breathing

The cubs were out, but Mother Wolf, at the back of the cave, knew by his breathing that something was troubling her frog.

She lay on the kitchen sofa feverish and restless, while her hoarse breathing could be heard all over the house.

But that night, when Marilla went to bed, acutely and miserably conscious that the little gable room at the end of the hall was untenanted by any vivid young life and unstirred by any soft breathing, she buried her face in her pillow, and wept for her girl in a passion of sobs that appalled her when she grew calm enough to reflect how very wicked it must be to take on so about a sinful fellow creature.

Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk, as _they_ were superior to the broad-faced stuffy uncle Philips, breathing port wine, who followed them into the room.