breathing-time

But when we look back at present, we see that it was only a stage, the end of the acutest phase of struggle, the commencement of a breathing-time, the date of a makeshift which could not endure.

Archive 2008-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

This year too may be only the end of an acute phase of a first struggle, the commencement. of a breathing-time, the year of a make- shift, the temporary halt of a flood in motion.

The human spirit has still to find itself, its idea and its greater orientation Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

This year too may be only the end of an acute phase of a first struggle, the commencement. of a breathing-time, the year of a make- shift, the temporary halt of a flood in motion.

Archive 2008-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

But when we look back at present, we see that it was only a stage, the end of the acutest phase of struggle, the commencement of a breathing-time, the date of a makeshift which could not endure.

The human spirit has still to find itself, its idea and its greater orientation Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

To forgive these unworthy princes was only to afford them breathing-time for new faithlessness.

A Child's History of England 2007

This gave me breathing-time until she should pay her share of the household expenses.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

The military authorities, having had a breathing-time, became impatient.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Strether could not at this point indeed have completed his thought by the image of what she might have to thank herself FOR: the image, at best, of his own likeness-poor Lambert Strether washed up on the sunny strand by the waves of a single day, poor Lambert Strether thankful for breathing-time and stiffening himself while he gasped.

The Ambassadors 2003

The doctor led the way — with intervals of breathing-time accorded to the old lady on his arm — straight to the top of the house.

Armadale 2003

So Mr. Noel Vanstone ran on, with brief intervals for breathing-time, in a continually-ascending scale of sympathy and self-importance, throughout the drive home.

No Name 2003