They respire, merely as a vestigial reflex, but they don't oxygenate anymore.

He laughed, and seemed to respire more air into his broad chest.

The moment after I began to respire twenty quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide.

This enables the lungs to respire non-synchronously with the heart.

When a spontaneous effort to respire is observed, proceed to induce Circulation and Warmth.

The root, pith, lobes, plume, calyx, coral, sap, blood, leaves respire and absorb light.

Its breathings were difficult, and every effort to respire produced a convulsion harder than the last.

By this time he could scarcely respire.

Now that, not my apology, but my defence is made, I feel my soul respire more easily.

I can no more.-Ifonce I was clear of this cursed farm, I should respire more at ease.

After this long dripping and oozing from every pore, she began to respire again more healthily than ever.

With what eagerness did I run every morning at sunrise to respire the perfumed air in the peristyle!

Hepatocytes from hypothyroid rats respire more slowly than those from control animals; cells from hyperthyroid rats respire faster.

People are beginning to respire freely again; and such another space of time would have cicatrized our wounds-when ,hark

Many children sneeze before they respire, but not all, as far as I have observed, or can learn from others.

George could scarcely respire for a moment, but gradually recovered sufficiently to mumble, Gents, this is one on yours truly.