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Usage examples of gasp.

Henry helped her up the steps, through the door and into the foyer, and Abigail gasped in admiration.

Smith gasped, his Highland accent breaking through the English veneer, as it always did in stressful situations.

A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.

He kept the aerator as low as possible, to make himself breathe great gasps that hurt his chest, but it made him dizzy, and he had to increase the oxygenation lest he faint.

They gasped at the sight of the afanc, thrashing furiously now in the lake with its great neck bending to and fro.

With a gasping shriek the king ape collapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimbly sidestepping from his grasp.

Floyt helped him up, demanding to know if he was all right although Alacrity was gasping too hard to answer.

A word, a heave in unison, and the albacore lay gasping in the bilges -- a magnificent fish of a hundred pounds or more.

Gasping for breath, Alec doubled over and they knocked him down into the half-frozen mud of the street.

My uncle, as he gasped and tossed in increasing perturbation and with eyes that had now started open, seemed not one man but many men, and suggested a curious quality of alienage from himself.

All of which I submit as evidence that the man I boxed with was a totally different man from the poor, ninety-pound weight of eight years before, who, given up by physicians and alienists, lay gasping his life away in a closed room in Portland, Oregon.

He dipped his tongue into the hollow of her collarbone, and Amelle gasped.

From the statue issued a great gasp of graying smoke, that clouded the apsis in which the throne stood and came gorging into the cella, obscuring the graven images along the walls.

Blacktooth arose with a gasp and tried to genuflect with a leg that had gone to sleep.

The male grinned wide as the female gasped in shock, she attempting to back from the touch, yet finding herself unable to do so.