Ye, twice ten months, with mickle fondness bred, And from her paps the milky mother fed.
Her paps are centres of delight, Her paps are orbs of heavenly frame, Where nature moulds the dew of light, To feed perfection with the same: Heigh ho, would she were mine.
The female has two paps on her breast, and generally brings forth two young ones at a time, which she suckles.
Footnote J: These paps are very prominent during the time of gestation, and of suckling the young; but at other periods they are discernible only by the nipple.
If the paps be hard and dead, make a plate of lead pretty thin, to answer the breasts; let this stand nine hours each day, for three days.
Why are women's paps hard when they be with child, and soft at other times?
Why are the paps below the breasts in beasts, and above the breast in women?
Why doth it show weakness of the child, when the milk doth drop out of the paps before the woman is delivered?
Why have not men as great paps and breasts as women?
If the paps be flabby and hanging, bruise a little hemlock, and apply it to the breast for three days; but let it not stand above seven hours.
Because woman goes upright, and has two legs only; and therefore if her paps were below her breasts, they would hinder her going; but beasts having four feet prevents that inconveniency.
Why do the papsof young women begin to grow about thirteen or fifteen years of age?
And although fish have neither paps nor milk, the females cast much spawn, which the male touches with a small gut, and causes their kind to continue in succession.
By what means doth the milk of the paps come to the matrix or womb?
Also, because every humour which is engendered of the body, is made like unto that part in colour where it is engendered as near as it can be; but because the flesh of the paps is white, therefore the colour of the milk is white.
Why do the hardness of the papsbetoken the health of the child in the womb?
The Centurion brought the paps over the harbour to bear N.
On the first of March, we made the high lands, usually called the paps over Acapulco, and got with all possible expedition into the situation prescribed by the commodore's orders.
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lift up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the papswhich thou hast sucked.
For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Yea--More blessed than the womb which bare me, and the paps that I have sucked, is the humblest of my true disciples.
One of these twain exclaimed "Would to God I had milk to foster thee withal," and these words thus said her paps immediately rose and grew up filled with milk.
In Ireland at Killarney are two mounts now termed The Paps, but originally known as The Papsof Anu, i.
This symbol of the Great Mother was represented frequently by two hills--from the Paps of Anu down to twin barrows, and it was also represented mathematically by two circles.
At the point which might be supposed to be the continuation of the ridge, two calcareous paps or peaks arise, the most northern of which is the loftiest.
Martinique, three great extinguished volcanoes; Vauclin, the Papsof Carbet, which are perhaps the most elevated summits of the smaller islands, and Montagne Pelee.
At Martinique, Vauclin, Montagne Pelee, and the crater surrounded by the five Papsof Carbet, must be considered as three extinguished volcanoes.
Between Vauclin and the feldspar-lavas of the Paps of Carbet is found, as M.
It was on the first of March we made the high lands, usually called the paps over Acapulco, and got with all possible expedition into the situation prescribed by the commodore's orders.
The order of it was thus: the Centurion brought the paps over the harbour to bear N.
Indeed, we very much doubted their knowledge of the coast, for we found these paps to be in the latitude of 17 deg.
On a clear day the Papsof Jura, the Mull of Cantire, and even the Isles of Arran and Islay, can be seen in Scotland over the low Malin Head.
From Killarney by rail to Headfort, and then back over the Paps and Mangerton, and through the Horse's Glen, is a fine walk.
And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.
And he that strongly squeezeth the paps to bring out milk, straineth out butter: and he that violently bloweth his nose, bringeth out blood: and he that provoketh wrath, bringeth forth strife.
And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck.
And in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, one like to the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.
The udder and paps should always be washed with clean water before milking; but care should be taken that none of that water be admitted into the milking pail.
On one occasion a certain woman, lifting up her voice, said to Jesus: “Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck.
The lacteal system is a constant wonder: and it adds to other causes of our admiration, that the number of the teats or paps in each species is found to bear a proportion to the number of the young.
This division does not hold good in men of a more than ordinary size, in whom about half a face is allowed between the paps and the commencement of the thighs, which in them is not the middle of the body.
For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
But my brother was a man of original ideas, and he had made up his mind that we should walk there by an inland route, and climb over the Maiden's Paps mountain on our way.
These hours corresponded with the time we were crossing the Maiden's Paps mountains, and we are not likely ever to forget the great danger we were in on that occasion.
After a time it was found that one of the paps had a black crust upon it, which might have covered originally a chap of the skin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
