1 There was not a breath stirring.
2 Both held their breath and listened.
3 The boys drew a long, grateful breath.
4 The spectacle took the general breath away.
5 The boys bent their heads together and scarcely breathed.
6 Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.
7 A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into the air.
8 He felt sure he never could draw a safe breath again until that man was dead and he had seen the corpse.
9 He lay and "breathed" himself for a time, and then crept to where he could almost touch his aunt's foot.
10 The basin was refilled, and this time he stood over it a little while, gathering resolution; took in a big breath and began.
11 The boys talked little, and only under their breath, for the time and the place and the pervading solemnity and silence oppressed their spirits.
12 She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with.
13 She was a subscriber for all the "Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.
14 Then a faint moan came sighing through the branches of the forest and the boys felt a fleeting breath upon their cheeks, and shuddered with the fancy that the Spirit of the Night had gone by.
15 In his uneasiness Huck found himself drawing closer and closer to the alley; fearing all sorts of dreadful things, and momentarily expecting some catastrophe to happen that would take away his breath.
16 Every stump that started up in their path seemed a man and an enemy, and made them catch their breath; and as they sped by some outlying cottages that lay near the village, the barking of the aroused watch-dogs seemed to give wings to their feet.