And then she paused for
breath. The new-born lamb Dickon had found three days before lying by its dead mother among the gorse bushes on the moor.
"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same
breath."
"Give me thy
breath, my sister," exclaimed Beatrice; "for I am faint with common air.
Once outside the walls of the Emerald City he dashed along the road to the West with fast and violent leaps that shook the
breath out of the boy and filled the Scarecrow with wonder.
It startled the
breath out of me, for an instant; it also showed me that I was lost, and had no sort of idea where I was.
hold your hand!" roared Robin with what little
breath he had left.
'Does--the one--that wins--get the crown?' she asked, as well as she could, for the run was putting her quite out of
breath.
She stopped with a little choking
breath. Nancy, looking at her apprehensively, saw that her small chin was quivering, and that her eyes were full of tears.
It shook with his measured
breath, as he gave out the psalm; it threw its obscurity between him and the holy page, as he read the Scriptures; and while he prayed, the veil lay heavily on his uplifted countenance.
Nikita wished to lead him farther, but Vasili Andreevich, in his two fur coats, was so out of
breath that he could not walk farther and dropped into the sledge.
the tree at whose foot I lay had opened its rocky side, and in the cleft, like a long lily-bud sliding from its green sheath, stood a dryad, and my speech failed and my
breath went as I looked upon her beauty, for which mortality has no simile.
"If I have enough
breath left with which to reach that little house, I may be saved," he said to himself.