“Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.”
Ally Carter book Heist Society
Source: Heist Society
“What an arm—what a waist
For an arm!”
To My Grandmother; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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