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breist breest noun a Scot word for breast Liberaldictionary.com
Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Examples from the Web for breist Historical Examples of breist
D’ye mind yon nicht langsyne when your faither came in wi’ a terrible look in his een and struck me in the breist?
The House with the Green Shutters
George Douglas Brown
But aboot that word—I’ve heard ye say yirsel’ frae the pulpit as how hell is a maist awfu’ feelin’ i’ the breist.
Robert E. Knowles
Verra well, dinna ye think as hoo yon Irish whelp I skelpit the day ‘ll hae a waesome feelin’ i’ his breist?
Robert E. Knowles
Think o’ yir son win-nin’ the Victoria Cross, wumman, an’ ye ‘ill see it on his breist.
Ian MacLaren
He was a brave sodger, but he wasna long fechtin’ in France till he got a bullet in his breist.
John Buchan
