See Also: BODY, BODY ORGANS

1. Bosom like a Spanish balcony —Colette
2. Bosom like the prow of a ship —M. J. Farrell
3. Bosoms … large, like mounds of earth on the banks of a dug-up canal —R. K. Narayan
4. Bosoms like cheese-wheels —David Huddle
5. Bosoms like vast, half-filled hot-water bottles —M. J. Farrell
6. Bosoms set like two great prows of battleships —Brian Donleavy
7. Breasts as large and round as a bald man’s head —James Crumley
8. Breasts hard as stone, project like a bulwark —Erich Maria Remarque
9. A breast divided into segments like a peeled orange, or a pair of thighs that converge into a single swollen knee —Kingsley Amis
10. Breasts heaving like a flight deck —Rita Mae Brown
11. Breasts … hung like water-filled balloons from her chest —Bernard Malamud
12. Breasts lie flat on her ribs like soft purses —Rose Tremain
13. Breasts, like a nursing mother’s —Katherine Anne Porter
14. Breasts like a pair of piggies —Vladimir Nabokov
15. Breasts like armaments —T. Coraghessan Boyle
16. Breasts … like bread loaves hot from the oven —Francine du Plessix Gray
17. Breasts like … clusters of the vine —The Holy Bible/Song of Solomon
18. Breasts … like dried apples —Annette Sanford
19. Breasts like dunes —John D. MacDonald
20. Breasts … like empty purses except when they filled briefly and fed another child —H. E. Bates
21. Breasts like giant cabbages —W. Somerset Maugham
22. Breasts like overripe squash —Patricia Henley
23. Breasts like pennants —Irwin Shaw
24. Breasts like small hard apples —Francine du Plessix Gray
25. Breasts like smooth and ivory-colored hills —Marguerite Young
26. Breasts … sag from her chest like two plump gourds —Susan Yankowitz
27. Breasts sagging like overripe fruit —George Garrett
28. Breasts … shaped like crescent moons —Ira Wood
29. Breasts swaying like party balloons —Jilly Cooper
30. Breasts swelling … like rising bread —Marge Piercy
31. Breasts that drop, big as barrels —Dylan Thomas
32. Breasts were like long white grapes in the hot sun —D. H. Lawrence
33. Breasts, which were like apples cut in half —Colette
34. Breasts … whose fruits are dark as plums —C. J. Koch
35. Bursts like creamy milk-fed veal —Susan Lois

    The character who thus pronounces and describes a woman’s breasts in a novel entitled Personals is a kosher butcher.

36. Chest like a promontory —Daphne Merkin
37. Cleavage deep as the jungle —T. Coraghessan Boyle
38. Enormous breasts that seemed to rise up and nearly out of her gown with every deep breath, defying physical laws, like a half-finished bridge —William Brammer
39. Full breasts soaring all over the place like billowing pennants in a strong wind —Joseph Heller
40. Her bosom heaved like an opera singer’s —Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
41. Her breasts are tiny and hang from her chest like a pair of prunes —Milan Kundera
42. (An ample woman,) her breasts hung like calabashes inside her grey dress —Thomas Keneally
43. Her breasts looked like two five-pound flour sacks from which some of the contents had spilled —Sue Grafton
44. Her large heavy breasts seemed to lift like wings —James Crumley
45. Her nipples preceded her like scouts —Yehuda Amichai
46. Her small girlish breasts already sagged like little pockets on her white chest —Jonathan Valin
47. His bared breast glistened soft and greasy as though he had sweated out his fat in his sleep —Joseph Conrad
48. Jutting breasts like hills —Robinson Jeffers
49. Little mounds had appeared like soft marshmallows through her sweater —Carol Ascher
50. Long pointed breasts rearing like the muzzles of two Afghans —James Crumley
51. The nipple [of mother nursing child] looked like the end of a Tootsie Roll —Bobbie Ann Mason
52. Nipples … flat and wide as poker chips —Sue Miller
53. Nipples large as cookies —Ira Wood
54. Nipples … like buds of peonies —Amy Lowell
55. Nipples like two dark eyes —David Michael Kaplan
56. Nipples shaped like discs of milk chocolate —Ira Wood

    Wood’s novel, The Kitchen Man, brims with food-related images.

57. Nipples … small as buttons —Miles Gibson
58. Nipples standing out like two overgrown M&Ms —T. Glen Coughlin
59. The profile of her body stood forth like the prow of a clipper ship —Calder Willingham
60. She had fenders like a GMC truck —Loren D. Estleman
61. They [breasts] were wide mounds growing like muscles across her chest —Will Weaver
62. A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows —Anon