breast-band

Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could take only very short steps.

Les Miserables 2008

After that she bandaged my breasts with a band called breast-band … She did this to me for 2-1/2 months.

Millions of Cameroon Girls Abused with ‘Breast Ironing’ | Impact Lab 2006

It was clear now that Perella was in fact clad alluringly we could glimpse white leather trunks and breast-band under sheer veils of Coan silk.

A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

Conan got one glimpse of her as they thundered by - a slim, dark girl in silk trousers and a jeweled breast-band, flattening herself against the ravine wall.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

The short, thick, incredibly soft fur-like the fur on the upper lip of a week-old kitten, except more so-did not conceal the determined set of her lovely jaw; the tight shorts and the even tighter purely conventional breast-band did not conceal the tigerish strength and agility of her lovely body.

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

Conan got one glimpse of her as they thundered by -- a slim, dark girl in silk trousers and a jeweled breast-band, flattening herself against the ravine wall.

Conan the Adventurer Howard, Robert E. 1966

Jake and Jean together made the best job they could of patching up Jan's wounds a little against the frost and the rub of trace and breast-band.

Jan A Dog and a Romance 1912

If any dog put one ounce less than the pressure he was capable of exerting into his breast-band, Jan knew it that instant, more surely than the watching man behind; and would let out a sharp, low-sounding bark.

Jan A Dog and a Romance 1912

Pike, who pulled at Buck's heels, and who never put an ounce more of his weight against the breast-band than he was compelled to do, was swiftly and repeatedly shaken for loafing; and ere the first day was done he was pulling more than ever before in his life.

The Call of the Wild Jack London 1896

Plumage all mottled with gray, buff, and black, but the end half of three outside tail-feathers white, and a white breast-band.

Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870