None the less, he strung his denials out by every amplification he could devise, and, having fired his last shot, sat down in despairing breathlessness to hear the judge's summing-up and decision.

I stopped my horse, and the black ball bounded almost into the road before me, and suddenly straightening itself up into a haggard hag of a half-naked negress, exclaimed, with panting eager breathlessness, 'Oh missis, missis!

The very tone of the high ranges is that of silence vast and eternal beyond scope of thought, and the only sounds that can fittingly shatter that mighty breathlessness are the great, calamitous phenomena of nature,the thunder crashing in the sky and the avalanche on the slope.

then said Jehane; and she began with an odd breathlessness, "Friend, when King Henry diesand even now he diesshall I not as Regent possess such power as no woman has ever wielded in Europe?

I shouted out, in a voice twice as deep as my natural one, and with a queer breathlessness, that sudden fright so often gives one.

I hope it is not broken," she gasped, with a singular breathlessness.