A bosomy woman with hair that looked as if it had been dyed with black shoe polish sat on the top step with one hand covering her eyes.

The bosomy woman did not reply, but she sniffed.

Selucia stood hard by her shoulder, and though the bosomy woman appeared completely at her ease, something told him she was as tense as a cat ready to leap.

For years, male art directors invariably designed what people in the business called "clench" covers - dramatic depictions of chesty men grasping subservient, bosomy women.

Not on each arm, but close enough to look like it, were two bosomy women in their late twenties.

'Protect Chiun,' the bosomy woman yelled, and then swung her purse up over her head, down onto Pedaster's skull.

"Thirteen years ago I met a materialistic, narcissistic, superficial, bosomy woman from Long Island," he said.

"Where are all the bosomy young women of your swinging life-style?"

In his 1948 lithograph of the Erie Railroad yards, Reginald Marsh treats locomotives as if they were the bosomy women he usually focused on.

The conversation continued in a less dangerous vein, and soon a large, bosomy woman, apparently the Count's wife, snatched him up.