Choking, tear-starting smoke filled their lungs, taking the place of life-giving air.

An enormous bubble of life-giving air rushed from his lungs.

Her fingertips bit hard into his windpipe, closing off his breath, isolating him from a world filled with life-giving air.

Similarly the cosmical society, which had calculated on a speedy emergence into the life-giving air of communion with God, now found itself imprisoned.

While Rayford's system greedily took in the life-giving air, the rest of him was numb.

Her head broke the surface and immediately her mouth opened to pull in life-giving air.

Instinct cried out for him to simply suck in the life-giving air, but he knew he did not have the time.

In rushed the fresh, life-giving air, and the treasure-hunters filled their lungs with it.

The victim screamed and fell and all the others gasped in life-giving air.

It was the work of only a few seconds for the man nearest it to open the hatch, and then in rushed the life-giving air.