"Penguin Dreams . . . " author

Usage examples of breathed.

Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.

It breathed and blew bubbles and occasionally caressed an agate or two with its prehensile limbs.

Behind them, the sage continued his chant, reciting slokas upon slokas, the mantras seeming to change the very texture of the air they breathed, infusing their lungs with raw, pure energy drawn down from the akasa to replace the foul atmosphere of the Bhayanak-van.

She pulled the collar of her tunic up over her mouth to protect her teeth from the algid air she breathed.

After we had satiated in part our amorous ardour we breathed again and sat down.

I swallowed the warmth of a summer day, and then breathed out through my open mouth, tasting apricots and friendship as I held the flask out to him.

The young wife, who had snapped her bonds asunder, breathed voluptuously in this atmosphere.

Perhaps she fell neatly on an already-spread Bekins blanket, only to be smashed once more on the top of her head because she still breathed.

Little Henri Beyle breathed in the acrid fumes and gaped at the sarcophagus.

General Bosco sucked thoughtfully on his cigar, breathed smoke over our heads, and came to a decision.

She breathed the air, even though it were close and packed with thunder, and as the hill grew steeper by the Bowder Stone, she set her knees to it and braced her back and climbed bravely to the turning of the road.

He breathed easier once she was safely buckled on her side of the car.

Elora breathed, shutting her eyes tight, clutching Caille to her side with one hand, the other reaching out toward the jumble of boards that had been their home.

They were all stripped to their sweating skins, except for Chai, who sat as close to Kettrick as she could get, her gray fur lank and her jaws wide open as she breathed.

His step hesitated as two heavily cloaked women appeared at a crossing well ahead, but they moved on without glancing his way, and he breathed more easily.