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  • This, of course, is a distorted method of existing: there should ever be in the mind a process corresponding to the in-breathing and out-breathing of the lungs.

    Spirit and Music H. Ernest Hunt

  • And yet the Lodge did not leave Rome lightless; there was much spiritual teaching in the centuries of the Empire; indeed, a new out-breathing in each century, as an effort to retrieve the great defeat; -- and this has been the inner history of europe ever since.

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • And all the rugged beauty of a picturesque land, basking in lazy warmth, out-breathing sweet, pure air, made the old trail to Santa Fé an enchanting highway to me, despite the burden of a grief that weighed me down.

    Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

  • Instant the royal virgin him saw with longing glance, she whom the chaste couch out-breathing sweetest of scents cradled in her mother's tender enfoldings, like to the myrtle which the rivers of Eurotas produce, or the many-tinted blooms opening with the springtide's breezes, she bent not down away from him her kindling glance, until the flame spread through her whole body, and burned into her innermost marrow.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • Then you observe the first stirrings of the out-breathing.

    Integral Options Cafe WH 2010

  • Traps include shelling out a pound of flesh for one's sins, out-breathing another player, and determining which co-worker will live or die.

    Film.com Movie Blog 2009

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