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Meanings of own bosom in English

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Usage of own bosom in English
1
Some instinct made the viscount conceal the bottle in his own bosom.
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
2
She is born of the fire that burns in her own bosom.
Idolatry: A Romance
3
With death in his own bosom he stooped and tenderly lifted it.
A Rough Shaking
4
Nowhere could it be lodged so well as in her own bosom.
Four Arthurian Romances
5
Even within her own bosom she found no fault with her husband.
The Prime Minister
6
It was thus, within her own bosom, she put questions to herself.
The Duke's Children
7
Fear, doubt, and resistance sprang up, too, in the boy's own bosom.
Vanity Fair
8
That rested as silently in my own bosom as in yours.
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
9
In his own bosom it was, and striking like the cathedral big bell.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 7
10
A mother soothes her crying infant by feeding it from her own bosom.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
11
Then he paused a moment, turning over certain thoughts within his own bosom.
The Duke's Children
12
Shall he keep this guilty knowledge locked in his own bosom?
The Eternal City
13
But, by masterly self-government, he kept them two days to his own bosom.
A Woman-Hater
14
It's a romance as shall be wrapped inside my own bosom.
An Old Man's Love
15
What could I less than turn the dagger's point against my own bosom?
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
16
I locked my sorrows in my own bosom, and bore my injuries in silence.
Charlotte Temple
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