Breasting

Twice, after tortuous effort, squirming and twisting, he failed in breasting the big trunk, and on the third attempt, after infinite exertion, he cleared it only to topple helplessly forward and fall on his face in the tangled undergrowth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Generally speaking, lucky folk who do get lots of birds have to take practical steps, the rest of us can cook the whole bird. with all birds, even doves, if not breasting out be sure to open up the throat and clean out the crop. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Others waddled, Dominic Cork bustled, Richard Ellison scampered, Derek Pringle pranced doing a kind of human dressage, and the more rotund were as chest-on as an old maid breasting the billows off Cromer beach in early spring. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Orson Welles's Othello "waded through the great speeches, pausing before the stronger words like a landing craft breasting a swell." ❋ Celia Wren (2011)

The one, half-amphibian, breasting the water with muscular arms, could not hope to overtake or escape an enemy who propelled a fire-hollowed tree trunk by means of a wooden paddle; nor could the other, trusting to his own nimbleness, compete with a foe who careered wildly across the plain on the back of a half-broken stallion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The soldiers rode toward him, making pretty slow progress as their horses had some trouble breasting the water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Indian came breasting up the hill, checked, and looked back the way they had come, towards the camp-ground, and I realised he was taking a last look-see. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

My father stalked the bridge like a trainee version of the grizzled Captain McWhirr in Conrad's Typhoon, or a general sort of Conradian amalgam, grimly breasting aside Fate, thinking how nice it would be if only he could harbour some dark secret or had some hidden flaw which a crisis would fatally show up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mere moving specks as yet, sometimes lost in hollows, then breasting the next rise, making steadily for the Danish lines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the flat roof, where post office workers were once provided with segregated male and female shooting ranges, is stationed a white resin figure, breasting the elements. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The storm creates a murkiness through which "the easterly death-wind" comes "breasting." ❋ Rus Bowden (2010)

He did that thing that good surfers do—the crouch, the aggressive leaning forward into the next move as if breasting a stiff wind, the legs and board almost acting independently of the torso, working the wave as the head and shoulders fare forward as if driven under sail like a figurehead. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

I'm a brilliant polymath, a clocked genius breasting the tape as an expert in philosophy, literature, sociology, quantum theory, a virtuoso on all stringed and keyed instruments, a capable visual artist, and an obscenely degenerate chain-smoking drunk! ❋ Unknown (2010)

All this way Elis must have run afoot in the night hours, splashing through these hollows of stagnant green and breasting the sudden rises of heather and scrub and outcrop rock. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also unstated by SAG is the fact that the studios can set up non-union sister companies anyway (this is called "double-breasting") -- as Disney already has, with a company called Stage 9. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I ask SAG leaders why they're fighting over jurisdiction, in light of the fact that double-breasting makes the issue almost irrelevant, they say it's the principle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We're not [lesbians], we were [just] breasting. ❋ Bb (2003)

[Women's] [Wrestling] [Announcer]: "Our two contestants are ready to go breast to breast." ❋ Rorolele (2016)

[King] [Solomon] was obsessed with women and [breasts]. ❋ Emperor Shao Kahn (2019)

Those [breasts] are making [my mouth] [water]! ❋ Oprah (2003)

and the [lord] said "[let there be] breasts on [women]." ❋ Dave (2003)

So I was supposed to bring around a foreign [exchange student] around campus and I spot this hot girl and I say "Damn look at the boobs on that one" and he looks at me like What are boobs? I say "You know kinda like breasts" He [nods] at me. We go to the cafe and to buy some food, he goes up to the counter and asks for some fucking [chicken boobies]. ❋ SomeRandomGuyYouDontKnow (2015)

Look at that [girl's] [breasts]. I just want to [reach] over and... ❋ Colony (2003)

You get a scale that defines them: (from small to massive) 1 flat 2 fried eggs 3 titties [4 tits] 5 Jibbies 6 boobs 7 [broobs] 8 breasts 9 juggs 10 [mellons] ❋ Who's Huw (2003)

"Keep your [eye] on that breast [laddy], and all [knowledge] in the world will be yours." ❋ Jeremy (2003)

[Kawasaki] softly [fondled] [baba] mukuru's luscious breast! ❋ KDAWG AND LISE (2004)