The faith and hope which breathe in this passage have the closest affinities with the book of Lamentations and Isa.
Darian bear-hugged her, lowering his head to breathe in her scent.
On the 31st of August he seemed to rally, and one who slept in his bedchamber and who heard him praying, declared, "a public spirit to God's cause did breathe in him to the very last."
Life depended upon a universally diffused ether, which animals breathe in from the atmosphere, and which is contained in all parts of the body.
And we know that the Druids used to burn henbane and breathe in the fumes to put them into a hallucinatory trance.