He'd become a house guest, noncommittal The body became a vessel, the rasping breath When the mule balked, he hit him, That year we hardly slept, waking like inmates.
Now, you may be thinking: Norway and Pakistan in the same breath when it comes to women?
Socotri describes 24 months in its calendar, each roughly 13 days long, including the Month of the Cow's Breath, when heavy winds turn the sea to foam, and the Month of Crabs, when ghost crabs crowd the beaches by the thousands.
Foam and blood came from his mouth during the morning, and at ten minutes to two in the afternoon Wilde died…He had scarcely breathed his last breath when the body exploded with fluids from ear, nose, mouth, and other orifices".
Six or seven seconds passed between deep breaths; each was likely to be the last, and the renewal of breath, when it came, seemed almost like a strange, teasing physiological game — no, not yet, not quite.
Mr. Blomstedt is a master of the "Luftpause" -- the pause for breath when a phrase has come to its end, either decisively, or, as it just as often is with him, in a magical evaporation, after which some space is needed before the next phrase begins.
It was the explosion of awe I felt when opening my first encyclopedia as a boy, or the shortness of breath when looking at the moon through my first telescope that inspired me, and still inspires me even now.
I was still humming the silly made-up song under my breath when the doctor arrived with the portable ultrasound machine.
But the books are beautiful, and there's always a big-eyed, delighted intake of breath when the child finds the missing name reunited and replaced at the end.
