It grew more distinct, until it appeared to me that I harked to the breathings of some great sea.

It was like the murmur of a great sea at calma sea breathing in its sleep.

Now all changes which occur in the breathing from its healthy standard, however slight the shades of difference may be, it is most important should be noticed early.

Finally, I viewed the Crescent around which the shirted Winkle ran with the valorous Dowler breathing on his neck.

Light footfalls sounded on the crust; there were scratchings at the very door and hoarse breathings at every crack; while the dogs, with hackles up straight and stiff on their necks, fled howling under beds and tables.

She tried holding her nose and breathing with her mouth, but that was hardly a dignified pose for the Queen of all Oz.

His ebon tresses, and his rosy cheek, Instant emerge: and through the obedient wave, At each short breathing by his lip repell'd, With arms and legs according well, he makes, As humour leads, an easy-winding path; While from his polish'd sides a dewy light Effuses on the pleased spectators round.

When Dr. Slocum arrived he felt her pulse, looked at her and listened to her breathing for a minute or two, and then, turning slowly to me, said, It is death!

Oh, yes, now that Kurt was safely under cover and Bruno's breathing beside him spoke of his big brother's nearness, it seemed easy enough to act bravely!

From her door as Kate carefully opened it had come the deep breathing as of an exhausted child.

And there was not a spark of anger in the very darkest corner of Billy's big, brave heart, but only pitypity all through and through, that sent little icy ticklings up and down his spine and turned his breathing to great sobs.

One only watched her breathing through the night,he who for fifteen years had ministered to her with all the tenderness of a woman.

Ay, if there were no more in't than Exercise; if a Man cou'd take a Breathing without breathing a Veinbut, Sham, this Wounds, and Blood, sounds terribly in my Ears; but since thou say'st 'tis nothing, prithee do thou meet Bellmour in my stead; thou art a poor Dog, and 'tis no matter if the World were well rid of thee.

"Mirèio" is all Provence living and breathing before us in a poem.

Before the soldiers had finished their examination in this room, the confinement and anxiety increased Lord Pitsligo's asthma so much, and his breathing became so loud, that it cost Miss Gordon, lying in bed, much and violent coughing, which she counterfeited, in order to prevent the high breathings behind the wainscot from being heard.

As soon as he could speak, he asked, breathing between, the words "Have you heard the news?"

It is a city of magnipotent chimneys; and they stand thick and tall on the hills and in the valleys around, and puff their black breathings into the face and eyes of the sky above, baconising its countenance, and giving it no time to wash up and look sober, calm and clean, except a few hours on the sabbath.

all rightfor ye ken, sir, it was a new-born babe they were busy with: they were as silent as the grave; and indeed everything was so still, that I heard their breathing like a rushing of wind, though they breathed just as they were wont to do.

[*] [*Note: His words are these: "I have read over a vast number of the colonel's letters, and have not found any one of them, however short, and writ in the most passing manner, even when posting, but what is expressive of the most passionate breathings towards his God and Saviour.

We watch the embryonic stages of this thought-body, which at length awaited only the breathing within it of an informing spirit to issue in a new and noble religion.

Haley must have dropped off immediately, for I could distinguish his heavy breathing among the others; but my mind continued to wander, until it conjured up once again this West India pirate.