Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Butterfield is represented in low neck and short sleeves, with one hand sliding from her brother's shoulder, and the other, abnormally developed, hanging almost to the hem of her skirt. Both figures look unsteady and unhappy, as though they had been trying to see which could hold its breath longest and were both about ready to give...
During the recent hour-examination in Sophomore Rhetoric the rooms were so cold that a man could see his breath before him. It was almost impossible to sit there, and still more difficult to write. Of course, the majority of men kept their overcoats on and some few tried to write with gloves. This last is somewhat difficult. The instructor himself complained of the cold. If it was too cold for a man who was at liberty to walk around, with his hands in his pockets, and who only staid for a few minutes, what must it have been...
Then the two broke in through the door, all covered with snow from head to foot, quite startling the widow, who gazed in blank wonderment at the stranger and his load. Finally she found breath...
...breath blew thro' the summer's fever lips...
With failing breath their nectar sips...