A hoarse gasping came in her throat and died there.

"What's happened to Cissie?" Vannie began weeping again with a faint gasping and a racking of her flat chest.

An irregular gasping for breath, an occasional delirious mutter, were the only signs of life.

And, surely, she loosed it even the more sudden, and with a little gasping of astonishment, because it was so great and hard.

Some of this blessed water is also kept in the house for use in great emergencies, when there is no time to fetch a priest; thus it may be employed to baptize a newborn infant gasping for life or to sprinkle a sick man in the last agony; such a sprinkling is reckoned equal to priestly absolution.[308]