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gaspingly

adv. In a gasping way.

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gaspingly
  1. adv. in a breathless manner; "she spoke gaspingly" [syn: breathlessly]

  2. as someone winded and out of breath; "he came running after us pantingly" [syn: pantingly]

Usage examples of "gaspingly".

No hereafter is acceptable if it does not produce her as she was then, in that Colorado resort between Snow and Elphinstone, with everything right: the white wide little-boy shorts, the slender waist, the apricot midriff, the white breast-kerchief whose ribbons went up and encircled her neck to end behind in a dangling knot leaving bare her gaspingly young and adorable apricot shoulder blades with that pubescence and those lovely gentle bones, and the smooth, downward-tapering back.