| 1. | Appeer of respiration to the just. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passin. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | It seemed to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | Their breath under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of death. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Valentine summoned every effort, and breathed with that regular respiration which announces tranquil sleep. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | A bright spot burned in either cheek, her respiration was short and difficult, and her pulse beat with feverish excitement. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | He listened to her breathing she still breathed, but with a respiration which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |