The whitewashed front of the Meeting House was bathed, next evening, with soft sunset yellow when Mr. Penberthy the elder stole down the stairs between the exhortations, as his custom was, and stood bareheaded in the doorway Respiring the cool air.
"The Delectable Duchy"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"Yes, sir," said Reuben, and departed Respiring noisily.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
Large routes are rare, and not at all suited to the tastes of the French people; who comment with merriment, if not with ridicule, on the evening parties in London, where the rooms being too small to contain half the guests invited, the stairs and ante-rooms are filled by a crowd, in which not only the power of conversing, but almost of Respiring is impeded.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner