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I saw at once that it must be a strain upon any disposition to return after a long and figureless widowhood to the steel, buckram, and rebellious curves of conventional married life.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

You'll be scrawny and rheumatic by that time, and the beautiful Beulah will be fat and figureless.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.