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And by a pack of base boors, by a puny, cream-faced, chicken-breasted, outlandish starveling, have I been robbed of it.

From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

If a child be either chicken-breasted, or if he be narrow-chested, are there any means of expanding and of strengthening his chest?

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry

I wisht I'd 'a' had him runnin' the 'Guzzuh' instead of that little chicken-breasted chaffer they three-shelled on to me in Los Angeles.

From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Fischer, Anton Otto