Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...raised her beautiful, tearful eyes to her companion's face, and involuntarily gave him a tender glance. This was a spark in tinder. Ching seized her hand, and poured out his pentup passion in a resistless torrent. The maiden's breath was quite taken away, at the first plunge in this deluge of sentiment. She listened with ever-increasing alarm, until she found a chance to implore, "No more! oh, no more!" But Ching was fairly beside himself; his love told, he prayed her to assure him of its return. He had held her hand; he threw his arm round...
That tosses in the wind's light breath...
Have all the winds of heaven no breath...
...calm and peaceful breath...
SWEET the breath of the south, creeping the hills above...