1 Scarlett obediently sat down before the tray, wondering if she would be able to get any food into her stomach and still have room to breathe.
2 "I won't," he finally managed to breathe, never dreaming that she was thinking he looked like a calf waiting for the butcher.
3 And if you so much as breathe to her where the fighting is, I'll sell you South as sure as gun's iron.
4 She sank down on the steps of the church and buried her head in her hands until she could breathe more easily.
5 The torturing stays no longer pinched her waist and she could breathe deeply and quietly to the bottom of her lungs and her abdomen.
6 When she thought of the possibility of this final insult to Tara, her heart pounded so hard she could scarcely breathe.
7 She could not breathe; he was choking her; her stays were like a swiftly compressing band of iron; his arms about her made her shake with helpless hate and fury.
8 At the mention of Melanie, Scarlett began to breathe hard and could scarcely restrain herself from crying out the whole story, that only honor kept Ashley with Melanie.
9 Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
10 You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.
11 But he would see clearer, breathe freer in her presence: she was at once the dead weight at his breast and the spar which should float them to safety.
12 We sat and watched the long bowed back under the blue sheet, scarcely daring to breathe.
13 She was beginning to breathe hard again.
14 The young hounds go laughing and singing too much already through the woods, when they ought not to breathe louder than a fox in his cover.
15 The younger men were content with touching his robe, or even drawing nigh his person, in order to breathe in the atmosphere of one so aged, so just, and so valiant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28