"I reckon I wouldn't git pigeon-breasted with pride over it -- nossir!".    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

"Farmin 'is kind of poor business for a woman; but I do hope, Mirandy, you ain't a-goin' to marry that poor, pigeon-breasted, peddlin 'cretur that's hangin' round here.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

But selection has not tended to make the duck elegant, or "pigeon-breasted"; it has enlarged the abdominal sack instead, besides allowing the addition of an extra rib in various cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards, and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were looking intensely nowhere, and staring with extraordinary earnestness at nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Girls from Dickens] Reference

In Kleber's square I saw the conqueror of Heliopolis, excessively pigeon-breasted, dangling his sabre over a cowering little figure of Egypt, and looking around in amazement at the neighboring windows: in fact, Kleber began his career as an architect, and there were solecisms in the surrounding structure to have turned a better balanced head than his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

He was what is commonly known as "pigeon-breasted.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom] Reference

Four pigeon-breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

All eyes were fixed upon the speaker, who became more pigeon-breasted every moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trumps] Reference

She would say a few things to Becky Tietelbaum, and to that pigeon-breasted tailor, her father, too!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference

The Irishman, perhaps, was thinking of the little city clerks he knew at home, pigeon-breasted, pale-faced, under-sized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Centaur] Reference

An auspicious day was chosen, and the young lady came over to his house; when lo! she was humpbacked and pigeon-breasted, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of China] Reference

Ernest Gregory he was called, and few thought he'd make old bones, for the young man was pigeon-breasted and high-coloured and coughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Torch and Other Tales] Reference

There is the major, as stubby-toed and pigeon-breasted as ever, broken from many of his Bohemian ways, but still full of anecdote and of kindliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Firm of Girdlestone] Reference

All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards; and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were looking intensely nowhere, and staring with extraordinary earnestness at nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

'The Poet's form,' says this Witness elsewhere, a bit of a dilettante artist it seems, 'had somewhat the following appearance: Long straight stature; long in the legs, long in the arms; pigeon-breasted; his neck very long; something rigorously stiff; in gait and carriage not the smallest elegance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference

Like tailors 'dummies they were headless; and like tailors' dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference

A pigeon-breasted jacket and military trousers, behind her wheel-less chair at dinner-time and butted no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dombey and Son] Reference

Annapolis fellow you met on the stairs, pigeon-breasted chap -- and she always gets a headache on those occasions. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man in Lower Ten] Reference

Like tailors’ dummies they were headless; and like tailors’ dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

At thirteen or fourteen he was a mere bag of bones, with upper arms about as thick as the wrists of other boys of his age; his little chest was pigeon-breasted; he appeared to have no strength or stamina whatever, and finding he always went to the wall in physical encounters, whether undertaken in jest or earnest, even with boys shorter than himself, the timidity natural to childhood increased upon him to an extent that I am afraid amounted to cowardice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of All Flesh] Reference

His breast-bone projects out, and the sides of his chest are flattened; hence he becomes what is called chicken-breasted or pigeon-breasted; his spine is usually twisted, so that he is quite awry, and, in a bad case, he is hump-backed; the ribs, from the twisted spine, on one side bulge out; he is round-shouldered; the long bones of his body, being soft, bend; he is bow-legged, knock-kneed, and weak-ankled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference