Oh, mother," was all the girl could say, with heaving breast and downcast eyes.
John burned with as real a military ardor as ever inflamed the breast of any slaughterer of his fellows.
This was evidently his game; but I untangled it, and only lost a breast button or two by the swiftly-moving string.
She stretched out her arms and caught the girl to her breastin a passionate embrace, burying her face in her neck in a vain effort to subdue her sobbing.
I raised the gun, covered the bear's breastwith the sight, and let drive.
They both fell to earth; the Moor placed his knee upon the breast of his victim, and, brandishing his dagger, aimed a blow at his throat.
He marched out to the King where he stood guarded by fifty of his chiefs, seized him by his long hair in the midst of his men, and pointing a pistol at his breast led, him trembling and near dead with fear amongst all his people.
The packet of letters which he had thrust into his breast weighed him down.
They came to the lake-side on Slievegallion, and found there a wretched and palsied old man, whom they questioned, but who could do nothing but beat his breast and moan.
Then as they were conversing he saw the breast of the maiden over the bosom of her smock, and said to her: "Fair is this plain, the plain of the noble yoke.
So he gathered up his bowels into his breast and went to the loch-side, and drank, and bathed himself, and came forth again to die.
Her bosom was more snowy than the breast of the white swan, her cheek was redder than the reddest roses.
She needed not be told, within whosebreast It lodged; the message had explained the rest.
But still the sot stood silent with surprise, With fixed regard on her new-opened eyes, And in his breast received the envenomed dart, A tickling pain that pleased amid the smart.
Cut the breast in long strips, and the rest of the meat in small pieces.
Take the breast of the chicken boiled as above; cut in bits, and pound smooth in a mortar.
Make layers of this force-meat, putting half of it on the turkey and then the dice of tongue, with strips of the breast between, using force meat for the last layer.
Pigeons should be fresh, the breast plump, and the feet elastic.
The loin and fillet are used in roasting, and are the choice pieces, the breast coming next, and the neck and ribs being good for stewing and fricassees.
Before many moons have come and gone, the great god Amen shall tear aside that which blindeth thee, and placing a man son upon thy breast shall lead thee into the innermost temple.
There were of a certain type of English women not a few, sunburnt, loud of voice, lean of breast and narrow of hip.
Then another Hun clutched his breast and pitched forward.
He saw Gaston clap a hand to his breast and crumple.
Then Rose told her mother her experience and how she had been saved by Zell, and the poor woman clasped her daughter to her breast again and again, and with streaming eyes raised toward heaven, poured out her gratitude to God.
It is something which takes side in the child's breast with the reasonable governor and the laws which he or she administers.
For a long time after, while making a certain show of submission, he harbours in his breast something of the rebel's spirit.
The idea of these strange-looking objects above the head, having no visible support, and often taking on a threatening mien, may well give rise to fear in a child's breast akin to the superstitious fear of the savage.
One of the Warlockian witches, her gem body patterns glittering in the sunlight, was walking backward out of the sea, her hands held palms together, breast high, in a Terran attitude of prayer.
For once in his life he made a clean breast of his bosom's perilous stuff.
In his distress he asked himself whether he would not go to Mr. Glynn and make a clean breast of it; but his practical instincts answered him that he would none the less have made a beast of himself.
They were in fitting surroundings, their color inexpressibly vivid against the snow, and Ben's heart warmed and thumped in his breast at the sight.
Ben himself was neither aware of this nor of the fact that his heart was hammering wildly in his breast and his blood racing, like wild rivers, through his veins: he was only thrilled and held by a sense of vast, impending developments.
To-day he felt that he knew the wild, fierce heart beating in the leanbreast as a man might know his brother's heart.
Peering closely they made out the plump, genial form of Franklin's grouse,--a bird known far and wide in the north for her ample breast and her tender flesh.
She must nourish the spark of hope in his breast to the last hour.
She laughed secretly at his distress as he tripped clumsily over a piece of firewood; then watched him with real interest as he mixed batter for griddle cakes and fried the white breast of the grouse in bear fat.
He halted an instant, listening, but at first could hear no more than the throb of his heart in his breast and the whisper of his own troubled breathing.
The sudden pressure of the knife point against the breast of the Oskaloosa Kid awakened the youth with a startling suddenness which brought him to his feet before a second vicious thrust reached him.
As he himself was about to step in he felt suddenly of his breast pocket.
For a time he did not realize how close he had been to death or that he had been saved by the chance location of the automatic pistol in his breast pocket--the very pistol he had taken from the dressing table of Abigail Prim's boudoir.
She uttered a little cry, and threw herself on her husband's breast and burst into sobs.
A man of the people climbed up on the shoulders of a comrade and, with his knife, cut out the portrait in the shape of a medallion; then, passing his bayonet through the breast and head, he carried it as the Roman lictors used to carry the S.
His horse's breast separated the crowd in front of it as a ship's prow separates the waves.
Four balls had pierced the canvas, one through the head, two in the breastand the fourth through the background of the picture.
And they loved with a silent ardour So great that she soon was slain, And drop by drop from her tender breast The life-blood flowed o'er his rock-bound crest, And fell to the earth in rain.
I have chosen a breast where my head I can lay, Sweet Mother Earth!
My lips have touched the rose, And in its perfumed breast the dew Has quenched my thirst; and lo!
A reconciliation had been outwardly effected by mutual friends, but from that day the most wily insinuations were used to poison the breast of the king.
Among the royal retinue this day seated before the village of Cherkos, was a young man of haughty and daring exterior, whose flowing black mantle covered a breast that must have been often agitated by strange emotions.
But fear had no place in the breast of the daughter of old Ali.
This afflicting catastrophe gave birth in the breast of all to a by no means unnatural feeling of distrust towards the escort engaged on the sea-coast, not only as to their ability, but also as to their intention to afford protection.
The first traveller had been unable to breast the mountain side outright; and his zigzag route remains untouched by the hand of the pioneer.
The implicit confidence which had supplanted all fear and suspicion in the breast of His Majesty, now favoured a still stronger appeal to his humanity, to his magnanimity, and to his piety.
Twas a white water-lily I saw that day, With its leaves looking up to the sky, And baring its breast to the sportive play Of the wavelets dancing by.
And, turning round, his kingly breast he bared, Bidding his armour-bearer thrust his sword Hilt-deep into his heart.
There is a poetic legend, which says that when the Nightingale sings the sweetest, it presses its breast against a thorn.
Live on, united pair: and be the breast Of thornless roses yours unceasingly.
Still, still the fair maid By the dark river strayed, And flung forth in thoughtless play Each bud from her breast In wilful unrest, And laught as it floated away.
But, at the same time that it removed from the breast of Richard a lingering suspicion of the acts of the three hunter, it conveyed a mortifying lesson to him, which brought many quiet hours, in future, to his cousin Marmaduke.
And with that she drew from beneath the kerchief covering herbreast the knife sharpened to a keen point, whose edge she had tested so carefully a short time before.
Just then, dimly, through the blurred window, he saw again the little figure of the child, its head on its breast as before, its blue hands lying in its lap and the curious box beside it.
A bud lifted its head too high from among the roses on her breast and spoiled the contour of the chin, so he broke it off.
The goshawk will take a mallard with perfect ease, neatly and deliberately strip off the feathers, and then, like an epicure, eat the breast only.
He could not stand his second imprisonment on the hulks, and to end it he attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the breast with a pen-knife.
In all the hardships of the siege Hannah Snell bore her full part, fording rivers breast high, sleeping in and working at the trenches, &c.
In the centre of the breast is quite a depression, probably once used as a place of concealment for provisions by the French, called a «caché».
The specimen dug up within the limits of Chillicothe, is said to have been found resting upon the breast of the skeleton with which it was deposited.
The various parts of the figure are gracefully rounded; the stomach andbreast are full and well proportioned.
A large serpent is folded around the neck, the head and tail resting together upon the breast of the figure.
But could he have looked deeper and have read the tumult raging within the breast of the medicine man, his own calmness would have disappeared.
Klitonda was no mere machine speeding through the forest, but a stern vital reality, whosebreast throbbed with mingled emotions of hatred toward the Chilcats, and an intense love for his only child, and the welfare of his people.
He held her close to his breastand tried to speak, but words would not come.
If the Chilcats force her to stay she will bury this knife into her own breast before she becomes the wife of Bamba the coward.
The chord of high resolve within herbreast was again stirred.
His great breast lifted and fell, telling plainly of the storm raging within.
But hotter and more terrible was the fire surging within the breast of this outraged chief.
As we meet in thy name, Alma Mater, to-night, All our hearts and our hopes are as one, And love for the mother that nurtured his youth Beats high in the breast of each son.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
