The modern bra, as a concept, has its origins in corsetry (so does shapewear, which you'll learn more about in chapter 3).

The satisfactory results of the survey led to his promotion.

Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

For an honest and sober man will rather make that woman his wife, whom he seeth employed continually about her business, than one who makes it her business to trifle away her own and others time.