His face was covered with blood, he was waving his arms wildly and gasping for air.

Oot o' my camp, the pair o' you!" West, strangling, gasped for air, as does a catfish on the bank.

She was gasping for air by the time she arrived there, and so she breathed in several lungfuls of the cleaner, purer stuff.

" A wave of color passed over his pale face, he gasped for air, he crossed over to the window, then he walked back with a heavy step, seeking to recover his self-possession.

He dried his face, loosened his collar, and, gasping for air, came out into the narrow hall.

He put one hand on each side of her head and held her down as he raised his body and gasped for air.

And, should you enter old Akbar's lair And hear what he wants for his skins, You will know why the little red squirrels stare, Why the Bengal tiger gasps for air And the gaunt snow-leopard grins.

Laid out half a dozen men like fish, gasping for air, but they will recover.

The hens in their coops lay with eyes glazed and gasped for air.

She burst from it, gasping for air and freedom with the agonized relief of one who has barely escaped suffocation.

A person gasping for air might open a window for himself.