Use breast in a sentence
Sentences ending with breast
- At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
- Nearly every individual wore the ribbon across his breast. [5]
- Desire was incandescent within her breast. [9]
- Nor had she withheld her approval; she had heartily agreed with his views; and when, half an hour before midnight, he had gone with her to visit his patients, rapturous hopes had sprung once more in his breast. [10]
- Withered laurel-wreaths, tied with long ribbons, fluttered over the mantel-piece; one had fallen, dropped over the bald head of Julius Caesar, and rested on the breast. [10]
- The Abbe Rossignol, who had just arrived with the Seigneur, lifted the cross from the insensible man's breast. [11]
- The enthusiasm with which St. Francis had filled his soul in his early years had not died out in his aged breast. [10]
- Meanwhile contradictory emotions were seething and surging in Barbara's breast. [10]
- The reader knows well enough what fatal recollections and associations had frozen up the springs of natural affection in his breast. [6]
- It might very well be so, for all disturbance in nature and men was the work of Seth, and how wild was the storm in his breast! [10]
Short sentences using breast
- Dear son, breast the sea. [11]
- Four seasons at the breast? [11]
- David touched his breast. [11]
Sentences containing breast two or more times
- To fight and struggle man to man and breast to breast on the deck of the enemy's ship! [10]
- They gained steadily on it, and at last, breast to breast, they burst through the open door and fell grateful and exhausted in the sheltering shadows beyond. [5]
- It was nothing less than a double Man-Bird lashed together breast to breast by a natural ligament, and labeled with the untranslatable words, "Siamese Twins. [5]
- They had such headway that they were nearly to the king before they could check up; then, frantic with rage, they stood up their horses on their hind hoofs and whirled them around, and the next moment here they came, breast to breast. [5]
- Then Fanchon's arms drew up, and, with eyes all tenderly burning, she clasped the babe to her breast, and as silk breast touched silk cheek, there sprang up in her the delight and knowledge that the doom of the White Omen was not for herself. [11]
- The worthy man drew back, pierced his own breast with his sword, and sank dying at his master's feet; but Antony, exclaiming that Eros's example had taught him his duty, thrust the short sword into his breast with his own hand. [10]
- She tried to button the night-dress over her palpitating breast, but abandoned it to throw back her head and gather her golden hair away from her shoulders and breast. [11]
More example sentences with the word breast in them
- Now, away to your duty," she added, tapping his breast affectionately with her fan, "and when everything is done, come and take me to my room. [11]
- The arms which yesterday--only yesterday--had clasped her passionately and hungrily to his breast now hung inert at his side. [11]
- The spray of yellow wall-flowers on her breast had been cut from the blooming plant in the window of her room, and Barbara had helped arrange her thick hair. [10]
- At length Philip wounded his opponent slightly in the left breast, and the seconds came forward to declare that honour was satisfied. [11]
- They were her world, and her sole pleasure was to satisfy the compassionate impulse in her own breast by severe toil, by tender solicitude, by night watching, and by exertions often continued to actual suffering. [10]
- These were the words he was singing as Sergeant Tom rode towards the tavern: "The hot blood leaps in his quivering breast Voila! [11]
- The former is wonderfully strong; a confined bird will at the proper season beat her breast against the wires of her cage, until it is bare and bloody. [1]
- You--" Abruptly and with surprise she withdrew her hand, and, without any visible emotion save a quicker pulsation of her breast, which might have been indignation, spoke. [11]
- Here he remained, with his head bowed upon his breast for some time, and then suddenly raising it, said, 'Once, and once for all, have you brought me any money? [12]
- The physician noted with anxiety how his master's breast heaved and his eyelids quivered; but when he offered Caesar a soothing potion, he waved him away, and commanded him to cease from troubling him. [10]
- It was the wish to do, to see how far this thing on my shoulders"--he touched his head--"and this great physical machine"--he touched his breast with a thin hand--"would carry me. [11]
- I ask her why; she do not know, but she hug Babette close to her breast with a kind of fear. [11]
- The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
- What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? [5]
- Then the thing which he grieves to leave is narrowed down to a person--to the person whose "dewy looks" had sunk into his breast, and whose seducing words had "stirred poison there. [5]
- Before the cards were dealt, he made a sign upon his breast and forehead. [11]
- Near the houses were cattle standing breast high in the water, perfectly impassive. [5]
- At this he went up to her with downcast eyes, drew a small box out of the breast of his robe, and took out the emerald with the damaged setting. [10]
- His ambition, if we may use so large a word for the sentiment that had filled his breast, had been coincident with his prenuptial passion for Honora. [9]
- Again a warm wave of joy seemed to surge upward in her breast, and she fancied that her heart was much too small for such a wealth of rapture, and it was already overflowing in hot waves, washing all grief far, far away. [10]
- And once more, Wassef touched his breast, his lips, and his forehead. [11]
- And if there was surging and wrath in her breast not less was there in mine. [10]
- The old knight was smiling; how stately was his mien, and how well the silver breast plate beseemed him, with the golden lion rampant of the Im Hoffs! [10]
- But, as I was saying, when the sheet-bath failed to cure my cough, a lady friend recommended the application of a mustard plaster to my breast. [5]
- The broncho he was riding, as though the disturbance in Orlando's breast had passed into its own wilful body, suddenly became restless to be off, and as Orlando gave no encouragement, showed signs of bucking. [11]
- A dreadful anger was in her panting breast, but she could not speak. [11]
- The supreme judge was distinguished by the possession of the longest and handsomest plume in his head-dress, and a costly sapphire amulet, which, suspended by a gold chain, hung on his breast. [10]
- Don Miguel's breast was already bleeding from two wounds, and he now fell by Ulrich's side; a bullet had broken his left arm. [10]
- She seemed to wake, and then all her affection carried her into his arms, and she dried her eyes upon his breast. [11]
- She had a vision of herself as some one else, taller and stronger than she was; aye, as Death itself, the destroyer, breathing herself into her victim's breast. [10]
- She had become very modest in regard to herself, why should she wake to new life the arrogance now hushed in Eva's breast? [10]
- The Duchess de Valois never bared her breast thereafter to an admiring world--a panther's claws leave scars. [11]
- I flung myself upon his poor insulted form and cried my grief out upon his breast while my father and all my family scoffed at me and heaped threats and shameful epithets upon him. [5]
- Her head drooped upon his breast. [11]
- A dog sprang upon him as he did so, and rubbed its head against his breast. [11]
- Clasping her hands upon her breast, she peered up into his face, and gasped: "Oh--oh--I thought that you were drowned--and dead! [11]
- She would sit up there, with her paws curved under her breast, and sleep in the sun half the afternoon. [5]
- Then I took up the pig and held him to my breast with my jacket (so he couldn't drip) till I got a good piece below the house and then dumped him into the river. [5]
- You can stand up straight in water that is over your head, and from the middle of your breast upward you will not be wet. [5]
- He received Ruth's unwearied attentions with ardent gratitude, and when he gazed into her faithful eyes, when her hand touched him, her soft, deep voice penetrated the depths of his soul, an unexampled sense of happiness filled his breast. [10]
- The paroxysm increased until he strained and caught at his breast with his hand. [11]
- Bouche seemed to understand this, and when he was unhitched from the team of dogs, now dwindled to seven, he leaped upon his master's breast. [11]
- And when he turned away she followed him with a look that might have disturbed his serenity, if he had not at the moment had a little square letter in his breast pocket, dated at Philadelphia, and signed "Ruth. [5]
- The duchess was troubled for her husband, for she foresaw desperate fighting; and she held Joan to her breast, and stroked her hair lovingly, and said: "You must watch over him, dear, and take care of him, and send him back to me safe. [5]
- As she ran towards him, with sudden impulse, his arms spread out and he caught her to his breast. [11]
- I see you touch his breast, his pulse. [11]
- When his imagination tortured him with fancies that mice and beetles were leaping and running out of his pockets and the breast of his doublet, he thought that his end was drawing near. [10]
- The old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed to say: "Ah, what have you done to me, and why? [2]
- There were hoarse tones in her voice, usually so clear and musical, which betrayed the emotion raging in her breast as she assailed the young Macedonian noble with a flood of questions. [10]
- With limbs huddled together, head bowed down, arms crossed upon the breast, and fingers tightly clenched, it rocked to and fro upon its seat without a moment's pause, accompanying the action with the mournful sound he had heard. [12]
- As he began to wash the blood stains from her breast and carefully rebandage the wound, he was vaguely conscious of a strange, grave happiness in the thought that she might live. [13]
- She had managed to turn the knife in the Arab's hand against his own breast, and then suddenly pressed her body against it; but the impulse of the act came near carrying her over also. [11]
- Out-doors was terrible to those who looked out of windows, and heard the raging wind, and saw the commotion in all the high tree-tops and the writhing of the low evergreens, and could not summon resolution to go forth and breast and conquer the bluster. [4]
- A swift glance to the floor, then he ran forward, stooped down, and laid a hand on his brother's breast. [11]
- It earned sorrow to the breast of every apostle of learning there, for none could deny that this was a formidable criticism. [5]
- Another was going to sit still till the first lance reached within an inch of his breast, and then dodge it and seize it. [5]
- Caesar was wont to say that this man's hands were matchless for lightness and delicacy of touch, but to-day they trembled as he lifted the laurel wreath from Caesar's head and unbuckled the padded breast plate. [10]
- She herself seemed to read Maitresse Aimable all at once--read her by virtue, and in the light, of true love, the primitive and consuming feeling in the breast of each for a man. [11]
- People ought not to keep their troubles to themselves, but tell them; that's why they have tongues, and yesterday was the right time to make a clean breast of everything that grieves you. [10]
- Clutching her breast to keep herself from choking, Sonya, pale and trembling with fear and agitation, sat down in an armchair and burst into tears. [2]
- He snatched her to his breast, and kissed her twice in a very agony of joy, then let her go. [11]
- The hand held to his breast felt how he was trembling from the shock. [11]
- He took me to his breast and said he would not wish to be happier than he was now. [5]
- I may have to go sooner if the pain in my breast doesn't mend its ways pretty considerably. [5]
- 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. [4]
- Her heart seemed to contract till the pain of it hurt her; then, as a new thought flashed into her mind, it was freed again and began pounding hard against her breast. [11]
- She stole away to bed as quickly as she could, and when she was alone, gave free vent to the sorrow with which her breast was overcharged. [12]
- For the first time since the war began something of happiness entered her breast. [9]
- From time to time one or the other laid his hand over the heart of the sufferer, or listened to her breathing, or opened his case of medicaments, and moistened the compress on her wounded breast with a white ointment. [10]
- In a little time his breast was affected. [5]
- Smaller feathers when thus denuded appear like bristles, as on the breast of the turkey-cock. [1]
- He had gone through the ground glass door with the firm intention of making a clean breast of the ownership of Hester. [9]
- But on the threshold he started back, and Helena, who had followed him, did the same, for there stood his friend Dion, and Barine's beautiful head lay on his breast, while his hand rested as if in benediction on her fair hair. [10]
- She felt as though a heavy weight lay on her breast, and to relieve its intolerable pressure drew in her breath deeply. [9]
- That speechless tongue, those prisoned features, that heart so freighted with unspoken troubles, and that breast so oppressed with its piteous secret had been here. [5]
- At sight of this smile Pierre felt an unexpected quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his eyes. [2]
- In memory of this friendly act, the Lord had marked its beak with the cross, and painted a dark-red spot on its breast, where the bird hall been sprinkled with His Son's blood. [10]
- Yet was not this all; or ever I was rightly aware how it befell, he had clasped me in his arms, and I was leaning on his breast, and his warm bearded lips were for the first time set on mine. [10]
- At the instant there came to my mind whom the picture on his breast resembled: it was Mrs. Falchion. [11]
- For an instant their looks crossed, and she hurried on with palpitating breast, reached her boudoir, and closed the door. [9]
- Believe me, directly the war is over, if I am still alive and still loved by you, I will throw up everything and fly to you, to press you forever to my ardent breast. [2]
- He little guessed the tumult in her breast. [9]
- She was grasping the truth, when suddenly there came, in inward constriction, a hardening of gentle forces within her breast. [13]
- The feathers on the throat and breast are sometimes developed into beautiful ruffs and collars. [1]
- And for all the things that these men did--Fielding Bey and Donovan Pasha--they got naught but an Egyptian ribbon to wear on the breast and a laboured censure from the Administration for overrunning the budget allowance. [11]
- He was expected, the steward told him, but he arched his broad breast as if preparing for a wrestling match, pulled his mustache still longer, and went up the stairs. [10]
- The other, at the sick woman's right, pressed her fair head upon her breast. [10]
- The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers to above the knee. [2]
- He picked up the sewing she had dropped and looked at it as one would regard a relic of the dead; he lifted her handkerchief, kissed it, and put it in his breast. [11]
- Only she allowed the pomegranate blossoms, which had remained perfectly fresh, to be fastened on her breast, that her dress might not look like mourning. [10]
- Perhaps she guessed the passion in Lali's breast, perhaps not. [11]
- His fingers smoothed the oval brown breast of the instrument with affection. [11]
- Stooping, he pinned the order upon his breast. [11]
- It must make the neck uncommonly stiff, methinks, to have a knightly escutcheon on door and breast, and yet be able to fling florins and zecchins broadcast without offending the devil by an empty purse. [10]
- For a moment the murderer did not speak or stir, for a struggle was going on in his breast also; then he stooped quickly, caught his companion's hand, and kissed it. [11]
- With sympathising emotion the matron had heard her confess that during her nocturnal wanderings a new feeling, which she could no longer still, had awakened in her breast. [10]
- Paulus groaned from the lowest depth of his breast and murmured while the tears ran down his cheeks, "He too has fought the fight, and he too has striven in vain. [10]
- He pulled forward the loose skin on the puma's breast and showed them the scar of a knife-wound above the one his own knife had made. [11]
- As he raised the injured man, who still uttered low moans, and supported his head on his broad breast, the sweet perfume of fine ointment was wafted to him from his hair, and a fearful suspicion dawned upon his mind. [10]
- As soon as the inflammation reaches my breast, you will take my war-club. [5]
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