breist

British  

/ briːst /

noun

1. a Scot word for breast

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Example Sentences

The snow so white shall be your weed, In hate you shall be drest, The cauld east wind shall wrap your heid And the sharp rain on your breist.

From Project Gutenberg

And quhen he came to Barnard's ha',55 Would neither chap nor ca'; Bot set his bent bow to his breist, And lichtly lap the wa'.

From Project Gutenberg

She went home to her mithers house in ---, and four Sundays after, wha should be cocken in the breist of the laft, all set round with ribbons in her heed, but Miss Jeny with your Bowa on her shoulders, like a sow with a saddle on its back. 

From Project Gutenberg

Weel, an abscess o' some kind formed—I kenna weel what it was, but it gathered and broke, and gathered and broke, till my breist's near eaten awa wi't.

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Mony a clout I had to wash, and mony a nicht I sat lonely by mysell, plaistering my withered breist.

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