Word: breath
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Phenomena which deserve consideration are those of breath, shadow, reflection, sleep, swoon, sickness, wounds and death, Two facts, interesting in their analogies and contrasts, bear upon the subject, namely, the states of waking and sleeping, and those of life and death. In both sleep and death, something seems to go out from the person, the difference being that in death the something that goes out does not return. Furthermore, when the sleeper dreams of the dead, the explanations of dreams and death confirm each other. As to the nature of that which seems to go out, there are several groups...
...grasp as well as I could and to illustrate such laws of criticism as seemed to me perennial in their application, and to leave aside as rubbish that dead leafage of deciduous facts which is swept rustling to and fro in the avenues of thought by the shifting breath of opinion...
...happy enthusiasm boyish vent ! What an hour it would have been, if when Terry stood there, a radiant vision, kissing her hand in thanks for their applause, they had from all parts of the house showered her with crimson roses, one flung by every boy-Harvard's own colors, breathing in rose-breath Harvard's good will ! - And where was the grand, concentrated Harvard cheer, that should have spoken farewell? And why did the orchestra crash "Fair Harvard," and the conductor wave an appealing baton to absolutely silent and unresponsive hearts and throats? Those of us who remember Harvard boys...
Oiive Thorne Miller has an article entitled "The Witching Wrenn" that overflows with the breath of the out-door air, and the music of the woods...
...describes some of the curious changes and chances which have entered into the history of the little settlement of Singleton, in Lancashire. The description has a delightful simplicity of manner and a charming lightness of touch that seem almost to give one a whiff of the very breath of the English country air. No one could give such a description better than Mr. Herford, for a truly English sympathy with country life is one of his most lovable characteristics...