Jem's heavy breathing came regularly from somewhere to his left, and he found himself, as he crouched together there in the darkness, envying the poor fellow, much as he was injured.
There was a loud rustling and heavy breathing as if men were searching here and there, and then some one spoke again--the man whose voice had startled Don.
As he realised where he was once more, he whispered Jem's name again and again, but a heavy breathing was the only response, and he lay thinking of home and of his bedroom all those thousand miles away.
This narrow chamber stifled me, while outside was the stir of leaves, the gentle breathing of the wind, the cool murmur of the brook, with night brooding over all, deep and soft and still.
All about me was a soft stirring of leaves, and the rustle of things unseen, which was as the breathing of a sleeping host.
Thus far the enemy had been settled; and Sir Colin Campbell, who was now Commander-in-chief of the army in India, was determined not to give them breathing time.
The Iron Duke did not give the enemy breathing time, but in four days closed with them on the field of Vimiera, when the old 9th again, with the queen of weapons, leaped upon the pets of Napoleon and routed them.
Our victorious General gave the enemy no breathing time, but followed them up, taking fortress after fortress.
The interior, which was plainly but commodiously furnished, indicated feminine tastes and occupations, breathing that perfume of elegance which the presence of woman ever communicates.
But somehow she would not go back into dreamland, would persist in remaining in New York, a living, breathing woman.
If wounded, and so unable to escape, it would not be breathing with that quiet, soft regularity, contrasting so strangely with the stillness and the silence all round.
It seemed against nature, almost a brutal thing, to whisper words of love, not knowing whether at the same time my father might not be breathing his last.
He sets them in motion; they become living, breathing creations; they assume relations in time and space; they speak and act for themselves.
But he only smiled at death, not at my misery, for he beganbreathing very hard, and that was all he did until the sun rose.
Their farewells and good-bys mingled with the labored breathing of the locomotive and the shouts of the railway men.
Till you know it, you are so sure the world is very good and pleasant up in those serene, frost-bitten regions where you stand alone, breathing the thin air of family affection, shone upon gently by the mild and misty sun of general esteem.
You not only walk on air, but you walk in what seems to be an arrested sunset, a bath of liquid gold, breathing it, touching it, wrapped in it.
We should hear their stertorous breathing as they labored up well in time to lock the door; and Papa, ever pitiful and polite, would as likely as not unlock it again to hasten out and offer them chairs and lemonade.
His deep, regular breathing sounded in the gloom of the cabin that contained the Great Pearl Star, the Myzab, the sacred Black Stone of infinite veneration.
The lieutenant, warned of the danger of sand-breathing by an unconscious man, drew the hood of the woollen za'abut up over the face of Lebon.
It paused there, listening to the deep, regular breathing within.
The man was breathing easily, peacefully as a tired child.
Breathing only through open mouths, for greater stillness, taking care to crackle no twig nor even slide loose sand, they labored on, under the pale-hazed starlight.
It was one of those days which belong to October, clear, cool, and exhilarating--when all animal nature seems to be invigorated by breathing an atmosphere of buoyant health.
If you had a hand in it, young man, I wouldn't ask you to write a line to any breathing man: your brains would spatter that door-post.
John Ramsay spake no more, and his short breathing showed that life was fast ebbing in its channel.
If I were the genius that conjured up this war, I would give my own true knight a breathing space.
I bent my head to keep the westering sun from my eyes, and breathing the thick red dust, I trudged steadily forward.
Do not permit the darkness to alarm you," I whispered softly, bending down as I spoke until I could feel her quick breathing against my cheek.
I forced the scabbard of my sabre beneath the bend of my knee to keep it from clanging against the iron stirrup, and only the breathing of the horses, and their heavy pounding on the earth, broke the night silence.
Then silence followed, excepting for the heavy breathing of the sleepers and the restless tossing of sufferers on their narrow cots.
I could mark her quick breathing while I spoke, and when I concluded one hand went up to her throat as if she choked.
For a moment we rested thus motionless, both breathing heavily and listening to the music and shuffling of feet now almost upon a level with our heads.
We bowed ceremoniously, and the next moment Mrs. Brennan and I were out upon the steps, breathing the cool night air.
He threw both arms about the plank and lay there resting for some time, breathing heavily.
The man was stillbreathing when Bob peered into his face.
Now and then he would pause on a landing for a breathing spell, where, with heaving chest, he would lean against the rocky wall with eyes closed and everything swimming dizzily about him.
He was breathing lightly, and a smile like that of a child parted his lips.
His head had dropped on his breast, and his heavy breathing satisfied me that he was asleep.
He could see her breast heaving with a quick breathing painful to listen to.
Then only her quick breathing could be heard, and his cough and mutter, as he settled down once more to his long vigil.
After that Guy himself fell asleep--a deep, heavy slumber that caused his friends some uneasiness as they listened to his labored breathing and saw the red flush that mounted over his pallid face.
He lay for some time listening to Melton's deep breathing and thinking of their terrible situation.
The siege is raised," exclaimed Guy, breathing a low sigh of relief.
Once or twice, becoming anxious, because of the heavy breathing and the motionless sleep, he had forced open the teeth, and poured a little broth between.
As Charley read on, a breathing seemed to answer his own.
Sir Richard, turning about, in a voice you would not have known, and for fully a minute the room was so silent you could scarcely have believed that two men were breathing in it.
There's no blood on his lips, and his breathing is all right.
One man was shot through the lungs, and was breathing out blood every now and then.
There is a tinkling of bells from the valley: even the fields seem to be breathing forth a canticle of praise.
In a word, what we call "society" proceeds for the moment on the flattering illusory assumption that it is moving in an ethereal atmosphere and breathing the air of the gods.
What is hateful in my situation is that deliverance can never be hoped for, and that one misery will succeed another in such a way as to leave me no breathing space, not even in the future, not even in hope.
He had, in the meantime, received a letter from his wife, and each of his children, breathing out love to him.
But their efforts to bring him back to consciousness were in vain, for he lay breathing heavily, but still insensible.
He lay still for a time, breathing deeply--marshalling his strength.
The Circus He was breathinghard now, and his face was flushed.
He could see the rise and fall of its breathingunder the cloth covering of its breast.
Pierre, breathing heavily, looked around as if asking what it meant.
While that untrained voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in it and wished to hear it again.
I had no idea and could not imagine what state he was in, all I wanted was to see him and be with him," she said, trembling, and breathing quickly.
Nicholas neither saw nor heard Daniel until the chestnut, breathing heavily, panted past him, and he heard the fall of a body and saw Daniel lying on the wolf's back among the dogs, trying to seize her by the ears.
Getting out of his caleche, he waited with drooping head and breathing heavily, pacing silently up and down.
By the indefinite signs which, even at a distance, distinguish a living body from a dead one, Napoleon from the Poklonny Hill perceived the throb of life in the town and felt, as it were, the breathing of that great and beautiful body.
Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs.
All were silent, and the only sound audible was the heavy breathing of the panting old general.
Prince Andrew lay on his chest with his face in the grass, breathing heavily and noisily.
At last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly.
But hardly had he done so before he felt the bed rocking backwards and forwards beneath him as if it were breathingheavily and jolting.
In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster.
She was evidently leaning right out, for the rustle of her dress and even her breathing could be heard.
The young count paid no heed to them, but, breathing hard, passed by with resolute strides and went into the house.
As to thebreathing apparatus itself, the best mode of examining it is to open a caterpillar, remove a part of the large breathing tube which runs along each side, and place it under the microscope.
Boys have an instinct for riding, an impulse they cannot resist, like the instinct for eating, breathing or moving.
It is quite possible to replenish wind in the mouth, which alone ought to be used, without interrupting the breathing for an instant, but it requires some practice.
By taking breath through the nostrils, and breathingit out through the mouth, smoke begins to issue forth, and the whole interior of the mouth is soon lighted up with a glow.
And nothing breaks the stillness save the rhythmic breathing of the waves, and a solitary cricket that has yet to finish his daily task of instrumental music, far away, in some warm crevice of the hills.
Milton was not writing for an uncivilized mob, and his occasional displays of erudition will represent to a cultured person only those breathing spaces so refreshing in all epic poetry.
Then he asked the class, "What would you do for a person who had been smothered by breathing coal gas?
How much of this cannot be expelled by breathing out?
What are some of the effects of breathing impure air?
Give me a few spare feet of earth away down in the glen, Breathing the words of faith and hope, bury me with the men.
