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Bosom in sentence

249 examples of Bosom in a sentence

Not a swelling breast or high bosom in sight.
After nearly starving and/or dying of thirst he came upon a leopard which somehow became his bosom buddy.
I appreciate that they did not have to use fowl language and even though Hilda shows "some" bosom, It is not overly used.
May’s approach has been to clasp the anti-European viper to her bosom, awarding the new trade department to a leading Brexiteer, Liam Fox, and appointing another, David Davis, as Brexit minister (officially, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union).
He would like people to return to the bosom of Rome.
Life for Britons and Germans will improve not by building electrified border fences and withdrawing into the bosom of the nation-state, but by creating decent conditions in every European country.
Simply put, just when we need global cooperation the most, our broken multilateral system has driven us back to the bosom of the nation-state.
After living in Moscow, especially in the bosom of his family, Oblonsky always felt his spirits flag.
The coverlet had slipped down, and she was breathing so softly that her respiration did not even lift her already well-developed bosom.
No sound came from the closet where Maheude had gone to sleep again while suckling Estelle, her breast hanging to one side, the child lying across her belly, stuffed with milk, overcome also and stifling in the soft flesh of the bosom.
Six years older than he was, she was hideous and worn out, with her bosom hanging on her belly, and her belly on her thighs, with a flattened muzzle, and greyish hair always uncombed.
He pretended to turn away; but little by little he knew her: the feet at first which his lowered eyes met; then a glimpse of a knee when she slid beneath the coverlet; then her bosom with little rigid breasts as she leant over the bowl in the morning.
When she next saw Julien, she was trembling all over, her bosom was so contracted that she could not manage to utter a single word.
As it is our intention to flatter no one, we shall not conceal the fact that Madame de Renal, who had a superb skin, had dresses made for her which exposed her arms and bosom freely.
Each stroke of that fatal bell stirred an echo in his bosom, causing him almost a physical revulsion.
Seated by the side of a woman whom he adored, clasping her almost in his arms, in this room in which he had been so happy, plunged in a black darkness, perfectly well aware that for the last minute she had been crying, feeling, from the movement of her bosom, that she was convulsed with sobs, he unfortunately became a frigid politician, almost as calculating and as frigid as when, in the courtyard of the Seminary, he saw himself made the butt of some malicious joke by one of his companions stronger than himself.
But, after parting from this Liberal, who, with tears in his eyes, almost clasped him to his bosom, Julien no longer had a watch.
Had his bosom been flooded with a mass of molten lead, he would have suffered less.
The delights of satisfied pride flooded Mathilde's bosom; so she had managed to break with him for ever!
He saw her hair and her throat of alabaster; for a moment he forgot all that he owed to himself; he slipped his arm round her waist, and almost hugged her to his bosom.
Everything seemed to him sad and comfortless; he felt his heart freeze in his bosom.
What you call your crime, though it is nothing but a noble revenge which shows me all the loftiness of the heart that beats in your bosom, I learned only at Verrieres ...'Notwithstanding his prejudices against Mademoiselle de La Mole, prejudices of which, moreover, he had not himself formed any definite idea, Julien found her extremely good-looking.
The Academician will say that he has been warming a serpent in his bosom.''I must confess that I hardly expected so much cold reasoning, so much thought for the future,' said Mademoiselle de La Mole, half annoyed.
'True, and I ask a thousand pardons,' cried Julien, awakening from his dream and pressing her to his bosom.
You start on Monday with the idea implanted in your bosom that you are going to enjoy yourself.
Then the big pipes are filled and lighted, and the pleasant chat goes round in musical undertone; while, in the pauses of our talk, the river, playing round the boat, prattles strange old tales and secrets, sings low the old child's song that it has sung so many thousand years - will sing so many thousand years to come, before its voice grows harsh and old - a song that we, who have learnt to love its changing face, who have so often nestled on its yielding bosom, think, somehow, we understand, though we could not tell you in mere words the story that we listen to.
There you dream that an elephant has suddenly sat down on your chest, and that the volcano has exploded and thrown you down to the bottom of the sea - the elephant still sleeping peacefully on your bosom.
Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.
And the old river had taken her into its gentle arms, and had laid her weary head upon its bosom, and had hushed away the pain.
His wife had been for some years in declining health, and had barely time to fold her son to her bosom, and rejoice in the reunion of her family, before the Revolution burst forth, in a continued blaze, from Georgia to Massachusetts.
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