underbreath

And all the Peoples were silent, save for an underbreath of wonder and talk; for all were utter stirred with hope and fear, perceiving that the Youths had some chance given unto them to return.

The Night Land 2007

The word rushed from Chad in a stunned underbreath.

Nightway Janet Dailey 1981

The word rushed from Chad in a stunned underbreath.

Nightway Janet Dailey 1981

The word rushed from Chad in a stunned underbreath.

Nightway Janet Dailey 1981

The word rushed from Chad in a stunned underbreath.

Nightway Janet Dailey 1981

The colors in here-stone facing, flowers worn by guests, the strange chalices on the tables - carry an underbreath of blood spilled and turned black, of gentle carbonizing in the blank parts of the cities at four o'clock on Sunday afternoon ... it makes crisper the outlines of Tantivy's suit, rather a gigolo suit of unspeakably foreign cut, certainly nothing he ever would have thought of wearing ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

"Of all the provoking little witches!" she exclaimed, in an underbreath of irritation.

The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

And all the Peoples were silent, save for an underbreath of wonder and talk; for all were utter stirred with hope and fear, perceiving that the Youths had some chance given unto them to return.

The Night Land: Chapter 5 1912

-- "God be with you!" she murmurs faintly, and, as he comes nearer, asks underbreath, without removing her eyes from the figure -- the counterpart of the picture on the wall, "Father, speak, who is the stranger?"

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

As she worked, the shadow again lifted from the girl's face, a smile came back to her scarlet lips, and she sang underbreath as only a young maiden can sing to whom love is a wonder and marriage a far-off dream.

The Tyranny of the Dark Hamlin Garland 1900