breist

/ briːst /

noun

1. a Scot word for breast

Example Sentences

The snow so white shall be your weed, In hate you shall be drest, The cauld east wind shall wrap your heid And the sharp rain on your breist.

From Project Gutenberg

And quhen he came to Barnard's ha',55 Would neither chap nor ca'; Bot set his bent bow to his breist, And lichtly lap the wa'.

From Project Gutenberg

I curse thair heid and all the haris of thair heid; I curse thair face, thair ene, thair mouth, thair neise, thair toung, thair teith, thair crag, thair schulderis, thair breist, thair hert, thair stomok, thair bak, thair wame, thair armes, thair leggis, thair handis, thair feit, and everilk part of thair body, frae the top of thair heid to the soill of thair feit, befoir and behind, within and without.

From Project Gutenberg

She went home to her mithers house in ---, and four Sundays after, wha should be cocken in the breist of the laft, all set round with ribbons in her heed, but Miss Jeny with your Bowa on her shoulders, like a sow with a saddle on its back. 

From Project Gutenberg

Ay," she whispered hoarsely, staring at the fire, "he struck me in the breist.

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