But the Addershag shook her head violently, her lips clamped shut, and her head sunk into her shrunken breast.

She was leaning forward under the weight of the huge distended bulge on her back, and her long white hospital nightgown was torn away from her shoulders, revealing her shrunken breasts and prominent ribs.

With her scarred belly and pitifully shrunken breasts hidden, she looked almost normal; but her ribs and shoulder blades were prominent and her skin had a translucency that revealed too many of the blue blood vessels beneath.

A woman drying her laundered sari, her only garment, one half at a time, for example, is captured in a brief imperishable glimpse: "One end was wound wet round her waist and over her shrunken breasts, as far as it would go.

Through one tear he saw the slack fall of a shrunken breast.

Blade thought that this was a hell of a way to run a subway, but when he complained to the blonde he found her replaced by a hag, naked and toothless, who grinned at him and dripped saliva on her shrunken breasts.

In silence I caught his image in the indifferent eyes of those who passed him; in silence I saw his fantasies once more of withered hands and withered feet, of shrunken cheeks and shrunken breasts.

But thrust between the crossed arms and the shrunken breast there was a roll of parchment, yellowed with age to the color of old ivory.

The skeletal hands were folded neatly on her shrunken breasts.