"Respire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of attention of every man individually and they will ascertain, when the position has been properly assumed, whether the men are "on their toes," i. e., carrying the weight on the balls of the feet, whether they are able to respire properly, and whether they find a strain across the small of the back, which should be as flat as possible. This should be repeated until the men are able to assume the position ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss
... pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah^; branchiae^, gills, flabellum^, vertilabrum^. whiffle ball. V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c n.; wuther^; stream, issue. respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough. fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate^; blow up. Adj. blowing &c v.; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... des evenements differents, mais avec une seule cause, celle de la liberte reguliere.—TOCQUEVILLE, May 1, 1852, OEuvres Inedites, ii. 185. Me trouvant dans un pays ou la religion et le liberalisme sont d'accord, j'avais respire.—J'exprimais ce sentiment, il y a plus de vingt ans, dans l'avant-propos de la Democratie. Je l'eprouve aujourd'hui aussi vivement que si j'etais encore jeune, et je ne sais s'il y a une seule pensee qui ait ete plus constamment presente ...
— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton
... the night and the morning My coursers are wont to respire, But the Earth has just whispered a warning That their flight must be swifter than fire ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various
... sight of their native shores. The ladies were too much indisposed the first day to appear on the deck; but the weather becoming calm and the sea smooth, Grace and Jane ventured out of the confinement of their state-rooms, to respire the fresh air above. ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper |
