What is "breaths"

Usage examples of "breaths".

After the first wave, she said, there was the space of three breaths, and the wave came ower Margaret again.

God, and I managed one, two, three precious breaths of blood-clogged air.

I took a few deep breaths, hoping to settle myself and go back to that nice sense of utter exhaustion.

Drumossie, and became aware a second too late of the indrawn breaths around him.

For a day or two before, Oakes had been plainly anticipating something, and when we reached the first houses, I could see him beginning to draw great breaths of relief.

She pressed close to the window and pushed her face into one of the open panes, taking deep breaths to dispel the aromas of the cabin, though the smell of the harbor was no great improvement, rife as it was with the smell of dead fish, sewage, and baking mud.

And then he no longer stood on Drumossie, and became aware a second too late of the indrawn breaths around him.

I took several deep breaths, trying simultaneously to control my annoyance and think of some crushing rejoinder.

Jamie took several deep breaths, trying to maintain a sense of annoyance with Ian as an antidote to the anxiety that wrapped itself round his chest like a snake.

Now she stood at the open window, drawing deep breaths of air as though she were about to perform a set of RAF exercises.

She rolled onto her back, stretched and settled with a sigh of content, took three deep breaths and was out like a light.

He shifted slightly and mumbled something, but then lapsed into the regular deep breaths of sleep.

The breaths were shallow and wheezing, with alarmingly long pauses between them.

Brianna had subsided into long, sighing breaths, and he patted her gently on the back.

It took Rosvita two breaths to recognize Sister Diocletia, the weaver, standing below them on the steps.