breathings

• “When its last breathings from the warrior's throat”

  Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent

• “Wind there was none; for she vacillating and uncertain air which, from time to time, distended for an instant the lighter canvas of the vessel, deserved to be merely termed the breathings of a morning, which was breaking upon the main, soft, mild, and seemingly so bland as to impart to the ocean the placid character of a sleeping lake.”

  The Red Rover

• “In the intervals between the soft breathings, the air grew heavy and balmy with the perfume of flowers and the exhalations of fat, living soil.”

  THE BONES OF KAHEKILI

• “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

  Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft | Write to Done

• ““Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.””

  Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft | Write to Done

• ““Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart””

  Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft | Write to Done

• “Tonight, I decided to snatch an extra bit of Mother's Day, a few extra minutes of your shrinking little-girl-hood, an extra few breathings-in of your sweet skin.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “Origen calls her worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, most complete sanctity, perfect justice, neither deceived by the persuasion of the serpent, nor infected with his poisonous breathings "Hom. i in diversa";”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “Always a shock to remember them there, those great breathings close in the dark.”

  John Lundberg: Remembering Hayden Carruth

• “I see it not — I feel it not — it is but a shadowy name — a succession of breathings measured forth by night by the clank of a bell, by day by a shadow crossing along a dial-stone.”

  The Talisman

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