Both Uses of
exhalation
in
Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The great tents filled like bellows. They softly issued forth exhalations of air that smelled like ancient yellow beasts.
Part 1 *exhalations = breaths of air
- He turned, hit shingles, fell skidding down the inclined ancient roof, over down to rim, to rainspout where, feet first, he spilled into further emptiness, yelling, clawed at the rain gutter, held, felt it groan, give way, as he swept the sky to see the balloon whistling, wrinkling, flying up like a wounded beast to evacuate its terrified exhalations in the clouds; a gunshot mammoth, not wanting to expire, yet in terrible flux coughing out its stinking winds.†
Part 2
Definition:
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(exhalation) the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out