The darkness had invaded Virgil’s lungs and choked him, and he couldn’t breathe until he knew Gulliver was breathing, too. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Into years before, when my hands had calluses like stones and my music had come as easy as breathing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My limbs are heavy, and I am running through quicksand, but I am breathing and determined. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Him staring at me, breathing a little hard from us messing around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And as silly and ridiculous as Virgil was, she wanted to know he was alive and breathing. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Back and still breathing?” the old man inquired. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I run a few more meters and then stop, my hands on my knees, breathing hard. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard, face red and puffy, a bewildered look to him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, quietly, he looked in on Mrs. Cobb to see if she was breathing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I pull the blanket up over my head, and my breathing is so rapid I use up all the oxygen and begin to choke for air. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm having a hard time breathing because of the car. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing slowed as if he might fall asleep, but then Clement hit a bump and the bonobo startled. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Roger had whipped behind the palm again, was leaning against it breathing quickly, his eyelids fluttering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I see the tiny chest, struggling to rise and fall, struggling to continue breathing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He stopped to rest, and swallowed back his own heavy breathing until he thought his chest would burst; but he had to listen for sounds behind him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu brought a rag and some water and, while he cleaned, he listened to Master’s uneven breathing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His heavy breathing intensified and I knew he had fallen asleep. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If I was like a normal kid I would’ve busted out crying, but I just stood there breathing hard. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just stepping on the stage makes my breathing rapid and shallow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Joseph listened to Albert’s laboured breathing and the occasional car that passed outside, and realized the noises were all wrong. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was breathing faster, and he could feel the fear surge over him with each beat of his heart. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The heat has been building all day, closing in on me, I feel as though I’m breathing through a mask. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would take fifteen minutes before I began my warm-up to focus on my breathing and my thoughts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I go back to the goat room and check that Camel is still breathing. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She was being sent away because she was the walking, breathing embodiment of their shame. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She put a vast arm round his shoulder and drew him toward her, breathing beer and vomit into his face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s better,” said Hagrid, breathing heavily and sitting back down on the sofa, which this time sagged right down to the floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker and I were both breathing pretty hard by this time, so what she said next came out in a sort of strangled whisper. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lord Roke prepared to spring, but the priest merely listened to Mrs. Coulter’s steady breathing, looked closely to see whether she was asleep, and then turned to the bedside table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Tiller! Tiller! You hear me? You breathing? I don’t want to have to do that breathing stuff. I don’t know how. I don’t remember.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

His name was James Manning, and he had infiltrated the barn area with plans to break into Seabiscuit’s stall and shove a sponge up his nostril, impeding his breathing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her forehead is cool to my touch and her breathing easy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The noises of the surrounding woods were muffled inside the tent; all Harry could hear was Ron’s breathing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His chest moves up and down, and his nostrils flare like he’s breathing fire. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Misty hadn’t improved or gotten worse—she still lay on the floor in the Shack, breathing evenly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

You have to think “breathe, breathe” all the time, or you stop breathing. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was underwater, and I was breathing normally. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They crowd around me, flashing signs and breathing close. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I kept as still as I could, even breathing with caution. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Loretta slips away and I can hear her breathing like a broken bird in the cellar dark. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Four sleeps on the floor and I sleep on his bed, on top of the quilt, breathing in the scent of his pillowcase. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Even breathing became an effort: Every breath Salva took seemed to drain strength rather than restore it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” she said to Lexie, and though she said nothing else, just this—it’s okay, it’s okay—Lexie found herself breathing easier. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or breathing in makes me smell the odor more, and that’s making me more and more afraid? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s this iron skin that is doing my breathing for me, in and out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My head pounded, I had trouble breathing, but I was starting to understand what was happening. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hardly breathing, Pippin crept nearer, foot by foot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We come up behind her—and all stop breathing at once. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Clear, with just enough breeze so you knew you were outside, breathing fresh air. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Who you?” he asked, his heart calming, his breathing headed back to normal. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the blood in my ears and my jagged breathing there was no other sound. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of the school joined in, and while I mouthed along, I tried to slow my breathing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Father breathing as if he had climbed a mountain. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pounded up the porch steps, breathing hard. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She reached for our hands and squeezed them, breathing deep and full like a prayer, chewing her bottom lip like penance. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But despite the rattle of the wagon’s wheels, Inej could tell Kaz’s breathing had gotten worse—shallow, rapid pants like an animal caught in a trap. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We had the ball and I went coast-to-coast with Brothers breathing on me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His tears flowed in the mantle unperceived; only Alkinoos, at his elbow, saw them, and caught the low groan in the man’s breathing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she took refuge from a bad dream with him, nothing could lull her to sleep better than Mo's calm breathing beside her and the sound of the pages turning. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear his breathing in my own body. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He could hear the breathing of the little girls in the next bed, strangely loud and uneven in the quiet. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even though he was breathing heavily, his mocking tone was still clear. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The shadow resolved into a thickly muscled form, slumped against a rotting wall, water up around its waist as it sat, breathing heavily in the darkness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She walked to a boarding house and asked for a room, explaining to the clerk that she suffered from tuberculosis and that her doctor had told her to spend some time breathing dry desert air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has the heavy breathing and the choking sounds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She squeezed and sniffled and tried to get her breathing regular. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Park was breathing so hard, he couldn't get any air. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She heard Ivan’s ragged breathing from behind her, but she didn’t want to look back and take her eyes off the dragon. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He gazed down at Sammy who had just begun breathing with some degree of regularity again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay there breathing together in utter calm, like brother and sister, until day began to break and the light from the window became stronger than the light of the lamp. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing we had to do when people were in the house was to wait, very still, and pick up the sounds of breathing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for a little while longer he lay quietly with weak breathing, as if perhaps waiting for normal and natural conditions to reemerge out of the complete stillness. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was flat on the ground, completely still, not even breathing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

To the amazement of the others, Saruman turned again, and as if dragged against his will, he came slowly back to the iron rail, leaning on it, breathing hard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It commenced breathing hard and finally dropped me on the ground. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He ain’t breathing, and most folks would usually assume that means he’s not getting up again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His breathing was a rasping, moaning din in his ears. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I waited for Grover to say something, but his breathing only got heavier. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And her heart beat solemnly and her breathing slowed as she grew smaller and smaller and then disappeared—and she had never been. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Neves was not breathing and his heart had stopped. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and got control of my breathing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then I stopped breathing as I waited to hear a sound from inside. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the time they were in grade school, close-order drill was as natural as breathing and as hateful as hell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But all I hear is my own breathing and the blessed silence of those cool, clear nights under the anacahuita tree before anyone breathes a word of the future. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like she was breathing pure snow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All day long she sat over a hole in the ground, the omphalos, the navel of the earth, breathing petrochemical fumes escaping from underneath. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Their breathing was heavy and I could hear one of them hissing, trying not to cry. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I fight off the panic, trying to keep my mind from spiraling downward, and force myself to even my breathing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He listened at the door, but could hear nothing but a rhythmic breathing and, once in a while, a sleeping grunt. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was quietly begging his mother to wake up when it appeared to him that she wasn't breathing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I also groan on the inside: my voice sounds like I’ve been breathing chalk dust. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She’s reaching way up to the sky with two hands, breathing in, and out, bringing prayer hands to her chest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As I focused on my breathing, he grasped me by the palm and elbow, and firmly drew my hand back so that it was perpendicular to my wrist. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Not when I could feel him breathing, not when I could feel his heart beating in his bony chest. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stood behind Davenport and regarded us for a moment, breathing hard. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The boys sat without talking, breathing heavily, exhaling plumes of white breath. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She pointed a finger on one hand for each Jackson and was breathing hard when she’d stopped naming and pointing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m so anxious I stare at his face and check constantly to make sure he’s breathing. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’s so close he’s practically breathing Luna’s reeking cigarette smoke, and when he looks into his face, there’s a flicker of recognition at the bloodshot, blackened eyes and the gaunt cheekbones. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s breathing so loudly through his nostrils that I expect him to exhale fire. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Soon, I noticed that Hugo’s breathing had slowed. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I had been breathing hard, straining, trying to get at him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Not smelly socks stinky,” she told me, “but the close smell of people in poverty. Many hungry people breathing.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I kept waiting for Mother to snap back to her old Everything Is Just Fine attitude, but she stayed blanched out and kind of stopped breathing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps me to sit up so she can listen to my breathing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It made the walking slow and my breathing fast already, and I was just getting started. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He attaches it to a little flask with breathing medicine and straps a mask on my face. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He held her tight, feeling her heart pound against his chest, hearing her breathing rapidly, furiously. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I get this pang in my stomach, like a little knot that’s twisted up tight, and I think—well, hope—that I’m still breathing. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nancy centered herself and brought her breathing under control. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carefully measured his breathing and his heartbeat and found them to be the same—exactly—as they had been since he’d started to keep track of them. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He reached for die side of the raft and hung there, just breathing, until he could think once more—the hatchet clutched and shining in his right hand. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was openmouthed and breathing thickly, leaning against me, sitting as close as if we were still nestled together in the womb. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The muscles in his neck bulge so much and he’s so red, I’m not sure he’s even breathing. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By the time his breathing was normal again, he had worked out that bathing these injuries would have to wait. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We had also lost our interest in art, so we pushed on uphill, breathing slowly and regularly. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the medics arrived, he was still breathing, but they couldn’t stop the bleeding and he died in agony. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My dog’s breathing grew faster and faster, and there was a terrible rattling in his throat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister and mother are both breathing heavily. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To get them breathing again, you had to give them C.P.R.—except that Derek was breathing already. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavily, and his words came out with spaces between them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sit down, breathing hard, and look across the rooftop. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was Jessie, her breathing becoming steady and deep as she drifted off to sleep. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As Theseus listened, overwhelmed by this sum of terrible events, Hippolytus still breathing was carried in. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You rearrange your posture; you measure out your breathing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listens to my breathing with his stethoscope. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Well, certainly, I must have smelled like a tequila farm, since Dad had been breathing out the liquor in noisy respirations and I had kept the windows closed against the cold night air. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My chest burns as I try to control my breathing, trying desperately to look tranquil while my body yearns for air. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His breathing never changed, never indicated any effort. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And then I start thinking about what not breathing sounds like. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was shoes for running, with cushioned soles and breathing holes, and stars of fluorescent fabric that reflected light in the darkness. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticky was breathing hard and casting glances at the door, as if a lion might fly in next, so it fell to Reynie to introduce them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At last she spoke again, so low in his ear that the words seemed barely more than broken cadences of breathing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosy and relaxed with sleep, eighty little boys and girls lay softly breathing. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of beeping monitors and the hum of a breathing treatment make it impossible to listen for footsteps. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was good with numbers and clever with his hands and could build a comfortable bench for a tired Elder as quick as breathing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When he reached the second landing he was breathing so hard that he stopped, closed his eyes and let his chest heave itself to stillness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Jay’s raggedy breathing—not snoring, he said—coming from his side of the room. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Granny’s harsh breathing and the hushed voices in the parlor filled the silence. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One of them was this very Cuban-looking guy, and he kept breathing his stinking breath in my face while I gave him directions. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and I could hear his breathing slow down. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Why did breathing have to be such work? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay are solid—breathing deep, but not harsh or rushed. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I see that he’s alive and breathing, even if he isn’t really speaking. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then the door gave a muffled thump behind me, and the hall was quiet save for the sound of my own breathing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. It wasn’t those silent feet that gave you away. I can hear your pulse, your breathing.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The mother, who was still incapable of breathing properly, began to cough numbly with her hand held up over her mouth and a manic expression in her eyes. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience probably thought it was for dramatic effect, but I was mostly trying to steady my breathing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Immediately all the past miserable months fell away from him as he stood breathing the hot, well-remembered odor of molten gold and hearing the chiming of a little hammer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I could hear breathing, but I knew it wasn’t Grandma’s, because it was heavier and slower. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were breathing and eating and talking and singing and not at all making plans to die. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The room was quiet, but for quick breathing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So she sat down with her dead-or-maybe-not mother, who I imagine was not breathing by then but wasn’t yet cold either. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"It's like breathing for you," she says, handing me a sandwich. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The only sound in the room was our breathing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He stood on the Talbots’ patio, blinking in the sunlight, breathing in the smell of fresh air and danger. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d just been looking at each other, hardly breathing, when suddenly the bell rang. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The run is getting to him and he’s breathing heavily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mother stopped them from breathing down Dad’s neck by taking them aside and telling them stories. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are red and he’s breathing hard, like he’s fighting back a serious cry. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone so maddeningly beautiful as she was at that moment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yet, even so, when they reached the field where the King and the Colchians were waiting, and the bulls rushed out from their lair breathing forth flames of fire, terror overcame them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my breathing gradually creeping toward hyperventilation as I approached the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And then I am up again, and breathing. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Nergal sat in a puddle, breathing weakly, his breastplate discarded in front of him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He caught sight of the rise and fall of his diaphragm and was surprised to see how quickly he was breathing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I closed the door behind me, breathing through my mouth to keep out the stench of raw sewage wafting from the toilet’s open hole. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His breathing became sleep-heavy while his body no longer fought to stay upright and alert. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

From the loudspeaker on my floor I could hear his amplified breathing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

His body shook with nerves, his quick breathing the night sound between his companion’s talk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But he can breathe, and I know this because he is hyperventilating, breathing as if trying to blow air back into the dead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he was still, barely breathing, filled with another idea. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of seeing that word and breathing the smell of the first floor, which is the smell of the cafeteria after lunch, creates some kind of echo in my head, like a faraway shout. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I lie in the dark and listen to my family breathing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time Nico works and realize I’m hardly breathing. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But she could hear only their labored breathing and the stamping of their feet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was breathing almost normally, he began to wonder what he was doing sitting in the middle of a woods in Blue Ridge country. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone came to the Clinic, with the result that Luce had at his disposal a body of research material—of living, breathing specimens—no scientist had ever had before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I had stopped breathing, but somehow I kept on standing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until my head started to swim that I realized I wasn’t breathing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I'm about to tell you something that no one knows. Not Chip. Not my wife. If you even think about breathing a word of this to anyone...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was still breathing hard, but his eyes had lost that glazed look they’d had in the kitchen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I soldiered on, breathing through my pulled-up shirt and keeping away from the walls and any other ghastly surprises they might’ve harbored. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I was breathing fast and couldn’t bring out a word. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What was”—Chubs was having a hard time breathing— “that horrible noise?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then he would continue his anxious pacing, breathing like a cat and thinking about Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Alter, calm down,” Frankie said, and I realized I was breathing so rapidly, I couldn’t even catch my breath. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was out the window like a shot, breathing sweet, free air. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re breathing, so you have to keep going, even when it doesn’t feel like you’re still alive. Speaking of which, care to accompany me down to Washington Park?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Closing the door behind them, the porter led them down the narrow hallway, and the only sounds were of their own breathing, and their footsteps along the corridor, and the snapping of the fire. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lee was anxious about Grumman, because the other man was pale and drawn and breathing hard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d fall asleep next to me, and I would listen to her soft breathing until I fell asleep, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her breathing slowed and her head became heavy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He needed a lot of operations, because, just like with breathing and swallowing, there were other things that didn’t come automatically to him. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The shrill cries of babies, the repetitive moans, and the echoes of shallow, labored breathing bombard the large space. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as if breathing out a cloud, he blew. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My mouth gaped open like that of a fish breathing its last. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing must have just started up again too, because it sounded raspy and quick. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Voxy stands next to me, his rapid breathing muffled through his helmet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Just go home, fool! Enjoy life’s little pleasures, like breathing and eating solid food.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I went over to join them, starting to pace my breathing so that I would not stutter. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d fallen asleep with his nose in her hair, breathing her scent, holding on to her as if she were the only sure thing, the only real thing he’d ever known. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Barb’s voice calls out, somewhere in the distance, “He’s not breathing! There’s no pulse. We have to move fast.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Trembling or not, Malcolm held on to the child as firmly as he could and listened to her contented breathing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite breathing through the paper towel, Tad tasted char and smoke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mark kept his footsteps light and his breathing shallow, trying to stay silent. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Pipkin, who was lying on his left side, breathing quickly and heavily, rolled over and stretched out his front paw, underside turned upward. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I landed in a bed of crushed flowers, breathing heavily. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was no change at all—no movement except for the short rise and fall of his chest with his breathing. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing about as hard as any human being can breathe. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

After three days in the ICU, they withdrew the breathing tube and transferred him to a ground-level bed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even as Mark looks, Baxter’s face comes up and out of the river and the boy is breathing, spitting, screaming. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You haven’t learned to use your mom’s talents yet, have you? Well—that spear will give you some breathing room until you do. You get three charges out of it, so use it wisely.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As he leaned up against a merlon, breathing hard, Theon could hear the shouting from below, where Frenya was fighting half a dozen guardsmen in the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, thank God!” she said, putting a hand to her chest and breathing out gratefully. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With an effort Wilson left the shade and support of the doorway and, breathing hard, unscrewed the cap of the tank. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wavered a second before hitting send, but then I did and sat back, breathing hard. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. I mean, it was the sound of his voice, breathing, noises. But I couldn’t see. I couldn’t say for sure.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What would it be like to not have Otto breathing down my neck from now on? The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sat breathing through my nose, holding in my mouth the pure, awful slavor of something on fire and a bristle of stiff hairs from the burnt hide of a dead goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was breathing the same way, only not as fast. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was breathing hard when I rang her bell. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was only when I exhaled that I realized I hadn’t been breathing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her hands felt warm on my back, and every time I paused to sniff and gasp for a little air, I heard her breathing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let go of the curtain, turn away, and press my back against the wall, breathing hard. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emily removed a copy and squeezed it between her hands, breathing in the paper smell. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I could listen to its voice in the thunder and feel its breathing in the winds, see its breathing in the clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to gain weight just breathing the air in here.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavily, since principals and dictators of small countries aren’t used to running. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“To die. Do you feel it? I know that it’s not the same for everyone, and that you stop breathing and your heart stops beating, but what does that feel like?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He could tell by his breathing that the boy was awake and after a while the boy said: But we did kill him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But his spine relaxed, and he continued his controlled breathing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jobs came of age breathing the air of the very business he would later dominate. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They trekked through the inhospitable growth, breathing in gelatin-thick humidity mixed with soot and smoke. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

‘These wacksey big ears of mine is picking up even the noise of a man breathing the other side of this garden.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing harshly and there were dried tears on his face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be breathing from a distance. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape made them all nervous, breathing down their necks while they tried to remember how to make a Forgetfulness potion. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I could hear him down there, breathing his ragged breath. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were breathing the rich scent of grilled onions and keeping dinner warm in the oven by the time he returned. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She used to fill a room by just breathing and now there seems to be... less of her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed and listen to nine people breathing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A kind of watery mucus had begun to collect in the boy’s lungs, which caused him difficulty in breathing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the women biked past the point of exhaustion, doctors measured the oxygen they were taking in and the carbon dioxide they were breathing out. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

At such times he would shake off sleep and creep through the chill to the flap of the tent, where he would stand and listen to the sound of his master’s breathing. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear her breathing through her nose. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He broke them all, lined the pieces up carefully, and sat there, elbows on the desk, hands covering his face, breathing heavily. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood very still to see if he was breathing. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sleeping, her great body still but for her slow, slumbered breathing. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was conscious of Zach’s breathing, his shirt pulled across his chest, one arm draped on the steering wheel. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a warm night, so the old Caribbean men are sitting on the sidewalks in dinner chairs, breathing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We tried to give our uncle breathing room but we hung on to him every minute of the day. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I put my hand by his nose just to see if he was breathing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Okay, living, breathing human being,” he says, biffing her lightly on the shoulder. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He continued to practice his breathing technique, and his heart rate finally started to subside from the painful thumping of the last few minutes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the barn, Billy showed him how to fix a ball of cotton on a stick, with which to swab out the breathing hole when it became clogged with mucus. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer made his way deeper into the ship, listening to the creak and rush of water outside, his stealthy footsteps and the rasp of his own loud breathing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment all they heard was Sam's heavy breathing and the wet sound of Dywen sucking on his teeth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A queer stifling feeling came over them, as if the air were too thin or too scanty for breathing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And although it is hazardous to assume any of this had formative effects on his character, it is equally an exaggeration to say that Eratosthenes grew up breathing an atmosphere of pure royalist docility. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly very hot inside the cheap synthetic sack, and I pressed my knees against the lining, trying to create a little breathing room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The physical therapist was showing me how to bang loose the poison in his lungs—which he needed done regularly now, to keep it from solidifying, to keep him breathing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my head down to his chest to check his breathing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A reassuring thought as Frank hunted poisonous fire- breathing devil snakes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Uncle Andrew immediately rolled over with closed eyes and began breathing peacefully. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the street there were a hundred other people breathing in the air I needed. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The doors open and it’s deathly quiet—the kind of quiet where you can hear yourself breathing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Except for the low tick of the wall clock and June’s soft breathing, the room was quiet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was breathing as hard as I could—big, mouth-open breaths like a fish in the bottom of a boat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The hot, dry air that we were breathing reminded me of how it had felt to breathe while sitting in a Finnish sauna. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He is breathing hard, and his panting is music. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m breathing deeply, trying to slow my heart rate, to quell the panic rising in my chest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark couldn’t believe how heavily he was breathing.“Okay ... okay. Sorry. But... just hurry.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Josh’s face is red and he’s breathing hard all of a sudden like he has been running even though he hasn’t been. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict’s breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was so quiet then that he could hear Princess breathing, and he felt the missing piece inside him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Around him, the rest of the knights watch, their helms under their arms or in their laps, breathing hard, afraid. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He tried to slow his breathing, to stop the shivering in his legs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or for the occasion his death gave them to express their protestations, a time and place to come together, to stand touching and sweating and breathing and looking in a common direction? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is drinking a milkshake and doesn’t seem to bother breathing as he does. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Without breathing we stared at the place where the snake had been until our eyes caught up and we could all witness our memory of what had passed before us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was breathing heavily, its muscled shoulders going up and down and up and down as the room shook from the force of its growls. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It served as a breathing hole for Asmodeus, also as amplification to echo the dreaded name through the caves and tunnels as a warning to intruders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now he could hear his breathing coming fast and shallow and the dripping of water from above. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She flopped down on the grass, breathing hard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I try to keep breathing thru the coughs, forehead on the ground, dribbling spit and barf everywhere. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now Quentin began to breathe hard again, who had been peaceful for a time in the warm bed, breathing hard the heady pure snowbom darkness. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sister's breathing in the dark room was like having a powerful, tamed animal at the foot of her bed ready to protect her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His breathing had gotten easier, but he was fidgeting in his chair now; he couldn’t seem to get comfortable. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even closer, so we would be breathing the same air—if I could remember to breathe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dicey wished she could stop breathing and give herself entirely over to the movement and the being still. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jule tried to turn Immie over, to keep her face in the air, to keep her breathing, and listening, but the wounds were enormous. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I ran for the bed and scrambled onto the middle of it, breathing hard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her breathing became ragged and uncertain, as if she was trying to remember, in between breaths, what to do, what breathing was. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Harry could hear shallow, fast breathing from the depths of the hood; he struggled, and the man hit him — hit him with a hand that had a finger missing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I let my breathing slow a bit and straddled the railing only to have my heart speed up again. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Neil and Buzz carried their own breathing supply of oxygen in packs on their backs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them are breathing, and they do not move, and those eyes see nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m picking the lady peas for stones, thinking about how we’re breathing the same air those Chicago people breathed two days ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was breathing hard now, though inwardly I was as calm as the waters on East River’s lake. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His expression was at once casual and turbulent; his eyes were distant and his mouth was steady, but his nostrils flared slightly with his breathing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was breathing too hard to answer but crept around to the side of the post office. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I finally put together the breathing—how to blow out all my air while under the surface, just how much to roll my head—and I’d stopped slapping the water with every stroke. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

For a moment, there was only the sound of the two of them breathing, the chickens worrying their feathers, clucking nervously. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The closet door opens, and then Carlos hears her breathing close by on the other side of the wall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later Reynie was alone on the plaza, breathing hard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I placed my palms on the desk, breathing deeply. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He listened with secret, egotistical mirth to the husky breathing of the two doctors. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’d listened to Shawn’s shallow breathing as I raced through the valley, along Fivemile Creek, then shot up the Bear River Hill. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One day that July, less than two months after Anna’s murder, Lizzie stopped breathing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The drug economy played out every day on the cracked concrete lawns of Robert Taylor, and her preteen older sons, Nicholas and Willie, could not help breathing it in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Barely breathing, I wait to die in the dirt where they have dumped me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You will be fine, Frank Zhang. Keep practicing those sea life transformations. The koi fish is good, but try for a Portuguese man-of-war. Remember what I showed you. It’s all in the breathing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My arms drop and I stop spinning, turning to face him, my breathing coming in short gasps. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she hummed so softly that the child heard the deep concerned breathing of terror above the sound of the humming. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was treading water and breathing like a mermaid, a white shark swam closer, the side-to-side movement of his tail propelling the shark forward. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He’d been given a front of his neck so a breathing tube could be inserted into his trachea, or windpipe. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They were both breathing fast, but the smile had reappeared round the comers of her mouth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Oliver, who had glanced over at just that moment, said later that it looked like Mr. Beiderman was breathing happiness into his body. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Edwards leaned forward at his desk, breathing heavily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment she learned Sarai had fallen, she had stretched her senses to their limits, waiting, hardly breathing, alert to the telltale skim of passing ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I said, even though I was supposed to be breathing quietly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He went into the house, still breathing hard. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The ref knelt next to Bruiser, counting to nine and checking to make sure he was breathing. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scrambled through the woods, breathing so hard she couldn’t muster the air to cry for help. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It's miserable out, the kind of cold where breathing through your nose gives you brain freeze. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Sir, the atmosphere is thin for breathing. But there’s enough oxygen. It’s safe.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ail you could hear for a moment was labored breathing, carbonated bubbles going berserk in two dozen beer bellies, the beer coolers humming, and the ice machine tumbling chunks into its aluminum trough. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stands with her legs apart, breathing shallowly, tossing her blond frosted mane like a nervous pony. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sir Palomides had collapsed on a stone mounting block, without troubling to take his head off, and was breathing heavily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night she lay sleepless, gazing at the flickering of the flames on the ceiling, wondering what was happening inside the cabin, listening to her father’s even breathing and Neewo’s tiny, rumbling snore. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His sandpaper face is still against mine, rubbing against my cheek, and his breathing is jagged. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’s using up oxygen that I could be breathing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked at Toby, he was breathing hard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The rose of the world was breathing out smell. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The horses were flecked with foam and their breathing was noisy. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He looked startled, then stared at me, breathing hard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay in the mud on the side of the embankment, his feet pointing downhill, breathing blood irregularly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A moment later, down at Camp Two, David Breashears’s radio crackled to life: it was Jangbu, reporting in a panicked voice that Chen had stopped breathing. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips were faintly blue, and she was breathing shallowly, her forehead glistening with sweat. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His breathing sounded wheezy, like he had a harmonica in his throat, which meant an asthma attack was coming on. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Lucas followed behind me down the hallway, his breathing heavy. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Zack doesn’t answer, but I can hear him out there breathing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I don’t feel like breathing or counting. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The thinking is almost harder than the breathing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened?” she says, already starting to tug away the rolls, getting one off his face and leaning down to see if he’s still breathing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Must have seen it in a book, fire-breathing dragons, only I got it wrong and thought the dragons were breathing fog. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll find what we need faster without him breathing down our neck, anyway,” the other one said, and smirked. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Not deeply; not enough to satisfy, but breathing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even those still breathing, walking—they looked as if they were waiting for someone to tell them they were dead. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I cough now because of those seventeen years of breathing dust. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour and a half of this, Selhan was sweating and breathing hard, but he was doing better than I was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She lay peaceful now, eyes closed, breathing deeply, asleep it seemed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to rest her mind, slow her breathing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I double back, heading to the place where people are still walking and breathing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I cannot understand how Scott is still breathing. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise only their breathing in the silence of the salt moorland. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

After I took my fourth breath, I was smelling as much fish as I was smelling pies, so I opened my eyes and commenced breathing regular. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His hand was on her right breast now, squeezing it hard through the blouse, and she could hear him breathing deeply through the nose. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Its eyes closed and its head lowered in sleep, the breathing easier, a bit slower now. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Had his tiny lungs collapsed, his breathing stopped? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The ventilator that’s doing my breathing has a soothing rhythm like a metronome, in, out, in, out. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hideo stands there for a moment, breathing heavily, his expression hard. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They supposed he would come around and start breathing probably. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was frost on the hairs of their muzzles and their breathing made plumes of frost in the air. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was living on the edge of his nerves: clenching his jaw, tapping his foot, breathing fast. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the baby was breathing funny when Branwell came home from school.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have slept through Dad’s going off to work the next morning, ’cause when I wake, Becky’s standing beside the couch eating a piece of honey toast and breathing on my face. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she simply could not hear him past her own breathing, so loud in her ears the house seemed to resound with it; she thought the neighbors must be able to hear. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had known Martin was awake for at least ten minutes; his breathing had become much lighter, and he had stopped doing his weird little lip licking and grunts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The humidity of the room and the breathing around me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

No sign of any kind of life or knowledge except the breathing and the heartbeat. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I took a nonchalant puff on my cigarette without breathing in very much. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I smelled something inviting in the hallway,” the scythe said, breathing in the aroma. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“He’s breathing,” she murmured, and then turned her head up to the sky. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Moments later, the boy began breathing on his own—breathing and coughing and choking and throwing up and crying for his mother. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I press my forehead against the smooth bark and try to calm my breathing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He blinked his eyes from the bright sunshine; his nerves were so taut that he had difficulty in breathing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mars had told him the spear would give him breathing room until he learned to use his mother’s talents. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’d figured out the trick of breathing in through the woolen scarf to warm the sharp air before it stabbed my lungs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The rest of us spill out on the pavement behind him, and we are shoulder to shoulder, standing so close I can hear how fast everyone is breathing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Imani makes a breathing sound from the back of her throat and I try to do the same. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My breathing is quick and shallow, and my palms are sticky with nerves. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Gram closed her eyes and for the next hour as Gramps drove toward Coeur d’Alene, he and I listened to her rattly breathing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

If I couldn’t hear her breathing, I’d think she hung up the phone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The girl crawls away from me and we lay there a second, just breathing and coughing, trying to stop being dazed. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We lie there breathing together for a bit, and I can see my breath in the moonlight. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that I was crushing him, preventing him from breathing, I wanted to get up and disengage myself to allow him to breathe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck backed sturdily up Carmel Hill and it got past the Jack’s Peak road and was just going into the last and steepest pull when the motor’s breathing thickened, gulped, and strangled. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached in my bag and squeezed the envelope to make sure I still had it, tried to calm my breathing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract—like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Its stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Jonathan could hear the breathing of the men all about, quick and agitated. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I would be able to hear the waves and if they would sound like the Earth breathing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Horace said later to his wife, “And if you ever saw death still breathing, there it was.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bilbo backed away to the wall, breathing hard, his hand clutching at his pocket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moss asked once his friends gave him some breathing room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were twenty feet underwater, inside an old shipwreck, and we were breathing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I left Marie and headed back, swimming smoothly and breathing easily. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She opened the door and her breathing got stuck in her throat for a minute when she saw the bunch on her stoop. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He always hid a bottle of liquor in the kitchen cabinet and he’d take big swigs from it and lean on the counter, breathing heavily. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized now that his breathing had calmed and he couldn’t hear Pah anymore, but he still didn’t want to open his eyes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was not breathing because she didn’t have to. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I got back into the robe he had given me, and he began sewing like the devil was breathing down his neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His face was very pale, and he was breathing heavily. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack is stretched out on the other bed, his eyelids hooded, his breathing so slow and so deep, you’d almost think he’s sleeping. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it will be a merrow, and he will give her the gift of breathing underwater and a crown of pearls and take her to his bed under the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She's kind of rocking back and forth in her chair, trying to get her breathing to slow down. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep going down the hallway, calling over my shoulder, “Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I pull the breathing mask from my face. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing easily now, and I knew the fever had broken because his forehead was no longer hot Sitting up, he said weakly, “How did I get downg ’ere?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took them close to an hour to accomplish the move, but, sweating and breathing hard, they admired their fortress effect. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The breathing of the security detail is loud in my ears, harsh and open-mouthed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He opened the green suit-case; and all at once he was breathing Lenina’s perfume, filling his lungs with her essential being. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all of my body was protected and I was breathing canned air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come quick! It’s my aunt! She fell out of her wheelchair and she’s not breathing! Yes. Yes. The address is 6254 Chambers Street. Please hurry! Oh, please hurry!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I stay there, on the ground, breathing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone is quiet, breathing softly, some even trying to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to slow my breathing down from the run over and I clenched my hands into fists to stop the shaking. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, can you imagine how Michelangelo and the children felt sharing a cart with a living, breathing king of France? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was an hour, maybe more, before Liam’s breathing evened out and he began to snore. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sniffing at the hot door, breathing in smoke, wagging their tails hopefully, waiting for someone to come and get them, barking. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed I could hear breathing on the other end. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Beneath the table, a large sphere that initially seemed to be a ball of shaggy carpet grew and then shrunk rhythmically, breathing. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Gabe slid to the ground and huddled there in the cheering crowd, breathing hard, exhausted, confused, and exhilarated. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then I stopped running because I was breathing really hard and my legs hurt. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There they are, moving about in my cytoplasm, breathing for my own flesh, but strangers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t hear him breathing over the roar of the approaching flames. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Your breathing becomes loud in your own ears. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could feel Archer stretched out beside her, his shoulders and elbows and feet, the quiet calm of his breathing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I pushed back my chair, breathing deeply, controlled. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as her father says his name, the breathing on the other side of the door becomes a gasp, a held breath. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ron’s eyes were only half-closed, his mouth hung open; he was definitely alive, they could hear him breathing, but he didn’t seem to recognize them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I waited, breathing softly and listening, debating if I should tell Lily what had happened a few days ago—down at the Bakers’. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Soon there were only the sounds of steady breathing and snores. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He imagined the awful impotence of breathing in helplessly quarts and quarts of water. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I stop right in front of the school grounds, right where my dad would usually drop me off, breathing hard. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Under they went, and I hoped my father’s protection would extend to little things, like breathing. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was breathing fast, like he’d just chased a rabbit, and little snorts of dust were blowing up with each breath he took. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But the sounds of one another’s breathing made them all feel a little safer. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Rachel always had trouble breathing in the spring.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down on the bench, breathing deep and looking up at the empty sky. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Frank turned, he saw all three monsters circling in the grass, breathing fire and turning the hillside brown with their poisonous touch. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The regular breathing from Mercy’s curtained bed sounded almost normal. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He let himself go with the motion of the mule, swaying forward and backward with each stride, feeling the rise and fall of the mule’s breathing under his legs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her breathing accelerates and she grimaces a little. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was no sound but their breathing, the slosh of the water, the roll of the waves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Now listen. You need to let me know if you feel any heaviness in your chest, or have any trouble breathing. So long as neither of those things happens, you should be fine.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stop, lean over, breathing hard, the short broken-off broom in my hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She stands so still I wonder if she is even breathing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

What they really needed was a nice long search without Madam Pince breathing down their necks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I was hardly breathing, waiting for the moment to pass, waiting for people to turn away, waiting for my teacher to start talking again when he suddenly cleared his throat and said— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How about this?” he asked, his breathing tight. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was half open, her breathing loud and low. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost stop breathing as his words sink in. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yet, however often they stopped and listened, all they could hear was their own breathing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I just sat on my bed, breathing, listening to the sounds of the party, and refreshing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard, but the look in his eyes was even harder. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cobb was still throttling the arms of her chair, but she was leaning back how and not breathing so heavily. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the workshop, which he shared with Melquíades’ mad laboratory, he could barely be heard breathing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They heard each other’s harsh breathing, they heard their footfalls, they heard the little stones their steps dislodged. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A well-executed suborbital flight would buy the United States a little breathing room; but orbital flight—the end game of Project Mercury— was infinitely more complex. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Minny came ever day to make sure I was still breathing, feed me food to keep me living. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In time, he heard his wife’s labored, rhythmic breathing and knew she was asleep. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her breathing turns deep and easy again, like the tide dragging across coarse sand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His hands and feet are ice-cold; his breathing is faint, almost undetectable. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Soon we were standing outside, breathing in the damp spring air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mom wraps her arms around me, her breathing jagged in my ear. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did get one alight, he lay down and tried breathing into the twigs, to keep them going. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He sat at home all day and held Sarah Ruth in his lap and rocked her back and forth and sang to her; on a bright morning in September, Sarah Ruth stopped breathing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

His breathing was regular and I thought he was asleep. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, breathing the same hot air under the comforter in and out, listening to the rattle of the air vent, I thought about the other significant thing about turning ten. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Next to him the swollen gutter ran like a stream, noisily; above it I could hear his hoarse breathing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rushed the grove together, kicking through drifts of old snow with no sound but their breathing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and steadied her breathing one two three, drank in the quiet, reached out with her hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That had been rough, getting used to breathing in the saltwater air. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed, and his breathing slowed against my neck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, I used to stare at the posters on the wall and try to block out the sound of his breathing while he waited for me to talk about my feelings. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“The boy reeks of iron. Spends all day handling it, baking it, breathing its smoke. Then comes in here with clever eyes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Bridge got to the light board at the back of the auditorium, breathing hard, Mr. Partridge was standing in front of it, scowling at the cue sheet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Hello? Is there anybody listening on this? Hello ...” He repeated it two or three times and then waited but heard nothing except his own breathing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the animals would stop breathing forever. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He could hear her breathing rapidly and her face was paled out and her eyes were fastened wide. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It twinkled and glinted, like breathing, the float slow like breathing too, and debris half submerged, healing out to the sea and the caverns and the grottoes of the sea. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bed of damp earth, her breathing slowed and that which separated herself from the swamp disappeared. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ron had given up completely, and was merely trying to avoid breathing in the putrid fumes issuing from his cauldron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I dashed back outside, breathing heavily, but Mr. Crabby turned and followed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a way of knowing people at a glance, adding up the possibilities for exchange, and it’s as necessary as breathing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But something he did not understand had stopped him and he stood, breathing gendy through his mouth to keep silent, letting his eyes and ears go out and do the work for him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She limped away, her breathing hard and ragged. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I’m breathing again I worry some more about Mr. Woodwell. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shaking, I press my face into Cheetah’s fur, breathing in her sweet-sour goat smell, wrapping my arms tightly around her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having this presence breathing down my neck was starting to annoy me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the night when he was sickest, when his pulse was almost gone and his breathing only a flutter, when I thought he was dying, I sat by his side and held his hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I can still feel it in my chest. It’s like it’s ready to tighten up any second to stop me from breathing.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As we walked, we concentrated on listening to our breathing, calculating the distance to the next landmark, and estimating the remaining time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he heard a noise and straightened; it seemed to him that his breathing was as loud as wind in a storm. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were still closed, his breathing heavy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I focus on my breathing, like we learned in yoga in PE, to keep myself from crying. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The breathing began to slow down, grow shallower. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Otto’s breathing slowed; I realized an unexpected miracle: I might sleep tonight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The certainty of the feeling was clear and bright and brown and lean and it hit me in my throat so that breathing became weeping. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her breathing slows, I doze off, and when I open my eyes again, I’m alone in my bed, left to wonder if it happened at all. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I did not mention how hard he was breathing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark woke up and rolled onto his side, his eyes fully open, his breathing heavy. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She heard her mother’s heavy breathing as she passed by her room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My breathing becomes deeper, more even, as we follow the route we determined this morning. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I lie there for a while, breathing in the smell of the wild roses and looking up at the branches of the sycamore tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You could try to be more friendly,” she says, “instead of sitting there, making a show of breathing. Both of you.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

My aunt was frozen and silent, and the only sound I could hear was her deep breathing. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There he paused, breathing hard, his ears straining for any sound below. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There were a few inches between them, but their breathing was matched, an even greater intimacy than touch. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Nina slowed her own breathing, forced her pulse lower, trying to calm herself, but she could do nothing to mute the riot in her head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was breathing heavily because she was carrying Mary Ann in her arms, and Mary Ann—for all of her pink cheeks and delicate features and excessive, stupid ffilliness—was incredibly heavy. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The dragon thought about it, breathing slowly, full of wrath. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the room she listened to her even breathing and knew right then and there that it didn’t matter what Clara’s reasons were for possessing Penelope. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Baba’s breathing had grown a little ragged, and he kept wiping sweat off his forehead and scalp with his handkerchief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought...I thought I killed you. You stopped breathing.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma sighed with satisfaction to see them both breathing. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped breathing, but the smell was still there. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no sound but Ob’s heavy breathing and an occasional snort from Cletus, whose nose had started to run. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mark heard his own breathing, heavy and strained. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After they’re both breathing evenly, I stay where I am, lying between them, staring out at those icicles. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The only sounds she heard were those of her own breathing and the pounding of her heart in her chest. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She is breathing hard, her breast move, her skin glow. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

An aftermath of a dead man was probably still lying on the flat, flat earth, breathing up the dirt till it lined his lungs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They looked like statues, except that they were breathing, but they were scarcely alive. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trotter was breathing as hard as if she had just climbed the stairs. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The younger children were rushed from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of the lamp turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's breathing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few more hours to keep breathing till he was here. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Matt really did have trouble breathing, but sometimes he only wanted to reassure himself that someone cared for him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You took that from Sirius’s house,” said Harry, who was almost nose to nose with Mundungus and was breathing in an unpleasant smell of old tobacco and spirits. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was as stiff as a board and had stopped breathing. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

No pawing, no heavy breathing, none of that; it would have been out of place, somehow, for him as well as for me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give him time to regain a somewhat regular breathing pattern. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After a while, I hear his breathing grow steady and see his head droop, and I know he’s fallen asleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard and I gave him water and told him not to die on me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, she listened to the sound of her own breathing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Men’s minds are messy places and Noise is like the active, breathing face of that mess. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Heaving, breathing in and out, each breath twinged with a high-pitched wheeze. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Vermont,” he said, breathing deep and slapping his chest, like Oliver Douglas in the opening sequence of “Green Acres.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Shame on you!” he scolded severely, breathing virtuous fire down and upward into his rusty mustache through his billowing nostrils and prim lips. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Already his breathing is easing up, and the wide-eyed panic in his face is receding. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was no space in me for breathing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju hugged her, both of them leaning into each other, hearing each other’s breathing, and it brought to Ifemelu a warm memory of Lagos. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Up, and up, and up, her heavy breathing and shuffling steps the only sounds. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He helped his mother to her feet while his father watched, fists clenched, still ready to fight, breathing loudly through his nose as his jaw muscles tensed and relaxed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Little Guy was breathing quickly as he looked at his father’s body on the ground. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Breathe—she had to remember to keep breathing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes fluttered shut, his breathing slowing down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before we entered, Mother said that she was unsure whether Maha was still breathing. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Months after the death of Madame Manec, Marie-Laure still waits to hear the old woman come up the stairs, her labored breathing, her sailor’s drawl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She could tell by the sound of his breathing that he was sleeping peacefully, deep in the straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

His breathing was labored; he mumbled and twice flayed his arms as if to shake some invisible attackers off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently; her breathing was painful to see or hear. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The dark passage outside the courtrooms was packed with tall, black-hooded figures, their faces completely hidden, their ragged breathing the only sound in the place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There must have been hundreds of them, all of them breathing, each of them as alive as he was, each with a white flower. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet in the room, I remember because I could hear Aunt Julia’s breathing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It emptied his lungs so completely that he could only begin breathing again by lying on his back and taking a series of deep gasps. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The sailor was now lying in my bed beneath a soft blanket, his breathing slow and steady. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Think of the tests, such repeated, remorseless, scandal- breathing tests, which day after day would be applied to you—until the last and certain day, when you would fail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up for a long time again with my face pressed to the steel mesh of the window, breathing clean air that cut my throat and lungs like a razor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was an immense sighing and moaning, like a subterranean bellows breathing in the lost catacombs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were one hundred twenty- five in all, and I could hear the labored breathing of my fellow travelers as we climbed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t speak for a moment—my throat tightened and I was having trouble breathing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was barely aware that he was breathing heavily. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had lain absolutely motionless, with no flicker of life except the faintest of breathing, for more than thirty-two hours. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Was that the last he spoke? When he called to you that the baby was breathing funny?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are all strangely quiet, listening to Checo's voice full of disclaimer, and when he falls silent, only to their own breathing as the hand of God draws closer. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as though the oxygen were leaving the room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there a hole in my head? Am I breathing?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They could stop your heart, slow your breathing, snap your bones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Just as Kendra returned her attention to the latest poem, Seth burst into the room, breathing hard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He knelt, breathing hard, and Anya decided now was as good a time as any to make her presence known. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Jaime removed the cord from around her neck, held her upside down and dangled her in the air, and with two resounding slaps introduced her into the suffering of life and the mechanics of breathing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the taste of salt and the heat of her breathing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mute the Director’s breathing and tapping until it disappears. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The tension in the air was thick; Thomas couldn’t hear anyone breathing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And I’m breathing heavy and heavy and heavy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I can hear Mai's soft breathing above me in the bunk bed, but otherwise the apartment is silent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard, exhaling three times for every breath he took. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The startled girl pulled each statement out as if it were a rare gift to be examined, breathing deeply after every sentence. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muscles in his neck bulge so much and he’s so red, I’m not sure he’s even breathing. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A spray of the dog’s slobber splashed on my face and I hit the ground hard, knocking my breathing right out of me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I say, breathing heavy and rubbing my knees with my hands. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The hut was filled with girls, big and small, and all the breathing noises made Nhamo feel safer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the inner part of the window there was a great green creature, breathing yellow and red flames and biting at the spear that a silver-clad demon thrust into him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held on even after Papa stopped breathing. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger waited motionless beside the bed until she was breathing regularly again, then leaned over her treasure chest with a deep sigh and put the book back under the others. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

From time to time, after her breathing tube was removed, someone would see her shape her lips, as if to sigh or speak. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard herself cry out and could hear her own breathing. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

You could say that the breathing of oxygen into the atmosphere was the result of evolution, or you could turn it around and say that evolution was the result of oxygen. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Holy Christ,” my dad said, gripping the steering wheel, all white-knuckled and breathing hard. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He just lay there staring at the window without even blinking, breathing the chill heady pure snowgleamed darkness. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could barely make out her silhouette in the dark, but she could hear her breathing. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleep I counted the stars and kept six on the individual breathing of each remaining member sleeping in their tents around me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I can tell the difference between my brothers’ breathing in their sleep. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother lay still and silent, but she was breathing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. But you’re still here, breathing and all. Well, briefly. No harm, no foul, Weedy. Continue.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Papas breathing was always noisy, but now he panted as if he were out of breath, and I wondered what he was thinking, if perhaps he was running in his mind, running away from something. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His adrenal gland, by degrees, ceased jumping its several secretions into his bloodstream; his heart slowed to normal, his breathing became less frantic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’s leaning back in her chair with her eyes closed, just breathing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When his breathing quieted and he stopped sobbing, I lifted his face and looked into his eyes, as brown as a shady pond after rain. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The window ledge where I once watched the soggy fairies and chilblained snowflakes, breathing in the smell of snakes and antiseptic and mice, is now empty air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down across from me, his breathing still heavy. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His tic was as natural to him as breathing and blinking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I climb to my feet and rest my hands on my knees, breathing hard and trying to keep the burn behind my nose from becoming tears. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I press a hand to my stomach, trying to slow my breathing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don't know if it’s the loud breathing or the footsteps, but when I open my eyes I’m as alert as I’d be in the middle of the day. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon sat back down, breathing like a winded rhinoceros and watching Harry closely out of the corners of his small, sharp eyes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He hoped it was only jitters, that his breathing would steady soon. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She heard Grandmother’s steady breathing from the mat behind her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was aware only of her grandmother’s cold, thin hand and the sound of her breathing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was breathing hard, my body wanting in a way that it never had before, in a way that I didn’t know it could. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I could hear my breathing echoing in my ears. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even with her eyes closed, she knew the exact moment when her sister fell asleep, knew it by the little sigh that came just before her breathing turned steady. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing nothing but slow, measured breathing, the young man walked softly to stand beside the bed and bent over the sleeping man. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My skin felt hot, my stomach dropped, and I had trouble breathing again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was standing there in her nightdress, breathing deeply of the daybreak air. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I plopped down in a chair and let my breathing return to normal. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you hear, boy, or are you just tired of breathing?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shorty needed more than a minute to start breathing semiregularly; then he tilted a little onto his side and heaved and flopped back again, his eyes fixed on the starry sky. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss used to punish Luke by dunking his head in the bathtub, and one of the adopted kids claimed Mrs. Moss held her head underwater for several minutes until she had trouble breathing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Yet long after Shae had taken his advice, Tyrion himself still lay awake, his fingers cupped over one small breast as he listened to her breathing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were birds outside, and some kind of cricket, and Mary was breathing quietly in her sleep nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We gather at the foot of the ladder, waiting for our eyes to adjust to the dim strips of lights, breathing in the mixture of chemicals, mildew, and sewage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Soon he was breathing as peacefully as a baby. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I laid on Wishbone’s pillow on the floor beside the bed, breathing in his doggy smell, and I cried until I fell asleep. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When Frodo was asleep Sam bent over him and listened to his breathing and scanned his face. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They held each other in the dark, saying nothing, their breathing regular until finally they drifted into a state of half sleep and half wakefulness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But finally the water cleared from Derek’s throat and the coughing stopped, though his breathing was still ragged. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he should run home, and he listened to his footsteps hitting the sidewalk pavement, loud thumping, one after the other, in rhythm with his breathing, like he was inside of a wind tunnel. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Her pulse was frantic, her breathing ragged, and it seemed impossible that people could live at all with such flimsy stuff as skin keeping blood, breath, and spirit safe inside their bodies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She goes quiet for a while, the sound of her breathing the only clue she’s still behind me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I giggled and rubbed his birthmark until his breathing deepened. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lancelot was breathing heavily and looking upon the Queen with a fixed stare. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t have wood or kindling, they curled against one another, barely touching, but by morning, they’d be pressed together, breathing in tandem, cocooned in muzzy sleep, a single crescent moon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, the air was full of fumes; breathing was painful and difficult, and a dizziness came on them, so that they staggered and often fell. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he leans in, breathing heavy, looking into my eyes, and his lips touch mine. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s so fast, it’s a wonder I’m still breathing at all. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stilled, felt his eyes widen, his breathing stop for a long moment. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They were breathing too loud, and their pulses thumped in their ears, so Grandma’s response was hard to hear. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the same instant, breathing in, he felt the air change, and his very breath was cold. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there’s a breathing in the black, for these huge things that control the day and inhabit the night are living things and have presence, and perhaps feeling, and, somewhere in deep-down perception, perhaps communication. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise to give you a tour later, when all the excitement is over,” Og said, his breathing a bit labored. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wait for her to say I’m not the right one either, but we just stand there breathing in that flour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But she seemed so peaceful at the moment, breathing softly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Shielding his eyes with his hand, he fired the full clip in his automatic toward the sound of the Laughing Man’s heavy, sibilant breathing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I have to take pills to help digest my food and perform breathing treatments. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She slipped between the trees, keeping her breathing soft, following the sound till it became more pronounced. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. D. C. Taylor, a frequent visitor to the fair, called Krupp’s biggest gun “a fearful hideous thing, breathing of blood and carnage, a triumph of barbarism crouching amid the world’s triumphs of civilization.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was still alive—green and shivering, barely breathing, but alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“When the father went to Pete’s—the Optimist’s—room, he couldn’t see Pete, but he could hear the sound of frantic shoveling and heavy breathing. Horse dung was flying all over the room.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s breathing for you,” Abby says as my chest expands again. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He crossed his limp wrists in his lap and hardly seemed to be breathing as he sat with his gaze drooping toward the floor in acquiescent defeat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But it still smells terrible, so I stop breathing out of my nose and only breathe from my mouth. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

All sounds of breathing stopped, eight hearts pounded. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I say, breathing a sigh of relief, but Sneaky doesn’t notice. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The only sound in the bedroom was his own breathing. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can breathing be solemn? It’s just breathing.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders sat in his chair, breathing hard and trembling with rage. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A new kinda energy runs thru me and I make myself sit up, ignoring the pain and bringing myself forward and breathing till I can think about standing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had been breathing through a straw and was finally able to use his whole airway to inhale again. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The quiet bubbling of the pond and his slightly heavier breathing are the only sounds in the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"How could I not? Look at them things. Honestly, TJ, don't even know how you breathing right now," Jasmine continued. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The scent of her hair, the feel of her skin, the sound of her breathing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

All there is is the girl with the sunshine hair and the killer voice breathing and being in front. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had heard of things you ought to do to people, breathe into their mouths or pump their arms up and down, somehow, but he thought that if Hooper was sick he must be breathing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I panted, breathing in air that still had the smoke in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then it became a part of our routine: my arm around him, his little hand on my arm, and soon his sonorous breathing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were breathing hard by the time we reached the shipwreck. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Cool, silent, hairless Ted, whose breathing pattern didn’t alter one bit in the height of passion? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noises grew louder and more distinct, the clack of wood on wood, and as they grew closer they heard heavy breathing as well, and now and then a grunt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She studied his face and listened to his even breathing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, Redemption’s breathing began to slow. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Saint Christopher is probably breathing a sigh of relief. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The first row seemed to have more headroom and breathing area, but the second and third rows beneath them were already slimy with waste. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Beverly was crying, which was almost as terrifying as Louisiana not breathing. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as I see him breathing heavy and steady I get up, go to Smitty, and I tell him that it’s after eight o’clock. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His feet were blocks of cement, his legs were rubber bands, and his mouth was clenched so tightly that he was breathing only through his nose—but it wasn’t breathing, really. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Sierra wasn’t sure if she was breathing or not. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My chest feels tight, like I’m having trouble breathing. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s never seen anything like it—the smooth muscles, the indentations of flesh, the breathing, bleeding life of it, all carved by Giambologna out of marble. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment there was no sound but that tortured breathing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Edith’s breathing was shallow and pained, but she wordlessly nudged her brother forward. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Naheed could hear her own exaggerated breathing inside her head like she was inside a wind tunnel. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t hear nothing but your breathing and your hollering.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Lucy,” she said, breathing heavy and talking slowly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then heavy breathing like the howl of the wind rushed toward them, and then a paw the size of a small car emerged from the foggy darkness of the valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Doha was breathing hard, trying desperately to reach the group that was now stopped in front of Sunjin’s house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A new breathing technique is required, one in which the astronaut pants like a dog, and takes many short quick breaths “off the top” of his lungs, and never allows them to become completely deflated. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to feel the breathing pain at my side. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their breathing surrounded her, their bodies warmed the air, their movements formed a barrier between her and the dark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I’d sit on top of the bus if I could, to avoid breathing the same air as him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A shrub was growing at the gate of their compound and he parked near it, his chest rising and falling, his breathing loud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s another difference between us, Mr. Scoresby. A witch would no sooner give up flying than give up breathing. To fly is to be perfectly ourselves.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their clothes were torn, and they were frightened; they came up the platform and stood near him, breathing hard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It took an hour just to get to Seventieth Street, and by then Bri was having difficulty breathing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She stopped suddenly and Milkman could hear her breathing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” said Harry, still breathing rather faster than usual, while his heart rate returned to normal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was over not long after that, both of them in the back of truck and her breathing so hard it sounded like she might be crying. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Will the police shoot me because I don’t know how to stop breathing? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Crouched just beyond the reach of the light, Tanin fought to steady her breathing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My chest rises and falls, which is the only way I know I’m still breathing and standing here in the middle of my room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I lean against the door, breathing hard with relief. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s like my sickness was invented out of the much-too-thin air that I’m breathing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped and put her hands on her back, breathing heavily. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like breathing—something that happens over which I have no control. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“See? She needs something to brighten up her day, make her forget the plaid tyrant breathing down her neck.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He checked Derek one more time, made certain his breathing was regular and his heart was beating steadily, and then moved off down the side of the lake, looking for wood. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She asked if he was breathing, and I asked Mom, and she said no, and the whole time this totally incongruous soul song was crooning tinnily through his earbuds. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There are no words from Lee Lee, only the sound of her breathing. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My breathing falls in time with my mother’s, with the tempo of the waves outside. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longer I sat motionless, breathing deeply, trying to inhale the last scent of the fallen world, the more I resented its continuing solidity. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of the physicians in the room, Dr. Ezra Abbott, makes notes on Lincoln’s condition: 6:30—still failing and labored breathing. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It breathes, in the warmth, breathing itself in. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always a shock to the system to reenter it; just to read a chapter she finds she has to slow down her breathing and go into a trance, like a hibernating bear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We sat eating pistachios and breathing salt air. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as we did, Mom dropped my duffel bag and wrapped her arms around me and kissed me on my head and on my face like she was breathing me in. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The truth was, I could no sooner quit cello cold turkey than I could stop breathing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very core of him, die very center of Brian Robeson was stopped and stricken with a white-flash of horror, a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, and nearly his heart had stopped. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of their breathing seemed to die in the cold, lifeless air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tnis garden looks like a jungle,” he said, breathing very close to her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the gentle bodies of white babies breathing against me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stood there staring at this sight, breathing in the stench of the muck fire, and I started to get the feeling. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat feels raw, like I was breathing through my mouth all night, and my heart whirs like an overwound motor on a toy car. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of twenty yards. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she wasn’t agitated, the girl was a sullen pair of eyes staring from under the blanket, breathing out short little answers to Mariam and Rasheed’s questions. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each dragon was spitting a stream of water instead of breathing fire. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually we drifted off, the whispers of breeze-blown branches and the breathing of horses gentling us to sleep. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And I lay not in Osh’s bed but on the floor alongside my own, unhappy that the rain on the roof, rapping its wet fingers on the window-panes, made it impossible to hear him breathing. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As he’d looked around for a good place, he’d found the den, filled with three cold, stiff kit bodies and one little ball of gray fur still warm and breathing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With closed eyes, barely breathing I warded off the pain. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly picking it up, all I heard was my own breathing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her hard breathing had heated up the inside of the mask, her forehead sweating, the adhesive crawling as it tried to stay attached. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I looked to the right I heard her breathing stop, trying to swallow the tears. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I carried the heap of leaves, pressing them to my nose in anticipation, breathing in their strong scent, a scent that seemed sweet at one moment and pungent the next. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man like Littlefinger. You ought to know that, you of all people." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She hears Madame Manec’s raspy breathing, and the deep sounding of the sea among the rocks, and the calls of someone down the beach echoing off the high walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Gradually his breath subsided until he could no longer hear it and then he knew for certain that Bessie was not breathing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could smell shampoo and hear breathing that reminded me of a restless panther. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment slows, and I can hear us breathing. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought you must know about it!” said Narcissa, breathing more freely. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to ease myself back into normal breathing, but I imagined all the things that could have happened to him at war. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was as though her ghost hovered before him, breathing the heavy fumes of whiskey into his face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear Trotter’s heavy breathing at the other end of the line. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I cried out loud only a little, because soon my flesh began to burst inside and out and cut off my breathing air. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange, the languorous, limp hand coming to rest at her side while her breathing was coming so quick and fast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the greatest sorcerer in the world,” said Harry, breathing fast. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I matched my breathing with my shovel stabs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The whole world except me is asleep and the only sound is him breathing heavy. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was breathing fast, scared and panicky, her eyes going from the blade to him and back again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear his heart beating and he was breathing fast; something was shaking in his belly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing was quick, and so was his pulse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I started breathing like I had been running for a hundred miles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, and after repeated assurances that I was who I said I was, he fell on his back again, breathing hard. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They walked to the edge of the school yard, and then stood outside in the clear air, in the sun, breathing the fragrance of fresh wet snow and new bread, crusty and warm. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were still half open, her breathing still regular. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The silence was so complete that they could hear the unevenness of Piggy's breathing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I sat beside him for almost an hour in the hot sun while he rested quietly, his breathing not so harsh now. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching her helps me fight the desire to call my son just to listen to him breathing. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyelids were fluttering, and her breathing had deepened into a snore. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her from the open door, her small body hooked up to large machines that do the job of breathing for her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Their breathing formed a single cloud of steam that drifted up, floating away over the banks of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd quieted down until the only sound was the reverend’s breathing, amplified by the microphone just inches from him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was just the two of us in the front room, him breathing or fussing or pulling at his bottle, and me thinking about what I would say at the trial. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I slip into my seat, trying to quiet my breathing so Mrs. Robins don’t turn around from the chalkboard. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She suspects he takes his hearing aids out on purpose, to get a little needed distance from the sound of her just being and breathing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Quickly, Nina checked Inej’s pulse and breathing, relieved to find that she seemed to be stable for now. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Estha could see nothing, but he could hear the sound of rasping, labored breathing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he was running away from a house that had pictures of long-dead people on the walls breathing down on him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He remained that way, breathing hard with peevish anger. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breathing’s getting faster and his eyes have gotten wavy with desire. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The man happened to be next to me on the right, and I took his head on my knees to give him relief in breathing: so he died. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had trouble breathing because he suffered from tuberculosis. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Princess Shireen was wrapped in so many furs that she looked round, breathing in white puffs through the scarf that covered most of her face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ivy stood next to her, breathing in and out, but the panic was filling her up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We stood staring at one another, breathing heavily and waiting for the other to make a move. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He dreamed about that place in the past, and about a red blanket that was warm and moved rhythmically like breathing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We walk down toward the homestead on cat feet, quiet except for the sound of our breathing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When his breathing grew deep and rhythmic, I got up and tiptoed out of the room. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Through the gentle sounds of water, Dicey could hear their breathing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the letter for a long time, breathing in and out, my world coming apart one piece at a time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“We were trying to get him breathing again.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I awoke several times to gasps and flights of movements and murmurs that it had happened again, he’d stopped breathing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By the time the first light of the sun crept into the cave, Dragon’s breathing was rough; when Minli shook him, he did not wake up. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan focused on his own breathing so he didn’t telegraph his emotions the way Citra had. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All he could hear was the breathing of the soldiers. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he had trouble breathing, which was why he couldn't hold his own night fishing with the others on the better section of the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavily through the nostrils and his ginger brush cut was beaded with droplets of condensed mist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I just sit there, barely breathing, waiting for him to assign me to the perfect partner. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Amil is breathing so deeply, only an earthquake would wake him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Assume Shakespeare’s account is accurate and Julius Caesar gasped “You too, Brutus” before breathing his last. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sat quietly on the bed, his hand on his chest, breathing hard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He kept squinting at the sun and breathing hard. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was breathing hard, and my tongue wouldn’t stay in my mouth. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

His breathing grew less and less heavy and rapid until he could no longer hear it, then so slow and steady that the consciousness of breathing left him entirely. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if she could hear the trees breathing—the trees, the grass, the night itself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A minute of silence passed, during which Sierra struggled to slow her breathing, ease her heaving chest. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I am expressing my feelings, Johnny. That is what being a living, breathing human being is all about. Hello?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was breathing hard, her eyes wild, her cheeks flushed, her hair held back only by a pencil she’d stuck behind her ear two hours ago and clearly forgotten about. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I cursed and got to my feet, breathing heavily. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear him breathing heavily, and the mix of food and really strong deodorant was making me nauseous. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As I knelt at the feet of the oak, my breathing grated like a rusty saw. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She brings me lemon balm tea to settle my nerves and starts cleaning up the mess, breathing hard with effort and fear, muttering about how she knew it, that thieves are lurking around every comer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy was sleeping gently, but her breathing was stronger; I could see the counterpane move as her breast heaved. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Singing had come easier than breathing to him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something inside his brain was still pulsating and he was breathing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not our cow, but Tam’s — Tam Bywater’s cow — mangy, ribs showing, and breathing like bellows, a beast not worth the price of its hide. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, I realized that my heart wasn’t pounding and my breathing had slowed down. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When breathing was easier and the pain of effort but a dull ache, Robin rose to go on. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment she sat, looking at the creased paper, listening to the two children breathing in the bed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

So motionless that it seems they are not even breathing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“There,” he said to no one, and stood breathing for a second. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s breathing was steady, the way it got before she started snoring. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emma put her hand over her mouth to silence her breathing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Today we have taken you in among us. Had we denied you, count on it, you would not be breathing now!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gabilan’s breathing was quiet at last; the hole in his throat moved gently. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent their days breathing in toxic coal dust and asbestos, which they brought home to their wives and daughters, who inhaled it while shaking the men’s clothes out for the wash. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

You talking about another chance to breathe some air 5 other guys ain't breathing. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need my oxygen mask or breathing medicine anymore. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marly stood on the porch, breathing the flowery smells and looking at the bright stars. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Hayes was now on her knees, breathing hard, and the sleep on her breath stung my nostrils. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When they returned to the scales, Seabiscuit wasn’t even breathing hard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything—my hands, my lips, my brain—everything but my breathing stopped. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was unconscious, but he was still breathing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We somehow managed to stand silently, scarcely breathing, not wanting to draw attention to ourselves. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I just sat there breathing heavily through my nose. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the silence I heard May’s breathing grow loud and a little ragged. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her paintings feel organic to me, like breathing abstractions of color. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peace finally came to him and he setded his breathing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her eyes had remained closed and her breathing was irregular. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I am breathing hard and fast, and it feels like someone's hands are wrapped around my neck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Though she will not complain, I know that a pain in her side often troubles her, making her breathing difficult.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It must have been at least seventy jumps each before the output began to slacken.“Other side,” Kendra gasped, breathing hard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Claire tried hard to make the face back to him, but it was difficult; she was breathing hard and could feel tears rising hotly behind her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sound of their breathing echoed until it seemed to surround them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to laugh. I love how prom is on the list right after freedom and breathing.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was a matter in part of posture and breathing, but even more so of soul. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was his own breathing he heard; he had been breathing so loud that he had not been able to tell if Bessie was still breathing or not. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a while he stopped trembling and his breathing returned to normal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room quiets, and their soft breathing and Suma’s gel swooshing become the only noise. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She heard his words like a melody and she felt herself breathing unevenly, gulping at the air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He half expected Wylan wouldn’t follow, but he could hear the merchling behind him, breathing hard, a low whistle in his lungs as they pounded toward the next stack of barrels. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I looked outside at Mrs. O’Leary, who was breathing against the glass doors and smearing them with hellhound drool. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was more tuned in to the audience than to the speaker, and if for the last five minutes of her talk anyone was breathing, I could not detect it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were rolled back and she didn’t seem to be breathing. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he stands there, breathing it in, looking all around. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But his temperature had dropped and his breathing was normal and his heart beat was strong and steady. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fat boy stood by him, breathing hard. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sound of my breath comes to me, a disembodied gasping, as if it’s someone else breathing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s only the sound of my breathing, the enormous effort it takes to draw the water in, push it out of my lungs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I stopped and leaned ’gainst a tree, waiting for my breathing to catch up to me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, and she wasn’t just breathing in the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The minute we turned onto the road, my heart started pounding and my breathing got shallow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kept breathing hard and held his arms around his own middle. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the railing next to Toby, breathing hard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her children slept peacefully beside her; Timothy’s breathing was quiet and easy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their soft spirit footsteps, so vague I could mistake them for my own breathing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the hall, he leaned against the wall, breathing deeply. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The driver rolls his shoulders and lights up a cigarette, breathing a gray cloud out through his nostrils like fog in the cool morning air. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline was sitting so still that Ma raised her index finger under her nose to make sure she was breathing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

For a minute he fought quite hard; then he lay still, breathing fast and shallow. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He kept them moving—though they might well have been paddling in a circle—and she kept both of them breathing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

From all the fast breathing going on you’da thought the five other scared people had come back and brought a couple of scared friends with them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The brownstone walls pulsed from the twinkling Christmas tree, making the walls look like they were breathing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I stand at the threshold, listening to my own breathing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Is she worried that Branwell will be able to speak and tell the agency that Nikki was breathing funny when he found her?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like it was too much coming at you all at once, like it would steal your breathing away from you. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She needs only the floor exercises, the breathing drill. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was breathing regularly, and her breath was sweet. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was holding on to his left arm and breathing hard. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He could hear Henry breathing hard behind them, hurrying to keep up. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was breathing heavily, her pupils fixed to a peeling spot on the wall. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was hard to find adequate space to run and stretch and even harder to find a quiet corner for my breathing and mantra ritual. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A breeze pushes its way through tiny breathing holes in the glass carriage, carrying with it the scent of the sky. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My breathing’s open, flowing, and I barely feel my feet touching down. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Another soldier touched the man’s neck and wrist to make sure he was breathing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night Jaime slept fitfully and uneasily, uncomfortable in his sleeping bag as he listened to his niece breathing close beside him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give the pot to the cook and linger, breathing in the sweet air, marveling at the brightness of it all. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He remembered it, lying here in the Massachusetts bed and breathing fast now, now that peace and quiet had fled again. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat quietly, silently, suspended, breathing the good warm air, the smoke, the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned her brow into her upper arm, calming her breathing, willing her body to ease. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But Siddhartha’s hands and feet, his eyes, his brow, his breathing, his smile, his greeting, his gait affect me differently from his thoughts. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d finally gotten the hang of breathing through my oxygen rig and had moved more than an hour ahead of my nearest companion. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He paced in front of me, breathing like a bull. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Bigger could hear their hard breathing; he knew that they were excited. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds all I hear is both of us breathing hard. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I woke up again and again that night, but I didn’t hear Joseph moving or breathing or dreaming. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I hear the breathing, the clearing of throats, the accidental springing up of a seat as the audience adjusts and the conductor lifts his baton to begin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His response to the mounting demands was not to reorder priorities to give his staff and graduate students some breathing space, but to add a late-night shift to keep the cyclotron running around the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her face was flushed, and I was breathing fast. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He laughed and kissed her softly, breathing in jasmine and coconut. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His breathing was shaky, but when Jam joined him, it steadied a little, and eventually he sat upright, his hands knotted together against his thighs. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The giant appeared even larger up close than it had from the shore, and peering down into its dark throat, I swore I could almost hear old Cuthbert breathing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were closed, and her breathing sounded like there was a weight on her chest. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And he said, “Caught you just in time,” and he was breathing really loud and holding his knees. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned his ear against the door, his breathing heavy and deep, his eyes closed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I get to class, I settle into my seat, breathing hard like I just finished a race. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But I would have given anything for a crowded bed with my brothers and sisters sleeping and breathing next to me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While in this state of weary anticipation, she noticed that she was not breathing, that her heart had stopped completely. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like breathing and swallowing, crying comes automatically to most kids, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even now she was inside, breathing a sigh of relief to finally be rid of me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was gasping loud whilst he waited for his breathing to catch ahold of him so’s he could do a proper job of chopping me up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I stared at her, my eyes filling with tears, as she stood there breathing heavily. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Seven looked for any sign of life, of breathing, but from this far away, she couldn’t tell. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wove back down the walkway and ducked behind a stack of crates, breathing hard. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Despite this second blow, after a few minutes the stricken man gasped violendy and began breathing again. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And as Mom and I stood there, I curled into her, breathing in her dark chocolate smell. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a habit, I guess,” said Yossarian, breathing again with relief. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can feel her breathing on my face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It felt like breathing air after being suffocated. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I just thought that could have been a breathing tube or somethin’,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard that dogs could smell fear, even detect changes in a human’s breathing and heartbeat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hopped through the cold ankle-deep water, then leaped over the small knee-high whitewash, splashing everywhere with my hands and breathing in the salty air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One man was dead, his blood and brains crusting Lorren’s longaxe, but the second was still breathing raggedly, though Grimtongue’s spear had pinned him to the ground in a spreading pool of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We stay there for a minute, breathing in her familiar smells of baby powder and coconut hair oil. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beside me, Nero tensed his long black body and twitched his tail, his green eyes wide with curiosity.Georgie was still breathing hard from running to warn me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He lay curled on one side, listening as Crane-man’s breathing slowed and evened in the rhythm of sleep. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

After ’while he quit drinking and started breathing regular. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as predicted, his fever was lower, his breathing grew easier, and his heartbeat slowed down; still, that day he slept seven hours out of each eight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wait inside the fifth- floor door until my breathing is back under control. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Save for the quick, deep breathing of the four people, the room was quiet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I checked her breathing over and over for a long time until she woke up, agitated. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Baudelaire children, alone in the kitchen, found themselves breathing heavily, as if they had just run a long distance. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I took a seat near the window, breathing normally for the first time all afternoon. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was absolute silence in that room then, except they were both breathing hard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The breathing continued, sickly and uneven, but Sierra couldn’t pinpoint where it came from. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The metal in front of them was vibrating, as if it was breathing. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I need to listen to your breathing,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I crouch in the bedroom, in the dark, wrapped in Jon’s old sleeping bag, listening to the wheezing sound of Sarah breathing and the whisper of sleet against the window. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard, and Sergeant Simpson was still holding him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell by his breathing he was out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in the top layer of sand, and the little casts and breathing holes and invisible movements showed that the whole landscape was aquiver with life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beneath him, Lowry’s breathing changed into panicked, shotgun spurts. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He heard laughter and when he looked around the corner of the boulder, his heart went numb in his chest, and he wasn’t aware of his own rapid breathing any more. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was stuffy; one had trouble breathing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slept during the day, curled up next to each other, waking only at the sounds of footsteps above, holding still and barely breathing, until the footsteps faded and they were alone again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His reaction had caught me so completely by surprise that I had quite literally stopped breathing, and now I found myself gasping for breath. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I suddenly felt ill, and I was also having a difficult time breathing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I think of my Liars burning, in their last few minutes, breathing smoke, their skin alight. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I was struck by a wave of nausea and had to immediately cover my face with my hands and concentrate on my breathing. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But I wait, kept awake by the thought of bodies hitting pavement, until his grip loosens and his breathing steadies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks, Jam signed, smiling as she gave Malachite a quick hug, breathing in the smell of yeast and flour. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Since the galleries are all locked down at night, mainly her job is to check, every hour or so, that every inmate is still breathing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He coughed out water and started breathing air, but it forced all his flesh and blood to his upper body. That’s why his chest is so thick and his legs are so skinny.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gurgles water with every breath, but he’s still breathing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I rolled from underneath the dog’s legs, then rolled twice more and laid in the dirt waiting for my breathing to catch back up to me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She sucked in air and screamed, and he grabbed her hair and pulled her away from him, and she stumbled and went down, and then he was standing over her, breathing hard, shaking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

About two in the morning I went in, listened for his breathing, and did not hear it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There are medicines here to treat your breathing and pain.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“My chest gets tight sometimes and it’s like breathing through pudding.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we have a test, I can hear his breathing get fast. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a note of insinuation in his voice, and I looked up from tying my shoe, breathing with conscious evenness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood with my hands on my knees for a while until my breathing returned to normal, but I knew I’d have to get back soon. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The spy sat Soppily, mouth still open, breathing deeply. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was softly breathing his life away, the dark blood flowing down his skin of snow and his eyes growing heavy and dim. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered watching her youngest through the portholes in the incubator, nearly pressing her nose to the glass to be sure Izzy was still breathing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since eating has always been a given for me, he treats it like breathing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and concentrated on breathing. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt herself swinging dangerously close to tears and slowed her breathing, keeping an icy stare on her mom. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His breathing deepened into a gentle snore, as if he’d been asleep for hours. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There, as she wept and trembled, a soft breath of air came through the stillness to her, the gentle breathing of Zephyr, sweetest and mildest of winds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squirmed away in honor, kicking at the sheets and falling to the floor, breathing raggedly, naked, bloodied, and afraid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve been breathing in smoke since I got to Garden Heights. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Looking back, I see Stella breathing heavily, struggling to catch her breath. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Alice had pulled Sister Fenella back into her armchair, but the old nun hadn’t woken, and her breathing was loud and difficult. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s hot enough in here without an extra body breathing on me. What did your mother say before she left?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing loudly through his nose, searching the room with wide eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Emma handed me the breathing tube, and we passed it among us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We were the only things breathing or moving. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could hear the way his breathing changed as I spoke. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I waited, rocked him until his breathing slowed and his body slackened. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Which explains why for a period of time previously considered humanly impossible, I maintain my life force without benefit of breathing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Liam was breathing hard, his fists balled up at his sides. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For a time he hung suspended, hardly breathing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard, as if he’d been running a race. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His mother’s breathing—in and out, in and out—was a soothing rhythm, and it helped to distract him from the mounting dread inside of him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Talking about breathing in front of me\\” she said shrilly, and her voice echoed loudly around the bathroom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now he screamed, with the pain and fear, and skittered on his backside up into the comer of the shelter, breathing through his mouth, straining to see, to hear. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had washed out the dust, leaving the air so clean and pure that it was like breathing in fight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her chest rose and fell with animal breathing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My feet slap against the floor noisily, my breathing coming in frantic gasps. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But except for the quiet snuffling of the children, a man’s persistent hacking cough, and Rachel’s labored breathing, no one made a sound. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the number five seat, Stub McMillin realized with astonishment that he was still breathing through his nose after three full miles of rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He felt the adder breathing, its cold exhalations carrying the sweet musty odor of death stirring his whiskers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was as though she had gone away, leaving a breathing doll to conceal her absence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had red splotches on his cheeks and was breathing rapidly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people die, she explained, they stop breathing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The air’s so dry that breathing burns my nostrils. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Kochu Maria sawed up the rest of the cake messily, laboriously, breathing through her mouth, as though she was carving a hunk of roast lamb. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joey stared hard at Dallas and then closed his eyes and stopped breathing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But the real point of the story—” From her breathing it was evident that she was going off to sleep again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I just let the sounds of soldiers’ breathing fill the night. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

So Tree-ear learned about his master from others, from watching, from breathing the very air of his work, but never by hearing a word from Min himself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I can hear my own breathing, the blood pumping in my ears. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I sat there quietly, trying not to shiver, and eventually Denna’s breathing leveled off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He heard the man’s heavy breathing mixed with his own, the solid thumps of their feet pounding the steps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His breathing was regular but heavy, interrupted with an occasional sigh. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny puppy, motionless but for its labored breathing, lay in the curve of her belly, the way any puppy would. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He clearly had a good grasp on his own abilities if he was voluntarily diving into people’s minds—the question should have come as naturally as breathing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Their faded uniforms look spectral in the dimness, and their breathing seems synchronized, and the effect is ghostly and unnerving. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a long pause, and slowly Snape regained control of himself, mastered his own breathing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And way more than Shakespeare’s—I mean, Franny had been with us, breathing and walking and eating and laughing, and shedding skin. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was no noise except for the whoosh of my breathing and the rushing of my own heartbeat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, I have trouble breathing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I lie on the bed holding the string cheese and the DVD with Mom’s words on it, just breathing. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I fumble around the henna table and make it three tables over to a clothes rack, with as much nonchalance as one can muster when one’s breathing is wheezy for no physical reason. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The kite seemed to glow and vibrate as if it were alive and breathing in my fathers hands. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in the pool for his reflection, but his breathing troubled the mirror. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Researchers were breathing in the air around HeLa cells, touching them and transferring them from vial to vial, even eating lunch at lab tables beside them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the physicians gave up their tinkering and simply monitored Lincoln’s heartbeat, temperature, and breathing. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing was warm on her neck and he was very still. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Yeah . . ." He was breathing heavy, and it was wonderful. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She felt cut away from him, each of them living and breathing in separate spheres, he bored and spiritless in Nsukka, she bored and spiritless in Lagos, and everything curdled in lethargy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I loved how tightly he held me, the soft in-out of his breathing, and how I didn’t feel the need to look over my shoulder when he was here. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Orr was breathing rhythmically with a noise that was stertorous and repulsive. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They both put their hands over their mouths, breathing shallowly as stink enveloped them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I could hear his breathing and it was getting heavy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, no doubt, Minerva will sit a long while by her Minou and absorb the music of her breathing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t find one, but Harvey was still warm, so he put his ear to Harvey’s mouth to try to sense any breathing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He turned her on her side in his arms; he was breathing hard and his body trembled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He held his breath, afraid that merely breathing on the rock would spoil its healing effect. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I lay for a second, breathing heavy, coughing but keeping my eyes peeled. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say anything about his lips in her hair, or the fact that his breathing had gone ever so slightly ragged. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Not that you could do much breathing in the stinging January air. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stopped breathing when I saw Fred’s hand wrapped around the huge snail shell, his thin wrist and bulky watch. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Bad news screamed around him, so he couldn’t hear me breathing, hot and hard, behind him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Omer stood behind her and she heard his breathing as they viewed the same piece. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed almost asleep, her breathing slow and rhythmic, but then her eyes snapped open and she said, “Lindsey, I sure missed seeing you. I missed holding this hand.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I knew babies sometimes needed a little whack to get them breathing, but I didn’t think I could bring myself to thump this precious little life. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gradually, his breathing returned to normal and he was able to look at her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran leaning forward, my arms and legs like pistons, head straight and still, hands loose, breathing controlled. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

My thinking and breathing and living engine slowed down and flooded. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was long minutes curled around herself just breathing, her throat raw, eyes squeezed shut, before she could even face the truth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It expanded and contracted like it was breathing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I follow Mr. Gideon down another hallway for quite some time, the sound of our breathing loud in the enclosed space. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We move, balancing it as though it were something infinitely precious, our faces averted, breathing through our teeth to keep our nostrils closed. As I Lay Dying 1930-10-06T00:00:00Z

My breathing got louder, and the footsteps stopped. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I leave behind choking white smoke, but even so, it stings my throat, my eyes, my breathing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the open road!” exclaimed the Humbug, breathing deeply, for he now seemed happily resigned to the trip. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, another boat appeared, this time a massive dugout canoe, a pirogue heading downstream filled with racks of drying fish, one of the rows still wet and glistening and breathing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed past Dad’s office and went to my parents’ bedroom door, turning the knob slowly, pushing the door open, careful not to make any noise, barely even breathing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can feel the disappointment seeping into me, and relief breathing out of me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She was still having difficulty breathing, and tears were running down her cheeks and neck, staining her blouse. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run faster than I can possibly run, like I’m breathing adrenaline instead of air. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned, he discovered that she was still breathing. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He found that by breathing deeply, he avoided gasping as the water rose around his chest. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She squeezes so hard I stop breathing for a second. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing heavy. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As the Tillermans, breathing in gasps, were passing the playground, a dusty green pickup swung into the road that circled before the school entrance. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment I heard my mother breathing evenly. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Madness. You children have no self-preservation instincts at all. It’s a wonder any of you are still breathing.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed to ease the ache of my breathing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he closed his eyes and lay still, except for his breathing, which was very fast and light, like a small animal that has been running. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha sat upright and learned to save his breath, to manage with little breathing, to hold his breath. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off to his left, he could hear the soft sound of Rickon's breathing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I lay there in the dark for a while, breathing rapidly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We exhaled quietly, afraid that our own breathing could cause our death. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On December 21, in the early morning hours, he stopped breathing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Apart from their helmets sad encumbrances and the difficulty of breathing, they had to be dressed in their suits by kind and careful aasatapls. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be a bit snug, but it didn’t impede his breathing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I sank onto a bench and tried to steady my breathing. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she was questioned her eyes widened until the whites showed all around the pupils and her breathing stopped and her body grew rigid and her cheeks reddened from holding her breath. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were all breathing the same air as the yellow girl. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But the strangest thought occurred to me only last: I was breathing. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing slowly and deeply, audibly; his eyes were blinking. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, Cal’s wheezy breathing was the only sound between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the gate, and Moss fell gently into her arms, wrapping his arms around his mama and breathing into her chest. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were no footprints to be seen, and the only sounds I heard were those of my breathing and my footsteps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She lay listening to Rachel’s even breathing and heard in her memory the sounds of birds in the spring woods. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I held on to my breathing and chunked with my right hand and passed stones into it with my left. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any signs that she was breathing. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down against the side of the crate, arms around his knees, listening to her breathing, listening for sounds of pursuit, and waiting for her to wake. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The receptionist opens the last door in the hallway, and I swear, I stop breathing. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I turned so my face was resting in the crook of his neck and I was breathing in his clean, woodsy smell. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Because Boukreev wasn’t breathing supplemental oxygen, he had apparently decided to strip his load down to the bare minimum to gain every possible advantage in the appallingly thin air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor discharges me three days later, on the condition I return daily to have my dressings changed and breathing monitored. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt his body right next to mine and his breathing got stronger and stronger. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You went trespassing at the mayor’s? Near as I figure, you’re lucky to still be breathing.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The mere breathing of so many is enough. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My insides are cold from breathing in frozen air. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see where he was hit, but I saw all the blood on the bed and it didn’t take a whole lot of figuring to see he wasn’t breathing. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa always said that breathing skunk scent was the best way in the world to cure a head cold. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was frozen, hardly breathing, with my mouth stuck open and my stomach flopping like a fish in the bottom of a boat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing of beast upon the marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the church, it smelled as though no living, breathing person had ever been there, the air was damp and musty and dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I stood there and suddenly realized I was breathing hard, but they were turning away from me to take another route home. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When the sun finally rose I stayed on the floor, eyes closed, breathing slow, deep breaths, while my parents ransacked my mini fridge and discussed me in hushed tones. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I feel the trademark symptoms of fear: sweaty palms, racing heart, tightness in my chest, dry mouth, a lump in my throat, difficulty breathing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had a cough, and his breathing sounded slow and heavy. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I even open the door, I know who it is by the whistling, wheezing breathing. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At high tide, waves sparkle under the wooden bridges, and I can guess the tide before I even see the water, just by closing my eyes and breathing the air through the open car windows. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made him uneasy to see the man walking around breathing, with what he knew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Plus, it was hard to fall asleep with my nose stuffed with massive wads of bloody tissue while breathing through my dry mouth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I may stop breathing, but I’m not sure. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I keep my mouth sealed to prevent myself from gasping for air; I force my breathing into a steady rhythm. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was breathing fast and her face was flushed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He pretends to blow me a kiss, without actually breathing my way. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His breathing is shallow and fast, coming twenty-four to twenty-seven times a minute. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Jinjoo heard the soft breathing of her older sister too. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I thought she stopped breathing when the voice echoed in the night air. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

With his face pressed close to mine, I could hear his labored breathing in my ear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stare at the clouds, breathing distance from one another, taking it all in. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I look up at the girl, breathing hard. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It never did; he continued to sit so still it looked like he wasn’t breathing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She knew death was all around, breathing down her neck like some ancient god, like the giant painted throng haint now rushing toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tiny little breaths, his chest barely rising and falling, but he was breathing, the air going in and out, and he was not the other word—not dead—and Brian leaned over him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bent ox er their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent- minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we sat there in silence, breathing in the cool night air and listening to the crickets under the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My breathing was fast and my mouth dry. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Soon she starts breathing heavy, and I know she’s knocked out, but I stay up a long time thinking about what she said, about Isaiah Dunn being her hero. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And he had come to notice this breathing so gradually that he had really no idea how long it had been there. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I knew I should be shocked, horrified even, that we had just slaughtered a group of beings—not human perhaps, but living, breathing beings in their own right. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When her mother came to wake her the next morning, Kathleen would not open her eyes, though her breast still rose and fell, breathing in the lingering smoke from the burning wreath. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held her fiercely all night, as if together their sweat and the heat of their breathing could lock out the moaning voices of the dark whirling winds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I listened with care to his breathing as he slept; and I thought on final words, and that he did not believe he had a soul that would survive his decease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Both women fell silent, and the quiet sound of Mirabelle’s sleeping breathing filled the kitchen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He heard the water slapping against the hull and Mosca breathing next to him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything he felt, everything his blues harp was to him, was coiled around his rapid breathing. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He resisted it for three quarters of an hour before his breathing slowed and he went to sleep. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I stopped checking on her breathing at night. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Jill walks out, he gives me a kiss on my cheek and makes a loud heavy breathing sound and Jill rolls her eyes and throws her hands up. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was still breathing in the fustiness of ancient stone when I arrived in Cambridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I laid my cheek against Wishbone’s warm side and listened to his slow, steady breathing. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It all had gotten into the air and mixed together, and the first thing you know after you start breathing that stuff, you say things like what I said to Meryl Lee. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the warm air and the highway noise and the Brown Bomber’s seat and the way Joey was breathing all pushed me back to sleep. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face turns ashen and she seems to have ceased breathing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She stood there, breathing hard and trying not to scream at the sight of all the guns. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

With his eyes locked on hers, Mr. Larson said, “How about... the editorials'!” The whole class stopped breathing again. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“If I stop breathing tomorrow, know that I wouldn’t change a thing.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Up above you could hear the whole family breathing. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He thought he heard death itself breathing down here, breathing so deeply that no air was left for anyone else. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She felt it again—that familiar shiver, as if a psychotic snowman had crept up behind her and was breathing down her neck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Brother Leon’s breathing filled the line, as if he were some kind of obscene phone caller. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Lachaud has shot up tall like me, but Pie stays small and sick with some breathing thing. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the air she is breathing into her lungs is unmistakably crisp country air, with not a hint of London smog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Derek’s skin did not have the coolness, it felt warm; and Brian kneeled next to him and saw that he was breathing. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep breathing,” he orders, his voice a rumble of faraway thunder. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Then Pond’s breathing slowed until finally there was no breath. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to pace my breathing as I waited, knowing all the while that I could not. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid ran back inside and looked at Kaitlin, expecting to see that she had stopped breathing, but her chest was still rising and falling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My mother can’t believe it: a living, breathing friend on the front porch for her maladjusted daughter! Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing had steadied still more and his heart rate was close to normal. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

No words, no looks, just the rhythmic slapping of their sneaker soles upon the sidewalk and the pulsing duet of their breathings. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breathing of the sleepers could be plainly heard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, just when our breathing was getting back to normal, we heard something under our feet. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Through the darkness comes the sound of someone breathing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And certain sounds returned—a silver dollar rolling across a floor, boot steps on hardwood stairs, and the sounds of breathing, the gasps, the hysterical inhalations of a man with a severed windpipe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would pour and pour until my breathing became soft and I could fall asleep. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay down on the bank, breathing hard, looking up at the raw-bacon sky, streaked with color. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m breathing too quickly as I run over to her bookshelves. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds are the breathing of the dogs and clicking of the slide rule’s cursor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The day that she saw him pass by her bedroom she thought that Pietro Crespi was a sugary dandy next to that protomale whose volcanic breathing could be heard all over the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It took him some time to quiet his breathing, longer to stop trembling, and longer still to remember some fleeting familiarity about that gliding shape he had seen. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Her motions were taut and full of panic. Her breathing was pinched, almost panting. The boy was the opposite. His movement was smooth and lithe, like he was accustomed to moving silently.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Doc’s voice carried over the sound of our breathing, loud in the kitchen and against the still-crackling fire burning the remains of the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Grand Elder closed his eyes and calmed his ragged breathing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The poor man’s breathing came in uncertain gasps. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She held tight to him still, focusing on her arms, on her too-shallow breathing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And Turner, who found himself breathing hard, nodded. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As they went along, they talked less and less; the path sloped relentlessly upward, and they needed their breath just for breathing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Angry for no good reason except for the fact that I’m standing here and living and breathing, and Khalid is not. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

On the bank the Ford car sat, still breathing softly from its overheating. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I made myself listen to my breathing so I wouldn’t cry. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He inhaled sharply to force the breath out of him until he was breathing more in—quick and jagged—than out. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

For a moment he went on listening to Meggie’s quiet breathing, then stole back to the door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I nodded and wrapped my arms around him in a hug, breathing in his familiar scent, a mixture of the sweet, musky oil he used in his beard and laundry detergent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

You could hear them breathing fast, then slower, then slow... Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya’s womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kino was not breathing, but his back arched a little and the muscles of his arms and legs stood out with tension and a line of sweat formed on his upper lip. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had done rescue breathing in my first responder course exactly once, and that was on a mannequin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he turned around now, he could be back on deck in twenty minutes, breathing clean air. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan glanced back at the creature, and his panicked breathing stopped as he held his breath. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The flower stench socks me in the nose so hard that I start breathing through my mouth. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The silence in the basement was broken only by the breathing of the occupants. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was little sound out in the middle of the river, except for Moch’s chanting, the rattle of oars in oarlocks, their own deep rhythmic breathing, and their pulses pounding in their ears. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If he was here, he’d be breathing down my neck until I finished my homework. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I swear, sometimes it was like he’d inhaled Essence of Dad and was breathing it back out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly hyperaware of my breathing and the rapid thud of my heartbeat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She showed Will and Lyra how to gather a particular kind of mollusk by finding their breathing tubes just above the sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As she remains there, I come back a few times to check she’s still alive, but I can always hear her breathing. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Whoa!” he says, quickly shifting back and putting a hand over his chest to try and slow his breathing and heart rate down. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Even though I drove slowly to her house I felt as if I had sprinted all the way there because I was kind of sweaty and breathing hard when I arrived. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She stands a little apart from me, just breathing and staring. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to bring out the practiced breathing he used to make himself calm down during matches—in and out through his nose—until he could speak. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’m breathing heavy and Manchee’s panting like he’s about to keel over but we don’t stop. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Five thousand miles away, in Cambridge, Watson and Crick could almost feel Pauling breathing down their necks. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My breathing quickens, and Adam mistakes it for enjoyment. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I could hear my breathing, could feel the rise and fall of my chest, gases seeping across nothing boundaries. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a huge guy, but he was breathing in a way that seemed to inflate him, and he stood there staring at me, his neck bent over, his arms down at his sides. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I fought off the urge to point out angrily that I’d asked her to tell me if she felt anything wrong with her breathing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he flung himself down under a bush and waited for a moment till his breathing steadied. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Without knowing it he edged forward until he stood at the old man’s shoulder, looking down at the wonder and breathing hard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Luke took a few deep breaths, but it felt like he was breathing through a wet towel. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sound of clashing weapons and labored breathing filled the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We should be suffocated if we sat here with the air like this, and there were so many people, all breathing the same air, so many people. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s to protect me—but no, he’s having trouble breathing and he needs me to steady him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then he ran back down the stairs to the kitchen to pick up his backpack and hug his grandmother, breathing her kitchen smell—it would have to hold him through the long day—and left. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was breathing almost fifty times a minute; I recall from my school course that normal is about sixteen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once Pa’s breathing catched up to him good, we headed back. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I watched as Mama and Baba lay there in medically induced comas with ventilators breathing for them because their lungs were full of fluid. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Therefore, if that guy was breaking with Ebola, he might have caught it by breathing it in the air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the sound of their soft breathing could be heard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Stephanie talked so fast I couldn’t tell if she was actually breathing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Is she worried that Branwell will be able to speak and tell the agency that Nikki was breathing funny when he found her?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fifty points each,” said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily through her long, pointed nose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard and, with a good deal of coughing and hawing, he began to tell me about something he wanted me to have a look at in his office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could feel her breathing next to him, could see the puffs of steam rising from her mouth before disappearing into the cold sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I focused on my breathing as Jackie handed the tubes back to me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around at them all, his breathing fast and shallow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Carmen whispered something to me, but I couldn’t hear her over my loud, heavy breathing. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His breathing was irregular and heavy, he clenched and unclenched his right fist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Senor Leal, breathing in, Looks at the sky, Blue as an egg, And feels good. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fall into the dirt, breathing and gasping and crying—seems like all I ever do is cry—and the dragonflies with their crystal wings still don’t pay me any mind. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I breathed in deep, holding it inside me for a moment before breathing out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He gave it to Leroy and sat back on the seat with his eyes closed, breathing hard. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time the sound of someone else going from sleep breathing to awake breathing in the same room as me is enough to get me up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Therefore, Johnson wanted the members of the expedition to wear breathing apparatus inside the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I am up again, and breathing, And Clairmont is burning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I could hear everybody breathing; quiet, measured breaths that came and went with awful regularity, four sets of lungs, eating at the thin oxygen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Janna, I made your favorite, salmon cakes,” Mom calls from too close to the door, her breathing, uneven and stressed, belying her chipper words. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“And my brother’s really—” His eyes are everywhere except on mine and his voice is strained, probably because he’s trying to speak without breathing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lynn continued to sleep, her breath catching heartbreakingly, as if breathing had become a hardship for her body. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had been outside Miss Van Campen’s door and heard her breathing in her sleep. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He turned around, and I could practically feel him breathing on me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he let her go and they fell apart staring at each other and breathing- hard. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

As they stood together, she began to hear the steady rhythm of his heartbeat, and her breathing slowed to match his, until she felt as though they were nearly one being. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing the breathing of Travis in the honey shell of his shoulders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the paramedic who rode with the baby in the ambulance was following the ABCs for resuscitation—airway, breathing, and circulation. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy saw that the old man was breathing and then he saw the old man’s hands and he started to cry. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Phil’s breathing was noisy; his hands shook. glanced down myself only once. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her breathing was still heavy as she motioned toward the plants in my hand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even if they got him breathing normally again—“normally” meaning with the help of the oxygen machine— the fight left him fatigued the whole next day. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s caused by breathing. It happens in the presence of respiration. It—” “Now this is where I got confused,” interrupted Nels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No portable oxygen, no difficulty breathing, no nose cannula. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Minho straightened and put his hands on his hips, still breathing heavily. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dad’s breathing echoed like fists beating against the cold wet wharf stones. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus said the bandage made breathing a little less painful, though, and I was glad of that. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the whole class is breathing with me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I’m also conscious of my breathing, which wheezes a little if I exhale too much. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She borrowed a car and got here so fast Maria had just left in the ambulance and Mom was still breathing heavily as she wiped away the lines of sweat around her neck. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to their breathing: That is Nag; that is Rida with her one ragged exhalation every other minute. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Hot Pie was breathing heavily, and once he stumbled in the dark, barked his shin, and cursed loud enough to wake half of Harrenhal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I turned back around, I stopped breathing and almost dropped the candy. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She could hear Sherm’s breathing next to her and smell the smell of his shirt. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Were both quiet in the dark, listening to each other breathing. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Which—to mention it—is redundancy too, like the breathing or the need of ammunition. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that could be heard in the dining room was Clara’s labored breathing and the metallic clang of the keys at Ferula’s waist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned; he could not see her but he could hear her hurried breathing and then a rustling of cloth. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Earlier, I mean. When you were testifying. You say this foam is only produced when you’ve got water, mucus, and air all mixed together by a person’s breathing?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s quiet, save for the sound of Tom’s breathing, ragged and shallow. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat there with her hands on the wheel, breathing heavily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I kept my hands raised for a moment longer, breathing steadily and rubbing the bruises around my throat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I cleaned her up a bit, but as I held her...her breathing was...so...so hard.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a moment to realise, so that by the time I turned back to her she was breathing over her fingers and looking down, engrossed by something beside her feet. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my, oh dear,” agreed the minister, breathing with great difficulty. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I was doing was counting and pushing and breathing and praying inside that Ben would start breathing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The long, smooth triangle of his back rose and fell with deep, even breathing as her moth fluttered above him, looking for a place to settle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Because your eyes dilated, your breathing rate increased a little bit, and you started to sweat.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She can’t even get words out, she is breathing and smiling so hard. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His breathing was heavy—as if he had filled his mouth with liquid in preparation for breathing fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dany drank, and lay back, listening to the soft sound of her own breathing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I felt the same way last night when we were passing out with my face pressed against his shoulder, breathing in his T-shirt. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His lungs were also bothering him and he was having difficulty breathing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s breathing becomes harsh, then ceases altogether before starting again. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And most times when we get tired we’ll just stop mid-brawl and lay on the floor next to each other breathing all hard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavily and there was spittle on his lower lip. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My breathing quickens, and I wait to see what Liz is going to do about me sneaking into their truck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I held him close to my face, breathing in his feathery belly, trying to reassure both of us. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Our only comfort is the steady breathing of our comrades asleep, and thus we wait for the morning. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around them, the pack was creaking and groaning rhythmically, like the breathing of an immense animal. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The voices questioning me became to me as breathing, living devils. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only stand there swallowing again and again and breathing fast. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Coach Disaster holds the microphone too close to his lips, so all we hear is the sound of his spitting and breathing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was surprised that her hands had not forgotten, that somewhere in her mind, after a year of darkness and slavery, music was still alive and breathing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was having difficulty breathing—and then his breathing stopped. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy loved laughing, but she loved this too—the easy silence, her best friend so close, she could hear her breathing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled away, breathing hard, and leaned to kiss my throat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I throw my hands out to keep my balance, breathing hard. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I could hear him breathing into the receiver. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But as I’m saying the words, my muscles tense and my breathing grows loud. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She’d stopped shivering and her breathing came easier as she slept. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mattress was firm and comfortable and I lay without moving, hardly breathing, happy in feeling the pain lessen. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I listened to his words and tried to slow my breathing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’m in the truck, breathing in smells of sunshine on plastic and the pungent sweat pouring from my armpits. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he touched the pilot with the tips of his fingers, touched him on the chest and could feel nothing, no heartbeat, no rise and foil of breathing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was warm in his jacket, though, breathing in the scent of it when I thought he couldn’t see. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every one of my senses is tingling as Ms. Saintima asks us to imagine pulling the door of the store open and breathing in the steamy, meat-scented air. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Both creatures lay still awhile, their faces close together, breathing heavily. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My breathing is almost back to normal when the door bangs open, and I jump. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tear in the sky, directly above and stretching off into the horizon, smothered everything in a thick heat that made breathing a struggle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Together they stood waiting, panting slightly, breathing in the smell of the dirty river that was carried to them on the night breeze. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I eye the med cart, breathing a sigh of contentment over how meticulously organized it is. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In a flurry of jangling keys and heavy breathing, Manny shut down the industrial lights and let them out of the iron fence around the Junklot. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The whole of it moves constantly, a light movement like breathing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Holding hands and breathing nervous puffs of frost into the night, we make our way onto the porch. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The lizard seemed to enjoy what was happening because his breathing eased a little and the ends of his mouth curled into a tiny smile. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He took several more blows with no outcry, but I could hear his breathing, hard and quick. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A bitter tickling in my throat, incapable of breathing. Goosebumps were jumping along my back, and I could hardly feel my feet—they were as if made of cotton-wool.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I take another very deep breath, but I don’t think anybody else in the room is breathing at all. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

His breathing eased a little but he did not raise his head. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think, for my dad, the same sound that breathing makes. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of crunching leaves and labored breathing filled the warm autumn air, and Celaena kept her gaze on the damp and gleaming dark hair of the thief in front of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Anna’s breathing started to slow, but I still wanted to talk. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke in the middle of the night to find the room full of ghosts, the reassuring sound of her soft breathing sent them away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cat, a tiny thing with brown and gray stripes, wound around Roza’s legs, joined her in the pile of hay, curling up next to her face, breathing the same breath. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He knew the boy lay awake in the night and listened to hear if he were breathing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I thought we were at a fairly high altitude most of the night, but it was hard to tell, one’s breathing, heartbeat, and energy-level being unreliable indicators, given the circumstances. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would be a living, breathing bull’s-eye for spitballs, rubber bands, apple cores, and flying soup. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She wondered if ever again she would escape from the sound of that dreadful breathing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

What I got was a bunch of heavy breathing in my ear. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The nurses and doctors didn’t want to touch the blood on the walls and were frankly fearful of breathing the air in the room, too. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel him breathing ever so shallowly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is. But the higher-ups here think of it as our life support, our breathing machine. Here we are.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The men watched it come closer and closer, breathing a sigh of relief when it veered away and passed them to the east. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He’d crouch a few feet away from the edge of her canvas and just wait, breathing as he always did, steady and calm. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street with his family, still moving slowly, breathing hard, appalled at his own daring. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dizzy, I lean against the wall for balance, breathing slowly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I followed him to the back of the house to check on Dadi, her pale face turned up to the ceiling, breathing weakly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the truth was, all I could do was sit there feeling her warm hand and breathing her lavender smell. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I reach for the wall, sliding down it onto the floor, my breathing coming in short gasps. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He was standing close to her and watching her; she could hear his breathing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even know if he was breathing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He heard his mother and brother and sister breathing softly, in deep sleep. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up in a world in which horsemanship was as essential as breathing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked straight past, and Harry leaned against the wall, breathing deeply, listening to their footsteps dying away. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When his breathing was almost normal, Clayton took another step and waited. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Till finally, Ben says, “Wait,” and stops, hands on his knees, breathing hard in a real unhealthy way. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rons ragged breathing came from near the bed; Hermione was quite silent. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And I am yoga trained in slow breathing. I won’t move a muscle.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her chest began to move with rhythmic breathing, and, slowly, very slowly, Amah opened her eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was only the hushed sound of their breathing, and, from somewhere in the room, the ticking of a clock, which must have been hidden by books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say anything, but I could hear her breathing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had inhaled blood and had had a breathing arrest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn’s breathing got harder and deeper, as if his very breath was angry and was attempting to launch an attack from the depths of his lungs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My world is quiet except for the deep breathing of a dog. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What if we hear breathing coming from the cave?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We hurry away from the soldier, passing all the forlorn people handcuffed by the curb, and join the mob heading toward the school, all of us breathing a communal sigh of relief. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t bolt upright, but her breathing stopped and I saw her dark eyes dart about wildly, as if she didn’t know where she was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The room was square and quiet except for their breathing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls the trapdoor shut, and the small space is loud with the sound of our breathing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“But I would mind, Father. I love you and I would die if you stopped breathing.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The bird necklace rose and fell with his shallow breathing. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He went on; he felt the door under his hand at last and now he could hear Miss Coldfield’s whimpering breathing beyond it as he fumbled for the lock. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m controlling my breathing and bracing myself for anything as we walk up the porch, to the front door. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Did they have to pick meat off his bones while he was still breathing? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Do you remember I kept pumping and breathing? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She lay down again in the boat and fell into a sleep as profound as any she had had surrounded by the breathing of her cousins in the safety of the girls’ hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood trembling at Will’s anger, breathing heavily, clutching their sticks and their stones, and they couldn’t speak. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By measuring his blood pressure, oxygen levels, and heart and breathing rates, doctors would get valuable information about the extent of his wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The faint dampness and confining cling of my sleeping-bag; the sound of the snow; barely audible, Estraven’s breathing as he sleeps; darkness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, it was like breathing steam; he felt light-headed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In about ten seconds, his breathing slows to almost dead and he throws his hand across me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If he is alive and breathing he knows this. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still breathing hard, his abdomen expanding and contracting. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The floor beneath me begins to feel like part of my body, and my breathing is growing heavier, slower. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because all of a sudden, I’m leaning over the gear stick, and my hands are on his shoulders, and I’m trying to keep breathing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Then, I wouldn’t feel I’m suffocating in the dark heat, hear Mama Ya-Ya’s breathing ragged and slow, or smell the Mississippi living in our house. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was breathing so hard he could hardly speak. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the man disappeared, Ophie’s breathing eased and the warmth returned to her fingertips. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maddy let him go, stood back up, breathing heavy and nodding like some kind of warrior. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As my crying wound down, I let myself be rocked in her breathing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, I held her limp hand and watched as her breathing grew ragged, as eventually there were long pauses between her inhales. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I gingerly pushed up from Otto, who stayed on his side, breathing shallowly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was breathing hard and struggling to master my feelings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was listening to their breathing, when he heard, in the distance, an altogether different sound. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered Tyler as he’d been when I was young, the quiet older brother reading his books while I lay under his desk, staring at his socks and breathing in his music. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t help it—though with a sense of dread, she wanted to know what would happen as much as Marcus, who leaned forward against the rail with his teeth clenched, breathing heavily in anticipation. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I quit breathing and frozed all my muscles dead where they were at. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

All the men could hear was their own breathing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing got faster and faster the longer he looked. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But Granny was asleep again, and soon was breathing so loud and deep it was like—I don’t know what it was like. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Waves of heat caught him, and his legs and lungs were vapor without sensation; only his memory of running and breathing kept him moving and alive. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere she says, “You weren’t breathing when you were born.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"You don't really think one of us could have killed a living, breathing human being in cold blood, do you, Mrs. Baumbach? Do you?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed crouched and bent, hearing the sound of his breathing filling the darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to stop breathing, because her breaths would not come smooth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Over to the left, the waves of ocean were breathing, sucking down, then boiling back over the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My mother, breathing hard, scraping through her hair with her crooked nails, watched me and sometimes moaned. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just know that for me, running was like eating and breathing—it was something I had always done, and without it I felt miserable. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They stood together for long moments without speaking, breathing in the cool night air. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the window the curtains moved slow out of the darkness touching my face like someone breathing asleep, breathing slow into the darkness again, leaving the touch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he became still weaker, his face hollowed and darkened, his breathing became imperceptible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There he stood in the darkness, clinging to the gritty edge of a shelf and breathing fast with joy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Sovoy knows your name. Assuming he hasn’t told me already, I could have it from him as easy as breathing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s very still, as machines are breathing for him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He calms his breathing and is thankful he can feel the touch of Trina’s hand on his back. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My heart thundered at his touch, but I kept my breathing calm. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m breathing so quickly the air is hurting my nose. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He slammed the brakes, and I flew forward hard enough that my breathing felt weird and tight. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lyra sat determinedly still, but she was breathing quickly, and her heart was beating hard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat and bowed his head; the room was quiet, so quiet that Bigger heard the preacher and Jan breathing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much,” Sierra said, breathing a sigh of relief now that it was all out of her system and her friend hadn’t called her a raving lunatic. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Conor stood breathing for a second, thinking about the broken clock, about the scratches on the hardwood, about the poisonous berries dropping from the monster onto his grandma’s clean floor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They strode in slow circles around her, breathing in and out like the summer breeze. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t breathing long, rhythmic breaths, lying on his back. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the tent Harry’s breathing was shallow with excitement: He and Hermione stared at each other, listening as hard as they could. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After several agonizing minutes, the chair was turned off but Mr. Dunkins was still alive, unconscious but breathing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We steadied our heavy, excited breathing to hear what we could. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing rasps as he adds it to my folder. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was a living, breathing creature, ready to eat me alive. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I will if you two stop breathing on me.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I clenched my teeth and tried to focus on my breathing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They knew about breathing, of course, and they thought the wind was the breath of the gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then we’ll just lay there, still breathing crazy hard, laughing at each other’s wounds. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Still breathing very hard, he got up and went on, and I went with him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably not a good idea if we plan on breathing and stuff.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our breathing is so fast it sounds like we've been running for miles. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hear my mother’s breathing, and the ticking of the clock. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breathing, the journey of the drips of water that trail from his skin onto mine, the rise and fall of his chest, the blink of his eyelids. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His breathing was audible, like a light snore. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stared at Conor the whole time, and he could hear the loud, windy breathing from its mouth. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The wet sound of the dead feeding and the mans fading cries cuts through my heavy breathing and the growls of other approaching shamblers. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Four, however, crouches and presses his back to the metal support, breathing heavily. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As I went through the standard motions—the rising and sitting, the donning of the prayer shawl, the prayers that came to my lips as naturally as breathing—anxiety stirred in my gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stopped by the window, breathing in the scents of stale beer and roasted meat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In my mind’s eye, I see Keav breathing deeply and trying to fill the void in her heart. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natalie turned the knob and pushed forward, as gently as breathing. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I bury my face in his shoulder and close my eyes, just breathing in the clean smell of him, the smell of wind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see if she was breathing and alive. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She turned abruptly from Harry and Ron’s table, breathing rather heavily as she tugged her gauzy shawl more closely to her. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She won for her essay titled “Salt: Enhancing Lives One Breath at a Time,” which focused on using salt water to help the breathing of young cystic fibrosis patients. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mill employees labored at dangerous jobs under miserable conditions—and for poverty wages—breathing in cotton dust until their lungs were brown with the stuff and they suffocated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I laid my head cautiously against his shoulder, breathing in the smell of his skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if I’m breathing, so I remind myself to do so. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Ivy slowed down too, her breathing heavy as she watched all the arms circling around waists and shoulders. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The three of us take turns moving wood, and soon we're breathing hard. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The heartbeat was weak, the breathing irregular, but Abraham Lincoln was still alive. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the girls fell asleep, I lay awake for some time listening to their soft breathing, thinking about going to Abuelita’s house and what might happen once we got to Hacienda Dorada. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sound of his heavy breathing came plainly from the top of the earth pile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My major in international relations with a focus on North Africa was no longer an abstract area of study, it was what I was living, eating, and breathing every day for three months. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We both stood there, breathing hard, staring at the wash of rice grains that had tumbled out of the canister and spread to almost every corner of the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I will try anything to get out of meetings with Mr. Skerritt and his noisy breathing. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A medic bounds in next to me, still pumping the little plastic bulb that is apparently breathing for me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood for a few moments in front of each cell, checking whether an inmate was breathing by the rise and fall of sheets and blankets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel went to her own front door and walked in, breathing in the smells of home. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I walk so slowly up the stairs, I can hear my own breathing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And yet here was a monster, clear as the clearest night, towering thirty or forty feet above him, breathing heavily in the night air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The eyes of both men were hard and unblinking; they were breathing deeply. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing in there that you need,” she said, breathing heavy from the effort. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tompkin looked up over the top of his book, adjusted his toothpick, and said, “Try breathing through your mouth.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Instead I worked my way toward a ventilation grate on the wall of the train car and pressed my face up against it, breathing in the fresh air from outside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old trees in the orchard are in flower, white and pink; we climb up into them, breathing in their hand lotion smells, or we sit in the grass making chains of dandelions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was covered with stone dust and breathing hard. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“They couldn't start him breathing. The cord was caught around his neck or something.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Jonathan could hear the breathing of the men, the slight, nervous shifting of their feet. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I heard her quiet, even breathing, but I still couldn’t sleep, not until the sky began to lighten and I heard Pretty Boy stir under his cover. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex heard her breathing slow as their dad stroked her hair and she gradually drifted off to sleep. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I used to spend a week just breathing.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I stopped breathing, and the scream of quiet filled my head to bursting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He started breathing heavily, and a panicky feeling made him want to stop the blessing immediately. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s something I’ve never seen except in movies—a man clutching himself and grimacing and swaying and breathing in little huffs and bearing his teeth and going “Nurse, nurse, please.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harry lay flat on his back, breathing hard as though he had been running. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And Viola’s on top of me and I’m breathing heavy into her face and she’s breathing heavy into mine. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was cool inside, and once the echo faded, the only thing Mark could hear was the sound of his own heavy breathing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As she listened to their sleep sounds, Jinjoo let her worries subside and let the cadence of their breathing lull her to sleep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He lay still, feeling rid of that hunger and tenseness and hearing the wail of the night wind over and above his and her breathing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She marched up the steep path to where the car was parked, and she wasn’t even breathing hard as she pulled a large inner tube from the trunk. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one looked at Gaily, breathing but still. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Lying awake in the City, Ash could hear Gwen’s steady breathing in the dark, and she felt the distance between her and Sidhean for the first time, and it made her long for him. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him in and breathing him out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn’t distinguish among the pains. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of light regular breathing and a continuous murmur, as of very faint voices remotely whispering. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay still now, but sleep remained far away; and it was not encouraged by the sound of Merry breathing softly, asleep in a few minutes after saying good night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It would be easier to promise to stop eating, to stop breathing, to stop being a gorilla. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Purvis noted that the president's breathing was weak and his skin pale and clammy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was Sweating something fierce and breathing hard, like it was a cold, cold winter day. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My breathing slows, and finally we have everything on the list. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

But all I feel is relief—relief—as though I’ve been underwater and breathing through a straw for the last two months, and now I have my head in the air again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The whole house seemed to be breathing a sigh of relief. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If I focus on breathing, I can forget that I’m about to die. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Eyes bloodshot, face wrinkled in anger, breathing heavily—to Thomas, he suddenly looked evil. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I click out of the video and stare at the conversation with Angela, suddenly aware that I’m breathing hard. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He staggered into his room off the kitchen and lay down on his bed, breathing hard. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

After a time, they dug carefully to broaden the run and as the day wore on the does, each in turn, remained beside him, licking his wounds and listening to his low, unsteady breathing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pace the floor, heart beating too fast, breathing too short. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Baba checks the breathing medicine in the little flask. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He still felt like he wasn’t breathing, but the tension started to ebb a little, letting go of his stomach. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was breathing hard from excitement, but it might have come from running. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not somebody I made up but a living, breathing person. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something else slipped out of the pages, though, something breathing, a creature made of flesh and blood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was happy to be alive and breathing; when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there alone, I now heard another noise behind me, like somebody breathing heavy. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He could hear her breathing, soft and steady. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Away from the fences, the armed guards, and the strange sense of threat that pervaded Sayle Enterprises, it was as if he were breathing fresh air for the first time in days. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then the two men, breathing hard, eyed one another. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie is trying to hide his breathing, but it's the only sound I can hear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A number of these kids have the slightly dull, vacant look of people on drugs, and I wonder what they’re taking to keep them here and breathing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes again, and in a minute, I could hear him breathing, his head against the back shelf of the Diplomat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“All right,” the Keeper said, breathing heavier now. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After that, I just lie still and do fake breathing whenever someone checks on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

For a while we just hung there, passing the breathing tube between us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She intoxicated him: he was breathing her, sensing her through the pores of his skin. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Felix didn’t speak or dance; he focused all his energy on just breathing. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I could hear it when she spoke—the raspy breathing, the gathered mucus, the slightly mechanical tone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My tree is definitely breathing; little shallow breaths like it just shot up through the ground this morning. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lacey was quiet for a while, breathing through her open mouth. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I lie on the floor, breathing too fast, then slower, evening out my breathing, as in the Exercises, for giving birth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a spot in the corner, sat on the ground, and leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I knew by the harsh breathing that he was furious. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Matt lay back against the cliff, breathing hard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy took it, and now breathing was nearly impossible. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he heard her breathing again, in, out; in, out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

By next day you could hardly wake her—and if you did, a minute later she’d go right back into that loud, awful breathing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My heartbeat and the sound of my breathing and an itch on my elbow. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Yes, he thought breathing deeply, I will no longer try to escape from Siddhartha. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around her she felt the Wood breathing, her senses alive. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much silence, I fought the urge to go out and make sure everyone was still breathing in the other room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not as good as having Nikki breathing on her own or tracking, which would mean that she was interacting with her environment and was what everyone was waiting for. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She looked really bad. She wasn’t breathing,” he whispered. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear his heavy breathing and knew he was staring at me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared forward and remained still except for the slight movement from his breathing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

R.C. was breathing hard now, and even in the shadows, I could see the pain on his face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Curled up and breathing deeply, Fang didn’t take up a lot of space, so I collapsed beside him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We climb another cliff, and I am breathing too hard to speak. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I kept the rake going but I stopped breathing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And at night he always whined to come inside, where he could listen to his human’s breathing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With Jamie’s help, I learned different breathing exercises and ways to use guided imagery to help prevent and mediate my anxiety. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His breathing is soft and labored, his brows furrowed, the fire still alight in his gaze. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m breathing really hard and my heart is pounding and I don’t feel better, not even when Rufus massages my shoulder. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I looked around and saw Pike breathing heavily and clutching his shoulder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was only the sound of a city breathing as he breathed, weary from the fight, grateful it was over. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

These included using our breathing, visualization, meditation, and even counting or going over times tables. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I missed the sound of Judy breathing, the squeak of the bed as she rolled over, even the ticking of her alarm clock. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heard him breathing heavy for a bit, then he started mumbling to himself as he settled back into bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Talloi, breathing hard and speaking slowly, asked why they were back. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every name an asset, breathing capital, profit made flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In Mater’s intensive-care unit I was hooked up to life support to make sure my heart kept beating and my lungs kept breathing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He could hear the woman’s fast breathing, her long hair tickled his face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could see that he was still breathing—in gasps. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips were parted, and she was breathing—not softly as usual with her, but in long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every breath. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I play in time with Lev's breath, breathing in the warm trace of printer's ink on his skin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mom is trying to get hold of her breathing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He woke up choking on humid jungle air, but when he pushed back the blanket he was in the cave, and it was his own sweat and heavy breathing that made the air seem damp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor placed the rubber mask over her face and turned a dial and I watched Catherine breathing deeply and rapidly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sound of my own raspy breathing invaded my thoughts. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cilia was leaning over him, breathing hard in her efforts to keep up. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me very carefully, little boy,” he said, breathing out foul steam with every word. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her perfume was close and heavy; breathing it was like swallowing big red roses; it choked him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lower half of his face was bandaged tightly, a mask of hardened plaster with holes for breathing and feeding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I have trouble breathing in crammed elevators. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d been breathing all day, all week, all my life, and I had forgotten to notice until now. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any blood, which was a relief, but I couldn’t hear him breathing. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When we’re both breathing normally again, I kiss the tip of her nose. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Derek was breathing evenly—short breaths, but even—and his heart was beating regularly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m breathing on my own, my wall of machines bleeps far less, so I get fewer visits from the nurses. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His steps were heavy and his breathing was heavy. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Straight back. Deep breathing. Same answers to different questions. Who trained you, boy?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I pass the intersection, and by the time I reach the store, I’m breathing so hard that when Dona Mercedes greets me and asks what I need, I can barely say “milk.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet would raise the saffron dust that floated down on the coveralls and bunion- split shoes of the man breathing music in and out of his harmonica. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a hundred years, people have been coming together in this dark, I thought, breathing quietly and evenly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was looking at her like she’d stepped out of the pages of his comics, a living, breathing soul mate to Aditya, that wild, curly haired girl come to life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She saw the grown folks freeze into stillness, not moving, scarcely breathing, while they listened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he saw the landsman's view of the swell and it seemed like the breathing of some stupendous creature. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was worried about Gram, but less about her leg than her raspy breathing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tally’s breathing slowed, and her heart gradually stopped trying to beat its way out of her chest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ms. Jacobs gives me a look like my heavy breathing is bothering her, and then she asks if anyone wants to share anything from their eyeball journals. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t going in his room or stepping out: just standing right outside the door, as if she was listening to the sound of his breathing as he slept. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Sadie settled herself in her metal rocking chair and her breathing slowed as if a crisis had passed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a while, Sasha’s roommate was a man in a medically-induced coma who was hooked up to a breathing machine that hissed and thumped in a rhythmic pattern. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like her breathing down my neck. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’s breathing heavy and staring into the space where Aaron was. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Peeta’s feet slamming into the closet door break up the ragged breathing of the others. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would stand motionless for five hours at a seal breathing hole in the ice waiting for a seal to come up for a breath. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go silent,” whispered Kelp, and immediately eleven full-face visors slid down to seal in the sounds of his squad’s breathing and communications. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I am actually relieved not to be working with Kelsey, because then I would have to deal with not breathing and coming up with something to say. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She spends too much time breathing heavily, trying to control her panic. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I twist and put my/head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She grew accustomed to falling asleep with the sound of others breathing nearby, and at times she wondered how she had ever lived another way. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Where before there had been silence, now he heard: wind in the trees, Hodor’s breathing, the elk pawing at the ground in search of fodder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon strode to the fireplace and back, breathing so heavily that his great black mustache rippled, his face still purple with concentration. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a humming sound so near to my left-hand side that my blanged legs and breathing frozed up all over again. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He stops in front of me, breathing hard. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I held my breath, but the breathing kept on. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nailer and Sloth paused for a moment, breathing hard, leaning against the heavy spool. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When her eyes were closed and her breathing deep and steady, Tyrion slid out from beneath her, gently, so as not to disturb her sleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He won’t unplug my breathing tube or overdose me with morphine or anything like that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z