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- noun Plural form of
breathing .
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Examples
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When its last breathings from the warrior's throat
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Wind there was none; for she vacillating and uncertain air which, from time to time, distended for an instant the lighter canvas of the vessel, deserved to be merely termed the breathings of a morning, which was breaking upon the main, soft, mild, and seemingly so bland as to impart to the ocean the placid character of a sleeping lake.
The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft | Write to Done 2010
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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft | Write to Done 2010
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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft | Write to Done 2010
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In the intervals between the soft breathings, the air grew heavy and balmy with the perfume of flowers and the exhalations of fat, living soil.
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Tonight, I decided to snatch an extra bit of Mother's Day, a few extra minutes of your shrinking little-girl-hood, an extra few breathings-in of your sweet skin.
Gathering In kittenpie 2008
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Tonight, I decided to snatch an extra bit of Mother's Day, a few extra minutes of your shrinking little-girl-hood, an extra few breathings-in of your sweet skin.
Archive 2008-05-01 kittenpie 2008
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Origen calls her worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, most complete sanctity, perfect justice, neither deceived by the persuasion of the serpent, nor infected with his poisonous breathings "Hom. i in diversa";
The Purity of Mary elena maria vidal 2009
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Origen calls her worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, most complete sanctity, perfect justice, neither deceived by the persuasion of the serpent, nor infected with his poisonous breathings "Hom. i in diversa";
Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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