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/sˈɛkənd wɪnd/ Listen

Second wind

noun

Renewed energy or strength to continue an undertaking. "The employers, initially taken by surprise at the pace of developments, regained their second wind"

The return of relatively easy breathing after initial exhaustion during continuous exertion.

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"Second wind" Quotes from Famous Books

... fast. That was to be expected in the start, though when he got his "second wind" he would very likely be good for a ...

— Fred Fenton Marathon Runner - The Great Race at Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... two years at least. De mortuis nil nisi prius. Go out of mourning first. Hard to imagine his funeral. Seems a sort of a joke. Read your own obituary notice they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... also thought himself fairly active. He revised these ideas. This girl could travel through the thin brush of the creek bottom two feet to his one, because she ran more lightly and surely, and her endurance was not a matter for discussion. The question of second wind did not concern her any more than it does a child, whose ordinary mode of progression is heartbreaking. Bennington found that he was engaged in the most delightful play of his life. He shouted aloud with the fun ...

— The Claim Jumpers • Stewart Edward White

... just got their second wind. Here's one from a Chicago publisher—never heard the name—offering you thirty per cent. on your next novel, with an advance royalty of twenty thousand. And here's a chap who wants to syndicate it for a bunch of Sunday papers: big offer, too. That's from Ann Arbor. And this—oh, ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

... wondered whether to take to my heels or not. But my courage got its second wind, and I stayed. Then we shook hands, very formally, and explained who we were. And I discovered that his name was Percival Benson Woodhouse (and the Lord forgive me if they ever call him Percy for short!) and that his aunt is the Countess of D—— and that he knows ...

— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer

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