breaft

Her white breaft rose with sighs; her cheek was wet with tears.

Fragments of Ancient Poetry James MacPherson 1766

It confifted of the man, hiis two wives (as we fuppofed), the young woman before mentioned, a boy about fourteen years old, and three fmall children, the youngeft of which was at the breaft.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

O T R O U D il I h turns round the body, a little below the breaft, forming a kind of tunic, of which one turn fometimes falls gracefully acrofs the fliouldcr.

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Their doublet is made to fit their fhape, and open at the breaft; over this they wear a clol'e coat, whole jkirts reach down to the knees, and it is faftened round them by a leathern girdle, ornamented with plates of tin or brafs.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

In this frame of miiicl, he met the coufin of Lady Ridley, the wily Evelina: who cherifhing in her breaft a hopelefs paflion for De Courcy, took advantage of Ludlow's weaknefs, and by dark and diftant hints, raifed in his per - turbed mind fufpicions difhonourable to Elinor's virtue.

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There never could have been the heutation of an ioftant as to its meaning, in the breaft of any man, who in interpreting the terms in vbich it is exprelTed, followed nothing but the genuine fuggeflions of his own underftanding.

Ecclesiastical Law 1797

** ITiis fudden defertion of Italians fhores, then, ** faid Carleton, "is to receive in the fair one's breaft the fmothered flames of love?"

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The Red-breaft companion implores - r In Confidence void of all fear,

Poetic effusions; pastoral, moral, amatory, and descriptive Perfect, William, 1737-1809 1796

The fighing of his breaft was frequent; and the decayed flame of his eyes terri - ble.

The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal. 1796

Without thy cheerful aftive energy tio rapture fwelh the breaft, no poet fings,

The poetical works of J. Armstrong ... With the life of the author ... Embellished with superb engravings Kirk, Thomas, d. 1797, ill 1796