A little later, she gave several gasps, and opened her eyes.

She held her breath, watching that hand; and I can hear the gasp yet with which she saw him set his glass down quietly on the board.

Now beholding this silent figure, a groan of fear went up, divers men sank crouching on their knees, the Reeve uttered a hoarse gasp and covered his face, while even Beltane, staring wide-eyed, felt his flesh a-creep.

There-is another condition of what we may call "mute births," where the child only makes short ineffectual gasps, and those at intervals of a minute or two apart, when the lips, eyelids, and fingers become of a deep purple or slate colour, sometimes half the body remaining white, while the other half, which was at first swarthy, deepens to a livid hue.

But it was thought graceful now, considering the presence of a stranger, to simulate the expectancy of the uninformed, and to emit little gasps of astonished delight when Eustace would say, "Passing from the city gates, we next come upon a view that is well worthy a moment of our attention.

Then she relaxed at his feet, breathing in sobbing gasps.

For some reason that drew a gasp.

It was Sabbath morning; the gray dawn was just streaking the east with the earliest beams of day, when the father, who sat a little distance from his child, thought he saw her gasp for breath.

But this time he ignored the gasp and the sudden cold slackness of the hands he held and went on speaking with hardly a pause.

" "It might be a very good thing," said the world-weary voice, and left her gasping.

Mortimer FitzHugh was in this camp to-night!" CHAPTER XXV Donald MacDonald's startling assertion that Mortimer FitzHugh had been in the camp, and that Joanne's dream was not a dream, but reality, brought a gasp of astonishment and disbelief from Aldous.

Leonora would have wished that the night should never end; that the waning moon, which seemed to have been slashed by a sword, should stop eternally in the sky to wrap them forever in its feeble, dying light; that the river should be endless, and the boat float on and on until, overwhelmed by so much love, they should breathe the last gasp of life away in a kiss as tenuous as a sigh.

The traitorous repulse that we have suffered indicates the last gasp, the final convulsions of the dying.

she asked sharply, for the man still knelt gasping and panting, and seemed to have no power to help himself.

Nine days I floated starving, and a negro lass beside, Till for all I tried to cheer her, the poor young thing she died; But as I lay a gasping, a Bristol sail came by, And brought me home to England here, to beg until I die.

There lay the steed gasping in the last agony, and the rider beneath him, crushed, mangled and dead.

This spasmodic action produces a gasp, causing the air to rush through the mouth and nostrils, and enter the windpipe and upper portion of the flat and contracted lungs, which, like a sponge partly immersed in water, immediately expand.

Can those prolong one gasp of breath, Or calm the troubled hour of death?

She rave a gasp, and after a moment plunged on into her wrongs: "Whenwhen one of us even walks past on the street, theythey whistle and say a-all kinds of things out loud, j-just as if w-we weren't there at all.

He turned about to retrace his steps for a short way, before leaving the road, when he stopped short, hardly repressing a gasp of affright.

They kicked, they cuffed, they scratched, they tore the garments from each other's shoulders, they foamed and rolled gasping in the yellow sand of the arena.

He opened his lips and tried to speak, but closed them again without having uttered a sound save a choking gasp.

Whereupon Mr. Wood, seeing her gasping, took away her money, jewels, &c., and flung her down over the works."

She was a ghastly, pitiable sight, as she stood there, her big eyes fixed on Dicky, her breath coming unevenly in shuddering gasps.

In search of something to stay my gasping, I mounted on to the roof of the house this morning, to take my walk there, instead of in my close garden, where there are low shrubs which give no shade, but exclude the breeze.