"Buxom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Vicar noted as he stared. And he hated Essy. He hated her for what he saw in her, and for her buxom comeliness, and for the softness ...
— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair
... body, rather stouter than was necessary for beauty; her hair was black, her complexion brown, her eyes prominent and always moving; lively, active, and if one once yielded to her whims, exacting beyond measure; but until then buxom and soft, and inclined to pet and spoil whoever, for the moment, had arrested her volatile fancy. Just as we make her acquaintance this happy individual was a certain Maitre Quennebert, a notary of Saint Denis, and the comedy played between him and the widow was an exact counterpart of the ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - LA CONSTANTIN--1660 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... of a successful young literary man had hired a buxom Dutch girl to do the housework. Several weeks passed and from seeing her master constantly about the house, the ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... exclaimed the buxom cook, "I done put in enough fo' two mo' gen'men if yo'all would laik t' take 'em ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Florida - Or, Wintering in the Sunny South • Laura Lee Hope
... stormy seas; Then slips his haulsers, and his anchors weighs. High on the deck the godlike hero stands, With olive crown'd, a charger in his hands; Then cast the reeking entrails in the brine, And pour'd the sacrifice of purple wine. Fresh gales arise; with equal strokes they vie, And brush the buxom seas, and o'er the ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
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