His absence from the room totalled a little less than three minutes, and when he held the glass to the lady's lips he was out of breath with his exertions.

I stood out of breath, the perspiration pouring from me, undecided how to act.

What, out of breath?

shouted the colonel, as Shiver-the- timbers rushed at the high pales, out of breath, and blind with rage.

" Amanda, out of breath and scarlet of face, slipped quietly into the loose box and sat down in the straw.

The merciless harrying of the word "kind" at the beginning of Act v. reminds one of similar elaborate trifling in Humour out of Breath; and the amoebaean rhymes in the contention between Gemulo and Silvio (Act i.) are, in their sportive quaintness, as like Day's handiwork as they are unlike Lilly's.

The doctor was walking so rapidly that Esther was a little out of breath.

And the proud wheat was threshed out by it, and found itself in grains again and very much out of breath.

The first day Ogul was out of breath and thought he should have died with fatigue.

In the courtyard I found my uncle Lazare, who had just arrived out of breath.

Has severity ever produced inconstancy?" To go on: We talked until we were out of breath, and everything the Countess told me gave me to understand that she had made up her mind.

breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind; blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose^; broken winded, short-winded; dyspnaeal^, dyspnaeic^. ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat

She plied the pedals with vigor, and he ran alongside or behind, as best he could; she excited, and he out of breath.

She was red and out of breath, and her large breasts rose and fell like the bellows of a forge, while her air of triumph said clearly to Marcel: "Ah, ah, I have caught you here.

Brede puffs and blows, mightily out of breath.

West pulled and the other boy struggled, and then, at last, when both were out of breath, the straw hat rose above the ledge and its wearer scrambled up.

Curiously enough, he was out of breath.

And a regidor would be off to don Ramón's like a greyhound; and arriving at the patio panting, out of breath, he would heave a sigh of relief and contentment at sight of "the chief" there, pacing up and down as usual, ready to get his friends out of their difficulties as if the limitless resources of Providence were at his command.

" The coach, out of breath, nodded and gestured, sinking into his seat.

v. 2. 'Out of breath to no purpose, and very busy about nothing.' 109.

With which he minced off, dusting his nose with his lace handkerchief, and I'm damned if I see the joke yet in spelling patroon with an o for the a and an ell for good measure!" He paused, out of breath, to pour himself some spirits.

If all should go out together, it is probable that some would be rude and noisy, and that others would come back tardy and out of breath.

she gasped, out of breath and almost faint.

"Out of breath?

He was too angry and suspicious to let her pass in silence, and he noticed her cheeks were flushed with nervous excitement and that she was out of breath; and no wonder, for she had run up the stairs.