Panting

Examples

• I cannot run, said I, turning round, and panting for breath. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The mask now hurried me along so fast, that I arrived at the table panting for breath. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Perdita's questions had ceased; she leaned on my arm, panting with emotions too acute for tears--our men pulled alongside the other boat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There he stood, panting and heaving, as if he had never stopped since the night, now long ago, when he had run them down before. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• A great animal--truly, Frank's black horse--stood trembling, panting, snorting before the door; a man held it, Frank, as I thought. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Oh, thou poor panting little soul! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The child lay panting on her pillows, as one exhausted,--the large clear eyes rolled up and fixed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was a mixture of joy, of anger, of pride, of glad surprise, of panting doubt; but she could not read it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was true that the panting and rattling of the coal mines could always be heard at Shortlands. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They could hear the small locomotive panting hoarsely as it advanced with caution between the embankments. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With a gentle panting breath she sat upright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She could hear him panting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I heard a panting sound; a dog came running up the lane. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I must, said his lordship, panting, for I have a great deal to do. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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