There he was gasping for breath, his life depending upon the result of the negotiation, and still he insisted upon the payment of costs as a condition of compromise.

The pace was terrific: on nearing the playground wall, all the events of a lifetime might have flashed across the memory as at the last gasp of a drowning man; and if fortunate enough to whiz through the doorway, and pull up "all standing" on the level stretch beyond, it was to draw a deep breath, and regard the successful performance of the feat as an escape from catastrophe which was nothing short of miraculous.

He seized the prickly branches coiling about and above him; he gasped in prayerful pleading, the home teaching still strong in him; but there was no answer, save the crooning night-birds and the croaking frogs.

I won't do itfor no man!" I gasped with dismay at the man's complete moral collapse.

Bagley gasped at me with a face of horror.

" There was a gasp from the audience, and one could almost see the mental cog wheels of sixty girls going furiously to work.

He levels his weapon, three reports ring out at once, and the miserable Wesley falls with a dreadful gurgling gasp on the floor.

" John Heron was as red as a turkey-cock and gasping like a cod out of water.

He staggered and gasped as one stabbed to the heart, and dropped into a chair.

I felt that I was strong enoughmy rising anger made me soto seize my unjust assailant by the throat, and cast him gasping to the ground.

When night crept up again through the gorges, the reedy notes of the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps by the flickering camp-fire.

" "Mr. Effingham!dear sir," said Paul, almost gasping between surprise and rapture"this is indeed beyond all my hopesand this generous frankness too, in your lovely daughter" Paul's hands had been transferred to those of the father, he knew not how; but releasing them hurriedly, he now turned in quest of Eve again, and found she had fled.

He writhed and struggled vainly, gasping under the blows.

The Castilian and his Wife had the Comfort to be under the same Master; who seeing how dearly they loved one another, and gasped after their Liberty, demanded a most exorbitant Price for their Ransom.

" Miss Fairbanks was gasping over the startling suggestion.

I mis-remember exactly who fired itwos it you, Meetuck?" Meetuck, being deeply engaged with a junk of fat meat at that moment, expressed all he had to say in a convulsive gasp without interrupting his supper.

Then there came murmurs and exclamations, with Miss Abigail's voice gasping above the others: "What would the directors say?" "What do they always say when we ask a favor?" demanded Blossy.

He became aware of her then, threw her a laugh, quickened to a mad tarantella that nearly whirled her off her feet, finally ended with a crashing chord, and whizzed round on the music-stool in time to catch her as she fell gasping against him.

" He could not rest When shipwrecked forms might gasp amid the waves, And not a cry be answered from the shore.

Exactly half-way over she was surprised to find herself gasping among the low-hanging boughs of a butternut-tree, where she hung like Absalom of old, between heaven and earth.

Although the sun was hot, and all nature lay gasping beneath it, the streets were unusually busy, and in the shades of the arcades at the corner of the market-place, at the corner of the bridge, and by the bank of the river, where the low wall is rubbed smooth by the trousers of the indolent, men stood in groups and talked in a low voice.

Then he, too, sank gasping into a chair.

When it terminated, Pippo lay bleeding among the rocks with a broken head, and the pilgrim was gasping near him under the tremendous gripe of the animal.

Bruce gasped through his mouthpiece.

And leaping up, she flung off her coat, and went gasping about the room for air.