" He halted and stood taking a breather.

He was covered with fluff and looked like a tortoise popping forth for a bit of a breather.

After half-an-hour's breather they were to go on to some machine-gun emplacements, dispose of these, wait a further twenty minutes, and then take the town.

breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength &c 159; perk up, get one's second wind. come to oneself &c (revive) 660; feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed.

The craters of the Cascades were fire breathers and fountains of liquid flame.

But Thou of deeps the awful Deep, Thou Breather in the clay, Grant this my only prayerOh keep My soul from turning gray!

But I had hardly taken a breather when Mrs. Sterry secured the set by seven games to five.

So divine Shakespeare felt and spoke; he cared not for the mere acclamations of his subjects; in all the gentleness of his heavenly spirit he felt himself to be their prophet and their king, and knew, When all the breathers of this world are dead, That he entombed in men's eyes would lie.

Takes his little breathers in my bit o' ground at the back here.

By Saint Denis, I have not quite forgotten the trick of the wrist yet, and, old as I am, I should be none the worse for a little breather."

'Now we can take a bit of a breather,' said Roy. '

All gave us a pull up the ski slope; it had become a point of honour to take this slope without a 'breather.'

" "She shows a body rather than a life; A statue, [rather] than a breather.

If he is a man of active habits and strenuous tastes, he may take a gentle breather up Highgate Hill, like Mr. Gladstone, or play tennis, like Sir Edward Grey.

After being the recipients-of-contempt as naturally and ordainedly as they were breathers-of-air, they at last could apply a salve, and pass on to another the utter contempt and loathing which they themselves received and accepted from the Brahmins and all those of Caste.

A Light breather.

R682352. A Breather.

A Light breather.

R682352. A Breather.

He is herehelpless; and his Origin, the breather of his soul, his God, may be somewhere.

I. Breathers of wisdom won without a quest, Quaint uncouth dreamers, voices high and strange, Flutists of lands where beauty hath no change, And wintery grief is a forgotten guest, Sweet murmurers of everlasting rest, For whom glad days have ever yet to run, And moments are as æons, and the sun But ever sunken half-way toward the west.