Spare, like Henry the Fifth, almost to the manly defect of leanness, his proportions were slight to those which gave such portly majesty to the vast-chested Edward, but they evinced the promise of almost equal strength […]

Beholding Ajax then, the aged king / Asked yet again: "Who is that other chief / Of the Achaians, tall, and large of limb,— / Taller and broader-chested than the rest?"

Loud greetings followed, and another burst of laughter, heavy, deep-chested and glad.

From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand.

The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover.

There was a corner shop at the end of my street which stocked these movies that were released in hundreds every week. Each featured the same yellow-skinned, abundantly chested actresses and the same dreadlocked men, and each had a Part 1, a Part 2, and Part 3 - at least. Too bad that the JAMB exam did not test knowledge of Nollywood.

The Russian state invests much time and effort in projecting a certain image of Putin to its citizens. We've all seen those ridiculous photographs of King Vladimir, the bare-chested tough hero who wrestles with animals, dives in submarines, and practices judo.

Jenny was the most flat-chested of her friends.

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