"Boddice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... without help. He was so sensitive to cold that he had to wear a kind of fur doublet under a coarse linen shirt; one of his sides was contracted, and he could scarcely stand upright till he was laced into a boddice made of stiff canvas; his legs were so slender that he had to wear three pairs of stockings, which he was unable to draw on and off without help. His seat had to be raised to bring him to a level with common tables. In one of his papers ...
— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen
... all the Town was told, Where newest Indian things were sold; So in a morning, without boddice, Slipt sometimes out to Mrs. Thody's, To cheapen tea, or buy a skreen; What else could ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury |
