white-bosomed

He retained a crowded memory of wild feasts where wine flowed in fountains; of white-bosomed Roman women, who, sated with civilized lovers, looked with something more than favor on a virile barbarian; of gladiatorial games; and of other games where dice clicked and spun and tall stacks of gold changed hands.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

Then in the long drear years to come I shall not utterly eat out my heart in vain envy of the white-bosomed women of men; for I shall have a memory few of them can boast -- the kisses of a king!

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

The Cossacks spared not the black-browed gentlewomen, the brilliant, white-bosomed maidens: these could not save themselves even at the altar, for Taras burned them with the altar itself.

Taras Bulba 2003

The Cossacks spared not the blackbrowed gentlewomen, the brilliant, white-bosomed maidens: these could not save themselves even at the altar, for Taras burned them, with the altar itself.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

He pulled on a pleated, white-bosomed shirt, and buttoned on a collar and tied a butterfly tie in place.

Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope

Here was an Arcadia where one might well return to the simple life; a little bay of still water sheltered from the onrushing tide of affairs by the warm brown prairies and the white-bosomed mountains towering through their draperies of blue-purple mist.

The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919

Oft had they seen the grave of Salgar, the dark dwelling of white-bosomed Colma.

The Editor to the Reader 1917

Only the birds sang as they never sing in autumn, a burst of clear, joyous anticipation -- the trill of the meadowlark, the "sweet, sweet, piercing sweet" of the flashing oriole, the call of the catbird, and the melody of the white-bosomed thrush.

A Christmas Accident and Other Stories Annie Eliot Trumbull 1903

History says that Harlech Castle is no older than Edward I.; but story says (which is more important, because more romantic) that in the dim dawn while History still dozed, here rose the Tower of Twr Brauwen, white-bosomed sister of Bran the Blessed.

Set in Silver 1901

I suspicioned then what was comin ', an' I advised wife to make up a few white-bosomed shirts for him, an 'she didn't git 'em done none too soon.

Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886