He could no more have submitted her to such humiliation and anguish than he could cease breathing.

But Naomi could no more refrain from checking than she could cease breathing.

Suddenly, even while she looked, he had ceased breathing.

Niall almost ceased breathing, suddenly gripped by the certainty that he was about to learn something important.

Turned to stone, I had ceased breathing, there was no air to breathe.

Soon the woman across whom she lay ceased breathing.

He ceased speaking and breathing, and closed his eyes, and he never did get to see the green trees again.

Athena could recall through her visions that one instant of deathly silence when everything on earth seemed to cease breathing.

Prisoners were placed in pressure chambers and subjected to high-altitude tests until they ceased breathing.

She could no more for-swear the schemes of power than she could cease breathing.