31 examples of breathlessness in sentences

A breathlessness of excitement held the pirates in a vise.

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

There was breathlessness in the air.

Such a baby is said to be born blue, and the breathing may be stridorous for days, becoming normal for a time, to be followed later by spells of trouble in breathing, breathlessness or breathlessness with blueness, and threatened extinction.

Such a baby is said to be born blue, and the breathing may be stridorous for days, becoming normal for a time, to be followed later by spells of trouble in breathing, breathlessness or breathlessness with blueness, and threatened extinction.

Breathlessness is, perhaps, the most common effect of undue exertion.

Thus exercise which produces breathlessness requires frequent but short rests.

If it be accompanied with a feeling of faintness, breathlessness, and palpitation of the heart, the exercise is too severe, and its continuance may do serious harm.

Laughing, shouting, splashing, the campers sported in the water until all of a sudden a red canoe shot into their midst and the director of Camp Altamont, accompanied by two assistants, came in an advanced stage of breathlessness to find out what the matter was.

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.

It was imposing even to breathlessness.

She looked up in surprise at my breathlessness and my red eyes.

After the first night on the Joch the feeling of breathlessness is reduced, and so long as all climbing is done slowly no bad effects need be expected by people in good health and condition.

The intensity of his listening attitude seemed to hush into breathlessness the very night about him, as it did Sylvia.

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.

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.

During those five days Vera lay at the point of death, and though her husband was constantly with her it was to Juliet that she clung through all the terrible phases of weakness, breathlessness, and pain that she passed.

"Do you supposedo you really supposeI'd let you jeopardize your sweet lifeafter thisafter this?" He was holding her closely to him, and though a little spasm of breathlessness went through her she gave herself to him with a pulsing gladness that thrilled her whole being.

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?

Such things have been and may be again; so the tardy ones climbed and scurried and attained breathlessness and a final resting-place together.

" Jenny almost fell against the table, and gasped for a moment or two, partly from breathlessness, partly, as presently appeared, from grief.

It is certain that one may sing with the natural respiration; but it is rapidly exhausted if not augmented by additional inhalation; for it results in dryness and breathlessness, which cause suffering alike to singer and listener.

Tight muscles, alert eyes, stealthy steps, stalk and run and crawl and climb, breathlessness, a hot close-pressed chest, thrill on thrill, and sheer bursting riot of nerve and veinthese are the ordinary sensations and actions of a hunter.

Sporting England was enraptured with the dash and breathlessness of this adventure, and the novelist's fame was established.

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!

31 examples of  breathlessness  in sentences