Breast

Breast

The breast is the upper ventral region of the torso of a primate, in left and right sides, which in a female contains the mammary gland that secretes milk used to feed infants.

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Famous quotes containing the word breast:

    “The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
    White stars, is no less lovely being dark,”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
    That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
    The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
    Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)