Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been seen entering Satan's antechamber, in vulgar parlance called the Globe Theatre; that you are an adept in gambling; that your room is adorned with the painted Jezebels of the stage. Nephew Nathaniel, the jaws of hell are opening wide to receive you; already its sulphurous breath has tainted you, and the arch-fiend is about to claim you for his own. Conduct me to your room, that I may see with my own eyes whether this report of the youth who promised to lead so well in Friday night prayer-meetings is true...
Steals, as air steals smoke, her breath...
When you stabb'd it with a breath...
...seemed to say beneath the breath...
...floating, like a gentle breath...