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Winston, if you did not look about you, to believe that the physical type set up by the Party as an ideal — tall muscular youths and deep-bosomed maidens, blond-haired, vital, sunburnt, carefree — existed and even predominated.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Winston, if you did not look about you, to believe that the physical type set up by the Party as an ideal — tall muscular youths and deep-bosomed maidens, blond-haired, vital, sunburnt, carefree — existed and even predominated.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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And no one of men or deep-bosomed women knew her when they saw her, until she came to the house of wise Celeus who then was lord of fragrant Eleusis.
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A long time she sat upon the stool 191 without speaking because of her sorrow, and greeted no one by word or by sign, but rested, never smiling, and tasting neither food nor drink, because she pined with longing for her deep-bosomed daughter, until careful Iambe — who pleased her moods in aftertime also — moved the holy lady with many a quip and jest to smile and laugh and cheer her heart.
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But golden-haired Demeter sat there apart from all the blessed gods and stayed, wasting with yearning for her deep-bosomed daughter.
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The daring black chemise of frail chiffon and lace was a hussy at which the deep-bosomed bed stiffened in disgust, and she hurled it into a bureau drawer, hid it beneath a sensible linen blouse.
Main Street 2004
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To all but my soft-voiced, deep-bosomed, Norse mother I had been a stranger in that severely conventional old house where I had been born.
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These deep-bosomed, wide-hipped women of forty-odd were never weary of stressing the advantages that would accrue to her from the match.
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A sari and shawl clothed a form robust, erect, deep-bosomed.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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Conan saw a deep-bosomed Cimmerian wench and himself grappled in love before a blazing fire.
Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988
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