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Its winter gains before Moscow and adjoining fronts had breasted the Nazi flood tide by short, stiff jabs, sector-by-sector punches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was he who had breasted the storms of Gettysburg and Perryville to shrink from the puny arm of a civil law that was more powerless than the shrunken muscle of Justice Shallow?

From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Mims, Edwin

But the distance was great, the snow was deep, and the stout Mecklenburger roan had breasted the steep road at a gallop only an hour before.

From Greifenstein by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

These very signs showed that none other had breasted the slope recently, so Dalroy strode out somewhat carelessly.

From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis

Before the Yale man could recover, Syme had breasted the tape.

From Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various