Gasping

Examples

• He was still for two or three minutes, which seemed endless to her, unable to speak or move, gasping for breath. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now,' said Mr. Pickwick, gasping no less from excitement than from the expenditure of so much energy, 'come on--both of you--both of you! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The sensation of being stifled sometimes so overpowered him, that he would stand at the window holding his throat and gasping. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Observe this, Mr. Pickwick,' said the disconcerted officer, gasping for breath. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Then there was a weeping of women, then waiting, then hushed exclamations, then a strange gasping sound, then a painful stillness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They ran to the rope, leaving him gasping there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He waited for that look to go off,--for her gasping breath to come. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He lay gasping upon the floor of the chamber, his great eyes fastened upon me in what seemed a pitiful appeal for protection. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Yes, certainly,' replied Mr. Pickwick, wringing the water from his head and face, and gasping for breath. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At which point the figure in it gasping, O Lord! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He-he-he,' tittered Mr. Magnus, affecting cheerfulness, and gasping with agitation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A chili, said Rebecca, gasping. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To my gasping senses she made the glimmering gloom, the narrow limitsthe oppressive heat of the dormitory, intolerable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He now sat down again very much out of breath, gasping at his pipe as if it contained a supply of that necessary, without which he must perish. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Inputed by Harvey