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Example sentences for "the breath"

  • I was stopped there by a momentary impediment of the breath.

  • Does Mind, God, enter matter to be- come there a mortal sinner, animated by the breath of 525:3 God?

  • Deity unchangeable God is not moved by the breath of praise to do more 2:9 than He has already done, nor can the infinite do less than bestow all good, since He is unchang- ing wisdom and Love.

  • The stately ship of Clyde securely now may ride In the breath of the citron shades; And Severn's towering mast securely now hies fast, Through the seas of the balmy Trades.

  • The breath of distant fields upon my brow Blows through that open door The sound of wind-borne bells, more sweet and low, And sadder than of yore.

  • To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given, And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onwards to the golden gates of heaven, Where to the eye of faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.

  • In such surgery, the application of various ordures relieved fractures; the touch of the hangman cured sprains; the breath of a donkey expelled poison; friction with a dead man's tooth cured toothache.

  • Life of the breath is but the loan; Passing death what we have sown.

  • And shy of her secrets she was; under deeps Plunged at the breath of a thirst that woke The dream in the cave where the Dreaded sleeps.

  • Dust" was the name of one of the great regiments that went out against Sotyangana, and dust they were--dust to be driven to death by the breath of Chaka, Lion of the Zulu.

  • The breath of life has come into him and puffed him out," I answered.

  • The breath, and so on, on the ground of the complementary passage.

  • In ordinary language, moreover, the word breath does not mean a mere motion but a substance to which motion belongs; we say,'the breath moves to and fro in inhalation and exhalation.

  • And the channels of the sea appeared; the foundations of the world were discovered at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

  • The breath is, in this mode of expiration, thrown out with abrupt violence.

  • Draw in the breath, as already directed, and emit it with a sudden and violent explosion, in a very brief sound of the letter h, in the style of an abrupt and forcible, but whispered cough.

  • It was as if all the water-marks upon a web of golden silk had been set in wildest yet most graceful curvilinear motion by the breath of a hundred playful zephyrs.

  • But fragrant is the breath, Pale Beauty, of thy second life within.

  • Tis the fertilizing dew that streameth after the sun, Strong as the breath of Allah to bless life well begun.

  • There was a soft whisperingness in the breath of the breezes that swung there, and many sails of charmed ships were seen in momentary gleams, flapping the mast idly far away.

  • When by the breath of flowers I am beguiled From sense of pain, and lulled in odorous sloth.

  • It's the law of life, the harmony of heaven, the breath of which the universe was born, the divine essence increate of the ever-living God.

  • Falsehood is an amorphous monster, conceived in the brain of knaves and brought forth by the breath of fools.

  • The gust of anger from the doting father's lips, the breath of doubt of her dear word, and her little heart seemed broken quite; the world seemed desolate.

  • The breath of mountain woods by day was as cool as the breath of valleys at night.

  • The breath it wakes how fresh and grateful!

  • Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast, And never an echo of speech or song That lives in the babbling air so long!

  • The breath of heath and furze When breezes blow at morning, Is not so fresh as hers.

  • Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES: Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast, And never an echo of speech or song That lives in the babbling air so long!

  • What, though you tell me each gay little rover Shrinks from the breath of the first autumn day: Surely 'tis better when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

  • They gazed, and hoped, and even felt refreshed by the breath of the tempest.

  • In truth, it was a charming excursion that they were making now--a veritable navigation on this green, almost transparent sea, gently undulating in the breath of the wind.

  • The wind burst forth with frightful violence in this burning atmosphere; it twisted the blazing clouds; one might have compared it to the breath of some gigantic bellows, fanning all this conflagration.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the breath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became interested; deadly wound; leading article; the cattle; the country; the eyes; the land; the legislature; the sea; the seventeenth; the seventh; the several; thee have; then allowed; then each; then home; then rinse; then season; then stopped; then take off the; then that; there are; these latter; these occasions; these should; these were