We breathed again - it meant that, mercifully for us, they would fall upon somebody else.

BBC: Stanley Ross remembers the Blitz

Moments later Petersen touched down in the left corner but referee Phil Bentham disallowed the score and Huddersfield breathed again.

BBC: Huddersfield 30-14 Wakefield

That save proved as crucial as the second-half introduction of Frederic Piquionne, whose presence in attack further unsettled West Brom, who breathed again after the French striker's header crashed back off the bar.

BBC: West Brom 3-3 West Ham

The mystic chords which proceeding from so many battle fields and so many patriot graves pass through all the hearts and all the hearths in this broad continent of ours will yet again harmonize in their ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation.

NEWYORKER: Union Man