water-breaths

Updated: May 5, 2025

"I thought it sad," she said at length, "when they exiled me, so to say, from Vienna and all my gay career there, because Venice, with its water-breaths, might heal my attainted health, and sadder when the winter bade me leave night-tides and gondolas and repair to Rome.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863