"Breathing in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thousand head of cattle and men as dumb and untamed as the steers themselves. I've sat in my saddle night after night, with nothing overhead but the stars, and no sound but the noise of the steers breathing in their sleep. The women I knew were Indian squaws, and the girls of the sailors' dance-houses and the gambling-hells of Sioux City and Abilene, and Callao and Port Said. That was what I was and those were my companions. Why!" he laughed, ...
— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... some matter and she heard him breathing in the darkness and stirring himself. Thomasin, her heart near standing still before this awful discovery, hesitated between stopping and flying from the room before he should discover her. But she felt no fear ...
— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts
... the girl said, "it is only a flesh wound! If it were a fracture he would be breathing in that horrible, loud way they always do. He's breathing naturally. He has only been stunned. You may go now," she said. "Only bring a glass ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... in the chancel, reading and waiting penitents; and out in the nave, one very old woman was engaged in her devotions. It was a wonder how she was able to pass her beads when healthy young people were breathing in their palms and slapping their chest; but though this concerned me, I was yet more dispirited by the nature of her exercises. She went from chair to chair, from altar to altar, circumnavigating the church. ...
— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson
... that I have worth without you! How gladly would I give up my all, if only I could hold you warm and breathing in my arms!" ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
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