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Then with the old hand equipment of the Woodbridge vamps in the van the whole aggregation hurled itself down the street toward the village.
Dancing girls, newly rich cooks, poverty-stricken prospectors' wives suddenly beaming with wealth, nineteenth-century vamps, gambling hall habitués, all were represented among the femininity of Ohadi as they laughed and giggled at the outlandish costumes they wore and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Gallinae Thieving prostitutes, because after the manner of hens, prostitutes take anything and scatter everything. Diobolares Two obol girls. So called from their price. Amasiae, also in the diminutive Girls devoted to Venus. Their best expression in modern society would be the "vamps." Amatrix Female lover, frequently in male part. Amica Female friend, frequently a tribad.
The majority of mothers are vamps. They think they have a strangle hold on their offspring; a right to mould or bully them out of shape. The best school I know is run by a woman who says it takes her a year to shake off the average mother; after that the child becomes an individual and you can get a line on it." "That's startling, David. It's hard, too, on mothers." "Oh! I don't know.
A slim, sallow, sleek, sad-eyed gigolo in tight French garments, the pants rather flappy at the ankle; effeminate French shoes with fawn-coloured uppers and patent-leather eyelets and vamps, most despicable; a slim cane; hair with a magnificent natural wave that looked artificially marcelled and that was worn with a strip growing down from the temples on either side in the sort of cut used only by French dandies and English stage butlers.
Men talked about her in the smoking rooms and billiard rooms and compared her to vamps of other seasons, and decided she had left them all in the shade.
Then in this he made the cut a b on the middle line one way and c d on the middle line the other way. "Them's your vamps for uppers. Now's the time to bead 'em if you want to." "Don't know how." "Well, I can't larn you that; that's a woman's work. But I kin show you the pattern of the first pair I ever wore; I ain't likely to forget 'em, for I killed the Buffalo myself and seen the hull making."
"I say, young man," says he, grabbin' me by the elbow. "Wasn't I right about Louise?" "You had the dope," says I. "Some queen, even if she is near the forty mark." "And only imagine," he adds, "within a year or so she may be a grandmother!" "That don't count these days," says I. "It's gettin' so you can hardly tell the grandmothers from the vamps."
What good do they think they can do, a couple of sissies, and two or three kid vamps, setting up to lisp religion? It's ridiculous!" He was working himself up into a fine frenzy. Julia Cloud stood and watched him, an amused smile growing on her sweet lips. He caught the amusement, and fired up at it. "What are you looking like that at me for, Cloudy? You know it is. You know it's all foolishness.
No literature could add culture or dignity to the job of stitching vamps for all the working hours and days of a wage earner's year, while there is no experience of cultural value in the occupation, divided as the making of a shoe is into some ninety operations, and distributed among ninety workers. Dr.
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