He spread his massive legs apart, drew a deep breath, and raised his weapon.

I looked at him, and then away among the trees and bushes, holding my breath involuntarily.

I'd got a little used to it by this time, and though it was mighty hard work to catch my breath in such a wind as we made by our flight, yet I managed to sit up and look around me.

Now, as I stooped, I took my breath, shortly.

Fortunately for me I knew the wagon-master, John Willis, and as soon as I recovered my breath I told him what had happened.

I felt a sharp breath on my neck, an ejaculation of surprise at my very ear.

Parties were obliterated, or rather from the flux of this white heat, came out in solidified unity that compact of parties which for four years breathed the breath of the nation's life, spoke the purposes of the republic, and amid stupendous reverses and triumphs held the public conscience clear in its sublime duty.

A moment, and I got my breath more easily.

Our statesmen waste their breath and slight our intelligence when these foreground questions are thrust in front of the really fundamental matters.

He drove faster and faster, and I clung tighter and tighter, but alarmed at two immense dangers: first, that I should stop his breath by dragging the girdle so tightly; and, next, that when it became unendurable to him, he would loosen it in front.

For each respiration I made, I could hear an answering breath.

He blew out his breath in impotent clouds, and then went on.

However, Valentine contented herself with shrugging her shoulders; while the others, feeling slightly embarrassed, looked at Gaston and Lucie, who amid the romping of their companions, soon lost breath and lagged behind, sulky and distrustful.

"He is adorable," she continued, when she had regained her breath.

Grey had found his breath by this time, and had got a spare musket, for his own had been left in the woods.

Yet ere we yield our breath, on earth below Why need a little solace be denied?

A smile had come out on her face, and, as her head sank back against the rest, the eyes resting at the downward flutter, she gave out a long breath, not taking it in again.

He gasped as he inhaled great breaths of the fresh air.

"If it is some merchants' squabble, you can save your breath, for I am sick of the Shylocks.

Serpents are generated in various ways; the horse-runner, for instance, being derived from the fibres of horses' manes and tails, which probably receive the breath of life in a mare's nest.

If ever yet I coulde So moche of thee deserve, or at the least If with my last desire I may obtaine This at thy handes, geve me this one request And let me not spend my last breath in vaine.

Then, as Little John gathered his breath for a new verse, "How, now," roared forth the fat Brother, his voice coming from him like loud thunder from a little cloud, "thou naughty fellow, is this a fit place for one in thy garb to tipple and sing profane songs?" "Nay," quoth Little John, "sin' I cannot tipple and sing, like Your Worship's reverence, in such a goodly place as Fountain Abbey, I must e'en tipple and sing where I can.

If he had not been so religious a man, perhaps I should not have felt it so much; as it was, I could hardly fetch my breath.

A quick, panting breath behind her, and the sound of hurrying feet, caused her to turn her head; she fully expected to meet the gaze of some big dog, but instead a man was close upon her, dusty, travel-stained, his straw hat pushed back from a perspiring face and a hand stretched out to detain her.

Then I'd not be with any trouble vexed, Nor have the evening of my days perplexed; But by a silent and a peaceful death, Without a sigh, resign my aged breath.