Which preposition to use with breathe

in Occurrences 226%

The path lay along the bank of the river which flowed beside her and made the air full of music, and a soft air blew across the running stream and breathed in her face and refreshed her, and the birds sang in all the trees.

on Occurrences 79%

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.

into Occurrences 72%

She grasped the nozzle of the instrument as she waited, breathing into it with her head thrown back.

through Occurrences 71%

Each sleeper had 8-1/3 square feet of floor to rest upon, and 25 cubic feet of air to breathe through the night, with no ventilation, except what air passed in through the door-way, when left open, and through the porous cloth that covered the tent.

from Occurrences 49%

"I been awake" She set the lamp down on the brown-marble top of a wash-stand, pushed back her hair with both hands, and sat down on the bed-edge, heavily breathing from a run through deserted night's streets.

with Occurrences 47%

His eyes were shut and he breathed with a snoring noise.

of Occurrences 43%

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.

to Occurrences 28%

Thus when the world has breathed to us the holy name of Christ, it has told us the highest that it knows.

for Occurrences 25%

"'Willy,' said the little girl, as they sat down on the low railing of the grass plats, to breathe for a moment, and listen to the chirrup and songs of the birds in the boughs above them, 'Willy, wouldn't you like to be a little bird?' "'A little bird, Lizzie,' replied her brother.

at Occurrences 21%

They want their little coughs cured, so that they may breathe at their ease, when they have no lungs left that are worth mentioning.

like Occurrences 18%

The two old women moved forward and commenced making passes over his body, murmuring the while some charm, and as they waved the seven-knotted handkerchief above his head he regained consciousness and sat slowly up, "breathing like one that hath an evil dream" and bearing upon his features the signs of deathly fatigue.

over Occurrences 12%

And it breathed over the earth like some one saying Courage!

without Occurrences 10%

" The smell of rancid oil choked them, yet they could breathe without coughing, and could rest their smarting eyes.

around Occurrences 10%

Slow glides the sail along the illumined shore, And steals into the shade the lazy oar; Soft bosoms breathe around contagious sighs, 105 And amorous music on the water dies.

throughout Occurrences 8%

In the only remnant of the mock-heroic comedy of this periodthe -Amphitruo- of Plautusthere breathes throughout a purer and more poetical atmosphere than in all the other remains of the contemporary stage.

by Occurrences 7%

They are nourished by means of roots; they breathe by means of leaves; and propagate by means of seed, dispersed within certain limits.

against Occurrences 7%

No suspicion hitherto was ever breathed against his honesty.

among Occurrences 6%

Let him live to corrupt his race, Breathing among them, with every breath, Weakness, selfishness, and the base And pusillanimous fear of death.

after Occurrences 6%

The passage quoted had been of death and its possible significance, and it was just a sigh, a fear, the old man had breathed after it: How high has the winding-sheet encompassed my own bosom!

within Occurrences 5%

Would we but breathe within a wax-bound quill, Pan's seven-fold pipe, some plaintive pastoral; To teach each hollow grove, and shrubby hill, Each murmuring brook, each solitary vale To found our love, and to our song accord, Wearying Echo with one changelesse word.

About Occurrences 5%

Ye garlands of my God, whose love yet breathes About me, shapes of joyance mystical, Begone!

during Occurrences 4%

The awful workings of nature were subdued by a superhuman will, and she turned slowly towards the silent, respectful crowd, who had scarcely breathed during this exhibition of her noble character.

before Occurrences 4%

Passionately Marina's loving prayers were breathed before the shrine of the Madonna San Donato, but the little one grew weaker every day, till, after a long night of watching, a sweet-voiced nun stood with Marina beside the cradle.

as Occurrences 4%

Disguise I see is wicked, for it has caused Olivia to breathe as fruitless sighs for me, as I do for Orsino.

than Occurrences 4%

'A better and more Christian man scarcely ever breathed than Joseph Addison.

Which preposition to use with  breathe