A clear, sweet-breathed dawn, as we said, that seemed somehow to have caught a scent of far-off harvest-farms, in lands where it was not winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
She loved her sweet-breathed husband and responded to him deeply when they were joined in love—her one serious frustration was that he had no use for words. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Up the lane came the cow-boy, alternately whistling, singing, and cracking his whip, until at length the drove of sweet-breathed cows stood lowing at the bars, which, at milking-time, would be let down for them to pass each to her own stall. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
Nowhere else is the traveller's path guarded on either hand with a rampart of delicate primroses, sweet-breathed violets, golden buttercups fit for fairy revels, honeysuckles in whose bells the bee rings a delighted peal, and luscious-fruited blackberry-bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
(So fame reports) and die, -- his sweet-breathed kine. From Wordnik.com. [MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820 XXI. ON HEARING THE "RANZ DES VACHES" ON THE TOP OF THE PASS OF ST. GOTHARD] Reference
And sweet-breathed garden-ghosts walk sudden and wide. From Wordnik.com. [Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses] Reference
So sweet-breathed and green now, in winter scarlet brave. From Wordnik.com. [Path Flower and Other Verses] Reference
Give me for marriage a sweet-breathed woman of whom I should never tire. From Wordnik.com. [0 367. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun by Walt Whitman. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
Give me for marriage a sweet-breathed woman, of whom I should never tire. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
And her hair falls down behind her like a cloak of the sweet-breathed night. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
She loved the horses, and the patient, sweet-breathed kine; she found even a sympathetic mind for the pigs. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Merton, Colonist] Reference
Save for the murmur of the creek, the evening was wrapped in silence -- sweet-breathed, balmy-browed, summer quietude. From Wordnik.com. [My Brilliant Career] Reference
She reminded Richard of a gentle, well-conditioned, sweet-breathed calf staring over a bank among ox-eyed daisies and wild roses. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
"O, this glorious, sweet-breathed morning, with its birds and flowers, is enough to brighten the most torpid thing into animation!" exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems] Reference
Life hung in the balance, the seasons coquetted, gray-haired old Winter trifling and flirting with the warm, blushing, sweet-breathed Spring. From Wordnik.com. [Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear] Reference
The young women he knew in Rexton, whose simple, pleasant friendship he valued, had the placid, domestic charm of their own sweet-breathed, windless orchards. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference
How much better a part she was acting in life -- what an influence she was exerting, -- as pure, as sweet-breathed, and as unobtrusive, as the very rose in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
How much better a part she was acting in life what an influence she was exerting, as pure, as sweet-breathed, and as unobtrusive, as the very rose in his hand!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy, Volume I] Reference
How much better a part she was acting in life – what an influence she was exerting, – as pure, as sweet-breathed, and as unobtrusive, as the very rose in his hand!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Therefore have as many pinks as you can find room for; from the old, old, pink-faced, sweet-breathed, double, fringed beauties, that bed themselves in a mat of blue-green foliage, and make up for blooming but once. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening by Myself] Reference
And Aunt Jessie lifted the nosegay from her lap, feeling as if that unfailing love and patience were already blooming into her life as beautifully as the sweet-breathed roses given by her boy refreshed and brightened these long hours of patient waiting in a corner. From Wordnik.com. [Rose in Bloom] Reference
But about all the northern races there is something that is kindred to cattle in the best sense, -- something in their art and literature that is essentially pastoral, sweet-breathed, continent, dispassionate, ruminating, wide-eyed, soft-voiced, -- a charm of kine, the virtue of brutes. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
Now the girls, so soon as they were come to the flowering meadows, took great delight in various sorts of flowers, whereof one would pluck sweet-breathed narcissus, another the hyacinth, another the violet, a fourth the creeping thyme, and on the ground there fell many petals of the meadows rich with spring. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
There were no Mayflowers in June; but now the Old Lady's garden was full of blossoms and every morning Sylvia found a bouquet of them by the beech – the perfumed ivory of white narcissus, the flame of tulips, the fairy branches of bleeding-heart, the pink-and-snow of little, thorny, single, sweet-breathed early roses. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference
He writes about his wandering over fragrant furze and heath repeating Collins's 'Ode to Evening,' just to catch the fine quality of the moment; about smothering his face 'in a watery bed of cowslips, wet with May dews'; and about the pleasure of seeing the sweet-breathed kine 'pass slowly homeward through the twilight,' and hearing 'the distant clank of the sheep-bell.'. From Wordnik.com. [Intentions] Reference
For eight months of summer they were alike in their clear-skied, sweet-breathed loveliness; in the autumn, there where the melancholy of the falling leaf could not spread its contagion to the sculptured foliage of Gothic art, the days were alike in their sentiment of tranquil oblivion and resignation which was as autumnal as any aspect of woods or fields could have been; in the winter they were alike in their dreariness and discomfort. From Wordnik.com. [Venetian Life] Reference
Well, go thy ways, Prudence Rix, for as comely, and as sweet-breathed, and as kind a lass, notwithstanding the weight of thy hand, as ever milked a cow in the old country. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
But as to me, I deemed it naught, and was sorry that my white-bosomed, sweet-breathed friend should walk away from me thus into the clouds. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
Alive with beeves and sweet-breathed kine. From Wordnik.com. [Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics] Reference
The sweet-breathed roses which he loved so well. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Tales from American History] Reference
Yet, like the sweet-breathed violet of the shade. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXCURSION BOOK SEVENTH] Reference
And he found him smooth-faced and sweet-breathed. From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
Where the sweet-breathed mint. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
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