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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 held as the roll was called.

From Time Magazine Archive

Breaths were bated in the South last week.

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

It is in hieratic writing and generally known by the name of “Book of Respirations” or “Book of the Breaths of Life,” according to Mr. Le Page Renouf's ingenious interpretation.

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius