Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wind is my breath and the sea is my spittle...
...trust I have not wasted breath...
Petitions have long since lost their strength in moving the regulated powers, and the reformer, crying incessantly to heaven for the fulfillment of his desire, ultimately loses his breath and ends with whispering pathos and a cracked voice dying into silence. Yet even at the certain doom of the reformer, again we raise our voice to query, not defiantly nor boisterously, but humbly, why Sunday sports are still barred at the University...
...Parthians or Lydians saw the charge of this heavy brigade, with its respective ears flapping like the weekly wash on a windy Monday morning, lifting its trunks as does the baggage-smasher before he drops them to the concrete pavement, and heaving its battleship-gray sides for lack of breath like a boat in a stormy sea, they--the embattled Cimmerians, Lydians or Parthians--dropped their spears and bows, and departed, swiftly but not silently, in the direction of Cathay or some port further East, where the climate is good, and warriors may enjoy a long, long rest...
...physique of the men, every rowing coach knows that it is the number of strokes rowed to the minute rather than the distance covered that wearies the oarsman. This is occasioned by the fact that rowing is a form of exercise which forces the athlete to take a breath every time he pulls a stroke. The normal respiration of a man is about 17 breaths a minute. Now if the rate of stroke is, say 34 strokes to the minute, it means that the oarsman is breathing twice as fast as the naturally would. Increase the rate of stroke...