inspiration

The respiratory movements are no longer normal and rhythmic acts of inspiration and exspiration, but abnormal and irregular expiratory movements

Laughing is produced by an inspiration succeeded by a succession of short imperfect expirations.

The question, therefore, at issue is, not whether those external means be sufficient without grace and divine inspiration, for none pretends that": but, in order to hinder men from feigning or imagining an inspiration, whether it has not been God's economy, and his usual conduct to make his inspiration walk hand in hand with certain means of fact, which men can neither feign in the air without being convicted of falsehood, nor imagine without illusion.

She was waiting for inspiration to write a book.

The trip was an inspiration to her for writing a book.

After an interval the Psychologist had an inspiration. "It must have gone into the past if it has gone anywhere," he said.