Gorget, gusset, basinet, cuirass, gauntlet, sleeve, all alike in the view of these feminine eyes were practicable spaces whereon to sew scraps of fluttering colour.
Once we have a candidate vaccine, researchers subject that vaccine to a gauntlet of animal and clinical trial tests to ensure that it's both safe and effective.
She'd jinxed herself, thrown her gauntlet before God. Soon after, Maria told me her father had a new job in Wyoming. " Mom says your mother should take over, " Maria said.