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Ms. O’Bryan’s large-scale graphite piece, “40,000 Breaths Breathed Between June 20, 2000 and March 15, 2005,” looks misty only from a distance.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2011

Breaths were bated in the South last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Breaths were held as the roll was called.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should wish to call this lecture "The Two Breaths:" not merely "The Breath;" and for this reason: every time you breathe you breathe two different breaths; you take in one, you give out another.

From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Kingsley, Charles

O thou who in truth art attracted through the Breaths of the Holy Spirit!

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá