Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angel vanished into the breath of a little spring wind, that dawn at Nazareth.-(St. Luke I, 26:38; and the famed painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
Bethlehem was crowded. Joseph could find no room at the inn, or any decent lodging. So humbly in a stable, warmed by the breath of kine, the Babe was born, Mary wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him wailing in a manger, between an ox and an ass; and the animals fell to their knees before the Babe.−(St. Luke II, 1:7; and tradition...
...smiled wryly--I have never known aim to smile any other way--and tapped a fresh cigarette on his thumbnail. He drew deeply, held his breath, and looked 3' the carpet through narrowed eyes...
...TRIVIAL BREATH ? Elinor Wylie? Knopf...
...most distinguished one-time victim of Elinor Wylie's fascinations predicts of her work that it will sicken and die of its own perfume. For all its vengeful malice the prophecy is certainly justified by so cloying a title as Trivial Breath, and further substantiated by much that follows the title. Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason. An occasional poem "makes sense," but the sense sounds affected. Sorrow is, for instance, one of the emotions the poet rather fancies, and so she mentions it prettily, knowingly...