a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1590) ii. v. sig. Q8v It might seeme that Loue..was there to refreshe himselfe betweene their sweete-breathing lippes.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in (1824) 351 Pied flowers, sweet-breathing.
1856 R. A. Vaughan (1860) I. 23 The sweet-breathing air.