"Breathing in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clock (a birthday present) struck five, Gwendolen French sprang out of bed and plunged her face into the clump of nettles which grew outside her lattice window. For some minutes she stood there, breathing in the incense of the day; then dressing quickly she went down into the great oak-beamed kitchen to prepare breakfast for her father and the pigs. As she went about her simple duties she sang softly to herself, a song of love and knightly ...
— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne
... one another in the dreary glimmer of the two candles. For an instant neither spoke, but each could hear the other breathing in ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... of the valley breathing in the humble grass Answerd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed, And I am very small and love to dwell in lowly vales: So weak the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head Yet I am visited from heaven and he that smiles on all Walks in the valley, and each morn over me spreads his hand ...
— Poems of William Blake • William Blake
... murmuring in his throat. Immediately he remembered, he could feel his throat producing the sounds. This frightened him. Above all things, he was afraid of disturbing the family. He roused himself to listen. Everything was breathing in silence. As he listened to this silence he relapsed into his sort ...
— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence
... breathing in a sky Of fiery mid-days, like a watching tiger, Of the restrained but passionate July Upon the marshes of the river lie, Like the filmed pinions ...
— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters
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