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 forehead and the little ears
    Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;
    The breast where roses could not live
    Has done with rising and with falling.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “His homely Northern breast and brain
    Grow to some Southern tree,
    And strange-eyed constellations reign
    His stars eternally.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “His breast was deep and white,
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    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)