On the sandy floor of a popular Sydney beach, a girl floats in a prone position, her life held in a breath of air.
I sucked in a breath.
Climbing up the five flights of the stairway in a breath, she was about to ring the doorbell when out came a gust of noise, noise of mahjong being reshuffled and shrilling laughter.
In a long poem titled Queries to the Heaven, he asked in a breath 172 questions about chronometer, geography, myth, legend, history, etc. These questions were full of disbelief spirit.
He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill-treatment: he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident and nobody was to blame.
When Hattie heard me suck in a breath, she broke away from Matthew's kiss and whipped her head round.
Oh, geeminy, it's HIM! " exclaimed both boys, in a breath."
