The former, intended from his youth for the Church, sees neither honour in this world, nor hopes for any blessing in the next, but exclusively from its bosom and its doctrine.
He said he had served in Egypt, in the guides of Bonaparte, but deserted to the Turks and turned Mussulman, but afterwards returned to the bosom of the Church at Jerusalem.
The condition of the slave is certainly in itself that of vileness; but is that slave a vile being who, for a blow, pierces his bosom because he is unable to avenge it?
But a standing army, upon which all revolutionary rulers can depend, and that always will continue their faithful support, unique in its sort and composition, exists in thebosom as well as in the extremities of this country.
But even in winter we find them enlivening, by their verdure, the cold bosom of Nature.
I love the Lotus-blossom when it lies On the white bosom of a sleeping woman, And falls and rises as the dreamer sighs, For that love’s sake she yet has told to no man.
Hetty held the dear deformed body against her bosom for a while, then relaxing her arms, turned towards the small window in the eaves.
Her hand went up to her bosom for his last letter, which she had worn there until last night.
It is very fortunate we came to him so quickly," returned the old physician, tearing open Hawthorne's shirt-bosom and preparing to stanch the flow of blood.
III Mrs. Norris was about to force Tom down upon the Bosom when her eye was caught by the cheque-book on the table.
I offered my hand, and your lovely cousin threw herself into my arms, as a frighted bird pursued by a hawk has flown into thebosom of a man passing by.
A few days later I should have been in the bosomof my family, when an unforeseen thunderbolt struck me.
Mrs. Dodd was the favourite companion and bosomfriend of both her children.
Enjoy in advance, if you can, the pleasure of piercing the bosom of your friend, but be sure that you will not have that of contemplating my despair.
What life lingers in your father's bosom will leave him at the news I have to tell.
Till I left her bosom I ne'er knew sorrow, nor sin.
He is in the midst of a weeping company of brethren at Miletus, and in the bosom of a loving Christian household at Tyre.
He has found in His children an object for Himself; and Abraham was, therefore, but telling out the common secret of his own heart, and of the bosom of God.
Had he now consulted his heart, he would have revealed himself, and been the gratified one on the bosom of his convicted, sorrowing brethren.
The strongest pulse of gladness that is to beat for eternity will be in the bosom of the Lord over His ransomed Bride.
The heavenly calling at this early moment, and in the bosom of his elect and favoured household, declares itself in its full lustre.
Howsoever, no peace was my lot till I made a cleanbosom of it, only putting her first on the Testament, and even that not safe with most of them.
O Love, kiss me into silence, lest no word avail me, Stay my head with thy bosom lest breath and life fail me!
Love, let thy lips depart no more From those same eyes they once did kiss, The very bosom wounded sore When sorrow clave the heart of bliss!
With sobbing scarce ended her bosom was heaving, Stained with tears was her face, and her mouth was yet quivering With torment of weeping held back for a season.
Her eyes flashed and her bosom heaved with indignation.
Her bosom was heaving, the hot tears were rolling down her cheeks.
The banker's wife drew from her bosomthe letter Underwood wrote her before he killed himself.
Wild was the night, yet a wilder night Hung around o'er the mother's pillow; In her bosomthere waged a fiercer fight Than the fight on the wrathful billow.
This left the rest of us to struggle as best we could with multitudinous weeds striving to choke the crops, and the many trials incidental to wresting sustenance from the reluctant bosom of mother earth.
A little white stone with her initials is at the head, and among the tall grass over her breast a little bird had made a nest; empty now, but a pretty symbol of the refuge that tender bosom always was for all feeble and sweet things.
She in her silver-gray silk, with lilies of the valley (John's flower) in her bosom and hair.
Amid the savage relics Around her daughter flung, Upon her naked bosom A crucifix there hung.
His light and graceful figure was clad in the becoming costume of his rank, and on his richly braided bosom rested three half blown roses.
There existed for her no love in the bosom of the lost one.
For a nightmare rests on my strangled sleep; The lord of my bosom is doomed to die!
The intimation of the garden scene, hitherto unknown to Heavystern, may fill his warlike bosom with jealousy, and ultimately occasion a separation.
If convinced that our biography would be attempted, from that hour the friend of our bosom would appear in the light of a base and ignominious spy.
Deserted by his bosom friend for a common, low down cad like that; Oh, by Jove!
Then she put the things back into the knapsack, all but the sheet of paper, which she carried away, and thrust into the bosom of her dress, as she saw Miss Du Plessis approaching.
Next morning he found a lark's egg hidden among leaves, which he hid in his bosom next his heart wrapped in wool and a strip of linen.
Then they went to look in the helmet where they had put the egg; but it was cold and damp, so the mother put the egg in the warm sun by day, and nursed it in her bosom at night.
She is visited by an old woman on crutches, who gives her a little box of birch-bark containing a bird's egg, and tells her to foster it in her bosom for three months, till a live doll like a human infant is hatched from it.
WOLF that assails the wife of his bosomand his innocent horfspring?
To do Bill justice, you must see how his noble countenance lights as his generous bosom heaves with chivalrous sentiments; how defiantly he scowls, and grinds his indignant teeth as he hisses the word “Liar!
Flooring there is none of any kind whatever, nor any attempt to make the den snugger by burrowing down into the bosom of the earth.
There was no sail in sight over the vast expanse of waters, except a few small coasting-craft, and yet what fleets had floated on the bosom of these romantic waters!
We passed the mouths of the great Amazon, to-day, bearing on its bosom the waters of a continent.
It enables the monster, when it requires rest, to lay its head on the softest kind of a pillow, an ocean wave, and sleep as unconcernedly as the child does upon the bosom of its mother.
The bosom of the gently heaving sea is scarcely ruffled.
Trinidad, we passed through the strait between it and the island of Tobago, and soon afterward emerged from the Caribbean Sea, upon the broad bosom of the South Atlantic.
The case is that, in the most rugged part of yonder mountain chains which bound the horizon of this valley in whose bosom the abbey stands, there used to be, many years ago--why do I say many years!
And finally came the hour when I must depart from Toledo, leaving there, as a useless and ridiculous burden, all the illusions which in its bosom had been raised in my mind.
As I have said, nothing was heard around the castle save the echo of the blasphemies which throbbed out into the black bosom of the night like the throbbing of lost souls wrapped in the hurricane folds of hell.
At the same moment Pierre Legros thrust his hand into the bosom of his blue blouse, and withdrew it just as Nugent lifted a revolver from the bag.
In less than twenty minutes from the time of Reggie coming aboard the Snipe was steaming down past Drake's Island on to the broad bosom of Plymouth Sound, and so to the open sea.
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
He was poorly and scantily dressed, and the hand that lay on his bosom seemed so thin that it was almost transparent.
Holding himself thus, Frank watched, but he could not see that the bosom of his friend rose and fell at all--he could not see that Harry breathed.
The sun was shining from a clear sky when Frank Merriwell and Harry Rattleton reached a point where they could look down upon the bosom of the lake, from which the sunlight was reflected as from the surface of a mirror.
It was a girl, and she was handling the paddle with the skill of an expert, sending the light craft flying over the bosom of the lake.
We come now to those important questions which Mr. Wilson was not, indeed, the first to agitate, but which he has awakened from their profound slumbers in the bosom of the Hon.
As she spoke, she threw her arms round her father, who pressed her to his bosom without speaking, for his heart was full.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bosom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
