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  • Personally, I think we need a sweatered transvestite writer in the masthead, and a ginger. justthinkofthehijinx

    Movie Review and Discussion: The Runaways (Guest: Marisa Meltzer, Author of Girl Power) | /Film 2010

  • The green-sweatered lady, arching her back so that the bowling balls stick out even more.

    What They Leave Behind « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • According to Spy magazine, the black sweater first appeared in the 1950s when Mrs. Reed covered a woman showing too much cleavage at a club dance with her own black sweater, and "the sweatered woman was off the island the next day."

    Yarn of the Black Sweater Marshall Heyman 2011

  • You remember angelus bells and the soon fading scent of her sweet, sweatered gift, unanimity of intent on a someday playground of life and love.

    Things you remember in the middle of the night 2010

  • Walking quickly, sweatered arms cradling the box to her chest, she started for home.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • Walking quickly, sweatered arms cradling the box to her chest, she started for home.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • And, who was the skinny, all sweatered-up banshee driving?

    Malloy: Coup de Foudre 2008

  • A few pages later on Charles meets Anthony Blanche at a lunchtime feast in Oxford, after which the louche, stammering, epicene figure "stood on the balcony with a megaphone which had appeared surprisingly among the bric-a-brac of Sebastian's room, and in languishing, sobbing tones recited passages from The Waste Land to the sweatered and muffled throng that was on its way to the river."

    A Breath of Dust 2005

  • For every incisive Margaret Thatcher, Edwina Currie and Ann Widdicomb, there are a thousand fat-arsed, cashmere-sweatered know-it-all, bossy women sitting on town councils up and down the country.

    The Male Dominated Blogosphere: Was Melissa Kite Right? 2007

  • A few pages later on Charles meets Anthony Blanche at a lunchtime feast in Oxford, after which the louche, stammering, epicene figure "stood on the balcony with a megaphone which had appeared surprisingly among the bric-a-brac of Sebastian's room, and in languishing, sobbing tones recited passages from The Waste Land to the sweatered and muffled throng that was on its way to the river."

    A Breath of Dust 2005

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