Word: breast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly all eyes returned to M. Malvy. He seemed to totter and to be feebly protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...
...each time the baton was passed, as Holy Cross was more adept at this art. Watters managed to hold his rival about even, and Kane in a piece of fine running made up all but five yards of the distance between himself and his man, but could not quite breast the thread ahead...
...chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests stealing the cross from dead Agnes' breast. To prevent such blasphemy, Toinette rings the convent bell. Michel stops her and she cries out, "I'm done for." Contrast this with the ending of Il Pagliacci, "La comedia è finita...
...hook-nosed grandmother fulminates gutterally against her marrying an effete outsider, and his parents kick and scream at the conception of a lady tramp entering their highly starched family. Matters are further mangled by a gypsy lover, who hopes to solve the situation by poking a knife through the breast pocket of the intruding clean shirt...
...achieved little of manhood when he died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been. Thirteen finger-rings...