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| 2 | 232 | But, too, she had been, in her way, interestingly, View more quotes about though">though not buxom, or obtrusively so, a bit too excitingly figured for that. |
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| 2 | 229 | She had been sometimes thought of as "dainty," but she hated that word, which seemed so demeaning, so minimizing. |
| 2 | 230 | It had suggested that she might be no more than a biological, sexual confection of sorts, a bit of fluff, of interest perhaps, but unimportant, negligible in a way, as a human being. |
| 2 | 231 | She had once thought of ballet, when she was quite young, before being brought in her young majority into the higher, sterner duties and understandings of the movement. |
| 2 | 232 | But, too, she had been, in her way, interestingly, though not buxom, or obtrusively so, a bit too excitingly figured for that. |
| 2 | 233 | Small as she was, and slim as she had been, there had been no doubt about, in its lovely proportions, the loveliness of her bosom, the narrowness of her waist, the delightful, flaring width of her hips, the sweetness of her thighs. |
| 2 | 234 | She was, as thousands, and millions of others, though perhaps a bit short, and a little slim, a normal human female, of a sort greedily selected for in countless generations of matings and prizings. |
| 2 | 235 | So, it seems, she was neither excessively buxom, nor, neither, tall, linear, flat-chested and boyish, a variety often praised and recommended for imitation in cultures which encourage the denial or blurring of sexual differences. |