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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of inbreathe.

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Examples

  • But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him!

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • If the air sucked in is homogeneous, but soul heterogeneous, clearly while some part of soul will exist in the inbreathed air, some other part will not.

    On the Soul 2002

  • Voice then is the impact of the inbreathed air against the

    On the Soul 2002

  • If the air sucked in is homogeneous, but soul heterogeneous, clearly while some part of soul will exist in the inbreathed air, some other part will not.

    ON THE SOUL Aristotle 1935

  • Voice then is the impact of the inbreathed air against the

    ON THE SOUL Aristotle 1935

  • I had inbreathed their mystery and outbreathed it again as my own.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

  • 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.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

  • She inbreathed sharply, then her eyes narrowed a trifle.

    Midnight Octavus Roy Cohen 1925

  • But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him!

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him!

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

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