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breathe

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breathe
The property of a layer of a material that permits air and/or moisture to pass through it without damaging the layer.


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Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their gills, the finny tribes in general breathe the air which at all times is combined with the element in which they swim, hence, a herring or a cod might live a century, and never once raise its head above the surface.
There are days when every stream is Pactolus and every man is Croesus, and thanks to that first and greatest of all alchemists, the sun, the morning I write of was a morning when to breathe was gold and to see was silver.
He will be absent, however, for three months, and mother and I shall breathe more freely; the situation will be less intense.
 
 
 
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