Give me a little
breathing time, and you shall hear."
"You shall hear everything material," answered the stranger; and then proceeded to relate what we shall proceed to write, after we have given a short
breathing time to both ourselves and the reader.
Then, as she expressed it, she had a
breathing time for herself; and she occupied it in making new things for them, and putting double pieces on the knees, for they were all most frightfully hard on their knees.
Thus did they turn upon the Trojans and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing time in their flight from Hector.
And let him send you into battle clad in his own armour, that the Trojans may mistake you for him and leave off fighting; the sons of the Achaeans may thus have time to get their breath, for they are hard pressed and there is little breathing time in battle.
At about a league and a half from the city, D'Artagnan, finding that in his impatience he had set out too soon, stopped to give the horses
breathing time. The inn was full of disreputable looking people, who seemed as if they were on the point of commencing some nightly expedition.
Kit--for it happens at this juncture, not only that we have
breathing time to follow his fortunes, but that the necessities of these adventures so adapt themselves to our ease and inclination as to call upon us imperatively to pursue the track we most desire to take--Kit, while the matters treated of in the last fifteen chapters were yet in progress, was, as the reader may suppose, gradually familiarising himself more and more with Mr and Mrs Garland, Mr Abel, the pony, and Barbara, and gradually coming to consider them one and all as his particular private friends, and Abel Cottage, Finchley, as his own proper home.
We gave them but little
breathing time, for they had borne hard upon us in the fight of the morning, and there were few in our party who had not lost friend or relative by their hands."
The legal gentleman in Britannia's confidence going straight from that lady to Veneering, thus commissioned, Veneering declares himself highly flattered, but requires
breathing time to ascertain
He was afraid she would keep him waiting, but without any
breathing time, he hardly knew how, he found himself sitting at table with her.
Through the long and glorious tale of years of the river's strenuous service to its people these are its only
breathing times.
It's all power and technique - there's no
breathing time. The flips and kicks have to be in sync and so powerful.
breathing time - a short respite