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1 Every twenty feet we rested, breathing heavily of the rarified air.
2 The poor asthmatic is now breathing the extremely rarified air of the New Jerusalem.
3 SWITHIN: He breathes in a rarified air.
4 As the glass contains rarified air the flesh will be drawn up into it and a blister formed.
5 Poor Sharp was so used to breathing the rarified air of high altitudes that he can't stand this heavy atmosphere.
6 When this is the case, it expels the rarified air from its body and pouch, and drops swiftly towards the ocean.
7 The Sun's rays beat through the rarified air on the distended plastic wrappers, increasing still further the pressure of the confined hydrogen.
8 Even the pinion of the eagle fails in its rarified air, and the chamois ventures not to climb its steep and slippery crags.
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