His coats were of the single-breasted cut-away order, with pockets outside, and generally either Oxford mixture or some dark colour, that required you to place him in a favourable light to say what it was.
But from daylight till dark Colby Macdonald fought with drifts andbreasted the storm.
According to Meyer andBreasted the people of Lower Egypt had progressed far enough before 4200 B.
Meyer and Breastedhave worked out the chronology from these data in this way.
The very name Hyksos is held by Breasted to mean "ruler of countries.
A low hat should not be worn with a long coat—a double-breasted frock, for example.
They pressed steadily forward, and, having breasted the slope, the valley of the Marne burst suddenly upon their view.
Line upon line of them breasted the crest, and followed in the wake of the leading wave.
They had breastedthe rise, and were nearing the trenches.
He's trailed them far o'er the trackless range, Has this knight of the saddle leather; He has risked his life in the mad stampede, And has breasted all kinds of weather.
They cantered off gaily, plunged into the woods and breasted the slope, Sir Oliver leading and threading his way through the undergrowth.
The beautiful white-breasted kingfisher, (Halcyon smyrnensis) is now busy at its nest.
The white-breasted water-hen (Gallinula phoenicura) is a bird that must be familiar to all.
The white-breasted waterhen constructs its nursery in a thicket at the margin of some village pond.
A pair of white-breasted kingfishers at work during the early stages of nest construction affords an interesting spectacle.
March and April are the months in which the majority of coppersmiths or crimson-breasted barbets rear up their families.
In July the black-breasted or rain-quail (Coturnix coromandelica) is plentiful in India.
Butcher-birds, rollers and white-breasted kingfishers secure their victims on the ground, dropping on to them silently from their watchtowers.
I have said white bird--for as the story went on the white-breasted bird became white, hoary with attendance on generations of Oxenhams.
One wonders where the bird nests, how many little white-breasted ones it has had, what has become of them!
No joy touched him as hebreasted summits and looked down on wide sweeps of forest and rippling water.
They breastedthe long slope of a low hill and took the decline beyond.
Or her stinging words pelted him as she breasted the hill slopes with supple ease.
The buff breastedhas yellow legs and the Baird has black.
Sometimes a gray-breasted immature female would be paired with a rich plumaged male, or again both mates would be in full color; but I encountered many pairs in which both parents showed the light grayish breast of adolescence.
The Baird is but slightly smaller than the buff-breasted sandpiper and very much like it; but Prof.
The patterns of the backs are very similar, but the buff breasted has a much paler crown and lacks the white throat and eye stripe, as well as the clear-cut white sides and black center of the rump of the Baird.
The red-breasted birds reported by Mr. Mackay (1893) as shot on Cape Cod in December and February must have been exceptional cases of delayed or omitted molt; the February birds may have been cases of early spring molt.
Those that paused kept up a busy search for food along the muddy beaches in or near shallow water, or in company with little parties of buff-breasted sandpipers on the drier alkaline flats back of the shore line.
One group of about 20 richly cinnamon-breasted adults stayed in our vicinity for several days from May 20 onward.
In Egypt pa meant ancestor, beginning, origin, and the Peruvian many-breasted Mama Allpa seemingly meant just as it does in English, i.
The Sabeans worshipped the many-breasted Artemis under the name Almaquah, which is radically alma, and the Greeks used the word alma as an adjective meaning nourishing.
Each time the yawl breasted the summit of a wave, the peak of McKay's Island could be seen rearing its head above the waste of storm-tossed waters.
All this was planned out in advance by our foreman, who now took the position of point man on the right hand or down the riverside; and with our saddle horses in the immediate lead, we breasted the angry Brazos.
We lined them out, however, and they breasted the current, and landed on the second island.
The leaders were crowding me close when Nigger breasted the water, and closely followed by several lead cattle, I struck straight for the American shore.
I seldom go the Rock Creek route without being amused and sometimes annoyed by the yellow-breasted chat.
As he began to undo the box I expected to see some of our own rarer birds, perhaps the rose-breasted grossbeak or Bohemian chatterer.
For two or three years I have chanced to meet little companies of the bay-breasted warbler, searching for food in an oak wood, on an elevated piece of ground.
That richly modulated warble proceeding from the top of yonder birch, and which unpracticed ears would mistake for the voice of the scarlet tanager, comes from that rare visitant, the rose-breasted grossbeak.
When last seen wore a gray suit with double-breasted vest.
Blythe wore no double-breasted vest; he wore no vest at all.
When last seen wore a gray suit with double breasted vest.
The best layers are the Black-breasted Reds with willow legs, and the worst the Greys.
In making up an exhibition pen, observe that Grouse and Partridge hens should have a black-breasted cock; and that Buff and Cinnamon birds should not be placed together, but all the birds in the pen should be either Buff or Cinnamon.
Mr. Douglas considers the Black-breasted Red the finest feathered Game, and states that he never found any come so true to colour as a brood of that variety.
Game Bantams are exact miniatures of real Game fowls, in Black-breasted red, Duck-wing, and other varieties.
The group of men in double-breasted coats wheeled in her direction at the instant.
They wore double- breasted coats, and faded yellow sashes were wound under their black leather sword-belts.
Nothing can be less Greek in taste than her many-breasted idol, which may be compared with the many-breasted goddess of the beer-producing maguey plant in Mexico.
She is adored with bear-dances by the Attic girls; there is a gloomy Chthonian or sepulchral element in her worship, and she is even blended in ritual with a monstrous many-breasted divinity of Oriental religion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breasted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
