be the breath of life to somebody

In all those years, she has never been able to draw a deep breath full of good life.

"After 40 years, what I came to care about most was not style, but the breath of life."

He would look for her body and hope the breath of life was in it yet.

Nobody should have to pay for the breath of life.

War is not the only way to waste the breath of life.

Even if she is still living, there in the east, I took as it were the breath of life from her.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Not if he could answer in the affirmative with the last breath of life.

She had asked him to share her last breath of life.

He remembered how she had given him that first breath of life.