" They rested on a bench on one of those small triangles of breathing space which the city ekes out now and then; mill ends of land parcels.

But during the breathing time that now came to him, so far from leading an easy life or "never getting up till noon," he was in all parts of the world, from China to the Cape, from Ireland to India, still on the old mission of endeavouring to do a little good wherever he was.

"We were passing from the Chazy to Bradley's Lake, and had sat down on the trunk of a fallen tree to take a short breathing spell.

A rift there was, which from the mountain's height Convey'd a glimm'ring and malignant light, A breathing place to draw the damps away, A twilight of an intercepted day.

I honestly appreciate the fact you have come to me, not as the husband of that fiction in which kitchen-maids delight, breathing fire and speaking balderdash, but as one sensible man to another.

But the 356 barracks at the various military stations in Great Britain and Ireland give the soldiers much less breathing-room than the more recent regulations require.

Presently she sat outside in the soft breathing airs and little morning breezes, and dried her aching eyes.

And incidentally this leads us to notice what a great step was taken in evolution when the breathing holes were brought up to the region of the mouth.

Heroes were we all, last nightnay, very Titansfour 'gainst an army!whiles now, within this balmy-breathing morn you shall see Walkyn o' the Bloody Axe with grim Black Rogerkin, down at the brook yonder, a-sprawl upon their bellies busily a-tickling trout for breakfast, while I, whose good yew bow carrieth death in every twang, toasting deer-flesh on a twig, am mocked of wanton warblers

When I came home, I enjoyed playing the lute or reading; I also liked to concoct an elixir of life and to take breathing exercises, because I did not want to die, but wanted one day to lift myself to the skies, like an immortal genius.

She said she would tell us her new thoughts if she thought we would never breathe a word to a living breathing soul.

He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd; A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped.

The leaves of land-vegetation have also thousands of little breathing-pores, principally on the under side: the apple-leaf, for instance, has twenty-four thousand to a square inch.

Man, in common with all air-breathing animals, has two nasal cavities.

There fell a brief silence, a tense, hard-breathing pause.

Man there was not in all its desert bounds, But hoary ruins of past wondrous things, Old unbeliefs, fierce doubts, unsightly dreams, That wearing out their wild hot-breathing life, Wearily stretch'd their writhing shapes to die; Then came she moving o'er my awe-hush'd soul, Like God's own Spirit over earth's void waters, And there arose order and life through all.

Some of these organic substances are probably poisonous, either so in themselves, as produced in some manner in the breathing apparatus, or poisonous as being the products of decomposition.

no mantling life-blood flows; But, animate with deity alone, In deathless glory lives the breathing stone.

Above them both, Medea was fleeing away in a car drawn by fire-breathing dragons, and driven by the Furies; and the youthful poet could not avoid reflecting that a record of the most miserable union that even the ancient mythology had recorded was a singularly inappropriate and ill-omened ornament for nuptial festivities.

How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings!

yet I live and bear The aspect and the form of breathing man.

A long, deep, and breathing silence followed among the deserted.

In the lungs, alcohol tends to check and diminish the breathing capacity of these organs.

And on breast his breathing form she warms; With wondering eyes he stares upon his queen, And nestling closed his eyes in bliss again.

But of human occupants there was an ample sufficiency, considering the cubic space available for breathing purposes.