Breathes
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Examples
- The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A fish is a vertebrated animal that breathes by gills and can live only in water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Since every man, woman, and child constantly breathes forth carbon dioxide, the danger in overcrowded rooms is great, and proper ventilation is of vital importance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The earth breathes fragrant breaths to-night, And the perfume blows from the land. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She breathes quickly and heavily, but she stands as unflinchingly as ever he has seen her in the midst of her grandest company. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Varying pitches are obtained partly by the varying wind pressure of the musician; if he breathes fast, the pitch rises; if he breathes slowly, the pitch falls. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I have always the feeling that she breathes a sigh of relief every time I bid her good-by. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He breathed lightly and regularly like an infant, that breathes innocently, beyond the touch of responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Templar, a serf in all but the name, can possess neither lands nor goods, and lives, moves, and breathes, but at the will and pleasure of another. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- One can not do otherwise who speeds over these sparkling waters and breathes the soft atmosphere of this sunny land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I doubt if the peer breathes on whom I would confer it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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