Vital air

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oxygen gas; - so called because essential to animal life.

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There is no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing as that which makes man dread to breathe heaven's vital air lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother or friend lest the gripe of the pestilence should clutch him.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

---Yes, in these halls, stained with the noble and pure blood of my father and my brethren---in these very halls, to have lived the paramour of their murderer, the slave at once and the partaker of his pleasures, was to render every breath which I drew of vital air, a crime and a curse.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

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