SOLDIERS. If living--But if by some inward blow For ever and irrevocably fell'd By what strikes deeper to the root than sleep? --He's dead! He's dead! They've kill'd him-- --No--he breathes-- And the heart beats--and now he breathes again Deeply, as one about to shake away The load of sleep.英文原著 · 《Life Is A Dream》
From a height of illimitable loftiness the owner of the cardboard treasury looked down upon the squat commonplaceness of those three lives. The condition of Jane and Genesis and Clematis seemed almost laughably pitiable to him, the more so because they were unaware of it. They breathed not the starry air that William breathed, but what did it matter to them? The wretched things did not even know that they meant nothing to Miss Pratt!英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
Writers, copying from one another, make Aristotle say that goats breathe at their ears; whereas he asserts just the contrary: 'Alcmaeon does not advance what is true, when he avers that goats breathe through their ears.'--History of Animals. Book I.英文原著 · 《The Natural History of Selborne》
Oh, they are beautiful--beautiful!"
"Ah," said Garth, the keen pleasure of the artist springing up once more. "Miss Gray, I have somewhat forgotten them. Have you them here? That is right. Put them up before you, and describe them to me. Let me hear how they struck you, as pictures." Jane rose, and went to the window. She threw it open; and as she breathed in the fresh air, breathed out a passionate prayer that her nerve, her voice, her self-control might not fail her, in this critical hour. She herself had been convicted by Garth's pictures.英文原著 · 《The Rosary》
Thy fruits of life, and blossoms of thy bough,
What are they but my seedlings? Earth and sea
Bear nought but when I breathe on it must bow.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
Which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard.演讲 · 《Hooked by an octopus ~ Mike deGruy》