It was as if blood and breath had stopped together.

Wintrow took a breath to go on, then stopped himself.

All three women felt their breath stop at exactly the same time.

She looked frightened, and her breath through spread lips stopped my own.

I took a deep breath and my hands would not stop shaking.

Yet my breath stopped for a second or two.

The gaze from his eyes stopped the breath in my throat.

Galdar looked into her eyes, and his breath very nearly stopped.

They stared directly into Jim's soul, and his breath stopped.

She wondered whether her breath would stop coming every time he was on duty.