Short of wind

Usage examples of breathless.

It was these frequent glimmerings of the man underneath the childhood he was shucking that swept Angevine with true passion for him, that stained her vague parental warmth with something more hard and base and breathless.

Yuuzhan Vong warriors who now filed into the room--And the breathless anticipation of triumph that shone through Nom Anor, as he entered behind them.

Breathless from the dance, her hair as disheveled as a genuine bacchante, Messalina screamed with delight and shook the ivy-twined staff of Bacchus.

The long breathless backswing, the excitement of fingers closing on the bar again when he was braced for the long drop and fall .

Breathless, I now glanced downward and was terrified to see that in falling the basswood had carried away the lower branches of the hemlock and left no means of climbing down.

One breathless afternoon as I sat in the library at Belvidere reading over a packet of new books just arrived from England by way of Wilmington, Miss Mary Erwin appeared in the doorway, clad in a white morning dress trimmed with lace, and carrying a cloth-covered basket, but she looked no less formidable for this maidenly affectation.

Transfixed by awe, and a harmony that wrung him breathless, Verrain wept as he realized: the bogland he viewed was still governed by nature.

The thin doors of the house seemed to tear themselves open for me, driven by the same force by which I was driven until I found myself standing, doubled-over and breathless, outside and alone on the cobbles of Brickyard Row.

From a tiny alcove just beyond the banquet room, Cassandra peered out from behind a velvet curtain, breathless with anticipation.

He heard the young Chicagoan calling after him, breathless and anxious.

When she found the man to make her breathless and trembling, as Dameon and Oileus did for Tebris and Cydippe, then she would know she had found true love.

The maids employed around the person of their comfortless mistress, the valet of Denbigh engaged in arranging a dry coat for his master--all suspended their employments to listen in breathless silence to the mournful melody of the song.

Belatedly pressed to neaten his wind-crumpled mantle, Lord Diegan expelled a breathless laugh.

It had sung itself out into the breathless pause of deep dusk before, climbing down the fore wheel of the diligencia with stiff limbs, he shook hands with the engineer.

Away we go, full of hope, only to encounter some fresh mystification, till our breathless djins get quite bewildered.