Next, just as the false Ascanius, when panting in the arms of Dido, breathed on her mouth, and thereby kindled the latent flame, so did she breathe on my mouth, and, in that wise, rendered the divine fire that slumbered in my heart more uncontrollable than ever, and this I felt at that very moment.

" They gesticulated and exclaimed and breathed hard, full of the marvel of such a thought.

The way a man spat, or ate, or slept, or even breathed became a cause of irritation to every other member of the company.

Handy Solomon breathed, scarcely louder than a whisper.

" "I get heem a fine caballo, an' fine saddle, an' fine clo's," breathed Perdosa sentimentally.

I warned the Giant that he must keep a sharp look-out, or the Dwarf would do him a mischief; but he said 'he calculated he was big enough to take care of himself, and that he wasn't afraid of no two-foot Dwarf that ever breathed.'

She regarded his lips puffing out as he breathed.

A window stood open, and I breathed the sweet, fresh air with delight.

I breathed more freely as I saw the last hulls grow small in the estuary.

There was an awful pause,a pause in which no one moved or breathed.

But on went the friarhis torch lighting the waydown and ever down until they trod a narrow way 'twixt reeking walls, where breathed an air so close and foul the very torch languished.

It was Giles Brabblecombe singing to himself as he knelt beside a fire of twigs, and Beltane, opening sleepy eyes, looked round upon a world all green and gold and dew-bespangled; a fair world and fragrant, whose balmy air breathed of hidden flowers and blooming thickets, whence came the joyous carolling of new-waked birds; and beholding all this and the glory of it, my Beltane must needs praise God he was alive.

Now as he stood thus, his broad, mail-clad shoulders and golden hair bathed in the refulgence of the great window, it seemed to him that from somewhere near there breathed a sigh, tremulous and very soft, and thereafter was the quick, light tread of feet, and silence.

In the following passages, make such changes and omissions as are necessary to unify the tone: How I loved to stroll, on those long Indian summer afternoons, into the quiet meadows where the mild-breathed kine were grazing!

His heavy boots clogged with snow; the pain exhausted even his thick lungs,they breathed heavily; he climbed the narrow ridge of ground that ran parallel with the road, and hurried on.

"And more than that, it's one of the best men that ever breathed that you are a-spying on.

"What do you mean?" she breathed.

When she saw he had breathed his last she laid him down on the floor.

My lips refused to ask, my limbs refused to move, and if I breathed at all, I did so with such fierceness of restraint that her eyes never turned my way, not even when she had reached the lowest step and paused for a moment there, oscillating in pain or uncertainty.

The prince of Wales went to visit his captive Bertrand, and asking him how he fared, the Frenchman replied, "Sir, I have heard the mice and the rats this many a day, but it is long since I heard the song of birds," i.e. I have been long a captive and have not breathed the fresh air.

He thought of the sparcely tenanted islands around the world, of Australian, Siberian and Canadian areasof glorious, virgin mountain places and empty shoreswhere these pent and tortured tens of thousands might have breathed and lived indeed.

She stretched out her fingers, which were biting into her palms, drenched her face with cold water, breathed for a minute by the open window like a doe in covert....

And yet unto their jeers he never word Replied, nor ever seemed to know that they About him crawled; but fixing his great eyes Upon the sunset slopes, while mirrored in His face was seen the battle in his heart Of hopes and fears, he rather breathed than spoke Such words as these, except that his had soul: "At length, O weary heart, it seemeth me The rest is near.

And soon she paid The debt of Nature, not as doth befit Such payment dread, but, maddened by cold looks, She, sporting with dank grasses in a pool, Gave back to God the life His creatures scorned, And breathed in death moist prayers to heaven.

In consequence either of her frivolous youth or of the air of Paris, which she had breathed from her childhood's days, there was rooted in her a kind of universal scepticism, which usually found expression in the words, "Tout ça c'est des bêtises."