Citations:breaths
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English citations of breaths
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- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- Say he stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy breaths; then whenever he rises again, he will be sure to have his seventy breaths over again, to a minute.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- Now, if after he fetches a few breaths you alarm him, so that he sounds, he will be always dodging up again to make good his regular allowance of air.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.