"In the same breath" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I've seen enough. A fellow that blows hot and cold in the same breath cannot be ...
— The AEsop for Children - With pictures by Milo Winter • AEsop
... had declared His purpose of leaving His apostles and friends and returning to His Father: but in the same breath He says, "I will not leave you ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... not sing, and the entertainment was of a very secondary quality. This seemed to give no uneasiness to the Miss Evelyns, for if they pouted they laughed and talked in the same breath, and that incessantly. It was nothing to Mr. Carleton, for his mind was bent on something else. And with a little surprise he saw that it was nothing to the subject of his thoughts,—either because her own were elsewhere too, or because they were in league with a nice taste ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... beautiful, it is the home of mysteries," he said, with growing enthusiasm. "When he whom in the same breath you worship as God and the Son of God—an opposition beyond the depth of our simple faith—made ready to proclaim himself, he went for a time into the Wilderness, and dwelt there. So likewise our Prophet, ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... scene of action slowly. Mr. Rudolph still paused and moistened his lips impatiently. Men can give and take away popularity in the same breath, but a dog fight is arranged by occult forces, and must, like opportunity, be taken when it comes. We are educated to accept oratory, but we need no education in the matter of a dog fight. This red corpuscle was transmitted to us from the Stone Age, and ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath
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