Could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : How about giving me a chance to breathe? ,Hardly a man breathes who has not known great sorrow. ,The jacket is comfortable because the fabric breathes. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Dragons breathe fire. ,She breathed life into the party. ,to breathe a horse. From Dictionary.com.
I do not ever wish his name breathed in my presents. From Wordnik.com. [Artemus Ward] Reference
There was not a word breathed against her reputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
The air seemed a chilly balm and the earth, after the heat of the day, now and again breathed soothfully against him. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of Lit-lit] Reference
The air seemed a chilly balm, and the earth, after the heat of the day, now and again breathed soothingly against him. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of Lit-Lit] Reference
Silently all four girls rose and slipped away, with a word breathed into Mrs. Merryweather's ear, begging her to keep up the singing. From Wordnik.com. [The Merryweathers] Reference
Milton speaks of as breathed from the bowers of Paradise. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
The last word breathed out in the touching of lips with lips. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
The one word breathed in a scarcely audible sound plainly expressed. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and Eleanor] Reference
I 've not breathed a word of the fact that you had a secret, even to Mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Slipper Point Mystery] Reference
All the Scripture is God-breathed, that is, the breath of God's lips, His Word. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Your faither would take our heads off our shoulders if ye breathed a word of that.". From Wordnik.com. [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference
Of course we never breathed a word about kegs in public and only to each other in bated breaths. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers] Reference
But he never breathed a word what he was, an 'he kept away from his equals – meanin' white men. From Wordnik.com. [Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest] Reference
Never before had I heard one sullying word breathed on the spotless snow of my mother's character. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
There's never been a word breathed otherwise than in dear Romer's favour since he was a little boy. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Limit] Reference
She could converse but little, and was with difficulty understood; but every word breathed of faith and hope. From Wordnik.com. [Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland] Reference
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
It was only a loving name breathed by a troubled child, but it was caught in its upward flight by the father's ear above. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the Storm Country] Reference
"Now, Miss Grey, think yourself highly honoured, for I'm come to tell you my news before I've breathed a word of it to any one else.". From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
Ted says: ronlsb: has not breathed a word of protest against all the MSM condemnation of the Tea Partiers right to express their opinions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas] Reference
Davin breathed a sigh of relief. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger Moon: Chapter Fifteen] Reference
To sailor's prayer breathed from a darkening sea. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth] Reference
If any woman ever breathed a word I’ll make her pay so dearly that she’ll wish shed never been born. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Joe Klein Tells O’Reilly: ‘Glenn Beck Is Peddling A Lot Of Hateful Crap’] Reference
To be "breathed" by a motion is to confine yourself to exhalation and relaxation, with no deliberate inhalation. From Wordnik.com. [Physical Flow] Reference
Even the name breathed magic. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
Suddenly she heard her name breathed: "Margaret!". From Wordnik.com. [Told in a French Garden August, 1914] Reference
"The president's speech kind of breathed new life into what we're doing," Baucus said. From Wordnik.com. [ModerateVoters.org] Reference
'The president's speech kind of breathed new life into what we're doing,' Baucus said. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
He has not breathed a word. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
He never breathed a word about raising taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » No Alternative] Reference
We breathed life into this game, and people dislike us for it. From Wordnik.com. [Life With Father] Reference
He breathed the blues, he moved a million hearts -- and 10 million toes. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
I walked outside and breathed in all the summer night's sensory offerings. From Wordnik.com. [My Turn: Finally Tough Enough To Give Up Snuff] Reference
"They can get aerosolized and breathed in, or they go into the soil and water.". From Wordnik.com. [Building a Better Firework] Reference
New Yorkers, kinder and more resilient than ever, breathed a giant sigh of relief. From Wordnik.com. [Sympathy on the Streets] Reference
I am a freelance journalist in Chicago, and I have lived and breathed this presidential election. From Wordnik.com. [America Welcomes A New President] Reference
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