breathing-spell

Roberts made the charge at the proper time, and was successful in checking the enemy's advance, thus giving us a breathing-spell, during which I was able to take up a new position with Schaefer's and Sill's brigades on the commanding ground to the rear, where Hescock's and Houghtaling's batteries had been posted all the morning.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

They then lay down on the face of the ridge, for a breathing-spell and for protection 'from the terrible fire, of canister and musketry pouring over us from the guns on the crest.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Roberts made the charge at the proper time, and was successful in checking the enemy's advance, thus giving us a breathing-spell, during which I was able to take up a new position with Schaefer's and Sill's brigades on the commanding ground to the rear, where Hescock's and Houghtaling's batteries had been posted all the morning.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The great wars of the French Revolution, and the short and sharp ones which have, after an indispensable breathing-spell, recently followed it, were as causeless and as defiant of the compacts designed to prevent them as those of the Reformation period or of the Thirty Years.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

They then lay down on the face of the ridge, for a breathing-spell and for protection 'from the terrible fire, of canister and musketry pouring over us from the guns on the crest.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

When they arrived at their aerodrome there was a breathing-spell for the aviators while the bomb-racks were being refilled with bombs, the empty ammunition drums replaced with full ones, and the engines replenished with petrol, oil, and water.

Night Bombing with the Bedouins Robert Henry Reece

A period of peace now began which afforded a breathing-spell to the country.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

At midnight the chief may have stopped to write, for there was a pause -- but a breathing-spell.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

For a brief breathing-spell, though the bride be charming!

Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

"Well," he remarked, "I see that Missy's come back for a breathing-spell."

Missy Dana Gatlin