What is "breathes"

Usage examples of "breathes".

Then her hands rose and rested on him, the tears cool on his face, congealing, the white of her clean as the silent snow that covers char and blood and breathes peace upon the world.

Iron confines her movement and shoves her forward again, and she breathes his name, whom she has sought for so long.

It breathes over the world: Yet both so passing strange and wonderful!

The versification sustains the solemn spirit which breathes throughout: it is peculiarly melodious.

Chain one who lives, and breathes this boundless air, To the corruption of a closed grave!

But, like everything he wrote, it breathes that deep sympathy for the sorrows of humanity, and indignation against its oppressors, which make it worthy of his name.

You know more of the whole of me than any other person who breathes, yet you persist in insisting that all of that cannot be me.