Meaning of breathful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That breathes; alive.
2. Full of odour; fragrant.
   obsolete
3. Full of breath, produced by the breath; breathy.
4. Focused on control of one's breathing.
5. Characteristic of a breath; breath-like.
6. Not breathless; breathing easily.
7. Relaxed and quiet.

Examples

“They for nought would from their work refrain, Nor let his speeches come unto their ear; And eke the breathful bellows blew amain Like to the northern wind, that none could hear:”

“the universe as body, mass as energy and energy as mass, became transformed to spirit when, through us, originating laughter found a name for everything that is and nourished into breathful form.”

“His approach is not limited by a narrow understanding of media but brings an innovative, expanded conception that includes technologies or techniques of our selves (such as cultures of breath) animal bodies and their breathful selves, and nature as revealed through technology.”

“Fresh Costmarie, and breathfull Camomill.”

“Men came, they partook, and they breathed of ramps. They had left their telltale and breathful mark.”

“He spoke a queer, jerky kind of American that I can only describe as breathful.”

“He smelled the rank odor of the man and heard his breathful muttering.”

“Against the window her lips press a row of breathful O's until, due to both a quick and vengeful draft, her candle's flame lilts, disappears.”

“She was crying, great breathful sobs.”

“The breathful twist on timing also adds a touch of novelty and a bit of distraction when facing more difficult topics.”

“Breathful movement practices such as Chi Kung/ Qigong (Lam Kam Chuen 1999) have been used successfully by group psychotherapists to energize and soothe, even in settings where psychological distress is intense (Potik and Schreiber 2013).”

“The poem celebrates itself, wedding the body's cry with the mind's linguistic design; it is a metaphor for the literal human voice transformed into poetic speech. One might imagine that in the beginning was the letter O and its breathful sound.”

“Individual wind instruments do not get obscured during the interplay of the tutti orchestra. Each section appears in naturally airy, breathful, resonant relief.”

“But now Chet is back again with the long, breathful pauses of My Funny Valentine, and my favourite work of art which he rhymes with heart and all the mystery of trying to make the big and the little things fit seems just like the breath, the precarious breath”

“The end result of the Princeton experiment was that a startled but breathful Rutgers team downed a hell-raising breathless Princeton squad, 6-4.”

“My face relaxed as a smile broke my tension. I hitched my pack up, stood straight, and walked with measured, breathful steps.”

“After the noon-blaze, in the breathful eve, The many 'folk of holiday ' come out ; And lovers saunter on the pier, and leave The gossip of their friends, to walk about”

“Lying awake with back that burned beneath its lotioned rags, when lights were low, in the breathful silence of the hospital, he registered in his heart a terrible oath that he would die ere he would again be made such hideous sport for his enemies.”

“It was the breathful stillness of a tropical afternoon.”

“And I decide to write to you as soon as I get a breathful respite.”

“Now I plunge my pen against the page and scribble toward a purpose unperceived, for now, in breathful, placid frame, I am no more a poet than a rose;”

“No special technique needed. Just take time to sense this breathful movement.”

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