breath

Be that as it might, he fancied that, while Beatrice was gazing at the insect with childish delight, it grew faint and fell at her feet; its bright wings shivered; it was dead--from no cause that he could discern, unless it were the atmosphere of her breath. Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.

Whether or no Beatrice possessed those terrible attributes, that fatal breath, the affinity with those so beautiful and deadly flowers which were indicated by what Giovanni had witnessed, she had at least instilled a fierce and subtle poison into his system.

"By the breath o' my body!" said Arthur, "that will I do!" and he gripped him gladly by the hand.

"O, man, man!" said Little John as soon as he had got his breath. "Never saw I so fine a sight in all my born days.

'Would you--be good enough,' Alice panted out, after running a little further, 'to stop a minute--just to get--one's breath again?'

Alice had no more breath for talking, so they trotted on in silence, till they came in sight of a great crowd, in the middle of which the Lion and Unicorn were fighting.