Spacek of "Affliction"

Usage examples of sissy.

Her heart ached for Sissy, who would now rock her fatherless child alone, with only the rhythm of the swamp as company.

Every beginning, it is assumed, must have a neon twinkle of danger about it, and so grandmothers, sissies, lepidopterists and others are warned that the nomenclature that follows is often indecipherable.

Had on a sissy pink shirt instead of the green one they told us about up in Loma Blanca.

Sissy had long, smooth dark hair, huge breasts, and a cute puppyish face.

The argument from animal-rights sissies is that cockfighting is cruel, even sadistic.

He was wearing these green tights with the boots built right into them, and this orangy shirt with lace sissy ruffles at the wrists and collar, and some kind of silvery brocade vest, real tight.

Her hair under the sissy hat was sticking out every whichaway, her eyes were wide with fear, her limbs a-tremble.

Old Bill Cody had started to grow his hair shoulder-length and wear fringed white buckskins like some of those sissy boys who stayed in camp with the women.

Every beginning, it is assumed, must have a neon twinkle of danger about it, and so grandmothers, sissies, lepidopterists and others are warned that the nomenclature that follows is often indecipherable.

All the skinnydipping I did in my middle teens made me look back on that time with Karl and Jim and Sissy Madden and laugh at my own stupid shyness.

Sissy is too shy to reply, but Bitzer, an eager student, is ready with the proper answer: "Quadruped.

There had been a time when Brud's pleasant inquiry about Wade's family would have brought about a query about Alice and Sissy.

Find a nickel carfare for him and tell him, Evy, because she lives closer than Sissy.

The house smelled of warmth, good food, sweet powder and stronger candy-like smell that came from a hard­ chalkish disc that Sissy wore in an imitation-silver filigree heart on a chain around her neck.

Only Sissy, who discontinues her education because she is thought "unteachable," but who stays on in the Gradgrind household, understands Louisa's plight.