levitates within a shaft of light.
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Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf.
Twelfth Night
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Not for an instant did he bow to fate: all shackled as he was, his legs engarlanded in heavy chains -- which he called his garters -- he tempered his merriment with the meditation of escape.
A Book of Scoundrels
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The queens majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.
Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5
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The Service hopes to further investigate the relationship between the non-native bullfrogs and the garter snakes within the Central Valley region.
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Garter stitch is tough, and there are imperfections.
Jean's Knitting
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The next morning he and Egarter Vigl spruced up the body with a fine spray of sterilized water, which froze on contact. Then they slid the Iceman back into his high-tech igloo and closed the door.
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The paintings Cormac selected for view at the Garter Lane Centre comprise an engaging mix of land, sea and urban scapes alongside an array of still lives.
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Krzerszonese Milesia asundurst Sirdarthar Woolwichleagues, good tomkeys years somewhile in Crimealian wall samewhere in Ayerland, during me weeping stillstumms over the freshprosts of Eastchept and the dangling garters of Marrowbone and daring my wapping stiltstunts on Bostion Moss, old stile and new style and heave a lep onwards.
Finnegans Wake
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Preventive care prevent long periods of standing or sitting that impair venous return elevate legs when sitting, dorsiflex feet at regular intervals to prevent venous pooling if edema occurs, elevate above heart level regular exercise program to promote circulation avoid crossing legs at the knees avoid wearing constrictive clothing such as tight bands around socks or garters use elastic stocking on affected leg do leg exercises during periods of enforced immobility such as after surgery explain purpose of bed rest and leg elevation use elastic stockings monitor pt. on anticoagulant & fibrinolytic therapy for signs of bleeding monitor for signs of pulmonary embolism - sudden onset of chest pain, dyspnea, rapid breathing, tachycardia
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It seems most unlikely, therefore, that he would have chosen not to include the Garter had he been entitled to it when the plates were commissioned, and its absence is perhaps explained by the length of time it took to complete them.
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Garter stitch is very demanding, and I think there were also faults in my alignment of the mitres.
Jean's Knitting
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Although he begged for his life, Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, a Knight of the Garter, a former steward of the royal household and a veteran of some of the fiercest battles of the French wars, was put to the axe.
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Then they rolled up the thigh high stockings and connected them to the garters.
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Partially held together with garter belts, Spider Lady contains an entire bicycle wheel, the spokes of which play off the crisscross skeins of nylon and string that keep the gothic piece in a kind of bondage.
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A wireless transmitter is strapped in a garter to my inner thigh and a video rig is micro-contained inside horn-rimmed glasses.
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Do not wear stretch socks, nylon socks, socks with an elastic band or garter at the top, or socks with inside seams.
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The significant decorations are the Star, a garter to be worn below the left knee, and a diagonal blue ribbon.
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I turned her on to nylons, garters, corsets, mini-skirts.
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She was demonstrating precisely what you mention, the retrieval of a mistake in garter stitch.
Jean's Knitting
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Finnish journalist colleague invites Mr Brown to feel her thigh: she is wearing suspenders and a garter belt in what she coyly tells him is a protest against the church's repressive sexual mores.
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To complement all of this, Cinders carries a wonderful range of accessories, shoes, veils, tiaras, feathers, stockings and garters.
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The show's three judges will not adjudicate at these initial auditions but will do so for the estimated 80 shortlisted artists that make it through to the second round auditions at Garter Lane the following day.
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A checkered garter snake gave birth to three baby snakes in the ginger belt at the edge of the rain forest.
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In the old days, women wore so many girdles, corsets, pantaloons, bloomers, stockings, garters, step-ins and God knows what all that you had to practically be a prospector to get to first base . . . to even find first base.
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
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She turned aside to hitch her stocking top to the garter belt.
COMPULSION
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The skirt is swishy and wide, and covers her down to where her garters meet her fishnets.
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Oh, but to see a man -- a miserable apology for a man -- measuring out calicoes and ribbons, and tapes and buttons, and stays and garters, and all sorts of things that a man has no right to touch -- pugh!
Sisters
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To the garter nobody can have slenderer pretensions; his family is scarce older than his earldom, which is of the youngest.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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Very often lisle threads are added to the foot and garter-top to increase the durability of the stockings.
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Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine.
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A garter of white cowrie shells encircled one leg just below the knee.
CHAPTER IX
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I am having trouble seeing exactly what is happening, what with the fine, dark yarn and working in garter stitch.
Jean's Knitting
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Sheridan said: ‘This is the 21st century and we have got people running about in garters and tights and that just doesn't fit with the modern world.
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Common gifts were jewels, gloves, silk stockings, flowers, garters, handkerchiefs, and paperweights.
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In the political climate of the time, the Garter carried more than usual significance, since it was deliberately deployed to support the legitimacy of the Hanoverian succession.
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For hunting and winter use I like what are called "continuations" fixed to breeches, as these gaiter-like pieces of cloth cover the leg to a certain distance below the swell of the calf, and keep it warm, besides preventing the knee of the breeches from working round, which men obviate by using garter-straps.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
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They're wearing girdles and also underneath the girdle is a little garter sewed under the girdle and that garter rubs the skin sometimes.
Nour Akkad: Mad Men's Janie Bryant Talks About Peggy's New Hair, Her Mod line, and Vintage Shopping (PHOTOS)
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Two embroidered black garters enwrapped her waistline with tanned shorts to match her top.
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This Mohair Mystery was knit in garter stitch on size 17 needles with a decorative drop-stitch edge pattern.
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Underneath the skirt were two garters that were attached to a lace band around each leg, and she wore two gold bands similar to the ones she wore now, only more ornate, on her wrists.
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Its chief sources of revenue have been fake voting contests and unclean "ads." that range in sphacelation from abortion pills to garters for prostitutes.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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Eva Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, un-gartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appears before her teacher.
A Christmas Present for a Lady
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She wore a chemise of the softest lawn and white stockings held up with green garters.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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To fix a split stitch in garter stitch, find yourself a 2 headed crochet hook.
Jean's Knitting
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Common gifts were jewels, gloves, silk stockings, flowers, garters, handkerchiefs, and paperweights.
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The women, however, don anything from '50s pastel prom dresses to time-honoured vixen garb of garters and corsets.
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Drinks served by flirtatious cocktail waitresses in gauzy blouses unbuttoned to the middles of their chests and skirts slit up to the hip so that they can reach the holsters attached to their garters and draw cigars, lighters, and clippers on command.
A master of the universe plots his own downfall
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She put it on with distaste then pulled on her pale beige silk stockings, hooking them on with garters.
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She was identified by a -stocking garter stitched for her in school by her daughter.
AMAGANSETT
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No lights, no water, but, strangely, on Bourbon Street, a generator churned noisily to life and a model of a woman's leg, gartered and fishnetted, began to swing back and forth from above the entrance to the club.
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She wore cream colored stockings held up with garters from her corset.
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And laddering down to fix one is next to impossible (for me) to do neatly in garter stitch.
Archive 2009-08-01
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These were 16-year old girls, 18-year old girls, even 25-year old girls, all dressed in short pleated skirts, many wearing stockings that criss-crossed their legs in parallel black diagonals, exposing naked flesh underneath - and where the stockings gave way to garters at the top of their thighs, even more naked flesh.
IJamming.net
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At the end of the Order of the Garter below his knee is a single pearl.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The approach is illustrated with data from a predator-prey arms race between garter snakes and newts that operates through the interface of tetrodotoxin and resistance to it.
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Shops all over the city have been ransacked for boots, basques, garters, stockings and suspenders and other distinctly racy garments by theatre-goers determined to join in the spirit of the gender-bending theatrical phenomenon.
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`You could've at least thrown me the garter belt," she said.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards.
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If that boy has taken my bike again, I'll have his guts for garters!
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St. George's Chapel is associated with the Order, not least as it is where the Garter service is held each year.
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Similarly, some garter snakes are known to store tetrodotoxin from ingested newts while birds in New Guinea appear to sequester poisons from insects.
Archive 2007-01-01
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I'm also wearing a blue garter around my left thigh.
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They cary thither old plate and course linnen cloth, and all kind of small Mercerie wares, seruing for the apparelling of men and women, as linnen, and silke girdles, garters, purses, kniues, and many such like things.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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A meeting at the Star and Garter in 1774 drew up new rules, with 22-yard pitches, 4-ball overs, stumping, and no-balling: ‘the wicket-keeper should not by any noise incommode the striker.’
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She turned aside to hitch her stocking top to the garter belt.
COMPULSION
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So, I cut it up yes, probably a sacrilege and made her garter, ring-beare's pillow, and some other things out of the dress and lace.
Wedding Gown -- Found!
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The mock (and ambiguously historical) apocalypse provides the setting for the sexual thematics that comprise the main matter of Garter's book.
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Nobody spares a rattlesnake, however much they might wish to let an innocent coachwhip or a common gartersnake get away.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
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There's Mog Edwards, the draper in love with Miss Myfanwy Price; Polly Garter, the town prostitute in love with babies; and the formidable Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, twice widowed, who keeps a boarding house but will not have any guests in it lest they breathe on the furniture.
A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices
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Finnish journalist colleague invites Mr Brown to feel her thigh: she is wearing suspenders and a garter belt in what she coyly tells him is a protest against the church's repressive sexual mores.
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This is a recording of the heat which was held in Waterford at Garter Lane some time back when Chris made it into the final eight.
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Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief?
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Being museum types, it was a plastic file with photocopies, but as a memorial to achievement, it meant more than the Garter or a peerage or a letterhead of doctorates.
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Using silk flowers, crystals, fine silks and antique lace, the women sewed garters, ring pillows, purses for the bridal party, headpieces and veils.
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Garter Homes for disabled ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen.
Home | Mail Online
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And so now, the fact that Giannoulias accurately called a liar a liar is made out to be as equally bad as the actual lying because OH MY STARS AND GARTERS YOU HAVE INFLAMMED DAVID GREGORY'S SENSE OF PROPRIETY!
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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`You could've at least thrown me the garter belt," she said.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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The Knights and Ladies of the Garter were dressed in dark blue velvet robes adorned with the garter, star and collar, red velvet hoods, worn on the right shoulder, and black velvet bonnets topped with swaying ostrich plumes.
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He is shirtless, in shorts with suspenders, gartered black socks and is drooped over his porch railing, listlessly watering his wilted blue hydrangeas.
Kate Clinton: Dahlin'
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A man in cuffless shirt-sleeves with pink arm-garters, wearing a linen collar but no tie, yawned his way from Dyer's Drug Store across to the hotel.
Main Street
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The chair is for the bride to sit and the groom to remove the bride's garter from her leg.
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It shows the subject in a full-bottomed curled wig, of the Restoration, wearing a handsome cape and around his shoulders the collar and star of the Order of the Garter.
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Besides, I'd better go and put AC Hartnell in the picture or he'll have my guts for garters.
AFTERMATH
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Garter swept by in prodigious robes and trains of purple velvet, thirty shillings a yard, my dear, not of course including the lining, which, I have no doubt, was of the richest satin, or that costly “miniver” which we used to read about in poor
Roundabout Papers
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But some populations of garter snakes eat the newt willingly.
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A garter ribbon worn by King Charles I on the day he was beheaded was sold for £4,400 yesterday.
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There is one Principal king at armes and 3 if not more other king at armes and other under herraulds and Sergeants, which all weare Coates with the kings armes all aboute it; these as I say officiates at the jnstalling for they record it and add the blew garter about such a Lords atchievement.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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Don't imagine that this material comprised tame pictures of gartered ladies standing in front of cheese plants; any permutation or peccadillo you can conceive is represented in the work that has survived from the period.
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Common gifts were jewels, gloves, silk stockings, flowers, garters, handkerchiefs, and paperweights.
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These would require to be very different in character from the Garter, the Bath and suchlike English honours with almost unseemly domestic titles.
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The tall blonde lifted her skirts to reveal a small pistol fitted to her garter.
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The guineas have had to contend with a lot of copperheads and a few garter snakes, which average 8-to 10-inches long.
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The Knights and Ladies of the Garter were dressed in dark blue velvet robes, red velvet hoods, and black velvet bonnets topped with swaying ostrich plumes.
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Besides, I'd better go and put AC Hartnell in the picture or he'll have my guts for garters.
AFTERMATH
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She ended up with a lapful of garter snakes instead of worms—a classic example of how sometimes my wishes go wrong—and after that I realized I had to be extra, extra careful and keep my magic under wraps!
The Multiplying Menace
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The first item combined a slubby red yarn with blue and purple highlights [1] with black Fun Fur, to make a lightweight garter stitch furry lap blanket currently adorning my chair at work.
Experimentation « Dyepot, Teapot
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I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available.
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Intraspecific variation in locomotor abilities among snakes is pretty special however, elsewhere being documented only where pregnancy makes big females less agile than males, and in garter snakes where individuals that have only just emerged from hibernation are less agile than warmed-up, fully active indiduals (Shine et al. 2000).
Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity
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Bishop vested in chimere and rochet, enveloped in a rich mantle, with the cross of St. George, encircled by the Garter and motto of the
Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See
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A wireless transmitter is strapped in a garter to my inner thigh and a video rig is micro-contained inside horn-rimmed glasses.
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Krzerszonese Milesia asundurst Sirdarthar Woolwichleagues, good tomkeys years somewhile in Crimealian wall samewhere in Ayerland, during me weeping stillstumms over the freshprosts of Eastchept and the dangling garters of Marrowbone and daring my wapping stiltstunts on Bostion Moss, old stile and new style and heave a lep onwards.
Finnegans Wake
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In the practice room, Kirby had changed into a satin corset with garters that held up ivory stockings.
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With five marriages - the last with a guy 14 years her junior - under her garter belt, you might say Gibson doesn't believe in happily ever after.
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The queen's majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Because they resemble certain harmless garter-snake like species, they were imported into the U.S. and U.K. under the wrong names, and ended up causing medically-significant emergencies when they bit their new owners.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The results show that red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus), garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) and gastropod abundance as well as invertebrate richness (no. of species or higher level taxa) were higher in control than in exclosure plots.
Deer and gastropods revisited
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He sat on his bed, still wearing his Garter, Order of Merit and knee-breeches.
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The pointy toed shoe of the 14th century reached such extremes of pointyness (up to two feet) that the point had to be gartered to the calf.
A Brief History of the Shoe « Colleen Anderson
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Sir John, staying at the Garter Inn, successfully recommends him to his Host as a tapster.
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He was sheer magic at Garter Lane on his previous visit and should not be missed when he plays the Theatre Royal.
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first we must consider the garter snake
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What is equally clear, however, is that the arms as engraved are not impaling his wife's, nor do they include his baronial coronet or the Garter badge, both of which he had been entitled to since 1572.
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Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, ungartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appeared before her teacher.
Little Citizens
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A distinctive black astrakhan and velvet cap is worn on the head, and white stockings, decorated garters, and cowhide slippers with straps complete the costume.
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She turned to see him standing there looking quite dashing in a tuxedo with a blue garter over the vest and some medals on the left side of the lapel.
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The stockings were held up with dark green garters at my knee.
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He acquired from Burgundy copies of works of conquest such as a Life of Julius Caesar displaying his collar of the Golden Fleece and the Garter to emphasise that the Fleece or the philosopher's stone was his regained kingdom.
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Not for nothing is Alastair clad in the finest cloth, his plaid trimmed in gold, his stockings tied with silk garters.
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Accessorized with a visible garter belt on her thigh, gloves that stretched over her elbows, and unusual boots that looked like legwarmers.
Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.2 - c.3
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I imagined the paleness of a gartered thigh against velvet upholstery, a breast exposed over by the wooden bar, an arm seductively draped over the back of a leather recliner.
Miracles, Inc.
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Red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) are small nonvenomous colubrid snakes, a northeastern subspecies of a taxon (the common garter snake) that is widely distributed through North America.
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The Royal Princesses and the Royal Knights of the Garter swept by in prodigious robes and trains of purple velvet, thirty shillings a yard, my dear, not of course including the lining, which, I have no doubt, was of the richest satin, or that costly "miniver" which we used to read about in poor Jerrold's writings.
Roundabout Papers
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I agree that garter stitch is demanding, somehow stocking stitch is more forgiving.
Jean's Knitting
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Calamity promises the patrons of the Garter that she will personally bring Miss Adams back from Chicago to South Dakota.
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The garters Willie had made me from leftover elastic used for her customer's puffed sleeves that had fit me snugly were suddenly too loose.
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And as I looked down at the fatigued carbon fibre and the twisted titanium, a tiny spring uncoiled itself with a metallic hiss and one of the Locum's knees jerked, the gartered leg extending itself towards me in one final reflex action.
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Spats, watch chains, ivory handled walking sticks, monocles, tie bars, sock garters, ascots, etc: there are actually people who can make these things work because of their personal styles, but most of us can't.
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Mr Jones added that a clause would be inserted in the club's rules to allow customers to put money in dancers' garters.
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Under Edward IV no fewer than eight foreign sovereigns came in this way to be admitted to the Garter, including Charles ‘the Bold’ of Burgundy and Ferdinand of Spain.
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The new appointments follow the deaths of the Queen Mother, the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Hailsham and Lord Longford, who were all members of the Garter.
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Beside this, an armchair was covered in a wild outgrowth of clothes: summer dresses; stockings; suspenders; a garter belt; an ornate white basque that she had worn for him one night.
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She was identified by a -stocking garter stitched for her in school by her daughter.
AMAGANSETT
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Bracy's dollars have turned up at the scene of a crime, as a gift to a newborn, and in the garter of an exotic dancer.
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In his ruffled shirt and waistcoat — with his stockings pulled up over his breeches and gartered just below his knees — he was dressed like a miniature adult.
The Boy from Thuringia
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The uppers are colored maroon, red, and green, and the boots are tied on with colored garters.
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In the ‘Pelt’ paintings, Finley airily outlined bodices, thongs, brassieres, garter belts and fasteners.
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She'd stripped to her stockings and garter belt, and carried a high stool centre stage.
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He was in disgrace in 1552 and degraded from the Garter, but restored to favour by Mary, whom he served as lord privy seal.
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And thus the offering ended* the loo poor men were placed to prcM: eeti homeward on foot, and after them the knights* esquires, and gentlemen, on horseback; then Garter principal king of arms; then the principal nnoumerr with the other eight moumers two and two; and then the yeomen on foot» two and two.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Chabray, no asseveration or shrieks availing her, fair slim damsel, late in the arms of Royalty, has a garter round her neck, and furibund
The French Revolution
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Olivia could only laugh as she hooked her stockings onto the garters.
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Krzerszonese Milesia asundurst Sirdarthar Woolwichleagues, good tomkeys years somewhile in Crimealian wall samewhere in Ayerland, during me weeping stillstumms over the freshprosts of Eastchept and the dangling garters of Marrowbone and daring my wapping stiltstunts on Bostion Moss, old stile and new style and heave a lep onwards.
Finnegans Wake
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It must postdate Sir Thomas's award of the Garter in 1503, and the use of renaissance ornament in English glass occurs from about 1515 onwards.
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And to make matters worse, I am knitting it in garter stitch, contrary to instructions.
Jean's Knitting
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Not a day to buy your wife a black teddy and a garter belt.
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Moira decided to put on one of her corsets too, so I helped lace her into a full-length cream satin-covered Victorian corset with lace edging and the most beautiful ribbon garters, six of them in all.
