Careful Words

waist (n.)

And on her lover's arm she leant,

And round her waist she felt it fold,

And far across the hills they went

In that new world which is the old.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Day-Dream. The Departure, i.

Hands promiscuously applied,

Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Waltz.