She loved her sweet-breathed husband and responded to him deeply when they were joined in love—her one serious frustration was that he had no use for words. ❋ Larry McMurtry (2004)
Then, with a sweet-breathed grunt, she reached and swooped Andrew up into her great soft arms and began to dance with him. ❋ Carol Fenner (2001)
A clear, sweet-breathed dawn, as we said, that seemed somehow to have caught a scent of far-off harvest-farms, in lands where it was not winter. ❋ Various (N/A)
Nowhere else is the traveller's path guarded on either hand with a rampart of delicate primroses, sweet-breathed violets, golden buttercups fit for fairy revels, honeysuckles in whose bells the bee rings a delighted peal, and luscious-fruited blackberry-bushes. ❋ Various (N/A)
Up the lane came the cow-boy, alternately whistling, singing, and cracking his whip, until at length the drove of sweet-breathed cows stood lowing at the bars, which, at milking-time, would be let down for them to pass each to her own stall. ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)
Then came the cowboys, with noisy whoop, driving before them the crowding, clumsy, sweet-breathed herd, while, fearlessly amid all, pigeons fluttered, greedily picking up the refuse grain, heedless of the hoofs among which they pecked and fluttered. ❋ Margaret Devereux (N/A)
When morning broke, cold and sweet-breathed, russet clouds, dyed with the latent crimson day, thronging up from behind the hills, she tried to thrust down all the pains of the night as moody fancies. ❋ Various (N/A)
So sweet-breathed and green now, in winter scarlet brave, ❋ Olive Tilford Dargan (1918)
Save for the murmur of the creek, the evening was wrapped in silence -- sweet-breathed, balmy-browed, summer quietude. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)
There were no Mayflowers in June; but now the Old Lady's garden was full of blossoms and every morning Sylvia found a bouquet of them by the beech – the perfumed ivory of white narcissus, the flame of tulips, the fairy branches of bleeding-heart, the pink-and-snow of little, thorny, single, sweet-breathed early roses. ❋ Lucy Maud (1912)
Autumns, clear-eyed and sweet-breathed, faded wanly in the smoke of their forest fires. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
The young women he knew in Rexton, whose simple, pleasant friendship he valued, had the placid, domestic charm of their own sweet-breathed, windless orchards. ❋ Unknown (1908)
These things would pass away; here were lakes and woods and broad daisy-starred fields and sweet-breathed meadows, and they shall endure forever. ❋ Annie Sullivan (1905)
Life hung in the balance, the seasons coquetted, gray-haired old Winter trifling and flirting with the warm, blushing, sweet-breathed Spring. ❋ Clarence Hawkes (1901)
Give me for marriage a sweet-breathed woman of whom I should never tire, ❋ Unknown (1900)
She reminded Richard of a gentle, well-conditioned, sweet-breathed calf staring over a bank among ox-eyed daisies and wild roses. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)
