inbreathe
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of inbreathe
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at in- 1, breathe
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She inbreathed sharply, then her eyes narrowed a trifle.
From Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen
And the divine Procedure inbreathed upon the disclosure, and the disclosure became the universe.”
From Modern Spiritualism by Uriah Smith
We lay together and looked up into the far high sky, we breathed lightly: it seemed we exhaled the scent of flowers that we had inbreathed in the morning—we slept.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed.
From The Ministry of the Spirit by A. J. (Adoniram Judson) Gordon
Spirit should converse with spirit, through no veil of symbol, but through the transparent medium of art, itself instinct with inbreathed life and radiant with ideal beauty.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
I sat in meditation two days and two nights, abstracting my mind; inbreathing and outbreathing in the required manner ...
From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
From these luminous guardians they sought the inbreathing of wisdom, drawing into themselves the might of these mightier ones, and rising toward the power of their immortal world.
From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston
Afterwards she went for a tramp on the moors, and steadied her nerve by the rapid swing of her walk, and the deep inbreathing of that glorious air.
From The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
An inbreathing silence fell upon stands and field, quiet, like a lull before a storm.
From The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey
The Scriptures are the result of divine inbreathing, just as human speech is uttered by the breathing through a man's mouth.
From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans
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