A waiter in a starched white vest poured them coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Novel] Reference
Some items had to be starched and wrung out yet again. From Wordnik.com. [Household Appliances] Reference
Robes and minds are being laundered and starched as we speak. From Wordnik.com. [Will Durst: Flag Raising Robester] Reference
MONTAGNE: Now, these guys, they were starched and clean shaven. From Wordnik.com. [Taliban Terrorize Streets Of Kandahar] Reference
In black bombazine and starched white, a woman and nurse approach. From Wordnik.com. [You and Rick Okasec] Reference
Juan's amáironed his shirt, starched the collar and long sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [Juan Looking Good] Reference
His sleeves are rolled up; his starched shirt drenched from the heat. From Wordnik.com. [Can Charlie Rangel Hold On?] Reference
He looked up at me, his starched white priest's collar smudged with grease. From Wordnik.com. [Confession] Reference
They could be little nuns – or little nurses – in their starched aprons. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy] Reference
Not many people think of starched IBM executives as revolutionaries, however. From Wordnik.com. [Tighter Times At Big Blue] Reference
Right now I am next to you, in the same white starched sheets, not a foot away. From Wordnik.com. [Dual (duel) Excerpt from The Recipients] Reference
The clerkbehind the counter, this girl in a starched blue shirt, she stared too. From Wordnik.com. [The Things I Did and Did] Reference
Steven was cute with unruly black hair that curled a bit over his starched collar. From Wordnik.com. [Firm Doings] Reference
Images stream out in a wash of parquet floors and starched pleats and river cafés. From Wordnik.com. [The Dying Tradition] Reference
In his starched white collar and gold cuff links, he never looked less than perfect. From Wordnik.com. [American Odyssey] Reference
Only the white ruffled shirts, starched and at attention, gave off an optimistic air. From Wordnik.com. [‘A Handbook to Luck’] Reference
We need some starched crisp frocks to go with all our torn-kneed blue jeans and helmets. From Wordnik.com. [George Bush Off The Record] Reference
He even scrapped the hoary IBM dress code-those infamous blue suits and starched white shirts. From Wordnik.com. [Lou's Big Deal] Reference
The hand that rolls up the sleeves of her crisply starched shirt is liver spotted and tremulous. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections on Chrome] Reference
Not one molecule landed anywhere else but on Jimmy's perfectly laundered and starched white shirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 2] Reference
She reshaped the economy, broke the unions and starched up Britain's languid posture in world affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Has The 'Iron Lady' Gone Soft?] Reference
It was my first day at school, and like everybody else, I put on my heavily starched green tunic dress. From Wordnik.com. [THE RICH RIVER] Reference
He seems to have as big a supply of heavily-starched white shirts as Anderson Cooper has tight black T's. From Wordnik.com. [Fiery La. Politician Leads Fight To Clean Up Oil] Reference
He reenters the room and they exit, together, three of them, standing, a semicircle of starched white coats. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Guggenheim Visits an Operation] Reference
Two gray-haired men dressed in starched gowns sit side by side in wheelchairs, conversing about the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Cancellation] Reference
He was a good sort of fellow, this M. Courtet, who was head clerk, though too conceited and starched up, certainly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mason made two finger-quotes in the air while Keith shifted in his stance and adjusted his starched white collar. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of a Meaningful Moment] Reference
Mrs. Hyde sits nearby in her starched white uniform with the little black bag in her lap, looking very erect and alert. From Wordnik.com. [Stand Up] Reference
Fabric is starched, dried, then assembled by hand, using techniques perfected over the last century, Elva Ramirez reports. From Wordnik.com. [A Garment District Perennial] Reference
His clothes were always the same — white — not starched and dazzling, but the soft white of many washings and wringings. From Wordnik.com. [The Palatski Man] Reference
Again, she picked up the phone, and two seconds later a girl in a starched white smock appeared from behind the white curtain. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Mustache] Reference
Her dress is white stuff, and she never has it starched; it's just soft and shiny and swishy, and seems to b'long just to her. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
"Almost," came the muffled reply from the stiffly-starched little figure sitting on the floor struggling with a broken shoe-string. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
Queen Anne, stiff, starched, and formal, left their impress upon the buildings of their day, which were mostly of a domestic character. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
The lawyers -- beneath the puffed-up egos and starched shirts -- are capable of doing their jobs even if they don't all like one another. From Wordnik.com. [Not Exactly Happy Campers] Reference
Clad in all the starched menace of his uniform, he asks for my passport, then inspects my arms for track marks and turns out my backpack. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary] Reference
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