They use their blubber stove to melt snow for drinking water but do not pause to catch fresh meat, despite the many breathing-hole domes Silence points out in the ice. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Once next to the breathing-hole dome in the dark, moving in slow motion, she softly pushes several forked antlers into the snow and sets her knife, harpoon, lines, and other hunting bric-a-brac on them so that she can retrieve them without making a noise. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Crozier believes Silence when she strings that there are dozens of such breathing-hole domes within a single seal's territory, but he's damned if he can find them. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Perhaps in the sunlight of summer, late spring, or autumn its shadow might be visible under the ice, its nose visible beneath the tiny breathing-hole opening … but in starlight? ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Here is shewn a ghastly pool, a breathing-hole of the grim lord of hell, and a vast chasm breaking into Acheron yawns with pestilential throat. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
Porter wore a leather face-mask, with a lozenge-shaped breathing-hole, and slanted openings covered with yellow glass for eyes. ❋ James Norman Hall (1919)
She had come back to find her breathing-hole and her baby. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Each mother seal hollows out a little igloo under the snow, around her breathing-hole, and leaves a tiny hole in the top of it, so her baby can have plenty of fresh air and be hidden from sight at the same time. ❋ Unknown (1914)
He knew that by the time he overtook her, and fixed his teeth in her throat, he would be fairly winded; and then, with no breathing-hole at hand, he would die terribly, bumping up against the clear ice and staring madly through at the free air for which his lungs were agonizing. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
As soon as the dog had scented a breathing-hole, Kotuko would reverse the sleigh, driving a couple of sawed-off antlers, that stuck up like perambulator-handles from the back-rest, deep into the snow, so that the team could not get away. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
In this fleeting consciousness, like a hasty vision of light from a breathing-hole in the darkness of a tunnel, he recognized near his bed the sorrowful faces of the family of Can Mallorquí. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)
If, however, the little beast be carefully examined, the missing limbs will be found tucked away under the throat, and in a day or so the left arm is thrust through the breathing-hole, to be followed shortly after by the right, which has to rupture the skin to gain its freedom. ❋ Various (1873)
"Slit the back of the sack, lad," said the same gruff voice, and there was a sharp cutting noise heard, as a breathing-hole was cut right up behind his head. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
She blocks the breathing-hole with a plug made of the ravelled vegetable fibres of the Cow-dung, a stopper which is eminently permeable. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
This is the cord of tracheae communicating between one breathing-hole and another. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Some miles out on the ice they came to a place which the walruses had kept open as a breathing-hole. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Soon they came to a place which had been kept open by walruses as a breathing-hole. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Leaving the young men to skin and cut up the meat, Cheenbuk went on, with only Anteek to keep him company, in search of another breathing-hole. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Arrived at the ground, he set off on foot over the ice until he found a seal's breathing-hole. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Who has not, at some time or other in his life, watched the comings and goings of an ant, slipped straws into a yellow slug's one breathing-hole, studied the vagaries of a slender dragon-fly, pondered admiringly over the countless veins in an oak-leaf, that bring the colors of a rose window in some Gothic cathedral into contrast with the reddish background? ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
