Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie.txt_36460.51"Mamma, the new governess has come," she cried, out of breath, shaking back, with a toss of her head, the sandy locks that had fallen over her forehead; "why, she is uglier than Miss Mertens!"

Zangwill_Israe_The_Master_a_N_49795_70180.77Matthew Strang obediently started “Yankee Doodle,” and had to grant two encores before the juvenile tyrant was robbed of breath and desire.
Marlitt_E_Eu_Gold_Elsie_42426_36770.68"Mamma, the new governess has come," she cried, out of breath, shaking back, with a toss of her head, the sandy locks that had fallen over her forehead; "why, she is uglier than Miss Mertens!"
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_60600.66Betsey was flushed, excited, and out of breath; but she contrived to deliver intelligibly a brief message from Mr. Munder, the steward, requesting permission to speak to Mr. Frankland, or to Mrs. Frankland, on business of importance.
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_147260.62We had not sat here many minutes, when Mrs. Markleham, who usually contrived to be in a fuss about something, came bustling in, with her newspaper in her hand, and said, out of breath, 'My goodness gracious, Annie, why didn't you tell me there was someone in the Study!'
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_97360.60I smoke on srub and water, myself,' said Mr. Omer, taking up his glass, 'because it's considered softening to the passages, by which this troublesome breath of mine gets into action.
Scott_Walter_Woodstock_or_9785_11310.59-- Chums at College and at Lincoln's Inn -- we have been Nisus and Euryalus, Theseus and Pirithous, Orestes and Pylades; and, to sum up the whole with a puritanic touch, David and Jonathan, all in one breath.
Bolton_Sarah_K_Lives_of_Poor_B_35950_30510.59Says Benjamin F. Taylor, who was an eye-witness, "Never halting, never faltering, they charged up to the first rifle-pits with a cheer, forked out the rebels with their bayonets, and lay there panting for breath.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_1600.59and the cabman dashed his hat upon the ground, with a reckless disregard of his own private property, and knocked Mr. Pickwick's spectacles off, and followed up the attack with a blow on Mr. Pickwick's nose, and another on Mr. Pickwick's chest, and a third in Mr. Snodgrass's eye, and a fourth, by way of variety, in Mr. Tupman's waistcoat, and then danced into the road, and then back again to the pavement, and finally dashed the whole temporary supply of breath out of Mr. Winkle's body; and all in half-a-dozen seconds.
Woolson_Consta_Anne_A_Novel_32707_105830.58And Mrs. Strain, though out of breath, considered that her services had been well repaid.
Phillpotts_Ede_Sons_of_the_Mor_46857_39550.58Just now that old hag Cherry Grepe was here begging and threatening in a breath.
Meade_L_T_The_Palace_Beau_15149_13760.58Miss Martineau had talked herself quite out of breath, and looked quite pleading, but the same obstacle which had prevented the girls' acceding to Mrs. Ellsworthy's request now debarred their taking up their quarters near Constantia Warren.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_151090.57Thus addressing his master, Sam took him by the arm, and led him off, while the rival editors were severally removed to their beds by the landlord, under the inspection of Mr. Bob Sawyer and Mr. Benjamin Allen; breathing, as they went away, many sanguinary threats, and making vague appointments for mortal combat next day.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_2050.57and the cabman dashed his hat upon the ground, with a reckless disregard of his own private property, and knocked Mr. Pickwick's spectacles off, and followed up the attack with a blow on Mr. Pickwick's nose, and another on Mr. Pickwick's chest, and a third in Mr. Snodgrass's eye, and a fourth, by way of variety, in Mr. Tupman's waistcoat, and then danced into the road, and then back again to the pavement, and finally dashed the whole temporary supply of breath out of Mr. Winkle's body; and all in half a dozen seconds.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_77860.56said the Major, swelling with shortness of breath and slyness, as he produced a note, addressed to the Honourable Mrs Skewton, by favour of Major Bagstock, wherein hers ever faithfully, Paul Dombey, besought her and her amiable and accomplished daughter to consent to the proposed excursion; and in a postscript unto which, the same ever faithfully Paul Dombey entreated to be recalled to the remembrance of Mrs Granger.
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_6940.55Mr. Pooke was asleep, as it happened, not having much to do that day; and so I fastened Peggy by the handle of a warming-pan, at which she had no better manners than to snort and blow her breath; and in I walked with a manful style, bearing John Fry's blunderbuss.
Kingsley_Charl_Westward_Ho_Or_1860_30480.55"But for them that don't -- " And with a sigh he returned to his small ale, and then lingered in and out of the inn, watching the dinner as it went into the best room, where the guests were assembled.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_28250.55The mention of this name served as a timely reminder to Mr. Garth, who dropped his arm and rode away, muttering savagely under his breath.
Scott_Walter_Anne_of_Geierst_44247_1170.52While they were talking in this manner, the aged waiter, with many a weary sigh and many a groan, had drawn out certain boards, by which a table that stood in the midst of the stube had the capacity of being extended, so as to contain the company present, and covered it with a cloth, which was neither distinguished by extreme cleanliness nor fineness of texture.
S_gur_Philippe_History_of_the_18113_35150.52Alexander, however, encouraged by the sight of this camp, and of the Duena, took breath behind that river.
Mathews_France_My_Lady_Peggy_G_50388_31170.52Peggy sighs; she has heard much during her convalescence by way of Mr. Grigson and the Abigail.
Disraeli_Benja_Coningsby_Or_7412_46860.52'Well, Jobson,' exclaims another member of the committee, with a sigh, 'who could have supposed that you would have been an enemy?'
Dickens_Charle_Sketches_by_Boz_882_50780.52Horatio Sparkins, ma,' replied Miss Marianne, with a sigh.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_162280.52'If it's the same patterned chintz as that in the window; thirty-two, twelve, six,' said Moddle, with a sigh.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_160850.52Mr Toots and Captain Cuttle heaved a sigh in concert.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_123780.52Only a lil calf, as clane as clane -- and breath as swate as your own, miss.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_107050.52'Plunged into the very vortex of society, you know, Mr. Weller,' said Mr. John Smauker, with a sigh.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_54490.52Mr. Pickwick had not been asleep half an hour when little Captain Boldwig, followed by the two gardeners, came striding along as fast as his size and importance would let him; and when he came near the oak tree, Captain Boldwig paused and drew a long breath, and looked at the prospect as if he thought the prospect ought to be highly gratified at having him to take notice of it; and then he struck the ground emphatically with his stick, and summoned the head-gardener.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_120670.51Mr Boffin came down leisurely, for this brushing process had been well accomplished, and Mr Venus had had time to take his breath, before he reappeared.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_112780.51Mrs MacStinger stopped to fetch her breath; and her face flushed with triumph in this second happy introduction of Captain Cuttle's muzzlings.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_148040.51We had not sat here many minutes, when Mrs. Markleham, who usually contrived to be in a fuss about something, came bustling in, with her newspaper in her hand, and said, out of breath, "My goodness gracious, Annie, why didn't you tell me there was some one in the Study!"
White_Andrew_D_History_of_the_505_67510.51In such surgery, the application of various ordures relieved fractures; the touch of the hangman cured sprains; the breath of a donkey expelled poison; friction with a dead man's tooth cured toothache.
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_22110.49it wor a purty darlint, it wor; an' it's me own heart that's sore for her the day, forbye your'n that's her borned mother; and, if it wor my own life that 'ud fetch her back to yees" -- But here the long breath on which Mrs. Ginniss had started came to an end, and with it the impulse of consolation and self-defence that had so far sustained her; and with a wild cry of "Wurra, wurra!
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_30850.49"Tolerable, thank you, Tag," replied Mrs. Tag-rag, mournfully, with a sigh, closing the cheerful volume she had been perusing -- it having been recommended the preceding Sunday from the pulpit by its pious and gifted author, to be read and prayed over every day by every member of his congregation!
Frederic_Harol_The_Market_Plac_298_18280.49To suggest that the characterless and inoffensive Chatham-and-Dover, so commonplace in its tame virtues, was to be mentioned in the same breath with the daringly inventive and resourceful malefactors whose rendezvous was London Bridge, showed either a weak mind or a corrupt heart.
Lincoln_Jeanie_An_Unwilling_Ma_10958_13140.48"So you have never kept Christmas before," said he, pausing in his cheerful whistle, which he kept up under his breath like a violin obligato to his whittling of boughs; "and you don't believe in Kris Kringle and his prancing reindeers?
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_19810.48The isolated and charmless existence you drag through here, to the satisfaction of none and least of all to your own, you can transform to one of fruition and satisfaction -- breathing and moving healthily and beneficently in the light of day.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_98120.48I smoke on srub and water, myself," said Mr. Omer, taking up his glass, "because it's considered softening to the passages, by which this troublesome breath of mine gets into action.
Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_1298_55990.48His exit from the foreman's cabin had let in a breath of winter so chill that the Virginian went to see his thermometer, a Christmas present from Mrs. Henry.
Ferris_George_Great_Violinist_17463_31150.48The errors of such a man, exposed by his temperament and surroundings to the fiercest breath of temptation, should be rather veiled than opened to the garish day.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_50570.48Her breath came quick, and Mr. Forsythe saw it, "Yes," he said, stammering with embarrassment, "I -- I fear I shall have to go -- ah -- important business."
Twain_Mark_The_Man_That_Co_3251_35520.47Slowly drinks a glass of filtered sewage that smells like a buzzard's breath.
Fenn_George_Ma_Yussuf_the_Guid_21378_36420.47"Well, I don't wonder at it," said Mr Burne with a sigh as he tickled his nose with a fresh pinch.
Dickens_Charle_Sketches_by_Boz_882_63900.47shouted Mr. Alexander Trott; 'it's a mercy, ma'am, that I have any breath to exert myself with!
Phillpotts_Ede_Children_of_the_14527_59850.47An' now you'm a parent, you must -- " But Will was out of earshot, and Mr. Chapple wasted no more breath.
Woolson_Consta_Horace_Chase_39067_9910.46inquired the sculptress sarcastically, under her breath.
Kipling_Rudyar_Under_the_Deoda_2828_21870.46'She was dyin',' said Mrs. Delville, under her breath.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_125760.46Go on, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, with a sigh.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_125320.46inquired Mr. Weller, with a sigh.
Zangwill_Israe_Dreamers_of_the_29875_17670.46The elders of the congregation appealed to the magistrates; they translated with bated breath passages from the baleful book, Tradiçoens Phariseas conferidos con a Ley escrida .
Twain_Mark_A_Tramp_Abroad_119_52600.45I will condense this account, as follows: On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden.
Hudson_Henry_N_Shakespeare_Hi_13387_27880.45No; his Henry the Fifth, and Horatio, and Kent, and Edgar, and Posthumus, his Helena, and Isabella, and Cordelia, and Hermione, and Imogen, and Catharine, are most truly "beings breathing thoughtful breath."
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_86370.45he inquired of Wardle, when that gentleman was thoroughly out of breath, by reason of the indefatigable manner in which he had converted his legs into a pair of compasses, and drawn complicated problems on the ice.
Gaskell_Elizab_The_Life_of_Cha_1827_20280.45Her temporary engagement in this uncongenial family ended in the July of this year; not before the constant strain upon her spirits and strength had again affected her health; but when this delicacy became apparent in palpitations and shortness of breathing, it was treated as affectation -- as a phase of imaginary indisposition, which could be dissipated by a good scolding.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_9620.45Mr. Pickwick, perceiving his advantage, darted briskly forward, secured his property, planted it on his head, and paused to take breath.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_10060.45Mr. Pickwick, perceiving his advantage, darted briskly forward, secured his property, planted it on his head, and paused to take breath.
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_184660.45A small sharp-looking lad, half-footboy and half-clerk, who was very much out of breath, but who looked at me as if he defied me to prove it legally, presented himself.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_19340.45Miss Garth's elaborate satire, addressed to her while she was in this frame of mind, was a purely gratuitous waste of Miss Garth's breath.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_79870.44A distant response is heard from the yard, and Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Tupman come running down it, quite out of breath, for they have been having a glass of ale a-piece, and Mr. Pickwick's fingers are so cold that he has been full five minutes before he could find the sixpence to pay for it.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_3410.44His eye happening to light upon John Baptist with this inquiry, that little man briskly shook his head in the negative, and repeated in an argumentative tone under his breath, altro, altro, altro, altro -- an infinite number of times.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_34950.44Mr Tappertit, who was not in the best of humours, and who disliked Miss Miggs more when she laid her hand on her heart and panted for breath than at any other time, as her deficiency of outline was most apparent under such circumstances, eyed her over in his loftiest style, and deigned to express no curiosity whatever.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_18350.44And the vicar's wife sketched out a programme of festivities for the next fortnight she had been revolving in her inventive head, which took the sisters' breath away.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_190160.44Finding the uselessness of her tardy resolution, Florine resigned herself with a sigh to the necessity of delivering the manuscript to Rodin.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_11300.44Mr. Pickwick was roused from the agreeable reverie into which he had been led by the objects before him, by a deep sigh, and a touch on his shoulder.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_118530.44Having said all this in a breath, Mr. Roker mounted another flight of stairs with Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller following at his heels.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_11750.44Mr. Pickwick was roused from the agreeable reverie into which he had been led by the objects before him, by a deep sigh, and a touch on his shoulder.
Kennan_George_Tent_Life_in_Si_12328_4380.44I thought with a sigh of the elder Mr. Weller's parting injunction to his son, "Bevare o' the vidders," and wondered what the old gentleman would say could he see this unconscious "wictim" walking up to the altar "and thinkin' in his 'art that it was all wery capital."
Roe_Edward_Pay_Without_a_Home_5433_32740.43With her several small children she lived in a chaotic way, keeping up a perpetual whining and fault-fnding, half under her breath from fear of her irascible husband, that was like a "continual dropping on a very rainy day."
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_18900.43We only know that he paused suddenly, drew a long and deep breath, and looked anxiously on, as two of the principal members of the Dingley Dell club approached Mr. Pickwick, and said -- 'We are about to partake of a plain dinner at the Blue Lion, Sir; we hope you and your friends will join us.'
Harben_Will_N_Northern_Georgi_50896_19060.43II |The evening before the day appointed for Mrs. Gibbs's departure, Betsey came in out of breath.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_111190.43Mrs Wilfer thanked him with a magnanimous sigh, and again became an unresisting prey to that inscrutable toothache.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_42370.43Mr Flintwinch, having expelled a long significant breath said, with his former emphasis, 'For I have accidentally -- mind!
Dickens_Charle_Bleak_House_1023_60490.43While Mrs. Snagsby, drawing her breath, looks hard at Mr. Snagsby, as who should say, "You hear this apostle!"
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_97720.43For -- don't you see,' said Mr. Omer, touching me with his pipe, 'it ain't likely that a man so short of breath as myself, and a grandfather too, would go and strain points with a little bit of a blue-eyed blossom, like her?'
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_60720.43His chin was cocked over the coachman's shoulder, so near to me, that his breath quite tickled the back of my head; and as I looked at him, he leered at the leaders with the eye with which he didn't squint, in a very knowing manner.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_25600.42Finding it rather difficult to pursue the conversation down this road, Mr and Mrs Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history, until Miss Bella appeared: whom Mrs Wilfer presented, and to whom she explained the purpose of the visitors.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_125470.42The coachman (descending instantly from Theology to Business) watched the signature with the most scrupulous attention; and signed his own name as witness, with an implied commentary on the proceeding, in the form of another puff of whisky, exhaled through the medium of a heavy sigh.
Ford_Paul_Leic_The_Story_of_an_36439_1980.42To this day the snap of a whip causes me to catch my breath, it brings back so vividly the crack with which Mr. Walton's cabman whipped up his horse.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_54140.42Mr. Pickwick had not been asleep half an hour when little Boldwig, followed by the two gardeners, came striding along as fast as his size and importance would let him; and when he came near the oak tree, Captain Boldwig paused, and drew a long breath, and looked at the prospect as if he thought the prospect ought to be highly gratified at having him to take notice of it; and then he struck the ground emphatically with his stick, and summoned the head-gardener.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_53870.42But, perceiving that the elders eyed her doubtfully, she gasped for breath and again spoke.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_116310.42'Observe this, Mr. Pickwick,' said the disconcerted officer, gasping for breath.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_58980.42'Muster Gashford,' wheezed the hangman under his breath, 'agin' all Newgate!'
Green_Anna_Kat_Hand_and_Ring_31681_65690.41Mr. Gryce drew a deep breath, and shifted his gaze to the next stud in Mr. Ferris' shirt-front.
Frederic_Harol_The_Damnation_o_133_11850.41He drew a long breath, took another sip of his coffee, and found himself all at once reflecting almost pleasurably upon the charm of contact with really educated people.
Field_Eugene_Second_Book_of_31874_8560.41None with the German frau can vie In arts cuisine, I wot, Whose summum bonum breeds the sigh, "Ach, Gott!
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_11510.41The maltster being rather short of breath, Mr. Coggan, after absently scrutinising a coal which had fallen among the ashes, took up the narrative, with a private twirl of his eye: -- "Well, now, you'd hardly believe it, but that man -- husbands alive, after a while.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_148680.41She fetched a difficult breath, and said -- "And now -- dear -- I'm finding myself -- a little drowsy -- how selfish of me -- your cutlets -- browned -- nicely browned -- breadcrumbs, you know -- -- " Philip fled from the room and summoned Martha.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_79540.40A distant response is heard from the yard, and Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Tupman come running down it, quite out of breath, for they have been having a glass of ale apiece, and Mr. Pickwick's fingers are so cold that he has been full five minutes before he could find the sixpence to pay for it.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_63620.40"So have I, Mr. Quirk," replied Gammon, with a sigh.
Mathews_France_My_Lady_Peggy_G_50388_20450.40"Or it might be," suggests this one with a sigh, "you have a little child, Mr. Kidde -- ?"
Marryat_Freder_Jacob_Faithful_21549_37140.40[Puff, puff, puff, and a deep sigh.]
Howells_Willia_The_Minister_s_7410_29830.40"Oh, she wouldn't go," said Mr. Evans, with a slight sigh.
Green_Anna_Kat_Hand_and_Ring_31681_73780.40Mr. Gryce drew a deep breath.
Ford_Paul_Leic_The_Honorable_P_14532_37510.40Miss De Voe caught her breath again.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_66350.40"I believe my breath will get long next, my memory's getting so much so," said Mr. Omer.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_22880.40'Well,' said Mr Boffin, under his breath, 'that's a queer thing!'
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_65600.40'I believe my breath will get long next, my memory's getting so much so,' said Mr. Omer.
Coffin_Charles_Daughters_of_th_29849_22190.40Mr. Knox, the bookseller, came, out of breath with running.
Motley_John_Lo_History_of_the_4885_132050.40Meantime in 1590 it would have been considered a foolish adulation to mention the name of Maurice of Nassau in the same breath with that of Navarre or of Farnese.
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_22990.40"Oh -- I -- a puff of mee breath -- went -- the -- wrong way, please, Mister Oak, and made me cough -- hok -- hok!"
Dodge_Mary_Map_Hans_Brinker_O_764_15370.40To be sure, Jacob Poot had become rather short of breath during the last mile of two, and perhaps he felt ready for another nap, but there was enough jollity in him yet for a dozen.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_57120.40The elder Mr. Weller shook his head, as he replied with a sigh, "I've done it once too often, Sammy; I've done it once too often.
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_43900.40The hand of Mr. Bishopriggs wavered; the breath of Mr. Bishopriggs exhaled a spirituous fume.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_13870.40He audibly drew in his breath, as it were, as he more and more distinctly recollected his visit to Messrs. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap; and adverted more particularly to his threats , uttered, too, in Titmouse's name, and as if by his authority.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_28380.40"What I suppose, Mr. Stryver, I claim to characterise for myself -- And understand me, sir," said Mr. Lorry, quickly flushing again, "I will not -- not even at Tellson's -- have it characterised for me by any gentleman breathing."
Weyman_Stanley_A_Gentleman_of_1939_67830.40The audacity of such a return in the face of Turenne, who was doubtless in the King of Navarre's suite, almost took my breath away; nevertheless, I saw that it possessed one advantage which no other course promised -- that, I mean, of setting us right in the eyes of the world, and enabling me to meet in a straightforward manner such as maligned us.
Thompson_Mauri_Alice_of_Old_Vi_4097_4930.40Rene laughed under his breath, standing a moment as if expecting her to come out again; but she did not, and he resumed his walk singing softly -- "Elle a les joues vermeilles, vermeilles, Ma belle, ma belle petite."
Mathews_France_My_Lady_Peggy_G_50388_4280.40Both women, veiled double, and being wholly unused to such matters, sighting the path much the worse for the covering; in fact Peggy stumbled along like some old crone, and yet laughed under her breath merrily back at floundering Chockey.
Field_Eugene_The_House_An_Ep_21808_1050.40There have duly loomed up bewildering visions of a library, a drawing-room, a butler's pantry, a nursery, a laundry -- oh, it quite takes my breath away to recall and recount the possibilities which Alice's hopes and fancies conjured up.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Forest_Love_8934_4600.40Galors turned over in his mind all possible plots against an Abbey's peaceful being -- tale-bearing to the Archbishop, a petition for a Papal Legate, a foreshore trouble, a riot among the fishermen of Wanmouth, some encroachment by the ragged brethren of Francis and Dominic -- and dismissed them all as not serious enough to lose breath about.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_85620.39Old Wardle led the way to a pretty large sheet of ice; and the fat boy and Mr. Weller, having shovelled and swept away the snow which had fallen on it during the night, Mr. Bob Sawyer adjusted his skates with a dexterity which to Mr. Winkle was perfectly marvellous, and described circles with his left leg, and cut figures of eight, and inscribed upon the ice, without once stopping for breath, a great many other pleasant and astonishing devices, to the excessive satisfaction of Mr. Pickwick, Mr. Tupman, and the ladies; which reached a pitch of positive enthusiasm, when old Wardle and Benjamin Allen, assisted by the aforesaid Bob Sawyer, performed some mystic evolutions, which they called a reel.
Scott_Walter_Woodstock_or_9785_21200.39"There is my secretary Tomkins, whom men sillily enough call Fibbet, and the honourable Lieutenant-General Harrison's secretary Bibbet, who are now at supper below stairs, that durst not for their ears speak a phrase above their breath in the presence of their betters, unless to answer a question."
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_4060.39Miss Twinkleton's companion in both states of existence, and equally adaptable to either, is one Mrs. Tisher: a deferential widow with a weak back, a chronic sigh, and a suppressed voice, who looks after the young ladies' wardrobes, and leads them to infer that she has seen better days.
Alcott_Louisa_Rose_in_Bloom_2804_4510.39I saw the trunks pass and I know you've quantities of treasures," cried Annabel Bliss all in one breath as she embraced Rose an hour later and glanced about the room bestrewn with a variety of agreeable objects.
Scott_Walter_The_Fair_Maid_o_7987_14950.38"Ah, Henry Gow -- Henry Gow -- " said the bonnet maker, and stopped short with a deep sigh, nearly amounting to a groan.
Meade_L_T_Good_Luck_28565_24930.38It jarred upon her own queer, perverse mood; but as she saw the courageous light in the blue eyes she suppressed an impatient sigh which almost bubbled to her lips.
Green_Anna_Kat_The_Circular_St_18761_12880.38Miss Butterworth drew a long breath, eyed Mr. Gryce with some curiosity, and then triumphantly exclaimed: "Can you read the meaning of all that?
Fenn_George_Ma_Yussuf_the_Guid_21378_23980.38As soon as he could get his breath, Lawrence began to laugh, and Mr Preston followed his lead, while the grave Muslim could not forbear a smile at Mr Burne.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Stark_Munro_290_6130.38To this day if I chance to do anything of which she strongly approves, the dear heart can say no more than that I am a thorough Packenham; while if I fall away from the straight path, she says with a sigh that there are points in which I take after the Munros.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_185450.38A small sharp-looking lad, half-footboy and half-clerk, who was very much out of breath, but who looked at me as if he defied me to prove it legally, presented himself.
Dickens_Charle_Hard_Times_786_5660.38The whole company perceived the force of the change, and drew a long breath together, that plainly said, ‘she will go!’ ‘Be sure you know your own mind, Jupe,’ Mr. Gradgrind cautioned her; ‘I say no more.
Seawell_Molly_Throckmorton_A_36829_28260.38On the impulse of the moment, Judith sat down and wrote Mrs. Steptoe a letter, begging her, for General and Mrs. Temple's sake, not to mention until she heard further from Barn Elms, that Jacqueline had not been with her; and as she wrote hurriedly and nervously, she could hear Jacqueline's heavy and fitful breathing.
Mathews_France_My_Lady_Peggy_G_50388_24150.38The cool audacity of Beau Brummell is a relief after the mawkish sighs of the little scoundrel she has just parted from, and, hoping that Mr. Brummell will soon spy either one of the Fair or a Royal Highness, and so be diverted from her side, she bows and answers: "Robin McTart must ever account that a lucky day for him, Sir!"
Pansy_Three_People_20808_48510.38"Well," said Pliny, closing the ledger with a heavy sigh, "if we had a local habitation we'd go to it now, wouldn't we?"
Froude_James_A_History_of_Engl_29687_66250.38Among all Henry's wives she stands out distinguished by a stainless name, untarnished with the breath of reproach.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pioneers_O_2275_37230.38The arrival of the nostrils of Benjamin into their own atmosphere was announced by a breathing that would have done credit to a porpoise.
Churchill_Wins_Richard_Carvel_5373_59160.38"Which would you rather be, Richard," said Dolly to me, under her breath, "Horace Walpole or Captain John Paul?
Mathews_France_My_Lady_Peggy_G_50388_25200.38Mr. Incognito never would tell me aught, but thus and so; and bade me, from your adorable lips, keep myself in seclusion and safety, -- nor ever," continues he, his tone sinking to a mere breath, "endanger my precious self," now stooping to imprint a chaste kiss on Her Ladyship's hand, "in the meeting even once of Sir Percy de Bohun, for he had sworn to kill me on beholding me.
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_66790.37"Well," said Mr. Blake, drawing a long breath, and appealing to the deep, "for cool impudence and self-conceit, Paul Wyndham hasn't his match in broad America.
Collins_Wilkie_Poor_Miss_Finch_3632_59180.37In this tender attitude, he blew a prodigious sigh; recovered himself, with a shake of his shock-head; winked at me through his spectacles, and waddled out after Mr. Sebright, who was already at the bottom of the stairs.
Otis_James_Jack_the_Hunchb_41708_14440.37During the remainder of the day Aunt Nancy and Jack worked without ceasing in the kitchen, and when night came the arrangements for the company were so nearly completed that the little woman said with a sigh of relief when she and her crooked-assistant were resting under the old oak, -- "I declare, Jack dear, it is surprising how much we have done since noon!
Twain_Mark_The_Man_That_Co_3251_20350.37If Mrs. Eddy really wrote or translated the Annex, her original draft was exactly in harmony with the English of her plague-spot or bacilli which were gnawing at the insides of the metropolis and bringing its heart on bended knee, thus exposing to the eye the rest of the skeleton breathing slowly through a barren breast.
Holley_Mariett_Samantha_at_Sar_3425_5420.37Wimmen who would run like deers if company came when they wuzn't dressed up slick, they would say the minute they got back into the room, all out of breath with hurryin' into their best clothes, they'd say a pantin' "That old woman ought to be made to go to the poorhouse, to take the pride out of her, pride wuz so awfully, dretfully wicked, and it wuz a shame that she wuz so ongrateful as to want a home of her own."
Haeckel_Ernst_The_Riddle_of_t_42968_6150.37The gill-clefts appear on either side of the fore-gut; they are the openings of the gullet, through which, in our primitive fish-ancestors, the water which had entered at the mouth for breathing purposes made its exit at the sides of the head.
Atherton_Gertr_Senator_North_6091_21500.37As Mrs. Fonda lived with no less than two elderly aunts who wore caps, and was a devout member of St. John's Church, Mrs. Madison, with a sigh, concluded that there was no reason why Betty should not go to her house.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_35200.37"Nearly the last word he said to me, before the breath went out of his body, was an injunction to serve Mr. Lionel faithfully at Verner's Pride, as I had served him.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_190740.37At the same time Mrs Gamp was seen in the doorway; out of breath from coming up so many stairs, and panting fearfully; but dropping curtseys to the last.
Crockett_S_R_Cleg_Kelly_Ara_48354_28530.37What Mr. Iverach said under his breath of his excellent friend Mr. Robert Greg Tennant at that moment, it is perhaps better not to write down.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_22070.36inquired Titmouse, with a sigh.
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_53660.36They follow the breath of the plague!"
Lytton_Edward_Pelham_Comple_7623_42810.36"Yes," said I, with a sigh, "they certainly had, in some respects, the advantage over us.
Henty_G_A_G_For_Name_and_Fa_21979_14450.36"If we had but a breath of wind, we might do," the captain said.
Disraeli_Benja_Endymion_7926_19670.36said Mr. Ferrars, with a sigh.
Marryat_Freder_Peter_Simple_21577_130.36We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.
King_Charles_Campaigning_wit_37480_36150.36... A wonderfully sustained effort in imaginative prose, full of the glamour and opulent color of the tropics and yet strong with the salt breath of the sea.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_151060.36Awed by these threats, and quite out of breath, the INDEPENDENT suffered himself to be disarmed; and Mr. Weller, removing the extinguisher from Pott, set him free with a caution.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_126240.36We would beg to call particular attention to the monosyllable at the end of the second and fourth lines, which not only enables the singer to take breath at those points, but greatly assists the metre.
Green_Anna_Kat_That_Affair_Nex_21617_23170.36But when I did turn my head towards it, I recognized at once the multi-colored hat which Mr. Gryce had brought in from the third room of Mr. Van Burnam's house on the evening I was there, and realized almost in the same breath that great as this mystery had hitherto seemed it was likely to prove yet greater before its proper elucidation was arrived at.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_18550.36We only know that he paused suddenly, drew a long and deep breath, and looked anxiously on, as two of the principal members of the Dingley Dell club approached Mr. Pickwick, and said -- "We are about to partake of a plain dinner at the Blue Lion, sir; we hope you and your friends will join us."
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_98120.35But Pickwick, gentlemen, Pickwick, the ruthless destroyer of this domestic oasis in the desert of Goswell Street -- Pickwick who has choked up the well, and thrown ashes on the sward -- Pickwick, who comes before you to-day with his heartless tomato sauce and warming-pans -- Pickwick still rears his head with unblushing effrontery, and gazes without a sigh on the ruin he has made.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_5650.35Sir Roger de Launay drew a sharp breath, -- his habitual languor of mind was completely dissipated, and he studied the inscrutable face of Del Fortis with deepening suspicion and disfavour.
Alcott_Louisa_An_Old_Fashione_2787_16170.35And here the old lady stopped, out of breath, with her cap askew, her spectacles on the end of her nose, and her knitting much the worse for being waved enthusiastically in the air, while she hung over the arm of her chair, shrilly cheering an imaginary Lafayette.
Smith_Francis_Caleb_West_Mas_42362_33640.35Carleton gasped between his breaths, shaking himself like a tousled dog.
Bacheller_Irvi_D_Ri_and_I_A_T_12440_44340.35"Well," said Louison, with a sigh of regret, "if I ever see her again I shall give her a five-franc piece."
Dickens_Charle_Sketches_by_Boz_882_84030.35with a distracted air, and insists upon extorting a promise that he never will on any account do anything so rash, which her dutiful son -- it being something more than three years since the offence was committed -- reluctantly concedes, and his mother, shaking her head prophetically, fears with a sigh that his spirit will lead him into something violent yet.
Cervantes_Saave_Don_Quixote_996_47140.35"To write in any other way," said Don Quixote, "would not be to write truth, but falsehood, and historians who have recourse to falsehood ought to be burned, like those who coin false money; and I know not what could have led the author to have recourse to novels and irrelevant stories, when he had so much to write about in mine; no doubt he must have gone by the proverb 'with straw or with hay, etc,' for by merely setting forth my thoughts, my sighs, my tears, my lofty purposes, my enterprises, he might have made a volume as large, or larger than all the works of El Tostado would make up.
Wells_H_G_H_The_Wheels_of_C_1264_43140.34Mr. Hoopdriver, sprawling down there among the bracken, must sprawl without our prying, I think, or listening to what chances to his breathing.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_24290.34Phlegmatic rather than emotional, and wholly secretive, he had accustomed himself to regard romantic ideality, and susceptibility to sentimentality as a species of intellectual anaemia; holding himself always thoroughly in hand, when subjected to the softening influences that now and then invaded professional existence, and melted the conventional selfish crust over the hearts of his colleagues, as the warm lips and balmy breath of equatorial currents kiss away the jagged ledges of drifting icebergs.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_f_32242_16440.34Thus, by talking out of season, the foolish giant expended an incalculable quantity of breath, to no purpose; for the thunder spoke quite as intelligibly as he.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_a_35377_16250.34Thus, by talking out of season, the foolish giant expended an incalculable quantity of breath, to no purpose; for the thunder spoke quite as intelligibly as he.
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_72810.34But Speckport said all this under their breath; and when it was all over, and the names down in the register, kissed the bride, at least female Speckport did, the beings in broadcloth and white vests only looking as if they would like to.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_94890.34Drawing a heavy sigh, the Captain turned to Mr Toots, and roused himself to a sustained consciousness of that gentleman's presence.
Atherton_Gertr_Senator_North_6091_29750.34They talked politics through dinner, and Mrs. Madison noted with a sigh that Betty's interest in the undesirable institution was unabated.
Scott_Walter_Redgauntlet_A_2516_6920.34I wish Mr. Crossbite or Counsellor Pest had heard you; they must have acknowledged that you have a talent for forensic elocution; and it may not be amiss to try a little declamation at home now and then, to gather audacity and keep yourself in breath.
Newell_R_H_The_Orpheus_C_35906_33190.34Villiam drew his breath, and says he: "The United States of America, born on the Fourth of July, 1776, calls upon you to charge bayonets, Come on, my brave flowers of manhood!"
Stockton_Frank_The_Girl_at_Cob_11106_32180.34But she made no objections, and, putting away her papers, with a sigh, for she had a list of points about which she was ready and anxious to consult the doctor, -- she went to join the consultation, which she presumed concerned their removal from one street in Thorbury to another.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_11980.34All that part of the foregoing letter which related to its gifted writer's interview with Messrs. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap, Titmouse read in a kind of spasm -- he could not draw a breath, and felt a choking sensation coming over him.
Kennedy_John_P_Horse_Shoe_Robi_33478_63220.34Henry turned towards his sister, without taking the bugle from his lips, and continued the blast for a full minute; then, ceasing only from want of breath, he said, with a comic earnestness -- "I'm practising my signals, sister; I can give you 'to Horse,' and 'Reveillee,' and 'Roast Beef,' like a trained trumpeter."
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_70150.33shrugging her shoulders, 'a very respectable pursuit, I dare say, and some artists are, as artists, quite superior persons; still, we never yet in our family have gone beyond an Amateur, and it is a pardonable weakness to feel a little -- ' As Mrs Gowan broke off to heave a sigh, Clennam, however resolute to be magnanimous, could not keep down the thought that there was mighty little danger of the family's ever going beyond an Amateur, even as it was.
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_67290.33After delivering this speech all in a breath, and with extraordinary animation and pleasure, Mr. Peggotty put one of his large hands rapturously on each side of his niece's face, and kissing it a dozen times, laid it with a gentle pride and love upon his broad chest, and patted it as if his hand had been a lady's.
Scott_Walter_The_Antiquary_7005_61180.33At the first landing-place, Sir Arthur made an agonized pause; and as he observed the Antiquary look at him anxiously, he said with assumed dignity -- "Yes, Mr. Oldbuck, the descendant of an ancient line -- the representative of Richard Redhand and Gamelyn de Guardover, may be pardoned a sigh when he leaves the castle of his fathers thus poorly escorted.
Porter_Jane_Thaddeus_of_War_6566_72890.33The disconsolate narrator then added, "that in contrite repentance his son had conjured him, with his dying breath, to confess the falsehood of all that had passed to the grossly-abused Robert;" amongst which, was Algernon turning to the account of his own designs every confidence imparted to him by his brother, in his incognito movements, and awakened intimacy with the noble Sarmatian family at Florence.
Morris_Clara_A_Pasteboard_Cr_35055_31180.33And as he brought himself a chair and placed it close to her never-resting "rocker," he recognized in the buzzing swarm of verbal wasps she turned loose upon him the words "disrespectful -- unnerved -- paralysed -- disingenuous -- stealthy -- infringing -- intruding -- inveigling," and with failing breath the last warning injunction: "And let me hear no panegyrical eulogy on poverty, if you please, sir!"
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_90940.32The wife of Dagobert, having quitted the church, arrived at the corner of the Rue Brise-Miche, when she was accosted by the distributor of holy water; he came running out of breath, to beg her to return to Saint Mery's, where the Abbe Dubois had yet something of importance to say to her.
Voynich_E_L_The_Gadfly_3431_8300.32The arrival of James, in his most pompous mood and accompanied by a stiff, elderly shipping-agent, did not improve matters; and when Gibbons announced that dinner was served, Arthur rose with a little sigh of relief.
Stoddard_Eliza_The_Morgesons_12347_7430.32Aunt Mercy went up to the head of the pew, a little out of breath, from the tightness of her dress, and the ordeal of the Baxter and Sawyer eyes, for the pew, though off a side aisle, was in the neighborhood of the elite of the church; a clove, however, tranquilized her.
Gaskell_Elizab_Cranford_394_19330.32“Please, ma’am, he’s only Jem Hearn,” said Martha, by way of an introduction; and so out of breath was she that I imagine she had had some bodily struggle before she could overcome his reluctance to be presented on the courtly scene of Miss Matilda Jenkyns’s drawing-room.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_40230.32came involuntarily from the lips of Durward, who had held his breath for her answer, and who now glanced triumphantly at Mrs. Livingstone, whose surmises were thus proved incorrect.
Irving_Washing_The_Sketch_Book_2048_16400.32* "Live ever sweete booke; the simple image of his gentle witt, and the golden pillar of his noble courage; and ever notify unto the world that thy writer was the secretary of eloquence, the breath of the muses, the honey bee of the daintyest flowers of witt and arte, the pith of morale and intellectual virtues, the arme of Bellona in the field, the tongue of Suada in the chamber, the spirits of Practise in esse, and the paragon of excellence in print."
Eggleston_Edwa_The_Beginners_o_39882_58700.32Prof. McMaster has proved before now that he can write history with the breath of life in it, and the present volume is new proof."
Upton_George_P_The_Standard_Op_14968_13220.31Valentin is slain, and with his dying breath pronounces a malediction ("Margherita!
Roe_Edward_Pay_From_Jest_to_Ea_6102_60710.31All had been remembered, and Mr. Martell's munificence towards the gallant coachman quite took away his breath.
Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_1298_54440.31But the Virginian swore profanely under his breath.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_28500.31He soon returned, out of breath, to say that Mr Dombey was not there.
Crawford_F_Ma_Don_Orsino_13218_23040.31inquired Frangipani and Montevarchi in the same breath.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_52100.31I declare the vicar's letter has quite taken away my breath!"
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_35300.31muttered Mr. Bishopriggs, under his breath.
A_L_O_E_Hebrew_Heroes_26094_31620.30Zarah held her breath and trembled when the narrator came to that thrilling part of his account which described his own position of imminent peril, when he would have been precipitated from the top of the wall, had not Judas Maccabeus come to his rescue.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_121760.30Subsequent occurrences confirmed the accuracy of Mr. Pickwick's impression; for, in a few seconds, a gentleman, prematurely broad for his years, clothed in a professional blue jean frock and top-boots with circular toes, entered the room nearly out of breath, closely followed by another gentleman in very shabby black, and a sealskin cap.
MacDonald_Geor_Malcolm_7127_12520.30When however the service -- though whose purposes the affair could be supposed to serve except those of Mr Cairns himself, would have been a curious question -- was over, he did breathe a sigh of relief; and when he stepped out into the sun and wind which had been shining and blowing all the time of the dreary ceremony, he wondered whether the larks might not have had the best of it in the God praising that had been going on for two slow paced hours.
Twain_Mark_A_Tramp_Abroad_119_9100.30But with all my persuasions, all my arguments, I was only able to get him to reduce the distance to thirty-five yards; and even this concession he made with reluctance, and said with a sigh, "I wash my hands of this slaughter; on your head be it."
Ballantyne_R_Gascoyne_The_S_15689_48380.30"Wot a blissin it is for a man to git his mouth open agin, and let his breath go free," cried Jo Bumpus, with a deep sigh.
Hudson_Henry_N_Shakespeare_Hi_13387_16690.29If, therefore, a man goes to admiring his own skill, or airing his own powers, or imitating the choice touches of others, or heeding the breath of conventional applause; if he yields to any strain of self-complacency, or turns to practising smiles, or to taking pleasure in his self-begotten graces and beauties and fancies; -- in this giddy and vertiginous state he will be sure to fall into intellectual and artistic sin.
Browne_J_Ross_Crusoe_s_Island_39918_13990.29Here he drew several rapid breaths, as if swallowing down his passion; and, looking round with a darkened brow upon the mute and astonished company, resumed, in a loud and steady voice, "Tinky ting tang, tinky ting tang, Oh!
Ford_Paul_Leic_Janice_Meredith_5719_1000.29Miss Meredith drew a long breath, and then expelled it, instant advantage being taken by her mother to strain the strings.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_127260.29Indeed, he was fearful of something happening to Mr Pancks in the violent conflict that took place between the breath he jerked out of himself and the smoke he jerked into himself.
Cooper_James_F_Miles_Wallingfo_11243_55570.29The lieutenant of the division caught the match from the fallen seaman, gave it a puff with his breath, and applied it to the priming.
Warner_Susan_Queechy_8874_156640.29But Mr. Rossitur's pride lay deeper, or had been less humbled by sorrow; the recollections that his family let slip never failed to gall him when Mr. Carleton was present; and if now and then for a moment these were banished by his guest's graces of mind and manner, the next breath was a sigh for the circles and the pleasures they served to recall, now seeming for ever lost to him.
Ingelow_Jean_Fated_to_Be_Fre_12303_71430.29"Well," said Swan, drawing a deep breath, "all I have to observe is, that wives were made afore coats of mail, though coats of female would be more to the purpose here" (he meant coats of arms), "and," continued the gardener, with that chivalrous feeling which lies at the very core of gentlemanhood, "I'm not going to disparage my son, my Joey, that would be to disparage her chice .
Parkman_Franci_The_Conspiracy_39253_59240.29Its narrow precincts were now crowded with Indians, a perilous multitude, dark, malignant, inscrutable; and it behooved the Englishman to be wary, in his dealings with them, since a breath might kindle afresh the wildfire in their hearts.
Lytton_Edward_Pelham_Comple_7623_7740.29Whenever he spoke of the present tense, even en professeur, he always gave a sigh to the preterite, and an anecdote of Bayard; whenever he conjugated a verb, he paused to tell me that the favourite one of his female pupils was je t'aime.
Field_Eugene_Second_Book_of_21809_14020.29The appearance of Lawrence well-nigh threw Miss Culpeper into hysterics, and, to escape the dismal groans, prodigious sighs, and reproachful glances of the others, Lawrence made haste to get out of the apartment.
Heimburg_W_Gertrude_s_Marr_32442_4690.29Arrived in the hotel he inquired for a number of addresses, then began with a sigh to do his duty according to that extraordinary custom which Mrs. Grundy prescribes as necessary in "good society," that is, to call upon perfect strangers at mid-day and exchange a few shallow phrases and then to escape as quickly as possible.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_88910.29At this point she was fain to stop for breath; and advantage may be taken of the circumstance, to state that a fearful mystery surrounded this lady of the name of Harris, whom no one in the circle of Mrs Gamp's acquaintance had ever seen; neither did any human being know her place of residence, though Mrs Gamp appeared on her own showing to be in constant communication with her.
Trollope_Antho_The_Warden_619_12210.28Never did a poor clergyman sigh for a warm benefice more anxiously than our warden did now to be rid of his.
Motley_John_Lo_The_Rise_of_the_4811_50010.28"It gave him much pain," he said, with a Christian sigh, "to observe that such dissensions had already arisen, and unfortunately on his account."
Tyndall_John_Fragments_of_Sc_24527_9330.28The same breath, analysed chemically by Dr. Frankland, and physically by Mr. Barrett, gave the following results: Percentage of Carbonic Acid in the Human Breath.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_20150.28Yesterday I held a consultation with four physicians, and, when we told her the hopelessness of her condition, she received the announcement without even a sigh, and seemed only to dread that instead of an assistant she might prove a burden to her mistress."
Edgeworth_Mari_Tales_and_Novel_8826_15240.28As soon as she had breath to speak, she told Henry that when she went to the washerwoman's with the handkerchief, she was told a sad piece of news; that Mr. Forester had been taken up, and carried before Mr. W -- -- , the magistrate.
Bangs_John_Ken_The_Enchanted_T_3162_9560.28"Coke swore profanely beneath his breath, and the witness squirmed about in his chair, confused and broken, while both Judge Blackstone and Apollyon smiled broadly.
Kent_Charles_Charles_Dickens_21332_10680.28As also are the following words, epitomising in a breath the position of the young hero when the story commences -- "Inexperienced, sanguine, and thrown upon the world with no adviser, and his bread to win," the manuscript interpolation thus intimates: the letterpress then relating in its integrity that Nicholas had engaged himself as tutor at Mr. Wackford Squeers's academy, on the strength of the memorable advertisement in the London newspapers.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_3560.28It was his brother De Courcy with whom he had come in such violent contact, and it was De Courcy who sprang to Delia's rescue, assisting her to her feet with all possible grace, and covering her innocent confusion with a brilliant speech, but not, however, before he had directed a terrible scowl at the prostrate culprit and sworn furiously at him under his breath.
Kingsley_Charl_Westward_Ho_Or_1860_103790.27And Ayacanora looked, and looked, with no less admiration than the urchins at the gate: but she got no more of an answering look from Amyas than they did; for his head was full of calculations of tonnage and stowage, of salt pork and ale-barrels, and the packing of tools and seeds; for he had promised Raleigh to do his best for the new colony, and he was doing it with all his might; so Ayacanora looked back again to her book, and heaved a deep sigh.
Marryat_Freder_Japhet_in_Searc_24470_5220.27A few seconds to recover breath; one withering, fiery look from Timothy, returned by his antagonist, one flash of the memory in each to tell them that they each had the la on their side, and "Take that!"
Jacobs_W_W_A_Master_Of_Cra_21929_16620.27Mr. Wheeler, junior, after a moment’s hesitation, turned back and, muttering threats under his breath, returned to the parlour.
Thackeray_Will_Catherine_A_St_1969_2400.27fancy the agonies of Mr. Hayes when, seated with the Corporal's friends at one end of the kitchen, he saw the Captain at the place of honour, and the smiles which the fair maid bestowed upon him; when, as she lightly whisked past him with the Captain's supper, she, pointing to the locket that once reposed on the breast of the Dutch lady at the Brill, looked archly on Hayes and said, "See, John, what his Lordship has given me;" and when John's face became green and purple with rage and jealousy, Mrs. Catherine laughed ten times louder, and cried "Coming, my Lord," in a voice of shrill triumph, that bored through the soul of Mr. John Hayes and left him gasping for breath.
Morris_Clara_A_Pasteboard_Cr_35055_5710.27At last the job was finished, and as Mr. Lawton placed the bronze-booted foot in the stirrup Miss Morrell's sigh of comfort and exclamation: "Ah, it does feel good to have it again, after all!"
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_70100.27The bride's mother wore -- -- The bridesmaids were dressed -- -- Mr. Horatio Drake acted as best man -- -- " Glory drew her breath as with a spasm and threw down the newspaper.
Ward_Humphry_Sir_George_Tres_9633_27880.26An then he give two three little breaths, as though he wor pantin -- an I kiss him."
Wallace_Lew_Ben_Hur_a_tale_2145_52620.26to go, if thou sayest it, to the last extreme of breath and strength?
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_70190.26"Put him into a lethargy," said he under his breath, but with authority in his manner.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_79910.26If any other corroborative testimony had been required, it would have been abundantly furnished in the actions of Miss Miggs, who, having arrived at that restless state and sensitive condition of the nervous system which are the result of long watching, did, by a constant rubbing and tweaking of her nose, a perpetual change of position (arising from the sudden growth of imaginary knots and knobs in her chair), a frequent friction of her eyebrows, the incessant recurrence of a small cough, a small groan, a gasp, a sigh, a sniff, a spasmodic start, and by other demonstrations of that nature, so file down and rasp, as it were, the patience of the locksmith, that after looking at her in silence for some time, he at last broke out into this apostrophe: -- 'Miggs, my good girl, go to bed -- do go to bed.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_1930.26Except that his breath was labored, he wore precisely the same strange, distracted air he had on entering the club.
Davis_Richard_The_Exiles_and_16090_8580.26Allen's breath came back to him with a gasp, as though he had been shocked with a sudden downpour of icy water.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_The_English_Orp_13878_8010.25How the matter would have ended is uncertain, for at that moment Mr. Parker himself appeared, and to him Miss Grundy and Sal detailed their grievances, both in the same breath.
Field_Eugene_The_House_An_Ep_21808_15360.25"Alas," said Mr. Smith, with a sigh, "I fear you have not read the conditions; you will find them on the other side of the sheet, printed in small type."
Meade_L_T_The_Palace_Beau_15149_30490.25When the girls arrived within the sacred precincts of the far-famed Paternoster Row, Jasmine held her breath a little, and stood still while she eagerly considered as to which publishing house she should offer her wares.
Mathews_France_My_Lady_Peggy_G_50388_24580.25Sir Percy de Bohun was beside Lady Diana Weston; Peggy noted the same with jealous, despairing eyes; while at the left of Lord Brookwood's daughter sat her own twin -- only the second time she had seen him since the memorable night in Lark Lane; nor did she see him plainly now, for all the company had set forth in their masks, and only removed them between whiles to gain a breath of fresh air.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_104640.24Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.
Scott_Walter_Ivanhoe_A_Roma_82_59780.24-- Rebecca, if I appear not in these lists I lose fame and rank -- lose that which is the breath of my nostrils, the esteem, I mean, in which I am held by my brethren, and the hopes I have of succeeding to that mighty authority, which is now wielded by the bigoted dotard Lucas de Beaumanoir, but of which I should make a different use.
Crockett_S_R_The_Surprising_39340_27170.24Joe Craig obediently saluted, and presently sundry moans and sounds of exhausted breath indicated that Nosie Cuthbertson was being subjected to hydraulic pressure by the unseen tormentor whom Nipper Donnan had called Fat Sandy.
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_3530.24Mr. Jasper, becoming a breathing man again without the smallest stage of transition between the two extreme states, lifts his shoulders, laughs, and waves his right arm.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_175410.24Here Mrs MacStinger paused, and drawing herself up, and inflating her bosom with a long breath, said, in allusion to the victim, 'My 'usband, Cap'en Cuttle!'
Chambers_Rober_Cardigan_38958_108180.24In the same breath I summoned a soldier from the south loophole in the garret, and asked him to witness for me; and he took off his hat and stood sheepishly twirling it, rifle in hand.
Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Maroo_42066_4430.24William’s eyes looked watery (for he was the coachman) and he heaved a sorrowful sigh over his brute companion.
Whitney_A_D_The_Other_Girls_16329_15090.23Miss Euphrasia could no more help talking so -- given the right circumstances to draw her forth -- than she could help breathing.
Henty_G_A_G_For_the_Temple_21614_35750.23Muttering threats below their breath, the soldiers sullenly withdrew.
Wallace_Alfred_The_Malay_Archi_2530_6000.23I had just come home from an entomologising excursion when Charles [Charles Allen, an English lad of sixteen, accompanied me as an assistant] rushed in out of breath with running and excitement, and exclaimed, interrupted by gasps, "Get the gun, sir, -- be quick, -- such a large Mias!"
Whyte_Melville_Katerfelto_A_S_40883_8140.23The sun is already at mid-heaven when she rings for her chocolate, sighs, yawns, thrusts on her small feet her smaller slippers, wriggles into a much-embroidered morning gown, and totters across the room to look at herself in the glass.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_42610.22But we never, sir' -- said Miggs, looking sideways at Mrs Varden, and interlarding her discourse with a sigh -- 'we never know the full value of SOME wines and fig-trees till we lose 'em.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_34020.21The simple truth was, however, that Mr Willet, although his eyes were wide open and he saw a woman before him whose head by long and steady looking at seemed to grow bigger and bigger until it filled the whole bar, was to all other intents and purposes fast asleep; and so sat leaning back in his chair with his hands in his pockets until his son's return caused him to wake up with a deep sigh, and a faint impression that he had been dreaming about pickled pork and greens -- a vision of his slumbers which was no doubt referable to the circumstance of Mrs Varden's having frequently pronounced the word 'Grace' with much emphasis; which word, entering the portals of Mr Willet's brain as they stood ajar, and coupling itself with the words 'before meat,' which were there ranging about, did in time suggest a particular kind of meat together with that description of vegetable which is usually its companion.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Dove_in_the_3139_6940.19She was all but gone when the rite of extreme unction was completed, and they could only stand round her, Eberhard, Christina, Ursel, and the old Baroness, who had returned again, watching the last flutterings of the breath, the window thrown wide open that nothing might impede the passage of the soul to the blue vault above.
Draper_John_Wi_History_of_the_31345_33840.19The Supreme Being of the system is the "unus qui est omnia;" the intention of the theory of emanation is to find a philosophical connexion between him and the soul of man; the process for passing into ecstasy by sitting long in an invariable posture, by looking steadfastly at the tip of the nose, or by observing for a long time an unusual or definite manner of breathing, had been familiar to the Eastern devotees, as they are now to the impostors of our own times; the result is not celestial, but physiological.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie.txt_46740.68Soon nothing was heard in the little room but the quiet breathing of the sick girl and the ticking of the clock.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_50590.64She had, by a gentle gesture, scared away the robin that, accustomed to find crumbs scattered for him upon the window-sill, had boldly ventured into the room, his gentle twitter sounding alarmingly loud in the profound silence, in which each gasping breath issuing from the narrow chest was painfully audible.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_22120.64One of the shades was slightly lifted, and gave him a glimpse of the mysterious corner room, and it was so quiet in the darkening forest-—the silence was as deathly as if life and breath were suffocated in the oppressive heat —that he could distinctly hear the murmur of a man’s voice within the room.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_51800.62Yet I own my heart quaked, my pulse leaped, when I suddenly heard breathing and rustling, and turning, saw in the deep shadow of the steps a deeper shadow still -- a shape that moved and descended.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie.txt_43740.56With a deep-drawn breath of relief she relinquished her constrained position, which she had until now retained mechanically, and tried to lift the latch of the door.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_7550.55Use pushed pillows and bolsters beneath her head, so as to lift her into a sitting posture ; and that evidently did her good, the rattle that had accompanied her breathing diminished.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_54290.54But the darkness covered the terrible struggle that was going on beside him, betrayed by no word or sign, not even a sigh, and he ascribed the depression and discouragement which had made her voice so dull and monotonous to the misery of the parting scene she had gone through with her dead sister.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_92030.48What quiet breathing!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie.txt_30310.48Thus deeply agitated, it was natural enough that the young girl’s eyelids fell low over her eyes, and that she failed to observe the inaudible sigh that escaped her companion, or mark how all signs of irritation vanished from his features to give place to the shade of melancholy that was so wont to rest upon his brow.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_22130.42It sounded monotonous, like the tones of one making confession from a burdened soul, and was often interrupted by a long breath or a distressing sigh.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_3890.42(renewed silence, broken only by sighs from Graham.)
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_52320.37I was gently supported, and now an.d then a whisper swept by my ear like a breath.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_8280.33Again there was silence, broken only by the gasping cf the invalid, and her heavy, irregular breathing, and by a continual low whirr in the old tall clock in the coi ner ; its shining face glared at us stonily, and it wheezed with every swing of the pendulum.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_25800.30The noise of the rain outside had in fact ceased suddenly, but it was the rest taken by the wrestler to recover his breath for a fresh assault.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela.txt_8380.28You are right; they do not choose to believe in the storm suspended in the air," said the Portuguese; "but the lightning will be fierce,"—he interrupted himself, and bent so low over the young lady that she almost felt his breath upon her cheek,—" Countess, return to your quiet Greinsfeld l" he whispered in tones of gentle entreaty: " I know that there is a lightning-stroke for you too in those black clouds up there I" It sounded mysteriously,-—like a prophecy.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_94670.28I clasped my hands very hard, and I drew my breath very deep: I held in the cry, I devoured the ejaculation, I forbade the start, I spoke and I stirred no more than a stone; but I knew what I looked on; through the dimness left in my eyes by many nights' weeping, I knew him.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_22610.26Before I saw , I felt that life was in the great room, usually void: not that there was either stir or breath, or rustle of sound, but Vacuum lacked, Solitude was not at home.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_61120.26The attention called into her guest's face a pleasurable glow; he met her with caution, and replied to her in his softest tones, as if there was a kind of gossamer happiness hanging in the air which he feared to disturb by drawing too deep a breath.

Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_50900.87Four more dark figures had suddenly appeared upon the scene, looking weird and strange in the starlight; and while the distant sound of voices, with an occasional burst of laughter, came to where the struggle was going on, all here was so quiet -- save for the oppressed breathing -- that no attention was drawn towards them from the visitor-dotted lawn.
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_61410.84All this while Billy Widgeon lay snoring loudly, but by degrees, as Mark watched the stars that seemed to float over the jungle, the heavy breathing became less heavy, and by slow degrees softer and softer till it quite died away, and all was perfectly still to Mark Strong as he lay watching there.
Lover_Samuel_Handy_Andy_Vol_7180_4500.82Andy lay in perfect stillness, and in the silence, which was unbroken even by his own breathing, he thought he heard voices underground.
Harte_Bret_A_Waif_of_the_P_2279_2160.82He could hear the low breathing of Susy, and even fancied he could hear the beating of his own heart in that oppressive hush of all nature.
Green_Anna_Kat_The_Circular_St_18761_1740.82The steps, which had been gradually growing louder, kept advancing; and presently they could hear the intruder's breathing, which was both quick and labored.
Kennan_George_Tent_Life_in_Si_12328_34060.81from the pile of furs lying on the rough plank floor betrayed no very lively interest on the part of the prostrate figure in the fact announced, while the heavy, long-drawn breathing which soon succeeded this momentary interruption proved that more active measures must be taken to recall him from the land of dreams.
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_14300.81There was a deep pause, all breathing was smothered, all feared that the loud beating of their hearts might betray them and cause them to be suspected.
Hornung_E_W_The_Amateur_Cra_706_13280.81A heavy thud had come against my door, and now I heard hard breathing and the dull stamp of muffled feet.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Knight_of_the_6311_11050.80On awaking, he went with silent tread to the door of Haldane's room, and, afer listening a moment, was satisfied from the heavy breathing within that its occupant was still under the influence of stupor.
Lever_Charles_The_Knight_Of_G_35755_33930.79The accent was not of pain or suffering, but of melancholy so soft, so touching, and yet so intense, that it stilled every voice within the room, where now each long-drawn breath was audible.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_30620.79The great clock in the corner ticked out loud in the silence of the next minute; only that and the slow breathing of the dog sleeping on the hearth fell on the ear.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_10930.79Such silence reigned that he could hear the soft, faint breathing of the child as it lay asleep.
Allen_James_La_The_Choir_Invis_2316_26940.79He was so close that he could hear the loud regular breathing of a sleeper on the bed just inside the shadow.
James_G_P_R_Forest_Days_A_R_49987_39550.78The lamp remained unextinguished in the chamber; and for about an hour all was still, his heavy breathing being the only sound that made itself heard; except the occasional voices of revellers in other parts of the house, becoming more and more faint as the night advanced.
Castlemon_Harr_George_at_the_F_21664_5810.77Presently a scratching, scrambling sound, accompanied by heavy, labored breathing and those incoherent exclamations that men sometimes use when they are exerting themselves to the utmost, told Bob that somebody was making his way up the logs.
Braddon_M_E_The_Infidel_A_S_50676_51700.77She lingered for a day and a night after this return of consciousness; but her last hours were passed in a stupor, and she died in her sleep, so quietly that the nurse who kept watch by her bed knew not the moment of her last sigh.
_The_Green_Fairy_7277_6180.77He saw a door which stood ajar, and through which he distinctly heard sighs, mingled with sobs.
Verne_Jules_The_Mysterious_1268_55430.77Jup was at first restless, but his breathing gradually became more regular, and he was left sleeping quietly.
Jackson_Helen_Ramona_2802_30240.77Standing motionless, she heard a faint, regular breathing from the other side of the bed.
Dahn_Felix_Felicitas_A_Ta_32222_22580.77"Since Fulvius left I have not slept, I must now go to our child; if I hear his gentle breathing I am quite composed.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_170940.77Again she listened at the door; again she heard the slow, regular breathing of the sleeping man.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_55150.77There was no sound anywhere, except the sonorous breathing of some heavy sleeper and the ticking of the clock in the hall.
Twain_Mark_The_Prince_and_1837_22480.76The boy stirred again; his eyes came open for an instant, but there was no speculation in them, they saw nothing; the next moment his tranquil breathing showed that his sleep was sound once more.
Jackson_Helen_Between_Whiles_10756_11640.76But she stood still, holding her breath lest Victorine should hear her, till the conversation ceased, and she heard Victorine moving about in her room again.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_7790.76'I had had time to note these little particulars, and to mark the heavy breathing and feverish startings of the sick man, before he was aware of my presence.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_98320.76The guards, disposing themselves in the corridors between cellars, were asleep; the children, wearied with crying, were silent; nothing was heard save the breathing of troubled breasts, and here and there the murmur of prayer.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_68900.75Her solitude, excepting the hours of sleep, if then, was a time of irregular breathing.
Henty_G_A_G_At_Aboukir_and_22224_19340.75Sidi bent over his father, and, listening to his breathing, saw that he was sound asleep.
Harben_Will_N_Northern_Georgi_50896_8720.75His breathing fell distinct and harsh on the profound stillness of the room.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Mistress_and_Ma_13461_5620.75They knew she did, for they heard her heavy breathing through the thin partition wall.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Law_and_the_1622_38880.75"Her calm, regular breathing was distinctly audible in the stillness of the night.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_24720.75And all this time I heard his loud breathing in the darkness, but never once the sound of his voice.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_33080.75If you sleep in your tent, with a servant lying across each entrance, the bheel will come and crouch on the outside, in some shady corner, where he can hear the breathing of those within.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_71370.75In the beds of the children she could hear the long-drawn, calm breathing, which indicated peaceful slumbers; and in the open, adjoining apartment, in which the two ladies slept, nothing was stirring.
Crockett_S_R_Cleg_Kelly_Ara_48354_33670.75As Vara sat and listened all through the short hours of that midsummer night to the clocks of the city churches, the stertorous breathing of her mother and the babe's occasional feeble wail were the only sounds within the hut itself.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_48740.73Mabel went sobbing to the rude corner that had been prepared for her reception; and in a few minutes the hut was undisturbed by any sound, save the heavy breathing of the veteran.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_62410.73At length, partly addressing Numerian, partly speaking to himself, he said: 'She has slept long, deeply, without moving, almost without breathing -- a sleep like death to all who looked on it.'
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_6670.73She lay quiet for a time, gazing, while the light remained, into the face of the sleeping child, and listening, when the light failed, to her gentle breathing.
Stanley_Henry_My_Kalulu_Prin_32923_30880.73Loud and louder beat the drums, until the noise was deafening, and the voices of the singers became a demoniac din; then lower and lower descended the voices and the drum-sounds, until nothing was heard but the pacific and low murmur of the bass drum and the low sighs of the dancers.
S_gur_Philippe_History_of_the_18113_32610.73He knew what a restless night he had passed, and that a violent and incessant cough cut short his breathing.
Melville_Herma_Typee_28656_10130.73The only sound that interrupted the silence of the place was the asthmatic breathing of the old men I have mentioned, who reposed at a little distance from us.
Howells_Willia_A_Hazard_of_New_4600_81540.73It grew louder toward morning, and then Dryfoos knew from the watcher's deeper breathing that he had fallen into a doze.
Collins_Wilkie_I_Say_No_1629_80.73In the long intervals of stillness, not even the softly audible breathing of young creatures asleep was to be heard.
Coffin_Charles_The_Boys_of_34843_78310.73There is heavy, stifled breathing, as of constant effort to suppress cries extorted by acutest pain.
Baker_Samuel_W_The_Albert_N_Ya_3668_13530.72That night I was asleep in my tent, when I was suddenly awoke by loud screams, and upon listening attentively I distinctly heard the heavy breathing of something in the tent, and I could distinguish a dark object crouching close to the head of my bed.
Vaile_Charlott_Wheat_and_Huckl_41515_34000.72She thought he was asleep, and moved noiselessly away lest even her breathing should disturb him.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_3960.72The sound of dreadful, swine-like breathing fell upon our ears.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_8010.72By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say: "What is this?"
Dante_Alighieri_The_vision_of_h_8789_4670.72say who are these, interr'd Within these vaults, of whom distinct we hear The dolorous sighs?"
Castlemon_Harr_Frank_Before_Vi_42099_18930.72Presently I was so close to him that I could hear his quick, heavy breathing.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_20270.72The boy was asleep; his soft breathing came from the dark crib.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_196580.72Not a sound was heard but her painful breathing, which was gradually becoming more and more difficult.
Alger_Horatio_The_Young_Adven_27300_33070.72He could see nothing suspicious, and hear nothing except the deep breathing of his sleeping comrades.
Wolfe_Theodore_Literary_Shrine_38889_3890.71No discordant sound from the haunts of men disturbs our meditations; the silence is unbroken save by the frequent sighs of the mourning pines.
Phelps_Elizabe_The_Gates_Betwe_30540_15170.71The moans of pain, the querulous replies to nurses, the weary cough or plethoric breathing, the feeble convalescent laughter, -- these greeted me; and only these.
Braddon_M_E_The_Infidel_A_S_50676_16360.71The breathing was laboured, but there was vigour enough left to last out the long night hours -- to last for days and nights yet, the medico thought, as he left the room.
Kingsley_Charl_Hypatia_or_Ne_6308_44430.71But at the end of that time the heavy breathing of the slumbering Amal, who had been twice awoke by her, resounded unchecked through the lecture-room, and deepened into a snore; for Pelagia herself was as fast asleep as he.
Weyman_Stanley_Shrewsbury_A_R_39137_14110.70In the silence which filled the room I could hear his breathing; and I felt sure that the searchers must hear it also when they entered.
Stephens_Rober_Philip_Winwood_15506_29130.70He could hear the slap of the inky water against the piles, but scarce another sound, save his own breathing.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_28900.70"Tituba, Tituba -- look up," she whispered, hushing her very breath, for the figure came out into the starlight, and glided toward them like a ghost.
Melville_Herma_Typee_28656_1080.70Scarcely a sound could be heard but the occasional breathing of the grampus, and the rippling at the cut-water.
Kipling_Rudyar_The_Jungle_Book_236_3300.70The cubs were out, but Mother Wolf, at the back of the cave, knew by his breathing that something was troubling her frog.
Kelly_Florence_With_Hoops_of_S_28585_10210.70Now and then, as one changed his position, a long, blowing breath, or a satisfied grunt and groan, came out of the darkness.
Grant_Robert_Unleavened_Brea_14645_39060.70In the stillness the only sounds were the ticking of the clock on the mantel-piece and Wilbur's labored breathing.
Cooper_James_F_The_Two_Admiral_20475_68910.70There was a long pause, during which Wycherly thought he heard the hard but suppressed breathing of Mildred.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_59400.70A moment they stood and listened, and heard no sound from below but a light, regular breathing, as of one man only.
Barr_Amelia_E_The_Lion_s_Whel_50978_33930.70I felt such sorrowful Presence in every room; I thought I heard sighs following me, and soft steps.
Ballantyne_R_Ungava_21707_33150.70As the night wore on, the deep breathing of the men told that they, too, had sought and found repose.
Phillpotts_Ede_Children_of_the_14527_47790.70Only a jangling bell broke the startling stillness then, and, through long weeks afterwards the girl yearned for the song of the river, as one who has long slept by another's side sadly yearns for the sound of their breathing by night, when they are taken away.
James_G_P_R_Agincourt_A_Ro_39519_29850.70None made itself heard through the rest of the night, but the hard breathing of the sleeping yeomen; and, after watching till near morning, slumber once more fell upon Woodville's eyes, and he did not wake till the sun had been up an hour.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_6440_39500.70She entered as quietly as a little mouse, listened a moment until satisfied from his breathing that her father was still sound asleep, then, stepping softly across the room, she laid her package down where he could not fail to see it as soon as daylight came and his eyes were opened.
Goulding_F_R_The_Young_Maroo_42066_22060.70Within twenty minutes after the light was extinguished, and during the livelong night, nothing was to be heard in that tent but the hard breathing of the wearied sleepers.
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_36570.70Caleb and Deborah went to bed, and Ephraim could hear his father's snores and his mother's heavy breathing from a distant room.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_7350.70"I had had time to note these little particulars, and to mark the heavy breathing and feverish startings of the sick man, before he was aware of my presence.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_66410.70The one living sound that stirred in the stillness of the room was the light breathing of the child as he lay asleep in his mother's arms.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_128600.70The child lay outstretched on Grannie's lap, with no sign of consciousness, and hardly any sign of life, except the hollow breathing of bronchitis.
Alger_Horatio_Helping_Himself_5833_36730.70As they passed the door of the room in which Mr. and Mrs. Barton slept, they heard the deep breathing of both, and knew that they were not likely to be heard.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_26360.69In the darkness they could see nothing; only, standing still and holding their breaths, they could hear the faint sound, ever growing fainter, of some creature splashing in a hasty gallop over the wet moors.
Cooper_James_F_Jack_Tier_Or_4796_50620.69Accustomed sounds, however, seldom produce this effect on the ears of the sleeper, and the heavy breathing from the state-room, succeeded the merriment of the blacks, as soon as the latter ceased.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Day_of_Fate_6113_49290.68The hush that followed was broken by deep and frequent sighs.
Jerrold_Dougla_Mrs_Caudle_s_C_6054_11420.68I'm not going to bed with the door upon the latch for you or the best man breathing.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Law_and_the_1622_33950.68Little by little the sound of her heavy breathing grew fainter.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Uncle_Max_16080_86040.68And after a time I would hear her regular breathing and know she was asleep.
Browne_J_Ross_Crusoe_s_Island_39918_30420.68A low, heavy breathing attracted my attention.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69250.68She uttered a sigh of misery at her own dread and overwrought imagination, as she now realised the fact that the soft rustling was that of leaves as the night wind stirred them when it passed, for the soft, heavy breathing of the sleepers came regularly to her ear.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_61570.68I dared not look at my father, but knew, from his suppressed breathing, that he was silent only from intense rage.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_80990.68It seemed to the officers that he was listening; therefore all restrained their breathing, and a perfect stillness settled down in the room.
Marlitt_E_Eu_Gold_Elsie_42426_47140.68Soon nothing was heard in the little room but the quiet breathing of the sick girl and the ticking of the clock.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_20640.68He heard from the end of the room the calm and regular breathing of the sleeping Bishop.
Green_Anna_Kat_Hand_and_Ring_31681_63990.68The hush that lay upon the room was unbroken save by the agitated breaths of all present.
Ellis_Edward_S_Wyoming_41784_11830.68Indeed, almost at the same time, Habakkuk drifted into dreamland, his loud breathing being audible to all who were awake.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_38840.68The breathing grew more slow, longer, harder, a great breathing of sighs.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Christian_s_Mis_14687_13210.68Nevertheless, they stood a little longer looking down upon Arthur, whose breathing grew softer into natural sleep.
Melville_Herma_White_Jacket_O_10712_52780.67At last the heavy breathing grew more and more irregular, and gradually dying away, left forever the unstirring form of Shenly.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_28620.67Some old people have a dread of solitude, and when better company may not be had rejoice even to hear the quiet breathing of a babe asleep upon the carpet.
Finley_Martha_Grandmother_Els_14883_7860.67An open door gave a glimpse into an inner room, from which came a slight sound as of a restless movement, a sigh or groan.
Abbott_John_S_Daniel_Boone_T_23798_20280.67He could hear his breathing and the sound of his footsteps, and expected every moment to feel the sharp javelin piercing his back.
Optic_Oliver_Stand_By_The_Un_18816_14330.67He lay down in his berth after he had removed his coat and shoes, and in a few minutes Christy judged that he was asleep from the sound of his breathing, which soon degenerated into a mild snore.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_10090.67Notwithstanding the rain that beat noisily on the roof, the grinding wheels, and loud, splashing tread of the horses, he could hear the unequal breath of his companion with startling distinctness.
Kavanagh_Julia_Rachel_Gray_A_36160_24520.67Softly Rachel went and opened the door of her father's room; it was dark and quiet; but in its stillness, she heard his regular breathing -- he slept, and little, did he know how much that calm sleep of his cost his daughter.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_2760.67As Bontems passed noiselessly across the room, his feet sinking into the moss-like carpet, there was the heavy close smell of sleep in the air, and he could near the long thin breathing of the sleeper.
Mitchell_Donal_Dream_Life_A_F_17862_3880.65But it is dreadful when you wake at night from your feverish slumber, and see nothing but the spectral shadows that the sick-lamp upon the hearth throws aslant the walls; and hear nothing but the heavy breathing of the old nurse in the easy-chair, and the ticking of the clock upon the mantel!
Hawthorne_Nath_Tanglewood_Tale_976_2860.65For it appeared as if the air was full of a melancholy wail; and when he listened more attentively, he could hear sobs, and groans, and screams of woe, mingled with deep, quiet sighs, which came from the king's palace, and from the streets, and from the temples, and from every habitation in the city.
Baker_Samuel_W_The_Rifle_and_t_3231_34990.65We stood in the open forest, within a few feet of the thick jungle, to the edge of which the elephants were so close that we could hear their deep breathing; and by stooping down we could distinguish the tips of their trunks and feet, although the animals themselves were invisible.
Altsheler_Jose_In_Hostile_Red_41050_41510.65The heavy breathing of the combatants sounded distinctly, and the soft beat of their footsteps, as they shifted about the room, made a light, sliding noise, like the restless tread of wild animals in a cage.
Mitchell_Donal_Dream_Life_A_F_17862_5190.65You listen to her, but you cannot talk: she asks you what you have seen, and you begin, for a moment joyously; but when they open the door of the sick-room, and you hear a faint sigh, you cannot go on.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_77420.65The laboured breathing became lower and softer, the heavy look of oppressive pain melted away from the face, and a languor that was almost peace took the place of suffering.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_John_Halifax_G_2351_83340.65Muriel, who had stood for the last few minutes by her father's side, listening with a pleasing look to the monotonous regular sound, like the breathing of the demon, was unwilling to go.
Stephens_Rober_An_Enemy_to_the_9965_28890.65The place was then perfectly quiet, save for the regular breathing of the two boys, and an occasional movement of one of the horses.
Reid_Mayne_The_Plant_Hunte_27981_23180.65He even listened at intervals, expecting to hear the latter breathing or giving a grunt, or some other sign, by which his presence might be made known .
Optic_Oliver_On_The_Blockade_18617_23400.65There was at least one man there, and he continued to hear his sonorous breathing as long as he remained at the window, which was the first on the side of the shanty.
Marryat_Freder_The_Children_of_6471_19650.65He sat down and waited for daylight, but at times he thought he heard a heavy breathing, and once a low groan.
Kipling_Rudyar_The_Light_That_2876_43090.65The beating of her heart was making her sick, and Dick was coming nearer, guided by the sound of her breathing.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_39260.65She listened anxiously for the servant's step beyond the door, and now and then she caught her breath a little when she thought she heard a sound.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_129600.65The night wore on; the house was quiet; only the husky rasping of the child's hurried breathing came from the floor above.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_40500.64The faint lapping of the river and the plash of oars had died away, and the silence and heat were painful enough to draw a low sigh from the sleeper, just as the bedroom door was softly opened, and a dark figure glided in, crept over the matting floor without making a sound, and bent over the bed.
Sage_William_Robert_Tournay_34846_38440.64The sound of regular breathing told him that he was not the sole occupant of the cell.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Mystery_of_7964_16470.64They were so still and silent that they might have been two bronze statues but for the slow and measured rhythm of their breathing.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_81790.64Not a sound, not a breath disturbed the heavy silence which seemed to have grown deeper than before.
Otis_James_Neal_the_Mille_4293_5010.64Soon after the heavy breathing of the white men told that they were in the land of dreams, Sewatis rose to a sitting posture, listened intently, although nothing could be heard save the cries of the night-birds and the usual sounds of a forest when the mantle of darkness has fallen.
Lewis_Dio_Our_Girls_41498_19450.64More than thirty hours we stood around its bed, working, weeping, praying, hoping, despairing; but about one o'clock in the morning the last painful struggle for breath gave way to the peaceful sleep of death.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_1230.64Inside the room the one audible sound was the slow, toilsome breathing of the dying woman, raising itself in its mortal frailness, awfully and distinctly, even through the far thunder-breathing from the bosom of the everlasting sea.
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_56150.63Faint yet regular breathing became audible.
Hope_Anthony_The_Indiscretio_13909_20190.63I listened for a sleeper's breathing, but heard nothing.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_97820.63I listened to her breathing, it was soft and regular.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_77500.63His breathing was heavy, and the silence around him was intense.
Crawford_F_Ma_Marietta_A_Mai_16100_5170.63It was not exactly the sound of a soft footfall, nor of breathing, but it might have been either.
Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_o_73_3240.63He bent forward, scarce breathing.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_6730.63Her laboured breathing came quick and fast.
Reid_Mayne_Gwen_Wynn_A_Ro_35196_17280.63They stand for a time silent as statues -- though not without a tremulous motion, scarce perceptible -- as if the amorous electricity around stifled their breathing, for the time hindering speech.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Tempest_and_Sun_17260_49000.63For a time her father sat quietly listening to the sound of her breathing, then arising, he softly drew aside the curtains and looked long and anxiously at her as she slept.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_40440.63"He has got it," muttered Saxe, after a painful pause; and then they heard the clink of the ice against the lanthorn, and saw the latter move, while directly after, from out of the silence below, there came the sound of a deeply drawn breath.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Lane_That_H_6241_31230.63The evening wore on, and there was no sound, save the ticking of the clock, the beat of rain upon the windows, and the deep breathing of the Seigneur.
Pansy_Three_People_20808_40770.63And yet the breathing was certainly distinct, the pulse was steady -- a half hour more, one or two little sighs had escaped the sleeper; other than that death-like stillness reigned.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_53430.63Now and then might be heard the measured tread of a sentinel, or the loud breathing of some soldier dreaming perhaps of his distant home or forsaken bride.
Kelly_Florence_With_Hoops_of_S_28585_10380.63There was a snorting breath, a second of muffled noise as they sprang to their feet, and the whole stampeded herd was rushing pell-mell into the darkness.
Hammond_Willia_Sleep_and_Its_D_43887_24790.63The doctor felt his pulse, which at that time was regular, and he also found his heart beat very regular, and his breathing easy and free.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_80470.63Then he saw the sky redden with the first flush of dawn; he heard Kester's long-drawn sigh of weariness outside the open door.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_New_Rel_14909_31510.63There the moon shone in, and by its light she perceived the form of her husband stretched upon a couch, while the sound of his breathing told her that he slept.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_23710.63The exertion necessarily made proved fatal; the breathing grew short and painful, the pulse slow and feeble.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_24830.63Ruth wondered and almost wearied at Miss Benson's perseverance in talking to her about people whom she did not know; but, in truth, Miss Benson heard the long-drawn, quivering sighs which came from the poor heavy heart, when it was left to silence, and had leisure to review the past; and her quick accustomed ear caught also the low mutterings of the thunder in the distance, in the shape of Sally's soliloquies, which, like the asides at a theatre, were intended to be heard.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_84960.62There was at times the hoarse roar of a tiger in the jungle, and the Rajah now and then muttered some words in his own tongue; otherwise there was the regular breathing of the sleeper, and the dull thud -- thud, thud -- thud of the prisoner's palpitating heart.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_6280.62Occasionally he would stop; and in the midst of a breathing stillness, that the dull but increasing roar of the waterfall only served to render more impressive, he would listen with painful intenseness, to catch any sounds that might arise from the slumbering forest.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Ethelyn_s_Mista_12104_31470.62Fortune seemed to favor her, for when at nine the doctor, as usual, came up to pay his round visits, she heard him say, "I will leave you something which never fails to make one sleep," and after two hours had passed she knew by the regular breathing which, standing on the threshold of her room, she could distinctly hear, that Richard was sleeping soundly.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_84870.62The dizziness passed off; but for a few minutes the girl felt that she dared not stir for fear that at the least motion on her part her persecutor might awaken; and in this spirit she remained for some time, listening to the heavy breathing, and watching intently, as if fascinated by the dark eyes that at times seemed gazing into hers.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_92810.62Her quick ear caught every sound about her -- the heavy breaths of the father and children in the back room, the twittering of the sparrows, the first cries about the streets, the first movements in the crowded house.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_500.62To the tired watcher then, for whom the notes were mere tones conveying no idea, the soft melancholy cadence, dulled by distance, was like the half-stifled echo of her own last stifled sigh.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69540.62The time was gliding on, and in her ignorance of how long she might have slept, she felt that morning would at any time be there; so with a weary sigh of misery she left her futile task and crept cautiously to the window.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_80310.62In vain they resorted to the most powerful restoratives; he remained in the heavy stupor, with no sign of animation, save the low irregular breath, and the weak flutter of the thread-like pulse.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_47460.62The music had ceased by command, and nothing was now audible but the regular tread of the soldiers, with the sighs of the dying gale, interrupted occasionally by the voice of an officer, or the hum of low dialogue.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_126280.62Dr. Martin looked at the boy; felt his pulse, his skin, listened to his breathing.
Smith_Francis_The_Fortunes_of_3417_61740.62Dr. Wallace was standing by the bed watching the labored breathing of the prostrate man.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_63130.62There was not the slightest movement in the air; the cypresses stood as motionless as if they too were holding breath in their breasts.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Opening_a_Chest_6028_52800.62When Annie stole noiselessly back to Gregory's room he was sleeping, though his breathing seemed difficult.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_120110.62Bruce precipitated his lips to his, and sinking on his knees, remained in a silence only broken by his sighs.
Pearson_C_H_The_Cabin_on_th_28870_4000.62The children were peacefully sleeping, and not a sound was to be heard save their breathing, and the whisper of the wind outside.
Merriman_Henry_In_Kedar_s_Tent_5987_24150.62Concepçion had ceased singing now, and the hard breathing of the horses alone broke the silence.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_66610.62He remained in this position for a long time, his sighs being the only interruption to the silence which reigned in the apartment.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_23860.62The minister and I stole through the dusk, and for a long time heard nothing but our own breathing and the beating of our hearts.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_35600.62The eyes closed, and those who stood watching her low, irregular breathing, fancied she slept again.
Eliot_George_Adam_Bede_507_38360.62she said in a moment, almost before she knew what she was saying -- the wish lay so close to her lips, it WOULD flutter past them at the slightest breath.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_41580.62Each dusky figure seemed a breathing statue, so motionless was the posture, so intense the attention of the individual.
Bird_Isabella_A_Lady_s_Life_i_755_12400.62I was awoke by a heavy breathing, a noise something like sawing under the floor, and a pushing and upheaving, all very loud.
Baker_Samuel_W_The_Rifle_and_t_3231_5580.62At this time I heard a splashing in the water behind me, accompanied by the hard breathing of something evidently distressed.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_House_of_th_77_3430.61Our story must therefore await Miss Hepzibah at the threshold of her chamber; only presuming, meanwhile, to note some of the heavy sighs that labored from her bosom, with little restraint as to their lugubrious depth and volume of sound, inasmuch as they could be audible to nobody save a disembodied listener like ourself.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_204690.61A profound and solemn silence reigned in this chamber, only interrupted by the broken sobs of Rose and Blanche, or by Father Simon's hard breathing.
McCutcheon_Geo_Graustark_5142_23570.61The gate opened, a faint creaking attesting the fact, followed by the heavy breathing of men, the noise of subdued activity, the scent of chloroform.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_28090.61A deep silence prevailed now in the apartment; nothing was heard but the gently-whispered prayers of the spectators, and the slow, labored breathing of the dying child.
Kipling_Rudyar_Kim_2226_43050.61He could hear the Hindu boy breathing, however, and, guided by the sound, crawled across the floor, and cuffed into the darkness, crying: 'Give answer, devil!
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_20160.61The feeble, threadlike pulse fluttered irregularly, but the breathing became easy and low as a babe's, and occasionally a gentle sigh heaved the chest.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_18710.61In the passage they found Alice Dunscombe, with her face concealed in her mantle; and, it would seem, by the heavy sighs that escaped from her, deeply agitated by the interview which she had just encountered.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_50990.61She had, by a gentle gesture, scared away the robin that, accustomed to find crumbs scattered for him upon the window-sill, had boldly ventured into the room, his gentle twitter sounding alarmingly loud in the profound silence, in which each gasping breath issuing from the narrow chest was painfully audible.
Twain_Mark_The_Prince_and_1837_22490.61The hermit watched and listened, for a time, keeping his position and scarcely breathing; then he slowly lowered his arms, and presently crept away, saying, -- "It is long past midnight; it is not best that he should cry out, lest by accident someone be passing."
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_1380.61Dolores listened, but she had not the almost supernatural hearing of the blind, and could distinguish nothing but the tramping of the soldiers below, and her sister's irregular breathing beside her, as Inez held her breath again and again in order to catch the very faint and distant sound.
Weyman_Stanley_The_Castle_Inn_11918_40890.60For a moment the heavy breathing of the four horses covered all other sounds.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_7360.60At first he heard nothing save his own breathing; then a gruff voice from above startled him.
Voynich_E_L_The_Gadfly_3431_31160.60Martini sat down again, and listened as the breathing became gradually deep and even.
Merriman_Henry_Dross_20243_35540.60Isabella seemed to be breathless, I know not why, and her bodice was stirred by the rapidity of her breathing.
Major_Charles_Dorothy_Vernon_14671_65860.60After a little time Dorothy's heavy breathing indicated that she had fallen asleep.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_71840.60In the midst of the profound silence nothing was heard but Barbarina's sighs.
J_kai_M_r_The_Green_Book_34503_52300.60At last her regular breathing proved Sophie, at least, to have fallen asleep.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Ethelyn_s_Mista_12104_16760.60He did not ask himself whether, in case it had gone on, Ethelyn would have been there, so near to him that her soft breathing came distinctly to his ear.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanho_14874_27430.60The two bent over the sleeping babe, listening to its gentle breathing.
Eliot_George_Middlemarch_145_127720.60He listened in the passage, and could hear hard stertorous breathing.
Davis_Rebecca_Frances_Waldeau_335_25540.60She could hear the baby's regular, soft breathing as it slept.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_16370.60The breathing becomes slow and feeble, and is often interrupted by deep sighs.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_50640.60There was a long silence, broken only by the heavy breathing of Goddard.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_49790.60His pulse was now very high, and his breathing grew heavy and stertorous.
Collins_Wilkie_I_Say_No_1629_2290.60A low murmur, dying away gently in a sigh, was the only answer.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_170690.60The slow, regular breathing of a sleeping man was just audible.
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_7430.60My breath came and went freely for the first time since I had seen the canopy of the bed moving down upon me!
Castlemon_Harr_Frank_in_the_Wo_42307_2960.60The others soon followed his example, and, in a few moments, nothing was heard in the cabin but the regular breathing of the sleepers.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_52770.60Little Edward lay there beside her, with laboured breathing and a cough that seemed to come from a distance.
Alger_Horatio_The_Young_Explo_5623_30670.60Their deep, tranquil breathing showed that they were sound asleep.
Alger_Horatio_Paul_Prescott_s_293_1300.60Again there was a silence, broken only by the difficult breathing of the sick man.
M_hlbach_L_L_Andreas_Hofer_3666_76750.60Eliza looked after him, motionless, breathless, listening to his footsteps, and heaving a deep sigh when they died away in the distance.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_58920.60Life heard the voice of unembodied breath, And Sleep stood trembling side by side with Death.
Hentz_Caroline_Helen_and_Arthu_23106_36130.60He went to the bedside, felt of the sleeper's pulse, listened attentively to her deep, irregular breathing, and then returned to Helen.
Hammond_Willia_Sleep_and_Its_D_43887_25100.60Her breathing was soft and almost imperceptible, but during the night-time she occasionally drew it more strongly, like a person who has just fallen asleep.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_24960.60She sat and thought, but she no longer heaved those bitter sighs which had wrung Miss Benson's heart in the morning.
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_97800.60But she was only sleeping, and a faint breath still came from the colorless lips -- sleeping a sleep from which the doctor, at least, knew she could only awake to die.
Field_Eugene_Second_Book_of_21809_6250.60"The child is very ill," croaked old Charlotte, the nurse; "he does not seem to be awake nor yet asleep, and there is a strange, hoarse rattling in his breathing."
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_83720.60The next minute there was a faint rustle, a heavy breathing, a slight crack or two, and Hilton received a heavy kick.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_154950.60She did not raise her voice above her breath, or address us, but said this to the night sky; then stood profoundly quiet, looking at the gloomy water.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_10000.60There was the low, breathing, softly shuffling sound in the air, which is heard where many are busy and no one speaks a superfluous word.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_28120.60It was some time before the crimson flush left her face, or the quick breath subsided to the calm respiration that followed; but at last she slept tranquilly as the infant which still lay on its grandmother's bosom.
Holland_J_G_Sevenoaks_A_St_15214_16180.60As the sun rose, Benedict fell into an uneasy slumber, and, while Jim watched his heavy breathing, the door was noiselessly opened, and Harry and the dog looked in.
Henty_G_A_G_With_Wolfe_in_C_17766_31420.60At first, nothing could be heard save their own quick breathing; then a confused noise was heard to their left front, a deep trampling and the sound of voices, and an occasional clash of arms.
Alger_Horatio_The_Young_Explo_5623_35380.60The tents of the miners were grouped together, within a comparatively small radius, and on all sides could be heard-it was now past ten-the deep breathing of men exhausted by the day's toils.
Baker_Samuel_W_The_Nile_Tribut_2125_24780.60At length, after upwards of an hour passed in this slow and fatiguing advance, I distinctly heard the flap of an elephant's ear, shortly followed by the deep guttural sigh of one of those animals, within a few paces, but so dense was the screen of jungle that I could see nothing.
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_54260.60A peculiar whistling sound came now from before them, and they stopped to listen, with the day evidently growing hotter, for down in the gorge there was not a breath of air; while as they listened the whistling grew louder and was accompanied by another in a different key, the two producing a curious dissonant sound for a few minutes, increasing rapidly, and then ceased, to be followed by absolute silence, and then a dull sound followed as if something had burst.
Crockett_S_R_The_Black_Dougl_17733_40220.59Through the heavy boom of the storm without, the thresh of the rain upon the lattice casement, and the irregular whipping gusts which shook the house, the soft wheeze of the engrossing quill could be heard, the crackle of the burning logs and the heavy regular breathing of the couchant she-wolf being the only other sounds audible within the apartment.
Harte_Bret_A_Waif_of_the_P_2279_2170.59For the day's march had always been accompanied by the monotonous creaking of wheels and axles, and even the quiet of the night encampment had been always more or less broken by the movement of unquiet sleepers on the wagon beds, or the breathing of the cattle.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_23890.59After a short interval, her slow, regular breathing announced to the young warrior, as he watched by the side of the fire, that she had at length forgotten the day's heritage of misfortune in the welcome oblivion of sleep.
Finley_Martha_Holidays_at_Ros_14280_29610.59Hour after hour they sat there -- Mrs. Travilla, Adelaide, the doctor, and poor old Chloe -- silent and still as statues, watching that quiet slumber, straining their ears to catch the faint sound of the gentle breathing -- a sound so low that ever and anon their hearts thrilled with the sudden fear that it had ceased forever; and one or another, rising noiselessly, would bend over the little form in speechless alarm, until again they caught the low, fitful sound.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_236410.59In a few minutes, the spirit had a powerful influence on the Jesuit; he made some slight movements, and his oppressed bosom heaved with a deep sigh.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_105430.59Duller and duller, hoarser and hoarser, more and more painful grew the groan of the bull as it mingled with the whistling breath from the breast of the giant.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_7498_41040.59So he lay down on the bed, Jasper dutifully tucking him up, and presently his regular breathing told that he had picked up the threads of his broken slumber.
Munro_Neil_John_Splendid_22321_14050.59We could hear our visitor breathing as he moved about cautiously on the stunted grass above us, and so certain seemed discovery that we had our little black knives lying naked along our wrists.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_60740.59When at last silence and peace came, and the royal family were resting on their hard beds, sighs and suppressed sobs were heard from where the dauphin lay.
Alger_Horatio_Slow_and_Sure_25151_22410.59Saying this, Marlowe rose from his seat, and advancing to the corner, leaned over the sleeping boy, and listened intently to his deep regular breathing.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Chaplet_of_5274_18640.58Only too frequent occurrences in their unhappy land -- each bringing some frightful contribution from her own province, each enhancing upon the last-told story, and ever and anon pausing with bated breath at some fancied sound, or supposed start of one of the others; then clinging close together, and renewing the ghastly anecdote, at first in a hushed voice that grew louder with the interest of the story.
Cooper_James_F_Jack_Tier_Or_4796_50150.58By eight o'clock the vessel lay in a profound quiet, Señor Montefalderon pacing the quarterdeck alone, while the deep breathing of Spike was to be heard issuing through the open window of his state-room; a window which it may be well to say to the uninitiated, opened in-board, or toward the deck, and not outboard, or toward the sea.
Verne_Jules_Michael_Strogof_1842_56930.58The noise of his footsteps, his very breathing, he endeavored to conceal from the ear of the blind man.
Maartens_Maart_My_Lady_Nobody_49903_54680.58Peace and good-will.” Through the open door came the slow rhythm of Otto’s breathing.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_430.58The low lap of the water among the reeds is like the breathing of one who sleeps in his watch beside the dead.
Hugo_Victor_Toilers_of_the_32338_67800.58The vague breathing of the storm was audible; the silence was broken by an obscure palpitation.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Tempest_and_Sun_17260_33180.58There was no answer save the sound of heavy breathing; Uncle Joshua had probably got to sleep "all over."
Davis_Rebecca_Frances_Waldeau_335_35090.58"'After the busy day Comes the calm sleep of night,'" she quoted, with a sententious sigh.
Crawford_F_Ma_Greifenstein_6446_53880.58They both sat down in silence, watching the face of the dying man, and listening to his breathing.
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_157000.58Fatigue had overpowered him; she heard, within, the quiet breathing of a man in a sound sleep.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_99240.58The kitchen was empty, and silent too, except for the tick of the clock and the colly's labored breathing.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_97770.58No longer racked by the ringing cough, the loud breathing became less frequent and more harsh.
Bunyan_John_The_Pilgrim_s_P_39452_480.58But the night was as troublesome to him as the day; wherefore, instead of sleeping, he spent it in sighs and tears.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_122110.58How calm it was -- the silence there By such a chain was bound, That even the busy woodpecker Made stiller by her sound 60 The inviolable quietness; The breath of peace we drew With its soft motion made not less The calm that round us grew.
Howe_E_W_Ed_The_Story_of_a_47575_29540.58An hour passed, and then another, and still another, and nothing could be heard but the ticking of the clock, and the occasional sighs of the unhappy man on the bed, which became so painful to me that I began to watch for and dread them, and wonder whether the most pitiful thing in the world was not a strong man weeping.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_42530.58That same night, when darkness fell over the dark place, and the prisoners tied up their cotton headkerchiefs and lay down to sleep, 'Larby sat beside Israel's place with sighs and moans and other symptoms of a dejected air.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_76710.58When he ceased, the deep breath of natural emotion could be felt and heard throughout the crowded court; loud wails of sobbing women broke from the gallery.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_63580.58The woman listened attentively, sometimes holding her breath with intense interest; again breathing quick and sharp, as if some strong feeling were curbed into silence with difficulty.
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_78360.58I listened to his breathing till it grew low and regular, and then descended to the sitting-room in which I had left Lord Castleton, for he had asked me in a whisper to seek him there.
Andersen_H_C_The_Sand_Hills_26491_35630.58One night her husband had listened to her breathing, and believing from it that she had at length found repose and relief, he clasped his hands, prayed for her and for them all, then sank himself into peaceful slumber.
Alger_Horatio_Paul_Prescott_s_293_10140.58At first, Mr. Mudge thought it might be in consequence of Paul's sleeping so soundly, but on listening attentively, he could not distinguish the deep and regular breathing which usually accompanies such slumber.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Barriers_Burned_6627_72840.57He tried to keep himself warm by walking around, but at last he grew too weary for that, and sat, a patient, cowering watcher, at the head of Christine's weird couch, listening sadly at times to the pitiful crying of little children and the sighs and groans of older sufferers.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_42960.57The sounds so little in consonance with Helen's thoughts seem sorely out of place in that gloomy apartment; whose walls, though they once echoed the laughter of roystering friars, have, no doubt, also heard the sighs of many a poor peon suffering chastisement for disobedience, or apostacy.
Wallace_Lew_The_Fair_God_or_43340_115340.57The company hushed their very breathing.
Wallace_Lew_Ben_Hur_a_tale_2145_108960.57Her breathing was low and irregular.
Verne_Jules_Twenty_Thousand_164_55320.57The next day my breathing was oppressed.
Tolstoy_Leo_g_Resurrection_1938_11420.57She was probably awake, or else he would have heard her breathing.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_109510.57Nothing was heard but quick breathing.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Pomp_of_the_6217_6660.57It was followed by heavy stertorous breathing.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_57140.57He could hear the child breathing.
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_4640.57He thinks he hears a breathing.
Hope_Anthony_The_Prisoner_of_95_4600.57He did not stir, nor was there any break in his breathing.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_9120.57Then a relaxation, and a breathing freely once more.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_122520.57All was so very still that she could hear from his breathing that he was asleep.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Law_and_the_1622_22260.57I heard my own labored breathing.
Coffin_Charles_My_Days_and_Nig_28571_37650.57I would like to rest, and have a little breathing spell, but I shall not ask for it.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_70140.57How's your breathing to-day -- any easier?"
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_187850.57She could hear their breathing, and yet did not move.
Alger_Horatio_Rufus_and_Rose_25967_33380.57He was soon asleep, as his heavy breathing clearly indicated.
Henty_G_A_G_The_Treasure_of_7070_21190.57In spite of this, however, in less than ten minutes after his return Bertie's regular breathing showed that he was sound asleep.
Hardy_Thomas_A_Pair_of_Blue_224_65120.57Elfride slowly sank against Knight, and looking down, he found by her soft regular breathing that she had fallen asleep.
Green_Anna_Kat_That_Affair_Nex_21617_54820.57Time seems to drag with her, for she goes every few minutes to the window from which a distant church clock is visible, and sighs as she turns away.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_12590.57At last, his breathing became quick and oppressed, and, after listening to it for some minutes with increasing affright, Ruth ventured to waken him.
Fothergill_Jes_The_First_Violi_29219_88190.57That awful stupor, with the dark, flushed cheek and heavy breath, was to me more ominous than the restlessness of fever.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_49590.57He stood long by the bedside, watching the man's regular breathing, and examining his face attentively.
Cooper_James_F_The_Water_Witch_12445_47870.57The free-trader heard him without exhibiting alarm, though he listened with an attention that rendered his breathing audible.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_83060.57No more trouble, no more dreams, no more waking in the night to hear the breathing of the one beside me, and the voice out of the darkness crying -- -- " "Kate, what are you saying?"
Auerbach_Berth_Black_Forest_Vi_32517_37700.57He listened with bated breath, but all was silent: nothing stirred, and nothing was audible but the distant baying of a watch-dog.
Alger_Horatio_Ben_the_Luggag_28381_22170.57Half an hour later, and not a sound was heard in the room under the wharf except the occasional deep breathing of some of the boys.
Harte_Bret_The_Luck_of_Roa_6373_7650.57The fire slowly faded from the hearth; we each sought our blankets in silence; and presently there was no sound in the long room but the pattering of the rain upon the roof and the heavy breathing of the sleepers.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_13800.56As the doors opened at last, a distant blast of silver trumpets rang in from without, and the full chorus of speaking voices was hushed to a mere breathing that died away to breathless silence during a few moments as the greatest sovereign of the age, and one of the strangest figures of all time, appeared before his court.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_138500.56He could not, however, be kept in bed, owing to restlessness and difficulty of breathing, and by midday he was in Aldous's sitting-room, drawn close to the window, that he might delight his eyes with the wide range of wood and plain that it commanded.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_13430.56I lighted my pipe and sat smoking, thinking he would presently awake; but his slumber was as deep as the stillness I had thawed him out of had been, and he lay so motionless that, but for his snoring and harsh breathing, I should have believed him lapsed into his former state.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_57160.56A little company of faithful servants filled the background of the room, and listened with suspended breath to the axe-strokes with which the savage crowd broke down the doors, and heard the approaching cries of the multitude.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_67960.56Twice Sylvia -- below her breath -- had asked Kester, just as she was holding the door open for his departure, if anything had ever been heard of Kinraid since his one night's visit to Monkshaven: each time (and there was an interval of some months between the inquiries) the answer had been simply, no.
Corelli_Marie_A_Romance_of_Tw_4394_24560.56As I did so, a faint breath of sound, like a distant whisper of harps played in unison, floated past my ears, -- then appeared to sweep round in ever-widening circles, till it gradually died away.
Warner_Susan_Hills_of_the_Sh_16918_36270.56They kept each other silent and soft companionship, till Winifred's breathing told that she had lost her troubles in sleep on her mother's bosom.
Twain_Mark_The_Prince_and_1837_8940.56While this depressing thought was passing through her mind, her ear caught the regular breathing of the boy, and she knew he had fallen asleep.
Taylor_Bayard_Views_A_foot_O_11535_45610.56If this be true, the enjoyment must be much more complete where not only the motion, but almost breath and thought are suspended, and all the faculties wrought into one hushed and intense sensation.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_76780.56In the forest there was perfect silence, unbroken save by the sharp breathing of the horses and the crunching of the grass in their powerful jaws.
Robertson_Marg_Janet_s_Love_an_23266_29340.56So she sat down in her accustomed place by the window, and thought, and listened to the sighs, that told her that her father was busy with anxious thoughts, too.
Lover_Samuel_Handy_Andy_Vol_7180_18200.56There was some minutes' silence after this eloquent outbreak of Andy's mother, which was broken at last by Andy uttering a long sigh and an ejaculation.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_23890.56He listened to her quiet breathing as she fell calmly asleep again, and gradually his own heart grew warm beside hers, beating there so peacefully.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_14670.56In the hush that pervaded the theatre, the minister heard the ticking of his watch, and Mrs. Laurance the laboured breathing of her husband.
Eastwood_Franc_Geoffrey_the_Lo_48260_16880.56The little figure in the litter lay so still that more than once Bertrand bent down to catch the sound of the faint breathing which alone gave token of life.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_4800.56A moment later Inez was in the room -- turning her head anxiously from side to side to hear Dolores' breathing, and so to find out where she was.
Bryant_William_Poetical_Works_29700_19580.56The mother from the eyes Of her sick infant shades the painful light, And sadly listens to his quick-drawn breath.
Jackson_Helen_Hetty_s_Strange_9311_13470.56She had not entered the room for more than an hour; the house grew stiller and stiller; not a sound was to be heard except little Raby's heavy breathing, and now and then one of those fine and mysterious noises which the timbers of old houses have a habit of making in the night-time.
Cooper_James_F_The_Deerslayer_3285_5620.56The motion of the canoe had been attended with little or no noise, the frontiermen habitually getting accustomed to caution in most of their movements, and it now lay on the glassy water appearing to float in air, partaking of the breathing stillness that seemed to pervade the entire scene.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pioneers_O_2275_51770.55It was a leisure moment with the court; some low whispering passed between the bench and the sheriff, who gave a signal to his officers, and in a very few minutes the silence that prevailed was interrupted by a general movement in the outer crowd, when presently the Leather-Stocking made his appearance, ushered into the criminal's bar under the custody of two constables, The hum ceased, the people closed into the open space again, and the silence soon became so deep that the hard breathing of the prisoner was audible.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_6070.55At length the death-stricken old man lay quietly in the torpor of mental and bodily exhaustion, with an imperceptible pulse and breath that grew fainter and fainter except when a long, deep and irregular inspiration seemed to prelude the flight of his spirit.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Vale_of_Ced_12725_13350.55answered the warrior, his suppressed grief and horror breathing in his hollow voice; and rising, he approached the King's seat, and kneeling down, said in that low, concentrated tone, which reaches every ear, though scarce louder than a whisper, "Sire, he is murdered!"
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_43320.55He slept rather long, but after a certain time he was roused by a light breath of cooler air, together with the conversation and steps of two men drawing near the tree rapidly.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_97990.55Groans, loud hurried breathing of the sick, weeping, whispered prayers, hymns in an undertone, the curses of overseers were heard round about it.
Reid_Mayne_The_Tiger_Hunte_25127_11550.55The breathing of his horse appeared obstructed, and the hoarse sound, caused by its inspiration, was a mournful accompaniment to the sough of the waters that were constantly advancing.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_1620.55She lay silent for a few minutes; the working of some strong emotion in her being expressed by her quick, hard, labored breathing, and by the painful contraction of her eyebrows.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_134310.55The hoarse breathing of Bogun interrupted these words.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_94360.55Nothing was to be heard save the hurried breathing of Vinicius.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_17080.55But her breathing grew quicker from emotion, and louder.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_81190.55It seemed to them that she was dying, but it seemed so only for some moments; soon her breathing was easier and even slower.
Reade_Charles_Love_Me_Little_4607_56180.55In a pause of the conversation a sigh was heard in the corner.
Porter_Jane_Thaddeus_of_War_6566_53370.55At nine o'clock his breath became broken with quick sighs.
Optic_Oliver_Vine_and_Olive_47423_22870.55His chest heaved, and his breathing was so violent as to be audible.
Meade_L_T_The_Palace_Beau_15149_40720.55"She is moaning in her sleep, and she gives sighs enough to break your heart.
Meade_L_T_A_Young_Mutinee_24599_14880.55Mildred felt herself drawing one or two heavy sighs.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_72250.55I obeyed, with noiseless tread and stifled breathing.
Lodge_Henry_Ca_Daniel_Webster_13047_31080.55Shortly after three o'clock the labored breathing ceased, and all was over.
Hough_Emerson_The_Mississippi_14001_61340.55His breath came deeply and slowly, not stertorously nor labored.
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_24330.55I heard now the slight but regular sound of her breath.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_House_of_th_77_37750.55You hear the ticking of his watch; his breath you do not hear.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_50710.55But there was no answer; not even one faint sigh, though he listened intently.
Crockett_S_R_Cleg_Kelly_Ara_48354_7750.55But Cleg's breathing was as natural and regular as that of an infant.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_171000.55Was the breathing as light as her husband's breathing when he was asleep?
Cholmondeley_M_Red_Pottage_14885_48450.55Her long-drawn breathing seemed to deaden all other sounds.
Castlemon_Harr_Frank_the_Youn_12405_10390.55The hours passed on, and nothing was heard but their gentle breathing.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_118120.55While she stood on the threshold there was a sound of heavy breathing.
Besant_Walter_Armorel_of_Lyon_42125_51810.55They listened, silent, with hushed breath, like conspirators.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_107720.55"His breathing is easier," faintly whispered Irma.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_55140.55Twice over there came the hoarse sound of laughter, but Sir Morton did not return, and Sir Edward in his impatience was about to order a movement forward, now that all his men were at hand, when from out of the black darkness, close by where Mark stood listening with every nerve upon the strain, the lad heard a slight rustling, then a faint panting sound as of hasty breathing, and a low voice whispered: "Is any one there?
Warner_Susan_Daisy_18687_13460.54At last the door was softly set open again; and then after a few minutes the sound of regular slow breathing proclaimed that those wide-open black eyes were really closed for the night.
Verne_Jules_Twenty_Thousand_164_29010.54During the whole day, I was haunted by uncomfortable suspicions, and at night I slept badly, and between my broken dreams I fancied I heard distant sighs like the notes of a funeral psalm.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_100850.54But they were holding their breath -- waiting, listening, for something very different; while in the ears of many, excluding all other sounds, lingered the cadence of the text read by the chaplain before dawn in the church lesson for the day.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_39160.54There was no sound save the ticking of the clock on the mantel above her head, the dog's slow breathing, the snapping of the log on the fire, and a soft rush of heat up the chimney.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_8800.54With the exception of the sounds produced by the rushing waters, and an occasional breathing of the air, as it murmured past them in fitful currents, the scene was as still as night and solitude could make it.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_18150.54No sound broke the deep silence of the place, save the low, soft breathing, occasionally interrupted by a long, trembling sigh, of its sleeping occupant.
Tolstoy_Leo_g_Resurrection_1938_90130.54A strange feeling overcame Nekhludoff when he was alone in the little room with the sleeping Vera Doukhova, listening to her soft breathing, broken now and then by moans, and to the incessant dirt that came through the two doors that separated him from the criminals.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_63580.54A trance-like stillness, -- scarce a whisper heard, No tinkling teaspoon in its saucer stirred; A deep-drawn sigh that would not be suppressed, A sob, a lifted kerchief told the rest.
Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_1298_76980.54And I heard the breathing of slumber begin and grow in the interior silence.
Warner_Susan_Melbourne_House_18686_36420.54Presently her soft breathing made June look over at her; Daisy was asleep.
Verne_Jules_Twenty_Thousand_164_6650.54I heard the poor boy pant; his breathing became short and hurried.
Tomlinson_Ever_The_Boys_of_Old_34864_41700.54He could hear the troubled breathing of the suffering man, but it was the only sound to be heard.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_108360.54Silence reigned in the room, interrupted only by the sighs of Pan Longin.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Barriers_Burned_6627_1470.54The opiate was given, and soon the regular, quiet breathing of the patient showed that it had taken effect.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_57280.54The only sounds in the room were the whirring of the fire in the chimney and the child's breathing.
MacDonald_Geor_Malcolm_7127_102860.54The eyelids fell again, and in a minute more, Malcolm knew by his breathing that he slept.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_65750.54Louis paused and listened so intently our breathing was distinctly audible.
Jackson_Helen_Ramona_2802_23830.54All was so still that the sound of Felipe's low, regular breathing came in through her open window.
Hugo_Victor_Toilers_of_the_32338_95010.54The subdued murmur from the open sea was soft as the breathing of a child.
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_14870.54A restless movement and a weary sigh from Rischenheim attracted their attention.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_44550.54Still the patter of rain upon the window, and no other sound save her own sharp breathing.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_91310.54His breathing became more difficult and painful as the night drew on, and often he could not repress a groan.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_65210.54This time, however, his breathing was apparent and he was evidently returning to a conscious state.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_57830.54He had been lying motionless for many hours, turned a little on one side, and his breathing was very faint.
Collins_Wilkie_Blind_Love_7890_79050.54I proved that the patient was sleeping by feeling his pulse and observing his breath."
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_115840.54There was no other sound in the prison cell except the rasping noise of his rapid breathing.
Austen_Jane_Emma_158_75320.54-- I wish I had attended to it -- but -- (with a sinking voice and a heavy sigh) I seem to have been doomed to blindness."
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_86600.54Overpowered by an emotion which was too much for his feeble strength, Harold lay quiet By degrees, when the room darkened -- for it was evening -- his breathing grew deeper, and he fell asleep, his head still resting on Olive's shoulder.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_32250.53Here a stir behind them distracted both his attention and the attention of those who were listening to this authoritative voice with bated breath.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_31190.53It is in unison with the sighs that come, deep-drawn, from his breast; at times so sonorous as to be audible all over the house.
Phillpotts_Ede_Children_of_the_14527_91240.53She stopped to win breath and, in the silence, heard Will's regular respiration and knew that he slept.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Seats_of_th_6229_7970.53It was weird to the onlookers, for the yard grew still, and you could hear nothing but maybe a shifting foot or a hard breathing.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Right_of_Wa_6249_15860.53For a time there was a deep silence, troubled only by Jo's deep breathing, which seemed itself like the pulse of the silence.
Henty_G_A_G_At_Aboukir_and_22224_18860.53After drinking the broth he closed his eyes, and in a few minutes it was evident, by his quiet breathing, that he was asleep.
Freeman_Mary_E_The_Pot_of_Gold_16468_23890.53Willy counted the hours; every night before he went to sleep he heaved a regretful sigh over the day which had just gone.
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_40470.53After a while he learned to sleep with it still ringing in his ears, and his heavy breathing kept pace with Deborah's prayer.
Ford_Paul_Leic_The_True_George_12300_4650.53"About ten minutes before he expired, his breathing became much easier -- he lay quietly -- ... and felt his own pulse....
Ellis_Edward_S_Blazing_Arrow_41777_8280.53Fancying that he might be able to detect bruin's breathing in the stillness, he listened for a few seconds, but was unable to hear anything.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_79460.53The rough breathing would cease presently, he would sleep till morning, and then he would waken and be himself again, just as though nothing had happened.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_34880.53Best not try to move yourself.” Then she went round the table to old Lauderdale again, listened attentively to his breathing and felt his pulse.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_58550.53The day was drawing to the close of its first quarter, and yet had the multitude maintained its breathing stillness since its dawn.
Cooper_James_F_The_Deerslayer_3285_72210.53He still lay quiet, watching with jealous vigilance every movement below, and fast regaining his breath.
Cooper_James_F_Jack_Tier_Or_4796_53750.53Nothing was to be seen, though he heard the heavy breathing of the blacks, both of whom were sound asleep on a sail that they had spread on the forecastle.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_17660.53The sound of that sigh startled Shrowl as the sound of a pistol-shot might have startled another man.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_129760.53There was no noise in the room save the child's galloping breathing, which seemed to scrape the walls as with a file.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_52910.53But the spasm passed, and there was a prolonged hush, a dead stillness, that was not broken by so much as the sound of a breath.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_55700.53But Josephine stood still by the door, she heard Sissel's steady breathing but not the boy's; she dared not go further in.
Weyman_Stanley_A_Gentleman_of_1939_21850.53A sudden movement and a low exclamation in the room behind me showed that his words were heard there; and these sounds being followed immediately by a noise as of riving wood, mingled with the quick breathing of someone hard at work, I judged that the women were striving with the door -- enlarging the opening it might be.
Black_William_In_Silk_Attire_40111_29780.53Nothing could well be more lonely or melancholy than this dark and silent lake lying in its circular bed—evidently an extinct volcanic crater—overshadowed by tall and perpendicular crags hemming it in on every side, and scarcely ever having a breath of wind to stir its leaden-like surface.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_49780.53At night, after long lying awake, when she woke from a snatch of uneasy sleep, she involuntarily listened for the faint panting breath, but no heart now throbbed by her side; and when she quitted her lonely couch at dawn the coming day lay before her as a desert and treeless solitude.
Wallace_Lew_The_Fair_God_or_43340_108370.53And while they faced each other, the beating of the drum ceased, and the clamor stilled, until nothing was heard but the breathing of the conquerors, tired with slaughter.
Tomlinson_Ever_The_Boys_of_Old_34864_36180.53Motionless as logs the exhausted soldiers lay stretched upon the ground, and the sounds of their deep breathing were all that could be heard.
Taylor_Bayard_Views_A_foot_O_11535_44980.53The spirit of action, of breathing, life-like exertion, so much more difficult to infuse into the marble than that of repose, is perfectly attained.
Reid_Mayne_The_Plant_Hunte_27981_23190.53If behind the rock at all he must be very near, thought Caspar -- near enough for his breathing to be heard; and once Caspar fancied that he actually heard a grunt, which did not proceed from any of the herd.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_83840.53The only sound heard is their hoarse breathing as they pant to recover it -- each holding the other's arm to hinder the fatal stroke.
Musick_John_R_Sustained_honor_10370_11800.53Sukey stood at the narrow window gazing out on the dreary and melancholy scene, while he heaved an occasional sigh.
Harland_Marion_Alone_46505_55950.53Crouched in the corner of the fire-place, was a dusky figure, whose audible breathing sounded loudly through the apartment.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_46590.53Ruth calmed her passionate breathing by one hasty draught of water, and opened the door to the timid girl.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_85130.53The silence was awful: so perfectly still seemed everything that the breathing of Murad grew painfully loud, and the throbbing of her own heart more pronounced.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_67580.53The clock ticked on, and no other sound was audible, save a sigh from Mr. Palma, and the heavy breathing of Olga.
Eliot_George_Middlemarch_145_58140.53The violent beating of her heart rendered her perceptions so doubtful that even when she touched him and listened for his breathing, she could not trust her conclusions.
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_154210.53She did not raise her voice above her breath, or address us, but said this to the night sky; then stood profoundly quiet, looking at the gloomy water.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_61650.53But Mabel never left her father's side for an instant; and when, by his breathing, she fancied he slept, she bent her knees and prayed.
Cooper_James_F_The_Deerslayer_3285_81590.53She was pale as a corpse, but her breathing was easy and unbroken, while her voice, though lowered almost to a whisper, remained clear and distinct.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_70020.53There fell a minute's silence, broken only by a few labouring deep-drawn breaths from the prisoner's oppressed lungs.
Munroe_Kirk_Forward_March_16231_15750.52As these were the most brilliant he had ever seen, his eyes followed their zig-zag dartings until they exercised a hypnotic influence, and his heavy breathing showed him to be fast asleep.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_27790.52For a long time I sat perfectly still, waiting till it should reappear, and fearful that the slightest motion, or even the flutter of my breath, might frighten it away.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_28130.52He knew that he must be very near the spot, but neither the expected sound nor object greeted him, and, while he stopped and held his breath to listen, the silence was profound and death-like.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_96150.52Guided by his breathing, the visitor advanced to where he sat; and stopping beside him, and stretching out his hand to assure himself that he was right, remained, for a good space, silent.
Dana_Richard_H_Two_Years_Befor_2055_5490.52The calm of the morning reminds me of a scene which I forgot to describe at the time of its occurrence, but which I remember from its being the first time that I had heard the near breathing of whales.
Barrie_J_M_Sentimental_Tom_14961_21420.52He heard no other sound save the burn stealing on tiptoe from an evil place, and the uneasy rustling of tree-tops, and his own breathing.
Alexander_Mrs_A_Crooked_Path_18418_11100.52She listened to the soft, regular breathing of her daughter, who was wrapped in refreshing slumber, and thanked God for the quick forgetfulness of youth.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_56640.52She went forward two paces into the room, and as the roll of the thunder died away she stooped forward and listened with painful intensity for the sound of Count Hannibal's breathing.
Scott_Walter_Guy_Mannering_2590_26290.52On a steadier view he perceived it was only on the point of becoming so, for he heard one or two of these low, deep, and hard-drawn sighs, that precede dissolution when the frame is tenacious of life.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_48130.52His own growing weakness was something of which he was perfectly well aware, and he knew, too, how his breath caught of nights, and looking forward into the future saw the shadow drawing nearer to his door, and was not afraid of it.
Marryat_Freder_The_Phantom_Shi_12954_26260.52In a quarter of an hour he had the delight of perceiving that Amine was in a profuse perspiration; gradually her breathing became less heavy, and instead of the passive state in which she had remained, she moved, and became restless.
Levett_Yeats_S_The_Chevalier_d_38323_32100.52Into the void I peered, but could make out nothing, though I could hear my own laboured breathing, and the melancholy drip, drip of water as it oozed from above me and fell in sullen drops on the slime below.
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_48150.52They seemed to have paused for a moment, for there was no sound, save of the hard breathing and deep-drawn pants of men who rest an instant in the midst of intense exertion.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_60.52Suddenly the heavy vibration of a single pedal note burst from the organ upon the breathing silence, long drawn out, rich, voluminous, and imposing.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_John_Halifax_G_2351_21330.52CHAPTER VIII After Midnight -- I know not how long, for I lost count of the hours by the Abbey chimes, and our light had gone out -- after midnight I heard by my father's breathing that he was asleep.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_241890.52Nevertheless, in spite of his apparent calmness, he felt such difficulty in breathing, that more than once Dr. Baleinier had turned round uneasily, as he heard the stifled rattling in the throat of the sick man.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_43450.52Nearly all the day long he sat just without the door, holding his breath as he caught the faint tones of her voice, and longing for the hour when he could see her, and obtain, if possible, some clue to the mystery attending her and his father.
Holland_J_G_The_Mistress_of_13052_1260.52Strong men were moved as trees are bowed Before a swift and sounding wind; And sighs were long and sobs were loud, Of those who loved and those who sinned, Among the deeply listening crowd.
Haggard_H_Rid_Swallow_A_Tale_4074_23300.52Then of a sudden it seemed as though space had no bars for her, for she awoke, or thought that she awoke, in the guest-hut of Sigwe, since she could hear the breathing of Sihamba at her side, and stretching out her hand she touched her face.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_54940.52The light glided away, and the next minute a faint sigh told that Sir Morton was regaining his senses, his complete recovery thereof being announced by a trembling pressure of the hand.
Baker_Samuel_W_The_Albert_N_Ya_3668_35860.52The hot stage then comes on, the retching still continuing, with the difficulty of breathing, intense weakness and restlessness for about an hour and a half, which, should the remedies be successful, terminate in profuse perspiration and sleep.
Weyman_Stanley_A_Gentleman_of_1939_2630.51Occasionally I heard them laugh, but under their breath as it were; and persuaded by this that they were bent on a frolic, I might have persisted in my silence until midnight, which was not more than two hours off, had not a slight sound, as of a rat gnawing behind the wainscot, drawn my attention to the door.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_121780.51-- the silence there By such a chain was bound That even the busy woodpecker 35 Made stiller by her sound The inviolable quietness; The breath of peace we drew With its soft motion made not less The calm that round us grew.
Kingsley_Henry_Ravenshoe_41636_3830.51Faintly the pure scents and sounds stole into the chamber of death from the blessed summer air without; gently came the murmur of the surf upon the sands; fainter and still fainter came the breath of the dying mother.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_78870.51He breathed very heavily, though she did not quite realize it; for the sound of his breathing had increased very gradually during many hours, from having been at first quite inaudible until it filled her ears with a steady, rhythmic roar, loud and regular as the noise of a blacksmith’s bellows.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_36480.51The king, too, had retired to his apartments, and the valets who had assisted his majesty to undress had not left the sleeping-room, when the loud, uniform breathing which issued from the silken curtains of the bed told them that the king had already fallen asleep.
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_33940.51For on the floor, propped against the side of the hut, sat a buxom girl; her eyes were closed, her lips parted, and she breathed in heavy regular breaths; Panayiota had watched faithfully all night, and now slept at her post.
Bront_Emily_Wuthering_Heigh_768_68340.51I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Haggard_H_Rid_Swallow_A_Tale_4074_23570.51"I have seen and I shall remember, fearing nothing," Ralph answered, and with the sound of his voice still echoing in her ears, Suzanne awoke in the guest-hut of Sigwe, and once more heard Sihamba breathing at her side, and felt the hand which she had outstretched to find her, pressed against her cheek.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_29250.51Then her loud grief subsided to a lower key, and her voice grew by degrees monotonous and despairing as the turning tide on a quicksand, before bad weather, -- not diminished, but deeper drawn within itself; and the low moan came regularly with each breath, while the tears flowed steadily.
King_Charles_Cadet_Days_A_St_49320_9860.49Only the long, regular breathing of some sleepers close at hand in the tents of Company A, the distant rumble of freight trains winding through the Highlands, or the soft churning of the waters by some powerful tow-boat, south bound with its fleet of barges, broke upon the night.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_164010.4940 The meteors of midnight recoil from his figure, Yet the 'wildered peasant, that oft passes by, With wonder beholds the blue flash through his form: And his voice, though faint as the sighs of the dead, The startled passenger shudders to hear, 45 More distinct than the thunder's wildest roar.
Field_Eugene_Second_Book_of_21809_6580.49Then Griselda thought of his fevered face and his pitiful little moans and sighs; of the guileful flatteries of Ambition that had deafened her mother ears to the pleadings of her sick babe; of the brilliant theatre and the applause of royalty and of the last moments of her lonely, dying child.
Scott_Walter_Woodstock_or_9785_14010.49Determined at length to dispatch his packet to the General without delay, Colonel Everard approached the door of the apartment, in which, as was evident from the heavy breathing within, the prisoner Wildrake enjoyed a deep slumber, under the influence of liquor at once and of fatigue.
Marryat_Freder_Newton_Forster_21557_21290.49As soon as it was dark, he rose, and first listening to the breathing of his comrade, who appeared to be in a sound slumber, he walked away from him about one hundred yards, so that it would be difficult to find him; he placed the handspike under his head for a pillow, and worn out with; mental and bodily fatigue, was soon in a state of oblivion.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_65630.49With a long sigh he deliberately put aside the Bible, kissed it with great reverence, remained silent, and musing for some minutes; and then as a slight noise was heard at one corner of the cell, said softly, "Ah, my friends, my comrades, the rats!
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_a_35377_28890.49For it appeared as if the air was full of a melancholy wail; and when he listened more attentively, he could hear sobs and groans, and screams of woe, mingled with deep, quiet sighs, which came from the king's palace, and from the streets, and from the temples, and from every habitation in the city.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_39950.49Dr. Grey saw that his exhausted patient was asleep, and knew that the opiate he had administered in the wine would not relinquish its hold until morning; and when her breathing became more quiet and regular he bent his head and softly kissed the hand that lay heavily in his.
Twain_Mark_Life_on_the_Mis_245_41180.49There was a profound and impressive silence, which lasted a considerable time; then both men broke into a fusillade of exciting and admiring ejaculations over the strange incidents of the tale; and this, along with a rattling fire of questions, was kept up until all hands were about out of breath.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_54690.49But the darkness covered the terrible struggle that was going on beside him, betrayed by no word or sign, not even a sigh, and he ascribed the depression and discouragement which had made her voice so dull and monotonous to the misery of the parting scene she had gone through with her dead sister.
Kingston_Willi_Salt_Water_The_21476_44040.49So deep was the silence which reigned around, that the breathing of the sleepers sounded strangely loud, and I fancied that I could hear vessels, even though out of sight, passing by, or fish rising to the surface to breathe, or cleaving the water with their fins.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_The_English_Orp_13878_12770.49But these knew not of the long nights when with untiring love she sat by her sister's cradle, listening to her irregular breathing, pressing her clammy hands, and praying to be forgiven if ever, in thought or deed, she had wronged the little one now leaving her.
Sage_William_Robert_Tournay_34846_21790.49Finally long after Agatha's regular breathing announced her slumber, Edme, worn out by the excitement and fatigue, leaned back in the opposite corner and slept like a tired child.
Riley_James_Wh_Riley_Love_Lyri_16995_2420.49-- But whisper in my ear As light as ony sleeper's breath, An' a' my soul will hear; My heart shall stap its beating An' the soughing atmosphere Be hushed the while I leaning smile An' listen to you, dear!
Guild_Curtis_Over_the_Ocean_41233_39060.49The chant dropped away, voice by voice, into silence; all ceased but the little chapel organ accompaniment, which lingered and quavered, till, like a last trembling seraph breath, it faded away in the still twilight, and -- the performance was over.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_88770.49The child stood gravely regarding his mother in her new and strange attire, observing a profound silence, and occasionally drawing deep sighs, and peeping at her from under his dark curls.
Lover_Samuel_Handy_Andy_Vol_7180_24000.49The silence at last became painful -- so still was it, that he could hear the small crumbling sound of the dying embers as they decomposed and shifted their position on the hearth, and yet he could not be satisfied from the breathing of the woman that she slept.
Higgins_Emily_Holidays_at_the_18907_36340.49At that moment, a sound was heard throughout the hushed room, resembling somewhat a deep sigh and an expiring groan -- it proceeded from the rose, which fell from her bosom, shrivelled and lifeless.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_30500.49He and Ruth forgot all in their earnestness of thought; and when he said "Let us pray," and the little congregation knelt down, you might have heard the baby's faint breathing, scarcely sighing out upon the stillness, so absorbed were all in the solemnity.
Ebers_Georg_Uarda_a_Roman_5449_85150.49Uarda left the tent, Pentaur remained with him listening to his hoarse and difficult breathing; suddenly: Nebsecht raised himself, and said: "Farewell, my friend, -- my journey is beginning, who knows whither?"
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_30380.49As he sat pondering, and mechanically weighing his money in his palm, the deep breathing of the traveller in the other bed fell so regularly upon his hearing that it attracted his eyes in that direction.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_53940.49John sat by the sick man and looked at his flushed features and listened to the hard-drawn breath followed each time by that terrible, monotonous, mumbling groan.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_17490.49But he did not sleep for some time; having flung his mighty body upon the couch, he lay with his arms thrown above his head gazing at the darkness and listening to the soft breathing at his side.
Goss_Charles_F_The_Redemption_14730_1930.49The plowman fed his horses, and stopped to listen for a moment to their deep-drawn sighs of contentment, and to the musical grinding of the oats in their teeth.
Bront_Emily_Wuthering_Heigh_768_67220.49He roamed to and fro, meantime, in a state approaching distraction; his heavy sighs succeeding each other so thick as to leave no space for common breathing between.
Bront_Emily_Wuthering_Heigh_768_56050.49We neither of us lay down: Catherine took her station by the lattice, and watched anxiously for morning; a deep sigh being the only answer I could obtain to my frequent entreaties that she would try to rest.
Lyall_Edna_We_Two_A_Novel_2007_91120.49They were all too broken-hearted to respond, and there were long silences, broken only by the laboring breath and restless movements of the dying man.
Eliot_George_Middlemarch_145_85400.49He had not been very well that morning, suffering from some difficulty in breathing, and had not preached in consequence; she was not surprised, therefore, that he was nearly silent at luncheon, still less that he made no allusion to Will Ladislaw.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_22100.49Hence, as he remarks, when two men are engaged in a deadly contest, a terrible silence prevails, broken only by hard stifled breathing.
Cooper_James_F_The_Wing_and_Wi_11957_57490.49many a dream was in the ship An hour before her death; And sight of home, with sighs disturbed The sleeper's long-drawn breath."
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_19670.49But when the door swung open the Deemster paused; a faint sound broke the silence; it was a soft and measured breathing from within.
Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_1298_8700.49Listening very hard, I could half make out the progress of a heavy breathing, and a restless turning I could clearly detect.
Voynich_E_L_The_Gadfly_3431_31190.49Martini approached him several times during the day and evening, and looked at the still figure; but, except the breathing, there was no sign of life.
Verne_Jules_A_Journey_to_th_18857_20530.49My representations, my sighs and groans, the earnest accents in which I should have spoken would have convinced that cold, hard nature.
Twain_Mark_The_Prince_and_1837_8950.49And while she listened, the measured breathing was broken by a soft, startled cry, such as one utters in a troubled dream.
Sheppard_Eliza_Charles_Auchest_38949_21640.49So it was especially in the slow movement, with its long sighs, like the voice of silence, and its short, broken sobs of joy.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_143200.49Or is it only a sweet slumber Stealing o'er sensation, Which the breath of roseate morning 25 Chaseth into darkness?
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_94970.49But Wallace animated the scene; and while she fancied that she inhaled his breath in every respiration, she moved as if on enchanted ground.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_111710.49In the silence which succeeded this burst of memory, he thought he heard a rustling near him, and a half-suppressed sigh.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_83850.49She found the bed by touch, silently, and distinguished a dark heap on the bed; she heard no breathing.
Howe_E_W_Ed_The_Story_of_a_47575_29390.49When he heard the door close upon her, Jo ran to the window, and as he looked out his breathing was short and quick.
Henty_G_A_G_The_Young_Carth_5128_13850.49As the fire gradually died out their form disappeared; but he could hear their quick breathing, and knew that they were still on the watch.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_a_35377_36690.49There was at first a deep silence, and then a rushing sound, or a noise like a long sigh, proceeding out of the interior of the earth.
Hardy_Thomas_The_Trumpet_Maj_2864_33020.49She heard him breathe a heavy sigh and withdraw, murmuring something about his bad luck in being cut away from the starn like this.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_52410.49She hushed her breath in involuntary awe, but nothing else told of the violent deed by which a fellow-creature had passed away.
Davis_Rebecca_Frances_Waldeau_335_4580.49On the last day of the voyage the breeze was from land, and with the first breath of it Frances found her vigor suddenly return.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_58130.49He would not disturb Guido; he looked at him a long time and listened to his breathing, and nodded with evident satisfaction.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_69660.49She saw and heard all that passed on the stage while, with strained attention, she listened to the quickened breathing of Irma, who stood behind her.
Allen_James_La_Flute_and_Violi_50597_21600.49For a moment the silence of the great chamber was broken only by his own quick breathing and by the convulsive agitation of the abbot.
Wolf_Emma_Other_Things_Be_1839_44380.49Their grave, deep voices and the heavily breathing of the invalid were the only sounds in the room.
Weyman_Stanley_Sophia_A_Roman_39168_65200.49An asthmatic cough, followed by the noise of heavy breathing, put an end to her suspense.
Wells_H_G_H_The_Wheels_of_C_1264_8320.49And anon when his breathing had become deep and regular, we may creep into his bedroom and catch him at his dreams.
Warner_Susan_Queechy_8874_21220.49She stopped a minute at the door and held her breath to see if she could hear any movement which might tell her he was not asleep.
Taylor_Bayard_The_Story_of_Ke_8680_47440.49In a short time Sandy Flash's deep breathing announced that he slept.
Stoddard_Willi_The_Red_Mustang_33897_35640.49Just then he heard the sound of a horse's feet, and he drew his breath hard as he listened.
Stanley_Henry_My_Kalulu_Prin_32923_10240.49He never stirred, but continued his regular breathing as before, and compelled his ears to do their duty to the utmost.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_179480.49From time to time a low groan or sigh announced that some one of the prostrate was living yet.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_18750.49sighs Frau Rosamunda, as she hears the light wagon rolling away into the night.
Runkle_Bertha_The_Helmet_of_N_14219_41930.49I heard her fluttered breathing and I heard something else -- a rapid, heavy tread in the corridor without.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Without_a_Home_5433_73050.49Mildred was at last too overpowered to do more than lie on the lounge, breathing in long tremulous sighs.
Roe_Edward_Pay_The_Earth_Tremb_6719_40700.49By the way, papa told me to tell you that he was busy last evening, but that he would call this afternoon for a breathing with you on the Battery."
Pearson_C_H_The_Cabin_on_th_28870_1880.49Amid such vociferations the children rushed on, pell-mell, till out of breath.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_11820.49The poor fellow's quick breathing and blinking reminded her of cruelty in a retrospect.
Meade_L_T_Girls_New_and_O_45659_53600.49Those awful boys would think as little of reconnoitering the dark part of the shed as they would of breathing or whistling.
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_22730.49It falls into convulsions, therefore, like its neighbor the heart, and the breathing is stopped, from having been driven too rapidly.
MacDonald_Geor_Malcolm_7127_42040.49She held her breath and listened, her heart beating so loud that she feared it would deafen her to what would come next.
Lawrence_Georg_Guy_Livingstone_17084_42700.49He went on in a voice that, though hollow and often interrupted by failing breath, was perfectly measured and steady.
Kennedy_John_P_Horse_Shoe_Robi_33478_99590.49said Butler, gazing with a melancholy earnestness upon the scene, and speaking scarce above his breath, "is it so?
Hope_Anthony_The_Indiscretio_13909_34160.49And under my grip he grew quiet and ceased to search; and I heard nothing but his quick breathing.
Haggard_H_Rid_Montezuma_s_Dau_1848_59310.49For a moment he hesitated, and I heard the heavy breathing of his horse in the great stillness.
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_2290.49Charlotte paid no more attention to it all than to her own breath, or a clock tick which she would have to withdraw from herself to hear.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69260.49It was very strange and confusing, though, for now in that intense darkness she seemed to have lost herself, and she could not tell exactly from which side the heavy breathing came.
Duncan_Sara_Je_A_Voyage_of_Con_15966_46900.49I thought I heard a heavy sigh, but it was somewhat lost in the trundling of the porters' trucks.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_57910.49The very breathing of the figure was contemptible, as it laboured and rattled in that operation, like a blundering clock.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_John_Halifax_G_2351_80680.49Here I heard -- or fancied I heard -- out of the black shadow behind the loom, a heavy sigh.
Cooper_James_F_The_Deerslayer_3285_72120.49He could hear his heart beat, and his breathing was like the action of a bellows, in quick motion.
Castlemon_Harr_Frank_in_the_Wo_42307_8450.49Their day's work had fatigued them all, and soon their regular breathing told that sleep had overpowered them.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_96650.49Toward midnight the pulse fell rapidly, the breathing become quieter, and the whole nature seemed to sink.
Allen_James_La_The_Reign_of_La_3791_3680.49He would lie motionless, scarce breathing, in that peace of the earth, that smile of the Father.
Alger_Horatio_The_Young_Explo_5623_24430.49He could still hear the sonorous snore of Jack, and could distinguish the deep breathing of his hostess.
Weyman_Stanley_Sophia_A_Roman_39168_58900.49But behind them Hawkesworth's scrambling footsteps and heavy breathing still came on; they could not wait.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_57020.49She groped for the latch, and in the act fancied his breathing was changed.
Stephens_Rober_Captain_Ravensh_47738_11880.49Save your breath for such; an ye roar them down in their own haunts, it shall be heard of.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_52420.49Everywhere, however, laughter and shouts were heard, and whispers, and panting breaths.
Scott_Walter_Rob_Roy_Compl_7025_59200.49In a few minutes his heavy breathing announced that he was fast asleep.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_The_Bondwoman_29581_15310.49The Marquise heard Kora draw a sobbing breath.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Miss_Lou_5309_40250.49Miss Lou asked, with 'quick, agitated breathing.
Reade_Charles_Hard_Cash_3067_61300.49They walked apart in gloomy silence, broken only by foreboding sighs.
Reade_Charles_Hard_Cash_3067_122600.49The crowd drew their breath so hard it sounded like a murmur.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_22760.49Was it the wind, or a low sigh, or a silent weeping, that I heard?
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_57280.49I heard the queen's quick breathing, but there was scarcely another sound.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_53880.49Beatrice gave a sigh, and collected her scattered energies.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_24050.49If he did he made no sign, but threw himself on his bed with a heavy sigh.
Fenn_George_Ma_Yussuf_the_Guid_21378_25190.49That was the danger, and he lay and watched it, listening to the breathing of his friends.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_46800.49Very soon his deep, regular breathing assured her the worst had passed.
Eddy_Mary_Bake_Science_and_Hea_3458_26690.49The eyelids 193:12 closed gently and the breathing became natural; he was asleep.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_66210.49"Her breathing was so difficult to trace, that I carefully tried the pulse and the heart.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_27700.49In connection with the disturbed action of the heart, the breathing is hurried.
Crockett_S_R_The_Men_of_the_32137_22180.49There was a great silence -- a stillness in which one heard his neighbour breathing.
Crockett_S_R_The_Black_Dougl_17733_47150.49Sholto could not even hear the heavy breathing of Cæsar Martin.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_86840.49Her heart stood still as she listened for the sound of his faint breathing.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_John_Halifax_G_2351_16220.49Well, she is gone, like the brief three hours when we hung on her every breath, as if it could stay even the wheels of time.
Collins_Wilkie_I_Say_No_1629_20200.49The cheerless laughter broke out again -- and died away again drearily in a sigh.
Bulfinch_Thoma_The_Age_of_Fabl_4925_4280.49As they stood, Pyramus on this side, Thisbe on that, their breaths would mingle.
Bolton_Sarah_K_Famous_Givers_a_50772_26400.49His breathing was unnatural; and in a few minutes he passed away, apparently without pain.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_83080.49Walpurga awoke and listened to the breathing of her husband and child.
Zangwill_Israe_The_Master_a_N_49795_9360.48Emotion made her breathing difficult.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_157120.48A pause of labored hard breathing.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_9940.48Then there was silence, a fainter sigh, then silence again.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_57070.48I was so deeply in the toils that I lived only on sighs.
Runkle_Bertha_The_Helmet_of_N_14219_11880.48I listened; not a breath broke the silence.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_48680.48Then there came a longer pause than usual in the breathing.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_37890.48But there was not a breath of sound, not a glimmer of light.
Merriman_Henry_The_Sowers_10132_69490.48The sound of her breathing was startlingly loud.
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_54480.48He hears a loud breathing -- some one sleeps within.
King_Charles_Campaigning_wit_37480_22520.48No answer but a snore and heavy breathing.
King_Charles_A_War_Time_Wooi_22906_20470.48Within there is only the quick breathing of the sinking man.
Henty_G_A_G_The_Boy_Knight_13354_37640.48All held their breath; but no sound followed the discharge.
Hardy_Thomas_Life_s_Little_I_3047_12950.48The stoppage then came, and the sighs of the riders were audible.
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Wilderness_30335_14580.48All stood motionless, and scarcely breathing.
Dumas_Alexandr_Twenty_Years_Af_1259_25510.48D'Artagnan now no longer counted the sighs.
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_29940.48But she uttered no sound, and her breathing was no slower.
Crockett_S_R_Lochinvar_A_No_45495_7180.48Somewhere near him he felt sure he could distinguish the sound of breathing.
Crockett_S_R_Lochinvar_A_No_45495_42490.48In the larger he could clearly distinguish the breathing of two men.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_38570.48The breathing, almost stertorous now, ceased for an instant.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_58060.48He would stop breathing presently, and that would be the end.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_35610.48A powerful voice is like the breathing of the winds.
Cooper_James_F_Jack_Tier_Or_4796_53940.48"What hard breathing is that I hear for'ard?"
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_62720.48"The Count is the vilest creature breathing!
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_16270.48She could hear his breathing, but she dared not look up, lest he should see something in her face.
M_hlbach_L_L_Andreas_Hofer_3666_84310.48And Andreas Hofer dictated in a low, tremulous voice, often interrupted by sighs which issued from his breast like the groans of a dying man, a letter to General Drouet, in which he promised in touching words that the Tyrolese would lay down their arms, and said they would trust, for pardon and oblivion of the past, to the magnanimity of Napoleon, whose footsteps were guided by a superior power, which it was no longer permitted them to resist.
Wells_H_G_H_The_Wheels_of_C_1264_6210.48She must have heard his breathing.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_The_Bondwoman_29581_34160.48But her sighs were frequent for all that.
Pidgin_Charles_Quincy_Adams_Sa_16414_61380.48There was no sound of breathing.
Phillpotts_Ede_Sons_of_the_Mor_46857_45470.48I hear his breathing.
MacGrath_Harol_The_Puppet_Crow_3239_78550.48Here he took a breathing spell.
Ludlow_James_M_A_King_of_Tyre_44290_33320.48The breathing became regular.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_30290.48Now he could tell from her breathing that she slept.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Forest_Love_8934_8760.48Her breathing was troubled -- that also he saw.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Forest_Love_8934_27730.48She heard her breathing.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_18080.48How she labors in her breathing.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_7100.48The breathing is hurried.
Churchill_Wins_The_Celebrity_5387_30880.48I could hear my own breathing.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_121230.48Her breathing seemed to have ceased.
Barrie_J_M_Tommy_and_Grize_11901_65370.48She could hear no breathing now but his.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_5880.48Like a statue becoming slowly and magically flushed with life, the warm hues of the naturally flowing blood deepened through the whiteness of his skin, -- his breathing grew more and more easy and regular, -- his features gradually assumed their wonted appearance, and presently ... without any violent start or exclamation ... he awoke!
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Vacatio_18058_15780.47It was something very unusual for her, and, joined to an unusual silence on the part of their grandfather, accompanied by a sad countenance and occasional heavy sigh, and similar symptoms shown by both Grandma Rose and Edward, excited surprise and apprehension on the part of the younger members of the household.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_9890.47Leaning against the high mantel-board, he remained silent, brooding over her; the clock ticked off solemnly the fleeting moments of the wonderful hour; and ever and anon the dog drew a long breath of comfort and stretched out his gaunt limbs more luxuriously to the heat.
Bryant_William_Poetical_Works_29700_28590.47Night after night He slept constrained within the hollow cave, The unwilling by the fond, and, day by day, He sat upon the rocks that edged the shore, And in continual weeping and in sighs And vain repinings, wore the hours away, Gazing through tears upon the barren deep.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_2100.47The sick man hushed his soul and listened; his exhausted voice broke into sighs, and thus, after a little time, they both sunk into silence -- the child filled with strange ecstasy -- the father bowing with calm joy beneath the hand of death.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_33780.47The flowers are sleeping, emitting in their dreams faint, delicate perfumed sighs; the cattle have ceased to low in the far fields: there is no sound through all the busy land save the sweet soughing of the wind and the light tread of Musgrave's footsteps up and down outside.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_105000.47He sat beside him all that day; listening for her footsteps in every breath of air, looking for her shadow on the gently-waving grass, twining the hedge flowers for her pleasure when she came, and his when he awoke; and stooping down from time to time to listen to his mutterings, and wonder why he was so restless in that quiet place.
Sheppard_Eliza_Charles_Auchest_38949_10100.47I found at length the fascinations of our choral force too strong not to submerge her slight individuality, and soon I forgot she was there, -- though I never forgot that serene voice breathing by my side faint prophecies I could not render to myself in any form, except that they had to do with myself, and with music alike my very own.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_16380.47As Gratiolet remarks, whenever our attention is long concentrated on any subject, we forget to breathe, and then relieve ourselves by a deep inspiration; but the sighs of a sorrowful person, owing to his slow respiration and languid circulation, are eminently characteristic.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_3380.47At first she heard nothing but panting, quick-drawn breaths -- then a few broken words mingled confusedly with them: "I hav'n't done -- you must swear -- close, close, come close -- a third thing -- your master -- swear to give it -- " The last words died away very softly.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_25760.47She stood where she had placed herself on the outskirts of the crowd, motionless save for her heaving bosom and trembling limbs, and silent save for her loud breathing and the low muttering of her pale lips, yet listening eagerly with her neck outstretched.
Pyle_Howard_Otto_of_the_Sil_2865_5970.47So he stood intently, motionlessly, listening, listening; but all was silent except for the monotonous dripping of water in one of the nooks of the court-yard, and the distant murmur of the river borne upon the breath of the night air.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_55440.47There was a sound in the darkness as if several men had drawn a deep breath together, and then for a few moments all was very still, so still that Mark started when he heard his father's voice, and felt strange and wondered to hear the gentle tones in which he spoke.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_12530.47The recitation was resumed and ended; but Edna was well aware that for the first time her teacher was inattentive, and the heavy sighs that passed his lips almost unconsciously told her how sorely he was distressed by the erratic course of his quondam pupil.
Whitney_A_D_Faith_Gartney_s_18896_36820.47There was an awfulness in being here, the only breathing, moving thing -- in darkness -- where so lately had been the deafening hum of rolling wheels, and clanking shafts, and flying shuttles, and busy, moving human figures.
Warner_Susan_Queechy_8874_112210.47The gentle breathing of the fire the only sound in the room; while the very light came subdued through the falling snow and the thin muslin curtains, and gave an air of softer luxury to the apartment.
Otis_James_Corporal_Lige_33110_11330.47Then, when it appeared as if fully an hour had passed, the heavy breathing of the men told that they were fast asleep, and Nathan whispered cautiously: "These fellows ain't so smart as I'd counted on.
Lover_Samuel_Handy_Andy_Vol_7180_4470.47It was night when Andy was breasting up a low ridge of hills, which lay between him and the end of his journey; and when in silence and darkness he topped the ascent, he threw himself on some heather to rest and take breath.
Keenan_Henry_F_The_Iron_Game_A_10062_57920.47Alone in the night; spectral forms about him; the sleeping man adding to the ghostliness of the scene by his incoherent mutterings, his hideous, gulping breath, his ghastly, blood-curdling outcries.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_55540.47She was asleep; her breath issued from her chest with that tragic sound peculiar to these diseases, which crushes poor mothers, who sit up at nights by the side of their sleeping child for whom there is no hope.
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_9680.47Mark uttered a sigh of relief, changed his position, lay looking at the grey light of morning and listening to some faintly-heard sounds, and then made up his mind to get up and dress.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_70930.47For a long time they talked a little, and at length Faustina fell asleep, exhausted by all she had suffered, while Corona sat beside her, watching her regular breathing and envying her ability to rest.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_47460.47Frances turned for a moment in grateful emotion, as the deep and perturbed breathing of Dunwoodie reached her ears; but her brother again concentrated all her interest in one feeling of intense care.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_39690.47Barnstable waited until the loud breathing of the seamen assured him that they slept, when he aroused the drowsy boy, who was fast losing his senses in the same sort of oblivion, and motioned him to follow.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Right_of_Wa_6249_29310.46THE RETURN OF THE TAILOR Twenty minutes later the tailor was lying in his bed, breathing, but still unconscious, the Notary, M'sieu', and the doctor of the next parish, who by chance was in Chaudiere, beside him.
Guild_Curtis_Over_the_Ocean_41233_40420.46Now and then a deep, sonorous murmur, as of the sigh of some laboring gnome in the mountain, or the twang of a gigantic harp-string, breaks the silence for a moment, and then dies away.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_10620.46They could not understand how her heart was aching all the time, with a heavy pressure that no sighs could lift off or relieve, and how constant exertion for her perceptive faculties was the only way to keep herself from crying out with pain.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_30850.46Both men were a little winded, and their quick, high breathing, with the light patter of their feet as they danced round each other, blended into one continuous, long-drawn sound.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_30470.46The little Italian, previously influenced in his sleep, perhaps, by the stealthy presence at his bedside, stopped in his regular breathing, and with a long deep respiration opened his eyes.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_148800.46He was in such a state of irritation that he could not bear the sound of Mr. Mazey's hard breathing outside his door, and he laid his positive orders on the old man to go into one of the bedrooms for that night.
Cholmondeley_M_Red_Pottage_14885_32600.46His even breathing, felt rather than heard, as he dropped asleep against her shoulder, surrounded Hester with the atmosphere of peace and comfort which his father had broken earlier in the day.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_151280.46thinks you; and listening at the crack of the door, and hearing her breathing, and slipping in to look, and everything quiet, and the red fire on her lil face, and 'Grod bless her, the darling!'
Alcott_Louisa_Jack_and_Jill_2786_12100.46But toward morning she was wakened by the hoarse breathing of the boy, and was forced to patter away to Miss Bat's room, humbly asking for the squills, and confessing that the prophecy had come to pass.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_65500.46Willie stood, a wasted, worn figure, by his mother, stroking her face; his hoarse breathing was for the time the only sound in the cottage.
Smith_William_The_Evolution_o_13398_11450.46After the first floating breath of laughter had passed over the room, every pupil was full of attention, and was listening to the reading of this proverbially bad boy.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_182760.46The silence was broken only by the stifled sobs of Zagloba, the deep sighs of the strong breasts around, and the distant roar of discharges on the ramparts.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_5632_35080.46Polly could feel her tucking the other hand under her cheek on the pillow, and then, blessed sound -- the long quiet breathing that told of rest.
Reade_Charles_Hard_Cash_3067_59240.46The patient was cupped on the nape of the neck by Mr. Osmond, and, on the glasses drawing, showed signs of consciousness, and the breathing was relieved.
Munroe_Kirk_Raftmates_A_St_19303_9310.46Those who had followed him had disappeared like shadows, and Winn could not detect a sound save the suppressed breathing of the man who had been detailed to guard him, and who now held his arm.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_36610.46As we thus stood, lifted above the valley, involved in shadows, silent and alone, I could hear the beating of my heart, louder and louder in the breathing stillness.
Helps_Arthur_Friends_in_Coun_7438_25450.46But I think I hear the sighs, and sounds more harsh than sighing, of those who have ever investigated anything, and found by dire experience the deplorable inaccuracy which prevails in the world.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_10530.46There lay the poor aged form in a torpor which, save for the purple face and the loud, heavy breathing, had all the unconsciousness of death.
Cooper_James_F_The_Prairie_6450_7610.46A long, and, on the part of the Teton, an anxious and painful silence succeeded, before the deep breathing of the traveller again announced that he was indulging in his slumbers.
Cooper_James_F_The_Prairie_6450_10370.46Ellen now listened intently anxious to catch some other sound, than the breathing of the morning air, which faintly rustled the herbage at her feet.
Bethusy_Huc_Va_The_Eichhofs_A_35311_36790.46He saw Marzell and himself on the knees of that kindly old man, he seemed to hear the gentle voice of Marzell's mother, and he passed his hand across his forehead with a sigh.
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_54580.46Lorna was now so far oppressed with all the troubles of the evening, and the joy that followed them, as well as by the piercing cold and difficulty of breathing, that she lay quite motionless, like fairest wax in the moonlight -- when we stole a glance at her, beneath the dark folds of the cloak; and I thought that she was falling into the heavy snow-sleep, whence there is no awaking.
Weyman_Stanley_A_Gentleman_of_1939_69130.45Convinced of the contrary, they began to watch each stroke with bated breath; or now and again, muttering the name of Jarnac, broke into brief exclamations as a blow more savage than usual drew sparks from our blades, and made the rafters ring with the harsh grinding of steel on steel.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_42230.45Impatient of his wakefulness, he at last thought it was this dull and flickering light which scared away the slumber, and was about to rise, to remove it further from him, when he saw the curtain at the other end of the bed gently lifted: he remained quiet and alarmed; -- ere he could draw a second breath, a dark figure interposed between the light and the bed; and he felt that a stroke was aimed against that part of the couch, which, but for the accident that had seemed to him ominous, would have given his breast to the knife.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_29980.45It was very great rest and peace, the hush that was over the quiet room, with only Alfred's hurried breath to be heard beside Mr.
Taylor_Bayard_Views_A_foot_O_11535_2050.45The Irish bestowed themselves about the floor as they best could, for there was no light, and very soon the Morphean deepness of their breathing gave token of blissful unconsciousness.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_282000.45Already their drooping heads, their half-closed eyes, their painful and difficult breathing, announced the approach of death.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_45870.45The young creature stood with bated breath till his light footsteps died away in the nearest passage.
Stanley_Henry_My_Kalulu_Prin_32923_13420.45You shall nurse his children, be a herdsman of his cattle, and I will break your heart, and make your ears open to his slightest breath.
Smith_Francis_The_Other_Fello_37148_16040.45Then through the gloom there ran the audible shiver of pent-up sighs, low whispers, and the stretching of tired muscles.
Scott_Walter_Kenilworth_1606_58900.45The Countess awoke to hear a real bugle-note, or rather the combined breath of many bugles, sounding not the MORT.
Reade_Charles_Hard_Cash_3067_60060.45They were followed immediately by a loud groan, and the stertorous breathing recommenced, and the face was no longer pale, but flushed and turgid.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_61040.45It seemed to him that he could hardly breathe, and as she stood there, perfectly still, with her hand in his, he could see her innocent bosom rising and falling with her own labored heavy breathing.
Kingsley_Flore_Stephen_A_Sold_41655_31960.45Near by he could hear the regular, peaceful breathing of John and Andrew; somehow the sound added an intolerable poignancy to his anguish.
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_57650.45The queen's quick breathing had ceased, she seemed like a statue; but Rischenheim moved impatiently, as though he could no longer endure the waiting.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Tempest_and_Sun_17260_49380.45Dr. Gordon now came and after feeling her pulse and listening to the sound of her breathing, he said, "When she wakes from this sleep, I think the matter will be decided.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Life_and_De_14813_8870.45In about half an hour's time Jehane heard the long padding tread she knew so well, and took a deep breath.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_48470.45After this there was a pause, till presently Beatrice's long soft breaths showed that she had glided from swoon to sleep.
Grant_Robert_Unleavened_Brea_14645_39780.45"Surely there must be some medicine -- some powerful application which will help his breathing," she retorted, and she detected again the semblance of laughter in the doctor's eyes.
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_27100.45Presently the drone of multifold vibrations sounded in his ears with even rise and fall, like the mighty breathing of Nature herself.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_childre_14875_25530.45Elsie bent over the child, listening for a moment to her breathing, then accepting his offer, followed her husband and father from the room.
Du_Chaillu_Pau_The_Land_of_the_22727_15840.45I looked at my thermometer, it marked 39 degrees below zero inside the tent; it was 46 degrees outside and everything was perfectly still, there was not a breath of air stirring.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_73230.45Pushing their way through the dense brushwood, they looked out upon a scene which made their hearts beat harder and their breath come faster.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_60130.45Goddard's face was pale but not deathlike, and his breathing seemed regular and gentle; but his eyes were almost closed and he seemed not aware that any one had entered.
Cooper_James_F_The_Water_Witch_12445_59490.45The deep breathing of this person denoted the unquiet slumbers of a powerful frame, in which weariness contended with suffering.
Cooper_James_F_The_Headsman_O_10938_12870.45Once or twice, he thought he heard the stifled breathing of one who struggled with the raging water; but, in that roar of the winds, it was easy to be deceived.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Moonstone_155_33130.45After reaching the second landing, I thought I heard a sound of quiet and regular breathing on my left-hand side.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Uncle_Max_16080_50350.45'Yes, he is right,' I thought, as I stood listening to poor Susan's oppressed and difficult breathing: 'the Divine Teacher is beside His child.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_66020.45The deep shout of Du Guesclin, the hard, hissing breath of the pressing multitude, the clatter of steel, the thud of falling bodies, and the screams of the stricken, made up such a medley as came often in after years to break upon Alleyne's sleep.
Stephens_Rober_Philip_Winwood_15506_35500.45I recall the moonshine upon their faces, the swift dartings of their faintly luminous blades, their strangely altering shadows on the snow as they moved, the steady attention of us who looked on, the moan of the wind among the trees upon the neighbouring heights, the sound of the men's tramping on the crusted snow, the clear clink of their weapons, sometimes the noise of their breathing.
Lever_Charles_Charles_O_Malle_8577_73330.45As Mike's melody proceeded, the major's thorough bass waxed beautifully less, -- now and then, it's true, roused by some momentary strain, it swelled upwards in full chorus, but gradually these passing flights grew rarer, and finally all ceased, save a long, low, droning sound, like the expiring sigh of a wearied bagpipe.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_61650.45The clinking of glasses has ceased; again all are seated; a fresh course of viands is in progress; there is a pause in the conversation, while the music wails and sighs outside, Fainacky from his place at table making all sorts of mysterious signs to the leader.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_90710.45After some time of complete stillness (for the old dame and the attendants were at rest in the outer chamber), Bruce, whose low sighs were echoed by the wind alone, which swept in gusts by the little casement, looked toward the abdicated monarch's couch.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_58970.45He had taken no part in the conversation round the stove, nor had he gone forth with the rest; and now, when he heard Martin sigh for the third or fourth time, he interposed with some casual remark, as if he desired, without obtruding himself upon a stranger's notice, to engage him in cheerful conversation if he could.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Taken_Alive_5320_31650.44He was very low, scarcely more than breathing, and they dreaded lest there might be no sign before the glimmer of life faded out utterly.
Richards_Laura_Geoffrey_Strong_8877_9070.44Now the sobs died away into long moans, into quivering breaths; now they broke out again, insistent, terrible.
Reade_Charles_Foul_Play_3702_51860.44So did Helen, and her breath came fast; for in the stilly night she heard light but mysterious sounds.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Pomp_of_the_6217_8910.44For a minute there was absolute silence, save for the breathing of the man and the savage panting of the beast.
Merriman_Henry_With_Edged_Tool_8939_74100.44The sea was very loud that night, rising and falling like the breath of some huge sleeping creature.
Meade_L_T_The_Children_s_6899_4070.44The dying woman was sitting up on a sofa, supported by pillows, and her breathing came quicker and louder than ever.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_51980.44A deep sigh, almost a groan, from the bed, reminded them that they were talking too much and too loud for a sick-room.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_11940.44Creeping back as he had come, he heard her quiet, though deep, breathing, and his mind was at ease about her for the night.
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_10220.44For the sound was a faint distressed sigh, as of somebody in suffering; it seemed to come from out of the darkness about a dozen yards ahead of me.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_a_35377_23480.44He drew in the water, with long and pleasant sighs, and tranquil pauses of enjoyment; and then another draught, and another, and another.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_37410.44In the outer room there was a slight noise as of some person drawing in his breath sharply and with pain.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_New_Rel_14909_24820.44She lay still for a moment listening to his breathing, while memory recalled what had passed between them previous to her retiring.
Ewing_Juliana_Mrs_Overtheway_17772_13920.44"I held my breath, and in the silence heard distinctly the sound of some one snoring in an adjoining apartment.
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_4520.44Her breathing became laboured and painful, her gaze more concentrated and searching, and when her cousin exclaimed: "Oh, mother!
Eliot_George_The_Mill_on_the_6688_57620.44The fit of weeping gradually subsided, and he sat quiet, recovering the regularity of his breathing.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_70970.44It was quite dark, and the profound silence was broken only by the sound of Faustina's evenly-drawn breath.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_54110.44There was one little low sigh; and then upon her great height of woe she rose -- rose to a superhuman calm.
Cervantes_Saave_Don_Quixote_996_59950.44"And now there was heard a great outcry and lamentation, accompanied by deep sighs and bitter sobs.
Bryant_William_Poetical_Works_29700_22590.44A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling.
Barr_Amelia_E_The_Maid_of_Mai_5757_31070.44The girl lay at Death's door, and her father and mother watched every breath she drew.
Alcott_Louisa_Aunt_Jo_s_Scrap_26041_2270.44A very touching little romance as he told it, with eloquent eyes and voice and frequent pauses for breath.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Chaplet_of_5274_32400.44And therewith there was a tired sound in the tread, as if the Templar found his weird a very length one; then a long heavy breath, with something so essentially human in its sound that the fluttering heart beat more steadily.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Lane_That_H_6241_20170.44At last, dropping his chin in his hand and his elbow on his knee, as he squatted on the table, he said: "But if the girl got sorry -- " For a time there was no sound save the whirring of the fire in the stove and the hard breathing of the sick man.
Pansy_Three_People_20808_40580.44I think no human sound will disturb him after that; but if, on the contrary, the breathing grows steadier, and occasionally he moves a little, then I want you fairly to hold your breath, and then we may begin to hope, provided nothing shall occur to startle him; but I will be in by twelve or a little after."
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_49080.44He went off and got some wraps and cushions, and propped his uncle up in the deep chair he was reclining in, and then he sat down and watched him, feeling a thrill run through him every time there was a little drag in the breathing or change in his patient's face.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_87260.44Danvers had dressed a bed for Lady Dunstane in her mistress's chamber, where often during the night Emma caught a sound of stifled weeping or the long falling breath of wakeful grief.
Irving_Washing_The_Alhambra_49872_8160.44Not a breath of air disturbed the stillness of the hour, and though the faint sound of music and merriment now and then rose from the gardens of the Darro, it but rendered more impressive the monumental silence of the pile which overshadowed me.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_11110.44It was the Sabbath -- that solemn day in the colonies when the voices of men were hushed, or only uplifted in prayer -- when the very children held their breath with awe, and the good wife scarcely ventured to smooth the bed she had slept in, or dress the food for her household, lest the holy time given to the Lord should be encroached upon.
Custer_Elizabe_Tenting_on_the_40731_38600.44Perhaps after I had said this, and another similar verse, over and over again, in a sing-song, droning voice, the regular breathing at my side told me that the poor, tired heart had found temporary forgetfulness; but when we came to the sad reality of our lonely life next day, every object in our quarters reminded us what it is to "stay behind."
Robertson_Marg_Janet_s_Love_an_23266_105980.44Graeme sat long that night listening to the quiet breathing of her sleeping sister; but all the anxious thoughts that passed through her mind, could only end in this: "I will wait and trust."
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_26650.44By degrees her breathing became audible to his strained ear, and once a sigh, such as escapes a tired child, told that nature was rallying her physical forces, and that the tide was turning.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_114670.44Tired of standing, he crouched down in his corner after some time, and rested on the cold pavement; but although Hugh's breathing still proclaimed that he was sleeping soundly, he could not trust him out of his sight for an instant.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_31090.44Neither the officer nor the woman, however, appeared during the night, and nothing further occurred to disturb the repose of the peddler, who, to the astonishment of the different sentinels, continued by his breathing to manifest how little the gallows could affect his slumbers.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_19960.44This unfeeling communication had no effect on the peddler, who listened with gasping breath to every sound from the room of his parent until he heard his own name spoken in the hollow, sepulchral tones of death.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_107300.43And on the fourth, the Sensitive Plant 5 Felt the sound of the funeral chant, And the steps of the bearers, heavy and slow, And the sobs of the mourners, deep and low; The weary sound and the heavy breath, And the silent motions of passing death, 10 And the smell, cold, oppressive, and dank, Sent through the pores of the coffin-plank; The dark grass, and the flowers among the grass, Were bright with tears as the crowd did pass; From their sighs the wind caught a mournful tone, 15 And sate in the pines, and gave groan for groan.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_65140.43She opened the organ with a sigh, and then sat down before it for some minutes without touching the keys.
Warner_Susan_Queechy_8874_162660.43The breathing of an infant could not be more gentle; the face of an angel not more peacefully at rest.
Wallace_Lew_Ben_Hur_a_tale_2145_114380.43The breathing of the Nazarene grew harder, his sighs became great gasps.
Steel_Flora_An_Voices_in_the_N_40045_17370.43As he paused for breath, there was a murmur of approval for the eloquence, none for the thought it held.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_3350.43"But it is our booty -- " Further conversation was interrupted by stronger breathing from the suffocated man.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_51090.43It seemed to resemble the effort of difficult breathing, and was accompanied by a slight groan.
Martineau_Harr_The_Crofton_Boy_22410_14430.43At last, he seemed to be struck by Hugh's restlessness and heavy sighs; and he asked whether he had not got something to amuse himself with.
Marryat_Freder_The_Pacha_of_Ma_13673_33120.43At first, indeed, the cave was intolerably hot from the accumulation of breath, and I thought I should soon be suffocated.
Major_Charles_Dorothy_Vernon_14671_19470.43She, too, was in trouble with her breathing, but John thought that her trouble was owing to exertion.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_28020.43"I do not suffer," he whispered so softly that it sounded like the last breath of a departing spirit.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_32850.43I exclaimed, and strange and dreary sounded my voice in that breathing stillness.
Gaskell_Elizab_The_Life_of_Cha_1827_18720.43Anne had a slight cough, a pain at her side, a difficulty of breathing.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_78970.43And who so quick as blind Margaret in noticing tones, and sighs, and even silence?
Frederic_Harol_The_Damnation_o_133_62970.43He closed his eyes at this, and gradually the paroxysmal catch in his breathing lapsed.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_39690.43The breathing of the youngest gentleman was heard through the key-hole of the door.
Dickens_Charle_Hunted_Down_Th_807_3880.43I hear you have had the name of Meltham on your lips sometimes?’ I saw, in addition to those other changes, a sudden stoppage come upon his breathing.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_8170.43As if she had an innate knowledge of one jarring and discordant string within him, and her very breath could sound it.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_117350.43He rose from his bed with a heavy sigh, and wrapped himself in his morning-gown.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_John_Halifax_G_2351_46770.43John and I were in the alcove of the window; I heard his breathing behind me, but I dared not look at or speak to him.
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_8210.43The question was put with the laboring breath, with the heavy accents which tell that death is near.
Barrie_J_M_Tommy_and_Grize_11901_65590.43It had been heavy breathing, and now she was trying to check it and half succeeding -- but at the cost of little cries.
Barrie_J_M_Tommy_and_Grize_11901_26110.43He remembered he was there only when he heard his heavy breathing, and then he tried to check it that he might steal away undiscovered.
Abbott_John_S_The_Adventures_24400_10470.43No sound fell upon the ear but the gentle breathing of the dying man.
Jackson_Helen_Hetty_s_Strange_9311_9040.43At last, the weary day came to an end; and when Hetty saw her two sufferers quietly asleep in snowy beds, in a great airy room, with a blazing log-fire on the hearth, she drew a long breath, and said to the doctor: "This is the most awful day I ever lived through."
Craik_Dinah_Ma_John_Halifax_G_2351_86140.43Mrs. Halifax sat beside the little bed, a sudden blazing up of the fire showing the intentness of her watch over these two, her eldest and youngest, fast asleep; their breathing so soft, one hardly knew which was frailest, the life slowly fading or the life but just begun.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Uncle_Max_16080_98520.43I suppose he thought there was no help for it, for he drew back for me to pass; but I was grieved to hear his footsteps for a long time after that pacing slowly up and down, and it was more for his sake than my own that I was glad when Miss Darrell's moans ceased, and the more quiet regular breathing proved to me that she was asleep.
Ballantyne_R_Gascoyne_The_S_15689_12560.43Bruised by the fall, and overawed by the gloom of her situation, the poor girl lay still for some time where she had fallen, with bated breath, and listening intently; but no sound struck her ear save the beating of her own heart, which appeared to her unnaturally loud.
Barr_Amelia_E_The_Bow_of_Oran_17173_44210.43With an evil glance at the beautiful, disdainful woman standing over him, the pedler rose and left the house; Katherine and the dog so closely following that the man, stooping under his heavy burden, heard her light footsteps and the mastiff's heavy breathing close at his heels, until he passed the large gates and found himself on the dark fen, with just half an hour to get clear of a precinct he had made so dangerous to himself.
Smith_Francis_The_Fortunes_of_3417_41930.43The roar of Sumter's guns had reverberated throughout the land, and men of all minds were holding their breath and listening, with ears to the ground, for the sound of the next shot.
Morris_Clara_A_Pasteboard_Cr_35055_45950.43But next day, when she had repeated it to Thrall, she had withstood the piercing inquiry of his searching eyes, until she heard the sigh of relief that told her he had seen no sign of pain.
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_43990.43She listened to the calm breathing of Julia; and her ear, accustomed to the finest distinctions of sound, speedily assured her of the deep slumber of her companion.
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_78350.43He suffered me to assist him to undress; and when he had lain down on the bed, he turned his face quietly from the light, and after a few heavy sighs, sleep seemed mercifully to steal upon him.
Jacobs_W_W_A_Master_Of_Cra_21929_2460.43It was at first quite dark in the cabin, but as the visitor’s eyes became accustomed to it, she could just discern the outlines of a small table, while a steady breathing assured her that somebody was sleeping close by.
Gl_mer_Claire_A_Noble_Name_o_36550_32390.43A minute or two passed in impatient expectation, and then, when Aunt Thekla's regular breathing betrayed her unconsciousness, Magelone called, in an undertone, "Otto!"
Fuller_Henry_B_With_the_Proces_8891_20730.43And the dear girl gave a long slow sigh -- partly that the family had at last such a champion, partly that she herself should have been doomed to such complete uselessness in so high a cause.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanho_14874_35400.43All the time on the mother's lap, her eyes scarce moving from the dear little face; her breath almost suspended, lest that life-giving slumber should be broken.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_79920.43Ere long his heavy breathing told her that he slept, and, stealing from his side, she sat down in a large chair near the head of his bed, and watched him.
Crockett_S_R_Lochinvar_A_No_45495_23660.43Black Peter still slept in the outer hall, nodding and swaying stertorously on the settle, and there was no other sound save the breathing of the resting prisoners.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_31870.43returned Barnstable, with a long breath, that announced all his apprehensions were removed; "he will be more likely to believe it a mermaid fanning herself this cool evening, than to suspect the real fact.
Reid_Whitelaw_Problems_of_Exp_26064_16910.43The islands nestled in the embrace of the Pacific have felt the quickening breath of her enterprise.... She has caused the hum of busy life to be heard in the wilderness where rolls the Oregon, and where until recently was heard no sound save his own dashings.
Whitney_A_D_Faith_Gartney_s_18896_10960.43She can remember the low breathing from the bed, and the now and then half-distinct utterance, as the brain wandered still in a dreamy, feverish maze; and she never will forget the precise color and pattern of the calico wrapper that Nurse Sampson wore; but she can recollect nothing else of it all, except that, after a time, longer or shorter, she glanced up, fearfully, as a strange hush seemed to have come over the room, and met a look and gesture of the nurse that warned her down again, for her life.
Ballantyne_R_The_Red_Eric_21714_5040.43When the house-surgeon had paid his last visit, and the nurses had gone their rounds in the accident-ward, and no sound disturbed the quiet of the dimly-lighted apartment save the heavy fitful breathing and occasional moans and restless motions of the sufferers, Nikel Sling raised himself on his elbow, and glanced stealthily round on the rows of pain-worn and haggard countenances around him.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_61510.42Just as he was shutting it, however, he heard a deep, broken, sobbing sigh; and, guided by the sound, he found the boy lying on the floor, fast asleep, but with his features all swollen and disfigured by passionate crying.
Ebers_Georg_An_Egyptian_Pri_5460_7650.42The finely-cut nostrils rose and fell with her regular breathing, and she lay there, a picture of innocence, of peace, smiling in dreams, and of the slumber that the gods bestow on early youth, when care has not yet come.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_22460.42Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.
Corelli_Marie_The_Sorrows_of_42332_27950.42In one second her face underwent such hideous contortions as robbed it of all human semblance, and between the agonized pantings of her difficult breath, her half-choked voice could be heard uttering wild cries -- "Mercy!
Castlemon_Harr_True_To_His_Col_28391_19330.42For a minute or two the deep silence that reigned in the cabin was broken only by the hurried breathing of its frightened inmates, and then there came a sound from the outside -- a quick, heavy step on the hard ground, followed by the fumbling of a hand for the latchstring.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_169210.42Wailing voices were heard also in the air, enormous sighs, which made men's hair stand on end, and groans.
Scott_Walter_Guy_Mannering_2590_62830.42There was a dead silence in the cavern, only interrupted by the low and suppressed moaning of the wounded female, and by the hard breathing of the prisoner.
Robertson_Marg_Janet_s_Love_an_23266_32330.42As Graeme listened to her quick breathing, and watched the hectic rising on her cheek, she felt, for the moment, as though all hope were vain.
Reid_Mayne_The_Tiger_Hunte_25127_56200.42While the Captain Lantejas stood in the midst of an atmosphere that nearly stifled his breathing, he saw one of these shadowy forms step out from among the rest and advance towards him.
Porter_Jane_Thaddeus_of_War_6566_3190.42At length my sighs seemed to startle my husband; and suddenly turning round, he cried, 'Therese, this marriage must not be told to the palatine.
Napheys_George_The_Physical_Li_24001_40460.42The skin becomes hot and dry, the breathing difficult, the cough more frequent, and the child is soon awakened, frightened, and struggling for breath.
Meade_L_T_The_Children_of_26409_18680.42Eric departed, whistling under his breath, and kicking his heels so restlessly that only the soundest sleeper could still remain in the land of dreams.
MacDonald_Geor_Sir_Gibbie_2370_21000.42But as soon as he opened the door of the dairy, he was warned by the loud breathing of the sleeper, and looking about, espied him on the bench behind the table, and swiftly retreated.
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_80620.42I felt it in the glare of the sunbeam, I heard it in the breath of the air; like a ghost it rose there, -- where she had filled the space with her presence but a moment before!
Holmes_Mary_Ja_The_English_Orp_13878_31750.42Dreamily for a while she listened to the patter of the rain as it fell upon the deserted pavement below, and then, with a long, deep sigh, she turned away and wept.
Henty_G_A_G_Wulf_the_Saxon_8745_44620.42He swallowed a few spoonfuls of the potion Osgod held to his lips, and then closing his eyes his regular breathing soon showed that he was again asleep.
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_2610.42Fainter, sweeter and sadder the music wailed out; dimmer and dimmer paled the lights; all hushed their breathing to watch.
Finley_Martha_The_Two_Elsies_13379_4640.42Evelyn thought he slept, and lest she should disturb him, forcibly repressed her inclination to relieve her over-burdened heart by sobs and sighs.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_Yachting_45944_8300.42"Now," said Mr. Keith, "there'll be a moment's breathing spell, then more music by the band while the cadets go through some of their exercises, which I think you will find well worth looking at."
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_56560.42Gashford, with many a sly look towards the bed, sat chuckling at his master's folly, until his deep and heavy breathing warned him that he might retire.
Custer_Elizabe_Boots_and_Saddl_48972_2600.42I had proof to the contrary the next morning after the storm, for I was awakened by a noise of vigorous friction and violent breathing, as of some one laboring diligently.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_49930.42Then, in the interval of a second, as she drew breath to weep afresh, he fancied that he heard sounds below as of the great door being opened and closed again.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_43420.42Inez felt the slight motion and heard his regular breathing, and an instinct told her that he was conscious, and not in a dream as he had been when he had kissed her.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_6940.42He seated himself on a projection of the rocks, whence he gave no other signs of consciousness than by the struggles of his spirit, as manifested in frequent and heavy sighs.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_33020.42His ears had become dense -- he scarcely heard the voice of Ben Aboo, though the Kaid's hot breath was beating upon his cheek.
Ward_Humphry_Helbeck_of_Bann_9441_3920.42It was nine months since she had lost her father, but all the scenes of his last days were still so clear to her that it seemed to her often sheer incredibility that the room, the bed, the helpless form, the noise of the breathing, the clink of the medicine glasses, the tread of the doctor, the gasping words of the patient, were all alike fragments and phantoms of the past, -- that the house was empty, the bed sold, the patient gone.
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_71130.42Almost before the first faint sign of dawn appeared she arose again, and opened the window to obtain a full breathing of the new morning air, the panes being now wet with trembling tears left by the night rain, each one rounded with a pale lustre caught from primrose- hued slashes through a cloud low down in the awaken- ing sky.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_295770.42He would have heard only a dull stamping, and now and then a deep breath.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Opening_a_Chest_6028_71860.42With a despairing sigh, she murmured, "Chained, chained."
Reade_Charles_Foul_Play_3702_46590.42Then he watched beside her, until her breathing and her pulse changed in character.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_11710.42When my little Willy gets disturbed," said Mary, with a sigh, "he gives none of us any rest.
Meade_L_T_A_Girl_in_Ten_T_19761_6960.42"Yes," replied the doctor, "she is better; she is less feverish, and her breathing is easier.
MacGrath_Harol_The_Puppet_Crow_3239_44780.42He had detected the vinous odor of the sleeper's breath.
MacGrath_Harol_Arms_and_the_Wo_17359_8920.42Some time passed, and nothing but the breathing of the pipes was heard.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_112570.42The man on the horsehair sofa lay breathing -- that was all.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_71880.42They stood and viewed each other with sad looks and heavy sighs.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_44210.42I could hear the heavy breathing of people in near-by lodges.
Hardy_Thomas_A_Pair_of_Blue_224_52170.42He could have heard the softest breathing of any person within the porch; nobody was there.
Green_Anna_Kat_That_Affair_Nex_21617_39930.42It was a less eloquent sigh than hers, but it was a distinct one and it had a distinct echo.
Gaskell_Elizab_Cousin_Phillis_4268_17660.42The clock on the stairs -- the minister's hard breathing -- was it to go on for ever?
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69560.42She listened as she stood there, and the breathing of the two girls seemed to have ceased.
Eggleston_Geor_Camp_Venture_A_41919_3390.42he ejaculated under his breath as he heard a stealthy noise.
Eddy_Mary_Bake_Retrospection_a_16734_810.42The door was ajar, and I listened with bated breath.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_3240.42Alas how calm they lay there; how little breath there was to stir them!
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_43930.42It was the heavy breathing of a sleeper, close at hand.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_66170.42"I listened to the patient's breathing, and avoided answering.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_79600.42But now he was worse again, and the room almost shook with the noise of his breathing.
Bunner_H_C_Short_Sixes_Sto_47405_6540.42MR. HALL ( sighs ).—Poor Rhodora!
Auerbach_Berth_Edelweiss_A_St_33007_67710.42Again they held their breath and listened; no further sounds were heard.
Alger_Horatio_Sam_s_Chance_a_26043_31220.42he continued, listening to Sam's regular breathing.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Two_Vanreve_3428_18930.42Deep breathing from across the hall indicated that Mr. Gray's soul was still encased in slumber, and great was its need, as Tom had found his partner, that morning at five, stretched upon the horsehair sofa in the office, lamenting the emptiness of a bottle which had been filled with fiery Bourbon in the afternoon.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_1980.41Thereupon he opened his lips to call to his mother, but that old thought about patience returned on him; he had mercy on her regular breathing, though it made him quite envious to hear it, and he said to himself that he would let her alone, at least till the next time the clock struck.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_75290.41The night-light flickered on the broken, discolored ceiling; every now and then a mouse scratched in the plaster; the mother's heavy breathing came from the next room; sometimes a dog barked or an owl cried outside.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Miss_Lou_5309_43260.41The Confederate general, with his staff, had already made a hasty breakfast and departed; through the open door came the mellow sound of bugles and the songs of birds, but within were irrepressible sighs and groans.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_76270.41The Company stood peering into the dense fog-wreath, amidst a silence so profound that the dripping of the water from the rocks and the breathing of the horses grew loud upon the ear.
Allen_James_La_Aftermath_Part_13554_7630.41My dog, who had stretched himself at my feet before the young blaze, inhaled the smoke also with a full breath of reminiscence, and lay watching me out of the corner of his eye -- I fancied with reproachful constancy.
Inchbald_Mrs_A_Simple_Story_22002_25430.41In a large gloomy apartment of this solitary habitation (the windows of which scarce rendered the light accessible) was laid upon her death-bed, the once lovely Lady Elmwood -- pale, half suffocated with the loss of breath; yet her senses perfectly clear and collected, which served but to sharpen the anguish of dying.
Dana_Richard_H_Two_Years_Befor_2055_5530.41Some of the watch were asleep, and the others were perfectly still, so that there was nothing to break the illusion, and I stood leaning over the bulwarks, listening to the slow breathing of the mighty creatures -- now one breaking the water just alongside, whose black body I almost fancied that I could see through the fog; and again another, which I could just hear in the distance -- until the low and regular swell seemed like the heaving of the ocean's mighty bosom to the sound of its heavy and long-drawn respirations.
Mitchell_Donal_Dream_Life_A_F_17862_13390.41As you lie between waking and sleeping, you have a fancy of a sound at your door; -- it seems to open softly, and the tall figure of your father, wrapped in his dressing-gown, stands over you, and gazes -- as he gazed at you before; -- his look is very mournful; and he murmurs your mother's name -- and sighs -- and looks again -- and passes out.
Dryden_John_The_Poetical_Wo_11488_22740.41Amidst that silent shower, the royal mind An easy passage found, And left its sacred earth behind: Nor murmuring groan express'd, nor labouring sound, Nor any least tumultuous breath; Calm was his life, and quiet was his death.
Zangwill_Israe_The_Master_a_N_49795_11460.41The gentle purring of the fire, the Indian boy’s breathing, sounded painfully in the weird stillness.
Warner_Susan_Daisy_18687_85660.41I don't know what Miss Cardigan saw; but several times in the evening I heard her sigh; a thing very unusual and notable with her.
Warner_Susan_Daisy_18687_21540.41It comes back to me now as I write � the hush, and the breathing of the fire, and Darry's low voice and imperfect English.
Thoreau_Henry_A_Week_on_the_C_4232_3030.41For the most part, there was no recognition of human life in the night, no human breathing was heard, only the breathing of the wind.
Thompson_Mauri_A_Fortnight_of_41660_37650.41Save for his regular breathing and a sort of convulsive twitching of his fingers, Carriston might have been a corpse or a statue.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_28830.41Silence followed, during which were heard the quick breathing of Vinicius, and the distant song of slaves at work in the garden.
Scott_Walter_The_Fair_Maid_o_7987_39970.41At the same time we are compelled to own that the blood was colouring in her cheek, and that her breathing was deep and regular, for a minute or two during this relapse.
Scott_Walter_Guy_Mannering_2590_40930.41After a deep and awful pause, the company began to talk aside under their breaths, however, and as if in the chamber of a dying person.
Randolph_Sarah_The_Domestic_Li_43331_54280.41I crept softly from my nursery to her chamber door, and, being alarmed by her short, hard breathing, ran away again.
Phillpotts_Ede_Sons_of_the_Mor_46857_14070.41These trifles, separately, laughter could blow away at a breath, but combined they grew into a shadow not easily dispelled.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Right_of_Wa_6249_15840.41Once or twice, becoming anxious, because of the heavy breathing and the motionless sleep, he had forced open the teeth, and poured a little broth between.
Marryat_Freder_Jacob_Faithful_21549_1450.41I remained more than a minute panting for breath, and then ventured to draw back the curtains of the bed -- my mother was not there!
Lyall_Edna_We_Two_A_Novel_2007_91300.41There was stillness that fearful stillness when the watchers begin to hush their very breath, that they may catch the last faint breathings.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_44210.41He ceased to speak, and in the darkness I heard him draw his breath hard and his great muscles crack.
Johnston_Annie_Joel_A_Boy_of_39231_15310.41Joel, in the hinder part of the ship, lay back in his seat with a sigh of perfect enjoyment.
Hope_Anthony_The_Heart_of_Pr_41438_26540.41The pace of her walk slowed, grew quicker, slowed again; she was past him, and with a great sigh he lay down again.
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_48100.41They were not speaking now; but she heard their hard breathing and the movement of their unresting feet on the bare boards of the floor.
Henty_G_A_G_True_to_the_Old_8859_4520.41Then they lay down, and Harold was pleased to hear in a few minutes the steady breathing which told him that his cousin was asleep.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_a_35377_30370.41Theseus even fancied a rude articulation in it, as if the creature that uttered it were trying to shape his hoarse breath into words.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_New_Rel_14909_24720.41Edward stretched himself beside Zoe, but not to sleep for hours, for ever and anon she drew a sobbing breath that went to his very heart.
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Hunters_of_22646_13200.41One of the embers fell apart with a soft rustle, which caused him to stop and hold his breath lest the sleepers should awake.
Ellis_Edward_S_Camp_fire_and_W_25966_9650.41For some time past, Jack had known from the regular breathing of the figures near him that the couples wrapped up in their blankets were unconscious.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_42190.41The girl and her maid heard its rattling breathing and its convulsions: its body thumped against the lower drawer.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_30930.41Guido could hear the young girl's soft and regular breathing, and he felt the pulse in his own throat.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_53250.41Goddard moaned helplessly with every breath, in a loud, monotonous tone, very wearing to the nerves of those who heard it.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_17860.41His breathing was hard and quick, and something like the low, rapid murmurings of a confused utterance mingled with his respiration.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_55880.41The Bishop stood over his son with the same gentle calm that had come upon him in the cell, and with not one breath of the restless fever with which he entered it.
Barr_Amelia_E_The_Lion_s_Whel_50978_15860.41His last breaths were coming in painful sobs, but he opened his eyes and looked mournfully at Jane for a few moments.
Baker_Samuel_W_The_Nile_Tribut_2125_35280.41Throughout the entire night the lion prowled around the camp, growling and uttering his peculiar guttural sigh.
Andersen_H_C_The_Sand_Hills_26491_26160.41I heard him sigh like a despairing creature; I heard him pray; I perceived that he held his breath in his anxiety.
Marlitt_E_Eu_Gold_Elsie_42426_30570.41Thus deeply agitated, it was natural enough that the young girl's eyelids fell low over her eyes, and that she failed to observe the inaudible sigh that escaped her companion, or mark how all signs of irritation vanished from his features to give place to the shade of melancholy that was so wont to rest upon his brow.
Irving_Washing_The_Sketch_Book_2048_9790.41A hushed stillness reigned through this mysterious apartment, excepting that you might hear the racing of pens over sheets of paper, and occasionally the deep sigh of one of these sages, as he shifted his position to turn over the page of an old folio; doubtless arising from that hollowness and flatulency incident to learned research.
Hentz_Caroline_Helen_and_Arthu_23106_6890.41There was her noble, handsome, warm-hearted, high-souled boy -- the object of her pride, as well as her affection -- he, who had never willfully given her a moment's pain -- and though his irrepressive sighs and suffocating sobs she would have hushed, at the expense of all that remained of life to her -- there was still a music in them to her dying ear, that told of love that would not forget, that would twine in perennial garlands round her grave.
Wilcox_Ella_Wh_Maurine_and_Oth_3665_12060.40In its hurrying race through leagues of space, I can hear the Earth catch breath, As it heaves and moans, and shudders and groans, And longs for the rest of Death.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_56370.40Gradually, too, another sound, the hissing fall of heavy rain, began to make itself heard, and to mingle with the regular breathing which proved that Madame St.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_67290.40exclaimed Quirk, with a sound of partly a sigh, and partly a whistle, (the former being the exponent of the true state of his feelings, i. e. anxiety -- the latter of what he wished to appear the state of his feelings, i. e.
Wallace_Lew_The_Fair_God_or_43340_76610.40And as if the feeling were contagious, the teotuctli knelt, and in the sanctuary there was stillness consistent with worship, save when some overburdened breast relieved itself by a sigh, a murmur, or a groan.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_180440.40smothered the instant it was begun, came from the mouth the picket; then was heard the crash as it were of broken bones, heavy breathing, and one figure fell quietly to the earth.
Schubin_Ossip_Erlach_Court_35541_41460.40She catches her breath; her heart beats as if it would break; black misty clouds float before her eyes; there is a sound in her ears as of the rushing of a far-distant stream.
Sage_William_Robert_Tournay_34846_38460.40In a very few minutes a quiet concert of long-drawn breaths told of two men sleeping peacefully in the cell on the upper tier of the Luxembourg prison.
Merriman_Henry_The_Slave_of_th_9195_39590.40The thick oak door deadened the sounds of life in the monastery, such as they were, and the strong, laboured breathing of the young Englishman alone broke the chill silence.
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_14490.40When we have been laboring very hard, my dear child, and want to rest for a minute, we say, Let us take breath ; because breathing is an action which takes place of itself, requiring neither effort nor attention on our part.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_58600.40The joyous shouts of the people are still heard without, but the king heeds them not; he hears only the heavy breathing of his friend, and speaks to him gentle words of love and consolation.
Longfellow_Hen_Evangeline_with_15390_5060.40After the sound of their oars on the tholes had died in the distance, As from a magic trance the sleepers awoke, and the maiden Said with a sigh to the friendly priest, "O Father Felician!
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_34100.40"When I was thrown from my horse I lay quiet, partly because I wanted to get a grip of my breath, and partly because it seemed to me to be more healthy to lie than to stand with all those swords clinking in my ears.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_8490.40Unorna sighed, partly, perhaps, that he might hear the sigh, and put upon it an interpretation soothing to his vanity, but partly, too, from a sincere regret that he should need to suffer as he was evidently suffering.
Bacheller_Irvi_Eben_Holden_A_2799_11870.40He was still snoring, and Hope sound asleep, when I woke in the night and heard the rain falling on our little roof and felt the warm breath of the south wind.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_10840.40At first, the novelty and alarm kept him waking; but his mother so hurriedly repressed every breath or sound, and so assured him that if he were only still she would certainly save him, that he clung quietly round her neck, only asking, as he found himself sinking to sleep, "Mother, I don't need to keep awake, do I?"
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_62400.40With a tact, doubled in acuteness by her fear, she escaped these perils, and continued her way, the air growing more and more damp as she proceeded; yet, still, as she ever and anon paused for breath, she heard the advancing steps and the indistinct murmur of voices.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_81700.40The old man drew a deep breath; he rose to his feet with such vigor as he could command, a bright, sharply-defined patch of color tinged each pale cheek, and he exclaimed in husky tones: "Not another word!
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_99880.40The heavy sigh was repeated as if by an echo, an hour afterwards, when Riah, who had been sitting on some dark steps in a corner over against the house, arose and went his patient way; stealing through the streets in his ancient dress, like the ghost of a departed Time.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Uncle_Max_16080_44000.40It was a beautiful starlight night, clear and frosty: our footsteps rang crisply on the ground: not a breath of wind stirred the skeleton branches that stretched above our heads: a solemn peacefulness seemed to close us round.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_47170.40She began to walk up and down, but only between the window and door, as though they were the bars of a cage; her bosom heaved, her breathing was audible, the paleness of her face, her voice, her eyes, all told of the dreadful agitation she was in; she would never have thought him capable of such a thing.
Kingsley_Henry_Ravenshoe_41636_3030.40The summer sunlight, struggling through a waving bower of climbing plants and the small panes of a deeply mullioned window, fell upon two persons, at the sight of whom he paused, and, holding his breath, stood, like a black statue in the gloomy room, wrapped in astonishment.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_26410.39Miss Benson loitered in her seat, divided between the consciousness that she, as locum tenens for the minister's wife, was expected to be at the door to receive the kind greetings of many after her absence from home, and her unwillingness to disturb Ruth, who was evidently praying, and, by her quiet breathing, receiving grave and solemn influences into her soul.
Munroe_Kirk_Forward_March_16231_16070.39Having made this ghastly discovery, Ridge hastily returned to the hut to gain from his companion an explanation of what had happened, "I could not sleep," said the young Spaniard, in answer to his inquiries, "though I lay still and tried hard to do so, until, by your heavy breathing, I discovered that you were no longer awake."
Spielhagen_Fri_Hammer_and_Anvi_34868_11520.39I could not withstand the temptation, and crept with hushed breath, startled at the least noise that my footsteps made, nearer and nearer, until I reached the stone balustrade which surrounded the wide, low terrace.
Scott_Walter_Kenilworth_1606_54300.39Immediately there was a pause of dead silence, succeeded by a deep hum of expectation, the united voice of many thousands, none of whom spoke above their breath -- or, to use a singular expression, the whisper of an immense multitude.
Pyle_Howard_The_Merry_Adven_964_21220.39Not a sound broke the stillness when Allan a Dale had done, but all sat gazing at the handsome singer, for so sweet was his voice and the music that each man sat with bated breath, lest one drop more should come and he should lose it.
Napheys_George_The_Physical_Li_24001_40710.39The warm bath and the emetic will usually relieve the breathing; but no matter how complete this relief may appear to be, nor how quietly the little one may sleep, it must be carefully watched all night, so that the first return of unfavorable symptoms may be promptly treated.
King_Charles_Marion_s_Faith_20305_54770.39Only beating hearts, only quick-drawn breath, only the distant call of the sentry, "Half-past eleven o'clock;" only the dying strains of the "Immortellen" wafting out through the open casements.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_43040.39Durward signified his willingness, and following his landlady, he soon stood in the close, pent-up room where, in an uneasy slumber, 'Lena lay panting for breath, and at intervals faintly moaning in her sleep.
Cooper_James_F_The_Headsman_O_10938_35980.39He was not long in presenting himself in the public room of the inn -- a hale, florid, muscular man of sixty, with every appearance of permanent health and vigor, but with a slight and nearly imperceptible difficulty of breathing.
Wilcox_Ella_Wh_Maurine_and_Oth_3665_3790.39And now a hush like death, Save that ’twas broken by a quick-drawn breath, Fell ’round me, but brought not the hoped-for peace.
Roosevelt_Theo_Hunting_the_Gri_3337_2160.39In a moment we entered the woods, breathing a sigh of relief as we did so; for while in the meadow we could never tell that the buffalo might not see us, if they happened to be lying in some place with a commanding lookout.
Merriman_Henry_In_Kedar_s_Tent_5987_33730.39Those watching from the windows saw with a gasp of horror that part of him—part of an arm—had been left behind, and a sigh of relief went up when he stopped crawling and lay quite still.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_14270.39Then, with a deep sigh, she took up the bits of the broken cue and went into her little porcelain cabinet, in order to gain rest and self- command in solitude and stillness.
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_23240.39The colour revived rapidly on the lips and cheeks; in a few moments the sufferer slept calmly, and with the regular breathing of painless sleep.
Hudson_Henry_N_Shakespeare_Hi_13387_40360.39On the other hand, a virtue that breathes so freely as not to be aware of its breathing is the right moral analogue of a thoroughly eupeptic state; as "the healthy know not of their health, but only the sick."
Hornung_E_W_Peccavi_36115_4180.39Then by degrees a hard breathing broke on Robert Carlton's ears; but he himself was the next to speak, flinging back his head in sudden misery.
Harland_Marion_Alone_46505_83980.39I envied you your mourning dress as long as you wore it; and when he was named by the hypocrites who fawned upon him in life, I had to seem as unconcerned as they; you had no need to stifle your sighs, for he was your friend.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_37570.39Edna stood for a while watching the labored breathing of the sleeper, and, putting her hand on Huldah's head, she whispered: "Do you want me to read to you this evening?
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Wilderness_30335_16050.39Brief listening told him that their regular breathing was not feigned, but he leaned over and shook each in turn by the shoulder, pronouncing their names in louder tones than before.
Eliot_George_The_Mill_on_the_6688_76660.39She was silent for a few moments, with her eyes fixed on the ground; then she drew a deep breath, and said, looking up at him with solemn sadness, -- "Oh, it is difficult, -- life is very difficult!
Eliot_George_Silas_Marner_550_650.39The old man, contrary to expectation, seemed to be on the way to recovery, when one night Silas, sitting up by his bedside, observed that his usual audible breathing had ceased.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Firm_of_Gir_13152_9410.39There was the stamp and shuffle of feet, the hissing of in-drawn breath, and an occasional soft thud, as if some one were butting his head against a bale of wool.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_52850.39As if she had done him a wrong which her tenderness could hardly repair, she sat by him in his sleep, at times softly kissing him with suspended breath, and calling him in a whisper by some endearing name.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_3270.39Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing of beast upon the marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly, -- "You're not a deceiving imp?
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_26900.39Therefore, when we wish to listen intently to any sound, we either stop breathing, or breathe as quietly as possible, by opening our mouths, at the same time keeping our bodies motionless.
Cooper_James_F_The_Prairie_6450_38890.39Profiting by the circumstance, he raised another low sound, as in the natural effort of breathing, which drew a second responsive cry from the faithful hound.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pioneers_O_2275_40610.39The hunter made no reply; but, bending his ear near the water, he sat holding his breath, and listening attentively as if to some distant sound.
Cooper_James_F_Jack_Tier_Or_4796_39990.39"Be quiet, Biddy, and we will pray for you," answered Rose, who fancied by her breathing that her aunt was about to forget her sufferings for a brief space, in broken slumbers.
Barrie_J_M_When_a_Man_s_Si_41031_25210.39Nell set off on a trip round the room, remarking with a profound sigh that it must be awful to live alone and have no one to speak to for whole hours at a time.
Aikin_Lucy_Robinson_Crusoe_6936_6260.39He sat still for a long time, then gave a sigh, and told me that he would say "O" to Beek no more, for he was but a short way off, and yet could not hear, till men went up the hill to speak to him.
Weyman_Stanley_The_Castle_Inn_11918_73410.39The answer, as she recoiled, expecting the worst, was a sound between a sigh and a grunt; followed by silence.
Wells_H_G_H_The_Wheels_of_C_1264_18810.39How their hearts beat together and their breath came fast, and how every shadow was anticipation and every noise pursuit!
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_151480.39Then in an instant his faced changed, blanched before her -- he seemed to gasp for breath -- she was only just able to save him from falling.
Wallace_Lew_The_Fair_God_or_43340_63780.39She sits hours by herself, with the bauble clasped in both hands, and sighs, and mopes, and has no interest in what used to please her most."
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Knights_of_9473_21820.39There was silence; one could only hear the heavy, hoarse breathing of Macko, and the archers' calls.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Without_a_Home_5433_75450.39Do you think I'm going to droop, look forlorn and deserted, and heave great sighs in dark corners?
Parkman_Franci_The_Jesuits_in_6933_46760.39They listened with interest; but when from astronomy he passed to theology, he spent his breath in vain.
Munro_Neil_John_Splendid_22321_49990.39She checked her sighs, she said my name in the softest whisper, laid her head upon my shoulder and wept.
Maclaren_Ian_Kate_Carnegie_a_20399_29110.39"Fourth" -- here the hard breathing became a sob -- "each man's lot is unto the glory of God."
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_39620.39"Pisistratus," whispered my father at last, and I stole near, hushing my breath, -- "Pisistratus, if your mother were here!"
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_11930.39And," added my mother, after a slight pause, and with a very low sigh, "he never was in love with me; and what is more, he had the frankness to tell me so!"
Ludlow_James_M_A_King_of_Tyre_44290_11330.39A strange, oppressive awe of what might be transpiring within stifled the very breathing of the waiting throngs.
Kipling_Rudyar_Life_s_Handicap_5777_19850.39Then there was a belt-loosening silence about the fires, and the even breathing of the crowded earth took up the story.
Kingsley_Flore_Stephen_A_Sold_41655_8360.39There was silence in the room for a moment, broken only by the quickened breathing of the young man.
Hammond_Willia_Sleep_and_Its_D_43887_14920.39The respiration appears to be particularly disturbed; he gasps for air, and occasionally the breathing is stertorous.
Green_Anna_Kat_Lost_Man_s_Lane_33305_25510.39The silence within must have satisfied her, for I heard a low sigh like that of relief, before the steps took themselves back.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_3490.39"Grandmother is often restless, and goes out on the colonnade, where the fresh air relieves her oppressed breathing.
Ellis_Edward_S_Ned_in_the_Bloc_43675_4900.39At the end of the brief spell, a faint rustling was noticed near them, and the listeners held their very breath.
Du_Maurier_Geo_Trilby_39858_6180.39But before he could teach her anything he had to unteach her all she knew; her breathing, the production of her voice, its emission -- everything was wrong.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_7600.39With a weary sound that was not a sigh, nor a groan, he bent to work again, until the silence was again broken.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_69580.39She seemed trying to hold her breath to catch the distant and ever retreating sound of her husband’s voice.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_27710.39Her aunt's face was unnaturally grey, the breathing was unusually slow and heavy.
Cooper_James_F_The_Deerslayer_3285_38160.39Before trusting his head inside, however, he listened long to catch the breathing of sleepers.
Cholmondeley_M_Diana_Tempest_37973_10650.39Madeleine gave the sigh that accompanies relaxation from intense mental strain.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_31990.39Roma's bosom was visibly stirred by her breathing, but she answered quietly: "No matter!
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_46810.39A little cheer, a little attempt at laughter, a suppressed sigh, then a downright honest cry, and away they were gone.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_21730.39Nothing was heard but the sound of his breathing; his face was unhappy -- so utterly, miserably unhappy!
Bennett_John_Master_Skylark_11574_27990.39"Or ever shall hear again," said the Venetian ambassador, under his breath, rubbing his forehead as if just wakening out of a dream.
Barrie_J_M_Sentimental_Tom_14961_10960.39He imitated the breathing of a sleeper, but it was the only sound to be heard in London, and he desisted fearfully.
Barr_Robert_A_Woman_Interve_9379_50950.39'I assure you,' said George, drawing a deep breath, 'I am listening with intense interest.'
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_144890.39His breathing was more labored than usual.
Whitney_A_D_Faith_Gartney_s_18896_37840.39Here, at the open window, she took breath.
Twain_Mark_Following_the_E_2895_68950.39They come natural to us; they are involuntary, like breathing.
Thompson_Mauri_Alice_of_Old_Vi_4097_47680.39After a breathing spell he knocked.
Stowe_Harriet_We_and_Our_Neig_48603_56710.39Why, she's nothing but a breathing wax doll; that's all there is to her.
Stoddard_Eliza_The_Morgesons_12347_60580.39Duty sounded through her sighs.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_48610.39Dred had ceased breathing.
Pansy_Three_People_20808_40710.39Could he catch the breathing as distinctly now?
Meade_L_T_The_Children_s_6899_4020.39There was always that hard breathing within, but otherwise no sound.
Marryat_Freder_Newton_Forster_21557_2710.39How many sighs have been lavished at their absence!
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_40310.39I will soon show you one whom you know perfectly well, and who has no other way of breathing.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_50320.39Her gentle little breathing will do me good."
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_20830.39I heard nothing except my own hard breathing.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_53120.39But now, you see, it would be different; you do know; you do see her lying there; you hear what she said with her last breath.
Ford_Paul_Leic_The_Honorable_P_14532_89230.39"It's as easy as breathing, and much nicer."
Ewing_Juliana_Mrs_Overtheway_17772_10640.39I believe I'm the neatest creature breathing, if I'd only somebody to keep me up to it.'
Dickens_Charle_Sketches_by_Boz_882_80120.39They listened for her breath, but no sound came.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_120410.39Philip's breathing was oppressed.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_89650.39Listen: I hear his breathing.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_45690.39She listened almost with bated breath.
Bront_Emily_Wuthering_Heigh_768_58750.39There was another sigh, close at my ear.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Knight_of_the_6311_49900.39Mrs. Arnot did come, and the pure, high-born woman shut the door of the narrow cell, and taking the head of her fallen sister into her lap, listened with responsive tears to the piteous story, as it was told with sighs, sobs, and strong writhings of anguish.
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_12860.39Thus Bernard began to speak, gently at first, as one who rouses a friend from sleep to warn him of danger, and fears to be rough, yet cannot be silent; but by and by, in the breathing stillness, the sweet voice was strengthened and rang like the first clarion at dawn on the day of battle, far off and clear, heart-stirring and true.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_65770.39How long I lay there I know not, whether a few minutes only, or, as I then surmised, near four-and-twenty hours; but the light of day was not wholly gone from the sky when I lifted my head from where it had rested on my hands, and saw that about me in a deep half-circle stood a drift of sheep, all still, save for their heavy breathing, and all gazing in their questioning silence down on me.
Finley_Martha_Grandmother_Els_14883_10610.39The closed eyes and soft breathing telling that they slept, she rose and bent over them a moment, gazing tenderly into each little face, then drawing out her watch and turning to the old nurse, whispered, "It is time for me to dress for dinner, mammy.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_145860.39Here a prolonged imitation of a key-bugle broke upon the ear, succeeded by cheers and screams, all of which evidently proceeded from the throat and lungs of the quietest creature breathing, or in plainer designation, of Mr. Bob Sawyer himself.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_101490.38The party had scarcely reached half the height of the mound, when the light breeze which had been blowing hitherto changed into a regular whirlwind, which began to encircle the mound with a certain gloomy, ominous whistling; and then it appeared to the Cossacks that among those ruins were heard heavy sighs, issuing as it were from straitened breasts, sad groans, laughter, wailing, and puling of infants.
_The_California_13298_4840.38The whirr of turning wheels, the hammers' ring The noise of traffic and the tread of men, The viol's sigh, the scratching of a pen -- All to a vibrant Whole their echoes fling.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_2820.38She made a bold curve around the Battery, and came up to her berth with a slow and measured beat of the engine, blowing off steam at intervals, like a racer drawing breath after sweeping his course.
Sewell_Anna_Black_Beauty_271_7180.38"And now," said master, "when you have got your breath, James, we'll get out of this place as quickly as we can," and we were moving toward the entry, when from the market-place there came a sound of galloping feet and loud rumbling wheels.
Savage_Richard_A_Fascinating_T_5972_24690.38There was a silence punctuated only by Alan Hawke's heavy breathing, until the silent servitor returned, bowing and departing without a word, as he placed the bag at Madame Louison's side.
Munro_Neil_John_Splendid_22321_29140.38But we could keep up this silence of shame no longer than our running: when we sat among the whins on Leven-side, and took a breath and scrutinised along the coast, for sign of food or ferry, we must be talking of what we had left behind.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_51870.38It was not silence, for the river murmured in the stiff reeds, and far off in the midnight forest some beast of the night uttered its cry, but a hush, a holding of the breath, an expectant horror.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_68430.38Job found Mrs. Wilson pacing about in a restless way; not speaking to the woman at whose house she was staying, but occasionally heaving such deep oppressive sighs as quite startled those around her.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_30120.38But growing a little out of breath, and thinking at last that it was of no use to tire himself so soon in the morning, the boy slowly settled down into a walk just as a loud jodel came echoing from the sheltered hollow where the chalet stood.
Catherwood_Mar_The_Lady_of_For_18631_22790.38The soldier in the trench heard a breathing near him, and saw that a number of the ponies, drawn by the light, had left their fitful grazing and were venturing step by step beyond the end of the trench.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_34840.38I, whose best prayer is silence; sitting dumb In the great temple where I nightly serve Him who is throned in light, have dared to claim The poet's franchise, though I may not hope To wear his garland; hear me while I tell My story in such form as poets use, But breathed in fitful whispers, as the wind Sighs and then slumbers, wakes and sighs again.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_27680.38The notes were wild, and the voice not powerful, but the execution exceeded anything that Frances had ever heard; and she stood, endeavoring to stifle the sounds of her own gentle breathing, until the following song was concluded: -- Cold blow the blasts o'er the tops of the mountain, And bare is the oak on the hill; Slowly the vapors exhale from the fountain, And bright gleams the ice-bordered rill; All nature is seeking its annual rest, But the slumbers of peace have deserted my breast.
Streckfuss_Ado_Castle_Hohenwal_34892_52900.38He never suspected that Monsieur Gervais was standing outside his bedroom-door listening with bated breath to every movement of the young officer, and that his ear was not removed from the key-hole until the long, regular breathing inside told him he had nothing to fear from the Uhlan's wakefulness.
Lincoln_Jeanie_An_Unwilling_Ma_10958_4440.38It took scarcely a minute to creep toward Reuben, and Betty drew a quick breath of relief when she perceived that the farmer-bred lad, unaccustomed to night watches, and feeling that his prisoner was secure behind the bolted door, had fallen fast asleep.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_49400.38Three o'clock struck: at the third stroke Fantine, who usually could scarce move in her bed, sat up; she clasped her thin yellow hands in a sort of convulsive grasp, and the nun heard one of those deep sighs, which seem to remove a crushing weight, burst from her chest.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_House_of_th_77_15930.38Hearing the more regular rise and fall of his breath (which, however, even then, instead of being strong and full, had a feeble kind of tremor, corresponding with the lack of vigor in his character), -- hearing these tokens of settled slumber, Hepzibah seized the opportunity to peruse his face more attentively than she had yet dared to do.
Zangwill_Israe_Dreamers_of_the_29875_89720.38To be done with it all -- the sighs and the sobs and the tears, the heart-sinking, the dull dragging days of wretchedness and the nights of pain.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_56790.38Then, while the thunder burst overhead and rolled away, she crept on until she stood beside the pillow, and, stooping, could hear the sleeper's breathing.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_15920.38Mrs. Chester was lying upon the bed sleeping heavily, her cheeks were crimson, and there was some difficulty in her breathing which seemed unnatural.
Souvestre_mil_An_Attic_Philos_3999_8090.38It is a moment of rest from every misery; the sufferings of the sick are allayed, and a breath of hope enters into the hearts of the despairing.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Day_of_Fate_6113_18050.38Her eyes were drooping a little heavily again, and her bosom rose and fell in the long, quiet breath of complete repose.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_72050.38And again and again, as that thought would force itself on me, I rose and crept to Lilian's threshold, listening to catch the faintest sound of her breathing.
James_Henry_The_Spoils_of_P_33325_8430.38She saw his simple stare at his tapestries, heard his heavy tread on his carpets and the hard breath of his sense of unfairness.
Irving_Washing_The_Alhambra_49872_31490.38Why do thy tears trouble my fountain, and thy sighs and plaints disturb the quiet watches of the night?"
Irving_Washing_Astoria_Or_An_1371_16670.38He had scarcely drawn breath after all his toils, when he heard his pursuers on the river bank, whooping and yelling like so many fiends.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_11310.38She had collected all the energies of life in that parting interview, -- nothing remained but a faint, fluttering, quick-drawn breath.
Ford_Paul_Leic_Janice_Meredith_5719_40730.38With a sigh of relief that the goal was attained, she passed through the partly open doorway and paused at last, breathless from her exertion.
Fenn_George_Ma_Yussuf_the_Guid_21378_16390.38About him a terrible struggle was going on; there was heavy, hoarse breathing; men were trampling here and there with falls and struggles upon the scrap of a deck.
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_33430.38When he listened to her breathing, and knew that at last she slept, his grey head sank on his chest, and he murmured, inaudibly, "Thank God!"
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Wilderness_30335_8370.38The senses of the girl were preternaturally acute, and still more, she was no less convinced that she could hear the breathing of the savage as he crept slowly forward.
Edgeworth_Mari_Tales_and_Novel_8826_51320.38"Isabella," said Mrs. Harcourt, from whom a scarcely audible sigh had escaped -- "Isabella really reads French almost as well as she does English."
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_54050.38'I heard ye say once,' she croaks under her breath, 'I heard ye say once, when I was lying where you're lying, and you were making your speculations upon me, "Unintelligible!"
Custer_Elizabe_Tenting_on_the_40731_18360.38One hour we are so suffocated with the heavy, oppressive air, we sit in the deep window-sills and pant for breath.
Crockett_S_R_Joan_of_the_Swo_41803_41390.38If a woman is happier listening to a man's quiet breathing than she has ever been hearkening to any other's flattery, it is no longer an affair -- it is a passion.
Cooper_James_F_The_Red_Rover_11409_57810.38The stir among the crew was but of a moment's continuance, and it was succeeded by the breathing stillness which has already been noticed in our pages on a similar occasion.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Moonstone_155_80980.38At night again, when I was secretly at work, locked into my room, I heard the breathing of the women servants who suspected me, outside my door.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_74100.38At length the throbbing breath and quivering voice died down, and there was a moment's silence, in which the dull rumble in the church seemed to come from far away.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Men_2788_7350.38In a most impressive whisper Tommy told them, and they looked as if the sky was about to fall, for this reversing the order of things almost took their breath away.
Stephens_Rober_An_Enemy_to_the_9965_10630.38So we lunged and parried in the darkness, making no sound but by our heavy breathing and an occasional ejaculation and the tramping of our feet, the knocking of our bodies against unseen pieces of furniture, and the clashing of our blades when they met.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_28520.38Closer he drew her to his side; she felt his breath upon her cheek; and an inaudible answer trembled on her lips, when noiselessly through the door came Mr. Graham , starting when he saw their position, and offering to withdraw if he was intruding.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_54120.37"Yes, for a moment," he resumed, "he had mistaken the prisoner for his wife, and in the darkness held her to his bosom for a single moment; during that brief time, a strange swell heaved at his heart, and took away his breath; it subsided into a heavy pain, which hung about him for days, though the woman had departed before he could look upon her face, and he had not heard the sound of her voice.
Ewing_Juliana_Melchior_s_Drea_16540_20440.37When the night was far advanced the men rose from their knees, and Monsieur the Viscount persuaded Antoine to lie down on his pallet, and when the gaoler's heavy breathing told that he was asleep, Monsieur the Viscount felt relieved to be alone once more -- alone, except for Monsieur Crapaud, whose round fiery eyes were open as usual.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69040.37It was night before Helen again woke, and her first thought was of escape; but as she softly rose to a sitting posture, she felt that one of the girls was by her side, and as she listened to her regular breathing, and tried in the darkness to collect her thoughts and to recall exactly where the door and window lay, the black night seemed a little less black just in one particular part of the room, and she realised that the window must lie there.
Watts_Dunton_T_Aylwin_13454_88500.37If my misery could then only find expression in sighs and occasional ejaculations of pain, absolutely dumb was the bliss that came to me now, growing in power with every moment, as the scepticism of my mind about the reality of the new heaven before me gave way to the triumphant acceptance of it by my senses and my soul.
Stowe_Harriet_The_Chimney_Cor_45415_12260.37But at night, when he sits down in a little room where the air reeks with the vapor of his neighbor's breath and the smoke of kerosene lamps, he finds himself suddenly dull and drowsy, -- without emotion, without thought, without feeling, -- and he rises and reproaches himself for this state of things.
Eliot_George_Silas_Marner_550_1920.37The livelong day he sat in his loom, his ear filled with its monotony, his eyes bent close down on the slow growth of sameness in the brownish web, his muscles moving with such even repetition that their pause seemed almost as much a constraint as the holding of his breath.
Cooper_James_F_The_Headsman_O_10938_31020.37The most eager attention pervaded the crowd as they listened to these little particulars, and Adelheid trembled in this delicate part of the proceedings, as the suppressed but still audible breathing of Sigismund reached her ear, lest something might occur to give a rude shock to his feelings.
Castlemon_Harr_No_Moss_Or_Th_33226_19330.37Tom drew his breath more rapidly than usual, as he crawled noiselessly over the rail and across the deck, and when he crouched at the head of the ladder and listened to that conversation between the anchor-watch, which we have already recorded, his heart thumped against his ribs with a noise that frightened him.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_11010.37A second long-drawn sigh was preparing to follow its predecessor, when he heard the clock strike eight, and sprang off the bed in a fright; for he ought to have been at the shop an hour before.
Warner_Susan_Melbourne_House_18686_53990.37Daisy's eyes were closed; the knitted brow had smoothed itself out in slumber; the deep breath told how profound was the need that weakness and weariness had made.
Stoddard_Eliza_The_Morgesons_12347_7150.37Although it was so near us that we could hear the bellrope whistle in its grooves, and its last hoarse breath in the belfry, there was no reverberation of its clang in the house; the rock under us struck back its voice.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_62900.37But all her gentle wiles were insufficient to keep the little fellow awake; he began to breathe more and more deeply, and, overcome by the soft mesmerism of his breath, she fell asleep also.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_a_35377_33330.37And when his deep, regular breathing gave them notice that he was asleep, they assembled together in an immense crowd, spreading over a space of about twenty-seven feet square.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_15550.37She pretended to read diligently, and not to listen to a word that was said, while in fact she heard all sounds, even to Jem's long, deep sighs, which wrung her heart.
Gaskell_Elizab_Cousin_Phillis_4268_16780.37The minister stood looking out of the window in silence, and when he roused himself to go out to the fields where his labourers were working, it was with a sigh; and he tried to avert his troubled face as he passed us on his way to the door.
Field_Eugene_The_Holy_Cross_21807_18320.37"Look you here, neighbor," quoth the clock, in petulant tones, "you are sadly mistaken if you think you will be permitted to disturb our peace and harmony with your constant sighs and groans.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_7480.37"Ah, there he goes," said Mark, beneath his breath, as he stood motionless, and watched a large raven flapping along, high overhead, in the direction he was taking.
Ebers_Georg_Uarda_a_Roman_5449_69140.37He listened to the breathing of his companions, then he approached the poet, unfastened the ring which fettered his ankle to that of Nebsecht, and endeavored to wake the physician, but in vain.
Dickens_Charle_Bleak_House_1023_178930.37Howbeit, the day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room before his stertorous breathing lulls or his fixed eyes show any consciousness of the candle that is occasionally passed before them.
Chambers_Rober_Cardigan_38958_51880.37Through the frightful stillness the painful breathing of the people swept like a smothered cry; women in the balcony were sobbing; somewhere a child wept uncomforted.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_129980.37Then, with a long breath and a curious emotion, he went to try and sleep himself into the new day.
Trollope_Antho_Ralph_the_Heir_25579_72070.37At five o'clock on the following morning his last breath had been drawn, and his life had passed away from him.
Thompson_Mauri_Alice_of_Old_Vi_4097_38560.37Beverley tried to rise, uttering a sleepy ejaculation under his breath.
Sidney_Margare_The_Stories_Pol_49471_26590.37that’s the middle of the night.” “Well, if you think that’s early, what do you think of five o’clock,” said Ben under his breath.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_5632_48790.37"How good it is that she sleeps through it all," said Polly, listening to the regular breathing.
Sand_George_Mauprat_2194_26810.37At first I thought I had been dreaming; I remained where I was, held my breath and listened.
Reade_Charles_Foul_Play_3702_22610.37Loud sighs broke from his laboring breast; but not a word.
Osbourne_Lloyd_The_Wrecker_1024_32460.37We lay our course; we had been doing over eight since nine the night before; and I drew a heavy breath of satisfaction.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_42580.37Their breathing in common was just heard if either drew a deeper breath.
MacDonald_Geor_The_Marquis_of_7174_61700.37The wind had now fallen to the softest breath, and the little vessel came on slowly.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_54150.37With a deep sigh the queen entered her sleeping-room.
Hugo_Victor_Toilers_of_the_32338_83410.37He thought of a gentle breathing moving a woman's breast.
Howitt_William_Homes_and_Haunt_41164_38170.37Clean, quiet, sweet, and breathing of the olden time.
Hough_Emerson_The_Girl_at_the_14948_37900.37A sigh, a shiver, a little rustling sound passed over the crowd.
Holmes_Oliver_Ralph_Waldo_Eme_12700_3940.37It is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_93930.37Ernestine's short, quick breathing showed what a struggle was going on within her.
Harte_Bret_The_Luck_of_Roa_6373_46830.37The sigh was quite as sincere in its way, however, and after a moment of serious silence he asked about her father.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_58130.37With a sigh for all that was, and all that might have been, Beatrice lay down and soon slept sweetly as a child.
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_47500.37There was a swaying sound among the crowd, as if they had drawn breath for the first time.
Dickens_Charle_Sketches_by_Boz_882_28270.37The girl's colour changed, and her breathing grew more difficult.
Cooper_James_F_The_Sea_Lions_10545_42220.37Not a voice was heard in either vessel; scarcely a breath was drawn!
Catherwood_Mar_Lazarre_15108_42100.37Next morning there was such a delicious world to live in that breathing was a pleasure.
Castlemon_Harr_Marcy_The_Block_29387_2170.37The latter looked just as he did the last time Marcy saw him -- too lazy to take a long breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_64800.37An all-consuming shame sat upon him, and around him was the deep breathing of the people.
Barrie_J_M_Tommy_and_Grize_11901_65630.37There was no answer to him save the checked breathing and another broken cry.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_39300.37He stood before the bed and, with bated breath, watched the sleeping one.
Smollett_T_T_The_Expedition_2160_35400.36His heart, however, was still subject to vibrations of tenderness, which returned at certain intervals, extorting sighs, and tears, and exclamations of grief and impatience: but these fits grew every day less violent and less frequent, 'till at length his reason obtained a complete victory over the infirmities of his nature.
Harte_Bret_A_Waif_of_the_P_2279_16490.36In the cloistered galleries of the court-yard Clarence sometimes felt himself borne down by the protecting weight of this paternal hand; in the midnight silence of the dormitory he fancied he was often conscious of the soft browsing tread and snuffly muffled breathing of his elephantine-footed mentor.
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_27930.36Far off upon the prairie she heard the night-winds come and go, -- now moaning like some vast spirit wandering disquieted, now falling soft and low as the breath of the sleeping earth; and the vague voice and the cool touch seemed to quiet the fever of the young girl's heart, although she knew not how or why.
Warner_Susan_The_Wide_Wide_18689_13650.36Ellen was lying in the deep, sweet sleep of childhood; the easy position, the gentle breathing, and the flush of health upon the cheek, showed that all causes of sorrow were for the present far removed.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_80560.36It made the officers start and look at each other with meaning eyes; but the old man slept on, and the sound might have been the sigh of an angel, instead of the hideous death-signal that it was, for it only disturbed that tranquil slumber pleasantly, as it would seem.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_116130.36In the room followed black darkness; the strugglers gathered into such a dense crowd that they could strike with fists only; after a while cries ceased; only panting breaths could be heard, and the orderless stamp of boots.
Major_Charles_Dorothy_Vernon_14671_39940.36She laid her head upon his breast, and softly passing her hand over the lace of his doublet, whispered: -- "If I could believe they were lies, I could easily forgive you," she answered between low sobs and soft sighs.
Jackson_Helen_Glimpses_of_Thr_42009_43990.36The fjord was so glassy smooth, as we sailed up, that even the "Jupiter" could not roll, but glided; and seemed to try to hush its jarring sounds, as if holding its breath, with sense of the shame it was to disturb such sunny silence.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_36980.36Accordingly, that night, when assured by his heavy breathing that he was asleep, she crept softly from his side, and rummaging his pockets, found a daguerreotype, which by the full moonlight she saw was a fac-simile of the one she had in her possession.
Higgins_Emily_Holidays_at_the_18907_16240.36Watching intently to see if any other show was forthcoming, the skeleton as suddenly disappeared as it had come, and she heard various sepulchral groans and sighs, with a running commentary of the rattling of chains and jingling of keys.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_64430.36Some faint breaths of the scandal that so closely and dishonorably connects his name with Cecilia's have reached his ears, and, knowing of her engagement with Cyril, he has hastened to Chetwoode to clear her in the eyes of its world.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_62330.36There was an utter stillness, save for the sharp breathing of the Lady Tiphaine and for the gentle soughing of the wind outside, which wafted to their ears the distant call upon a swine-herd's horn.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_29020.36Evidence has already been given showing that this muscle sometimes contracts, perhaps for the sake of opening the mouth widely, when the breathing is rendered difficult by disease, and during the deep inspirations of crying-fits before an operation.
Crockett_S_R_Lochinvar_A_No_45495_7190.36It was not the heavy, regular to-and-fro respiration of unconscious sleep, but rather the quicker and shorter breathing of one who has recently undergone severe exertion, and whose heart still runs fast ahead.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_32830.36In the small hours she often thought she heard some one breathing on the other side of the door, close to the lock, and once she was quite sure that a single ray of light flashed through the keyhole, below the half-turned key.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_15350.36"I'm not asleep, mamma," came in a drowsy voice from the sofa, but almost at the same moment the measured breath slowed down, the watch-lights blinked themselves out, and the little soul slid away into the darksome kingdom of unconsciousness.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_76180.36It was as if a delicious spell had been cast upon the congregation, which held them bound until the last note of the exquisite voice, even the last reverberation of the organ accompaniment, had trembled into silence, and then there was a movement, a flutter, a great sigh of relief heaved, so to speak, as if the pleasure had been too great, and nerves and senses were glad to be released from the tension of it.
Scott_Walter_Woodstock_or_9785_1060.36Thus having done an hour together, it walkt into the withdrawing-room, where lodged the two captains, the secretary, and two servants; here stopt the thing a while, as if it did take breath, but raised a hideous one, then walkt into the bed-chamber, where lay those as before, and under the bed it went, where it did heave and heave again, that now they in bed were put to catch hold upon bed-posts, and sometimes one of the other, to prevent their being tumbled out upon the ground; then coming out as from under the bed, and taking hold upon the bed-posts, it would shake the whole bed, almost as if a cradle rocked.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_50760.36The room was so very warm, the tobacco so very good, and the fire so very soothing, that Mr Willet by degrees began to doze; but as he had perfectly acquired, by dint of long habit, the art of smoking in his sleep, and as his breathing was pretty much the same, awake or asleep, saving that in the latter case he sometimes experienced a slight difficulty in respiration (such as a carpenter meets with when he is planing and comes to a knot), neither of his companions was aware of the circumstance, until he met with one of these impediments and was obliged to try again.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_74270.36Kate sat, listening to the heavy breathing, broken by half-delirious moans, and changing the cool cloths, while the stars dipped and the gray of dawn grew to that dominant bubble of the mosque; and, as she sat, a thousand wild schemes to help this man, who had helped her for so long, passed through her brain, filling her with a certain gladness.
Munroe_Kirk_Under_the_Great_19235_19800.36Although the outer garments of wolf fur belonging to the mysterious stranger were also missing, our lads were not at first at all uneasy concerning his absence, but imagined that their guest had merely gone for a breath of fresh air or to examine the situation of the schooner by daylight.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_4970.36Mrs. Murray administered a dose of medicine given to her by Dr. Rodney, and after closing the blinds to exclude the light, she felt the girl's pulse, found that she had fallen into a heavy sleep, and then, with a sigh, went down to take her breakfast.
Cooper_James_F_The_Prairie_6450_20640.36In less than half an hour the breathing of Esther became so profound, and, as the Doctor himself might have termed it, so very abstracted, that had he not known how easy it was to ascribe this new instance of somnolency to the powerful dose of opium with which he had garnished the brandy, he might have seen reason to distrust his own prescription.
Abbott_Jacob_Rollo_in_Paris_22956_13310.36Here Mr. George fell into a long and uncontrollable paroxysm of laughter, during the intervals of which he said, in broken language, as he walked about the room endeavoring to get breath and recover his self-control, that it was the best thing he had heard since he landed at Liverpool.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_134180.36They got the wife out of the room between them -- a perfect log -- you could hear her heavy breathing from the kitchen opposite.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_15960.36She crept towards the graves, holding her breath, afraid of the solitude and darkness, afraid and yet fascinated.
Smith_Francis_Caleb_West_Mas_42362_45240.36Betty crept behind the panels, watching him through the crack, stifling her breath lest she should miss his first word.
Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieut_25886_33300.36said he in a gentle whisper, as insinuating as the breath of a summer evening to a love-sick girl.
Mitchell_S_We_The_Adventures_43241_59610.36"It is this or death," he muttered under his breath, and stood reflecting, having heard no sounds approaching overhead.
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_5220.36From sixteen to thirty, the music in the breath of applause is sweeter than all the music your voice can utter!"
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_7340.36Between two breaths what crowded mysteries lie, -- The first short gasp, the last and long-drawn sigh!
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_61450.36I dared not ask him the cause of his emotion, I could only watch him with quick-drawn breath, and lips sealed with dread.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_f_32242_23680.36He drew in the water, with long and pleasant sighs, and tranquil pauses of enjoyment; and then another draught, and another, and another.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_at_Ion_48356_12420.36A sound like that of retreating footsteps followed; then all was quiet, and Hector drew a long breath of relief.
Fenn_George_Ma_Yussuf_the_Guid_21378_19020.36Lawrence lay awake long enough to hear the professor's deep breathing, and his muttering of something once or twice.
Eliot_George_Daniel_Deronda_7469_70670.36Deronda had now noticed more decisively than in their former interview a difficulty in breathing, which he thought must be a sign of consumption.
Eckstein_Ernst_Quintus_Claudiu_47221_19900.36The young Northman's grip had fairly taken his breath away, and a sign from Lycoris that he might withdraw was evidently welcome to him.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_81450.36"She is awfully lovely," says Mr. Bellair, evidently continuing a conversation, and saying it with an audible sigh; "quite too lovely for me."
Dickson_Harris_The_Black_Wolf_20330_17620.36So regular did it come, so unvaried, I grew to count the seconds under my breath, and to note its monotonous precision.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_28190.36After a long interval, Barnaby's breathing grew more deep and regular, and his eyes were closed.
Crockett_S_R_The_Lilac_Sunbo_4918_33690.36At intervals there was the ghastly, half-human growling and the sobbing catch of some one striving for breath.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_129790.36And she returned to Thelma, who still slept, though her face was now feverishly flushed and her breathing hurried and irregular.
Cooper_James_F_The_Two_Admiral_20475_17630.36"Sir Wycherly is one of the kindest-hearted men, breathing," she said, a little hurriedly; "and there is not a better landlord in England.
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_176040.36She saw nothing but the glimmering light in the room; she heard nothing but a hoarse gasping, as of some person laboring for breath.
Chambers_Rober_Lorraine_A_Rom_24181_38850.36Sir Thorald's breathing was horrible to hear when they stooped and lifted him; Alixe was crying.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_57880.36He had taken off his boots and was walking lightly in his stockings; but Kate felt his approach by his asthmatic breathing.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_97940.36There was a moment's pause during which nothing could be heard but the quick breathing of the Capuchin and the scratching of the secretary's pen.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_120780.36There was silence for a moment, save for the shouting outside, and then John said, with a sigh and a look of resignation, "Very well, let me out, then," and he turned to the door.
Barr_Robert_In_the_Midst_of_9263_40530.36His breathing came soft and regular, and his body leaned toward the constable, who sat bolt upright.
Lincoln_Jeanie_An_Unwilling_Ma_10958_4130.35The clock on the stairs struck twelve and Geoffrey, roused from the light slumber into which he had fallen, heard the steps outside his door as Josiah Huntington was joined by Reuben, who was to relieve his guard, and straightened himself, with a long breath, as he rose from his chair.
King_Charles_Marion_s_Faith_20305_7490.35She strove hard to control the weakness which had seized her, and, for support, rested her head upon the casement and took two or three long breaths; then with a murmured prayer for strength she gently opened the door, and the soft swish of her trailing skirts announced her presence.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_56000.35Watch by thy child lying gasping for breath and on the brink of death; or see thy wife slipping gradually after the child away to that outermost edge, worn out by fear and many night-watches, then love will teach thee this, that life is first.
Swedenborg_Ema_Angelic_Wisdom_16627_26520.35(1) From thought: No one is able to think except with the concurrence and concordance of the pulmonary respiration; consequently, when he thinks tacitly he breathes tacitly, if he thinks deeply he breathes deeply; he draws in the breath and lets it out, contracts and expands the lungs, slowly or quickly, eagerly, gently, or intently, all in conformity to his thought, thus to the influx of affection from love; yea, if he hold the breath entirely he is unable to think, except in his spirit by its respiration, which is not manifestly perceived.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_32020.35His Bible was thus marked through, from one end to the other, with a variety of styles and designations; so he could in a moment seize upon his favorite passages, without the labor of spelling out what lay between them; -- and while it lay there before him, every passage breathing of some old home scene, and recalling some past enjoyment, his Bible seemed to him all of this life that remained, as well as the promise of a future one.
Scott_Walter_The_Antiquary_7005_37250.35The wooded glen repeated, to every successive gust that hurried through its narrow trough, the deep and various groan with which the trees replied to the whirlwind, and the sound sunk again, as the blast passed away, into a faint and passing murmur, resembling the sighs of an exhausted criminal after the first pangs of his torture are over.
Zangwill_Israe_The_Master_a_N_49795_23510.35Bewildered and still half asleep, they obeyed -- in bleating, quavering tones that came through chattering teeth to an accompaniment of cloudy breath.
Weyman_Stanley_Shrewsbury_A_R_39137_56690.35And presently watching these and listening to the regularity of his breathing, I laid my head down and did the last thing I proposed to do or should have thought possible; for I fell asleep.
Warner_Susan_Melbourne_House_18686_52570.35The eyelids closed, and Juanita's stealthy examination found that quiet soft breathing was really proving her fast asleep.
Jackson_Helen_Ramona_2802_49160.35It was long before the Senora went to her room; and long after that before Felipe's breathing had become so deep and regular that Ramona dared feel sure that he was asleep.
Howe_E_W_Ed_The_Story_of_a_47575_31860.35Jo pretended not to see him, continuing to work at the oars, but I could hear his hot, heavy breathing, and knew that he was in great excitement.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_31970.35The drums appeared to be muffled, and the trumpets poured forth a wailing breath which at once hushed the merriment of the auditors, filling all with wonder and some with apprehension.
Harris_Joel_Ch_On_the_Plantati_50701_14470.35Away off in the woods he could hear the storm coming, sounding like a long-drawn sigh at first, and then falling with a sweeping rush and roar.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_childre_14875_39540.35They brought him back to consciousness, and he heard her bitter sighs and moans; he knew she thought him dead and mourned as for one who was very dear.
Dickens_Charle_Hard_Times_786_770.35One corpulent slow boy, with a wheezy manner of breathing, ventured the answer, Because he wouldn’t paper a room at all, but would paint it.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_61770.35While thoughts like these were rising in his mind, Mabel, who watched the slightest change in his breathing, heard a guarded knock at the door.
Carlyle_Thomas_The_French_Revo_1301_82050.35They start and stop, passing that Glaciere, snuffing its horrible breath; with wild yell, with cries of "Cut the Butcher down!"
Meade_L_T_The_Lady_of_the_39705_17020.35It is true that little Phil had entered the land of dreams; it is also true that in that enchanted land he went through experiences so delightful, through adventures so thrilling, that when in the dull gray November morning he awoke to listen to his mother's monotonous breathing, he simply could do nothing but step out of bed and determine to follow his dreams if necessary to the end of the world.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_60770.35Sometimes he raised his hand, and gently and mechanically moved to and fro the long locks of her hair, as they spread over the head of the couch; but he never turned to communicate with the other persons in the room -- he sat as if he saw nothing save his daughter's figure stretched before him, and heard nothing save the faint, fluttering sound of her breathing, close at his ear.
Weyman_Stanley_Sophia_A_Roman_39168_22380.35The room was silent save for her breathing, that now came in quick spasms as she thought of the false lover, and now was slow and deep as she sat sunk in a shamed reverie.
Weyman_Stanley_Shrewsbury_A_R_39137_8160.35They held me; scarcely breathing, I listened to them, until they died away in the distance of the summer night, and only the sharp insistent chirp of the cricket, singing in the garden below, came to my ears.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_157450.35sweet is the ray Which after thy night introduces the day; How concealed, how persuasive, self-interest's breath, Though it floats to mine ear from the bosom of Death!
Optic_Oliver_The_Young_Lieut_25886_35640.35Somers was tempted to grapple him by the throat, as he listened to the young villain's subdued breathing; but he feared that he would scream if he did so, and it was necessary to achieve his conquest in a more gentle manner.
Kingsley_Flore_Stephen_A_Sold_41655_32150.35After he had gone thus for a long distance -- his breath being well-nigh spent and his laboring heart knocking loudly for relief -- he paused, and withdrawing his fingers from his ears, listened.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_25560.35Then the child drew a deep breath, and stretched her arms out into the darkness as if to clasp the forms of her vanished faith; but her arms encountered only the empty air.
Henty_G_A_G_A_Knight_of_the_4932_30890.35There was not a breath of air, and before starting, pieces of cloth were wrapped round the oars at the rowlocks to deaden the sound, which might otherwise have been heard at a considerable distance on so still a night.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_80340.35The night waned, the life with it; now and then the breathing seemed to cease, but after a few seconds a faint gasp told that the clay would not yet forego its hold on the soul that struggled to be free.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_31220.35There was a pause of shuffling feet and hard breathing, broken by the thud of a tremendous body blow from Wilson, which the smith stopped with the utmost coolness.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_69820.35In the half-darkness, Taquisara set his teeth, biting hard, as though he would have bitten through iron, lest a sharp breath should escape him and disturb the sleeper's rest.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_12550.35The paddle was used lightly, and only with exceeding care; for the slightest sound in the breathing stillness of that hour and place might apprise the watchful ears of the Iroquois of their position.
Cooper_James_F_The_Deerslayer_3285_53790.35A minute later, his breathing grew ghastly; a pause totally without respiration followed; and, then, succeeded the last, long drawn sigh, on which the spirit is supposed to quit the body.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Uncle_Max_16080_91420.35I had finished my breakfast, and had helped Chatty arrange the turret-room for the day, when I heard the long-drawn sigh that often preluded Gladys's waking.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Uncle_Max_16080_15640.35I had drawn the round table to the bed, and left the night-light and cooling drink beside the sick woman; she was propped up with pillows, and her breathing seemed easier.
Ballantyne_R_Deep_Down_a_Ta_21726_14090.35Poor Mr Donnithorne stopped here, partly owing to shortness of breath, and partly because he had excited himself to a pitch that rendered coherent speech difficult.
Alger_Horatio_Paul_Prescott_s_293_17250.35He listened with rapt attention and suspended breath till the last note died away, and then sank back upon the richly cushioned seat with a feeling of enjoyment.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Women_514_82290.35As Beth had hoped, the 'tide went out easily', and in the dark hour before dawn, on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh.
Marryat_Freder_Peter_Simple_21577_44020.34Towards noon, his breathing became much oppressed and irregular, and he was evidently dying, the rattle in his throat commenced; and I watched at his bedside, waiting for his last grasp, when he again opened his eyes, and beckoning me, with an effort, to put my head close to him to hear what he had to say, he contrived in a sort of gurgling whisper, and with much difficulty, to utter -- "Peter, I'm going now -- not that the rattle -- in my throat -- is a sign of death: for I once knew a man -- to live with -- the rattle in his throat -- for six weeks."
Ryan_Marah_Ell_The_Bondwoman_29581_58330.34And the commotion and deep breathing of the men prevented them hearing the soft rustle of a woman's dress in the hall as Judithe slipped away into the darkness of the sitting room, and thence up the back stairs.
Holland_J_G_The_Mistress_of_13052_3470.34Ambition was an alien word, Which Mildred faintly understood; Its poisoned breathing had not blurred The whiteness of her womanhood, Nor had its blatant trumpet stirred To quicker pulse her heart content.
Ewing_Juliana_Jan_of_the_Wind_5601_8100.34When Mrs. Lake found time to come to the corner where the old press-bed stood, the kitten was asleep, and Jan very nearly so; and by them sat Abel, watching every breath that his foster-brother drew.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_31520.34Philippus heaved a sigh of relief when the ecclesiastics had departed, and constantly renewed the wet compress, while the dying governor lay for a long time in silence with his eyes shut.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_68610.34Dr. Howe scarcely knew how it was that there was a whist party in his library one Friday evening; rather a silent one, with a few sighs from the Misses Woodhouse and a suspicious dimness in Mr. Dale's eyes.
Corelli_Marie_The_Sorrows_of_42332_44970.34With a sigh of relief I flung myself on the luxurious bed, -- a couch fit for a king, draped with the richest satin elaborately embroidered, -- and falling soundly asleep I dreamed that I was poor again.
Allen_James_La_Flute_and_Violi_50597_32090.34Only some little novice, lying like a flushed figure of Sleep on a couch of snow, may have stirred to draw one sigh, as those zephyrs, toying with her warm hair, broke some earthly dream of too much tenderness.
Scott_Walter_Waverley_Novels_6661_25100.34Its breathing was even heard, and Count Robert thought he felt the heat of its respiration, while his defenceless limbs might not be two yards distant from the fangs which he heard grinding against each other, and the claws which tore up fragments of wood from the oaken floor.
Phillpotts_Ede_Children_of_the_14527_70310.34Blanchard and young Ted Chown had set about their annual labour of saving the hay, and now a rhythmic breathing of two scythes and merry clink of whetstones against steel sounded afar on the sleepy summer air.
Lynde_Francis_The_Master_of_A_17690_29260.34His burrow in the leaf bed chanced to be next to mine, and I could hear his steady breathing, light and long-drawn, like that of some wild creature -- as, truly, he was -- sleeping with all the senses alert to spring awake at a touch or the snapping of a twig.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_22370.34His breath heaved his chest at long and unequal intervals, his eye, fixed ten or twelve yards ahead, seemed to be studying with profound attention the shape of an old fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69550.34It did not seem so dark now, or else her eyes were more accustomed to the want of light, for she found the window directly; and as she took hold of the bamboo bars, the hot night air came in a heavy puff against her face, fierce and glowing, as if it were some watching monster's breath.
Defoe_Daniel_The_Life_and_Ad_521_14330.34Upon this, plucking up my courage, I took up a firebrand, and in I rushed again, with the stick flaming in my hand: I had not gone three steps in before I was almost as frightened as before; for I heard a very loud sigh, like that of a man in some pain, and it was followed by a broken noise, as of words half expressed, and then a deep sigh again.
Warner_Susan_The_Wide_Wide_18689_57450.34In the still, wakeful hours of night, when the only sound to be heard was the heavy breathing of her aunt asleep on the floor by her side; and in the long, solitary day, when the only variety to be looked for was Miss Fortune's flitting in and out, and there came to be a sameness about that � Ellen mourned her loss bitterly.
Davis_Richard_Captain_Macklin_6015_33930.34I remember the ceaseless booming of the thunder that shook the houseslike an earthquake, the futile popping of revolvers, the whining shells overhead, the cries and groans, the Spanish oaths, and the heavy breathing of my men about me, and always just in front of us, the breathless whir of the gatling.
Weyman_Stanley_The_Castle_Inn_11918_39300.34But Mr. Fishwick, the pacific witness of this strange meeting, awaited the issue with staring eyes, his heart in his mouth; and was mightily relieved when the silence, which the heavy breathing of Mr. Dunborough's horse did but intensify, was broken on the last comer's side, by nothing worse than a constrained laugh.
Stephens_Rober_The_Continental_30589_14690.34He was conscious for a time of nothing but his deadened pain, his inward comfort, the breathing of old Mr. Valentine, the intermittent raging of the wind without, and the steady ticking of the clock on the mantel, -- which delicately framed timepiece had been started within the hour by Sam, who knew Miss Elizabeth's will for having all things in running order.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_33240.34But when I was alone, with the door shut, and the curtains of my bed drawn close, all this pride and strength gave way; my brain grew hot; the very breath choked me as it rose; I could neither sleep nor rest, but walked the room all night, wondering if she thought of him too, if he were watching the light in her window, or if both were asleep and dreaming of each other.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_42400.34Sighs of the winds that blew over a little garden-tomb were mingled with them also, and both were audible to Lucie, in a hushed murmur -- like the breathing of a summer sea asleep upon a sandy shore -- as the little Lucie, comically studious at the task of the morning, or dressing a doll at her mother's footstool, chattered in the tongues of the Two Cities that were blended in her life.
Woolson_Consta_Horace_Chase_39067_52440.33At the end of a few weeks, even the breathing ceased.
Schubin_Ossip_Erlach_Court_35541_23780.33"He never knew how I suffered," the Princess sighs.
Merriman_Henry_Dross_20243_38230.33Giraud's laboured breathing alone broke it.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_59460.33Within the palace they listened with suspended breath.
Jacobs_W_W_A_Master_Of_Cra_21929_2480.33The breathing continuing quite undisturbed, she coughed again, twice.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_57650.33"I am not here to listen to abuse, so you can save your breath.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_3210.33She sprang up, and her breath came quick and angrily.
Hentz_Caroline_Helen_and_Arthu_23106_15090.33I hear some one breathing in the grotto besides you, Helen.
Green_Anna_Kat_Lost_Man_s_Lane_33305_7690.33Indeed, I thought that now I heard a palpitating breath.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_9880.33He met with an echo even louder than his sigh.
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_37560.33He ignored his feeble and laboring breath of life.
Figuier_Louis_The_Insect_Worl_45596_2580.33-- Organs of circulation and breathing in an insect.
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Hunters_of_22646_12210.33He observed it in his breathing, which was as soft as that of an infant.
Curtis_George_The_Potiphar_Pa_6453_16600.33You remember when you did believe, but you remember with a shudder and a sigh.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_8860.33Holding his breath, he listened -- but there was no sound.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_1210.33Nothing can be wasted, -- not a breath, not a scene, not a sound.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_10170.33under his breath without the slightest idea of irreverence.
Cooper_James_F_The_Red_Rover_11409_33200.33Then followed a short and apprehensive breathing pause.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_61680.33Beyond this, nothing was so loud as the breathing of the wounded man.
Collins_Wilkie_I_Say_No_1629_30670.33Give me a little breathing time, and you shall hear."
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Uncle_Max_16080_50830.33The breathing is certainly less difficult: the inflammation is diminishing.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_145980.33His breathing made noises in his nostrils. "
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_72880.33"You've got to get him up to his room," she said, between gusts of breath.
Barrie_J_M_A_Window_in_Thr_20914_3980.33His breathing became heavier, till it was a gasp.
Bacheller_Irvi_D_Ri_and_I_A_T_12440_25580.33I could hear no breathing, no rustle of garments near me.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_39150.33'There is no breathing in there, and they'll begin talking the most intolerable nonsense presently.
Warner_Susan_Melbourne_House_18686_52590.33Daisy's breathing was too soft to be heard, and Juanita almost held her own lest it should be too soon disturbed.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_61020.33"No, papa," said the child; but her short, hard breathing alarmed her father.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_54310.33"Yes, ma'am," says Topsy, with a deep sigh, and a face of woful earnestness.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_68630.33There they waited, hushing their breaths, listening for the echo of his step on the stairs.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_81160.33Meanwhile Basia's breath grew heavier, and changed by degrees to a rattling.
Roe_Edward_Pay_An_Original_Bel_5437_6100.33You have made this outpouring of my heart seem as natural as breathing, for when you look as you do to-night, I can almost think aloud to you.
Richardson_Alb_The_Secret_Serv_44865_70840.33We hugged the earth and held our breaths, listening to the beating of our own hearts.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_12630.33She has noticed her son's abstracted air, and heard sighs that seemed to come from his inner heart.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_36900.33Edwin thought the sound of those sighs was the same he had often heard from the object of his search.
Phelps_Elizabe_Loveliness_A_S_35966_660.33His short ecstatic breath mingled with the gentle breathing of the child.
Osbourne_Lloyd_The_Wrecker_1024_42010.33I got to my feet when I had done, drew a deep breath, and stared hard at Honolulu.
Howells_Willia_A_Hazard_of_New_4600_48800.33They went along fallen from the gay spirit of their talk into a silence which he broke with a sigh.
Hope_Anthony_The_Prisoner_of_95_22780.33"None nearer than Strelsau, for instance," said poor Fritz, with a lovelorn sigh.
Holland_J_G_Bitter_Sweet_A_6442_7580.33Every sound Was music to me; every sight was peace; And breathing was the drinking of perfume.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_60680.33Margaret listened with a subdued countenance and a long drawn sigh.
Frederic_Harol_The_Market_Plac_298_43700.33It seemed a long minute before he broke the tense silence by a sigh of discomfort.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_37560.33Sound after sound came from the opening, but not such as they longed with bated breath to hear.
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_26920.33On the steps by which they rise to the Cathedral, Durdles pauses for new store of breath.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_73770.33There is terror in the carriage, there is weeping, there is the heavy breathing of the insensible traveller.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_33580.33I heard her breath quickening -- I felt her hand growing cold.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_4290.33The sound of his measured breathing startled Philip with the terror of loneliness.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_34950.33The little one had again been restless in her sleep, but now, with a long breath, she settled herself in sweet repose.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_96400.33Its breathing seemed difficult; sometimes it started in terror; it was feverish and suffered thirst.
Alger_Horatio_The_Young_Adven_27300_15730.33He stepped in, moderating even his breathing, and took up a pair of pants which lay on a chair.
Alger_Horatio_Slow_and_Sure_25151_25500.33Julius felt his breath on his face, but gave no sign that he was still awake.
Woolson_Consta_Anne_A_Novel_32707_92060.33When found, her face wore a natural and sweet expression, as though she had passed from slumber into death without even a sigh.
Warner_Susan_Hills_of_the_Sh_16918_110450.33The windows were open, but with the sultry breath of August little din of business came into the room; the place was very quiet.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_7410.33Like a spirit she glided on, and but for her breathing she might have been taken for something truly supernatural, so singular was her pale beauty, so strangely motionless were her eyes.
Spielhagen_Fri_Hammer_and_Anvi_34868_86330.33When I heard this I drew a long breath, like a man frightened by a ghost, when he hears the clock strike one.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_50280.33The serapes thrown over their heads are still on them, corded around their necks, so closely as to hinder hearing, almost stifle their breathing.
Pansy_Three_People_20808_40570.33"If, as I said, after midnight this sleep grows heavier, and you fail to catch the regular breathing, you may call the family.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_72940.33'Try again,' said he, keenly appreciating the blindness to his motive of her studious dark eyes, and her open-lipped breathing.
McCutcheon_Geo_Graustark_5142_42940.33He did not see the captain's hand tremble as he passed the documents to Dangloss, nor did he hear the unhappy sigh that came from the latter's lips.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_29650.33She stood at the window, her back turned to the rest, but her gasping breath showed the struggle through which she was passing.
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_61630.33The breathing grows more calm and hushed; the voice of delirium is dumb, -- a sweet dream has come to Viola.
La_Motte_Fouqu_Undine_2825_1500.33Then would they continue silent a few moments, and afterward, when nothing appeared, would shake their heads, breathe out a sigh, and go on with their talk.
Irving_Washing_The_Legend_of_S_41_3090.33Just then he heard the black steed panting and blowing close behind him; he even fancied that he felt his hot breath.
Hugo_Victor_Toilers_of_the_32338_16020.33By little and little, he had come to conceal himself for hours behind her wall, motionless and silent, seen by no one, and holding his breath as Déruchette passed in and out of her garden.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_55550.33But this painful breathing scarce disturbed an ineffable serenity spread over her face, which transfigured her in her sleep.
Hornung_E_W_Peccavi_36115_18180.33And that night his sleep was sound, so that in the morning he had to ask himself why; the answer made him catch his breath; it did not shake his resolve.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_15500.33On the breathing page Still pants our hurried past; Pilgrim and soldier, saint and sage, The poet comes the last!
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_70820.33We both remained silent, for the awe of God's spirit was upon us, and the atmosphere made holy by the incense of His breath.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_28380.33I listened to catch her gentle breathing, and strove by the intensity of my gaze to picture forth a shape where none was visible.
Hawthorne_Nath_Tanglewood_Tale_976_10660.33There was at first a deep silence, and then a rushing sound, or a noise like a long sigh, proceeding out of the interior of the earth.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_40080.33He spoke lower; all listened with hushed breath -- "It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_27760.33Another and another was fitted up in a similar way, and all so silently that very little was heard beyond the heavy breathing of the first-mate as he drove the screws home.
Crockett_S_R_Lochinvar_A_No_45495_42590.33The tide swept them slowly round towards the larger vessel in which Wat had heard the breathing of men.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_27380.33In the next room Dolores drew frightened breath, for the tones of the two men's voices had changed suddenly.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_A_Life_for_a_Li_48482_3080.33Possibly, in this state of half-consciousness, the breath would quietly pass away, without struggle or pain; which would be easiest for them all.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_41870.33Presently rapid panting breaths and a shuffling rustle of petticoats behind him informed him of his sister's return.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_59750.33There was no other sound in the cabin, except Davy's heavy breathing and the monotonous beat of the water at the boat's bow.
Blackmore_R_D_Perlycross_A_Ta_45038_21220.33Even with her daughter Inez, she was frequently provoked, when she saw the tears of filial love, or heard the unconsidered sigh.
Blackmore_R_D_Dariel_A_Roman_42529_85470.33We were glad to have a breathing time, and Nickols proposed a quiet smoke; but I would not hear of it, for the vaporous curls might be seen from below.
Alger_Horatio_The_Young_Miner_22669_8660.33Reassured by the deep, regular breathing of the sleeper, Ah Sin and his friend proceeded to their work.
Alcott_Louisa_Work_A_Story_o_4770_45240.33Christie looked and listened with hushed breath and expectant heart, believing that some special answer was to be given her.
Alcott_Louisa_An_Old_Fashione_2787_29060.33Polly was never too sad, perturbed, or lazy to sing, for it was almost as easy to her as breathing, and seemed the most natural outlet for her emotions.
Stowe_Harriet_My_Wife_and_I_H_47874_19300.33Jim was the best-natured fellow breathing; it was impossible to ruffle or disturb the easy, rattling, chattering flow of his animal spirits.
Stevenson_Robe_The_Merry_Men_344_25180.33When I think that, in a few hours, the speech will be silenced, the breath extinct, and even the shadow vanished from the wall, I who never saw him, this lady who knew him only as a guest, are touched with some affection.'
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_8830.33A deep sigh was smothered in that faithful breast, and then he went forth perfectly heedless of the rain; which, to do him justice, had never been considered in connection with his own personal comfort.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_145150.33the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_4540.33Mamma stood with extended arms whispering the tenderest words out into the night, -- words that sounded as if stifled among sighs and kisses.
Prindle_France_Those_Dale_Girl_37304_30730.33In the solemn stillness the breathing of two slender forms told that the excitement of the past forty-eight hours had at last ended in much needed sleep.
Ouida_Bimbi_Stories_5834_18300.33He saw them so plainly that scarcely could he hold back his breath from screaming aloud in the still night and answering the mourning wail of the desolate mother.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_11120.33But just as he had accomplished half the distance to the door, he was arrested and fixed with terror; for a deep sigh came from grannie's bed, followed by the voice of words.
Howard_Edward_Rattlin_the_Ree_21578_44590.33I was in full view; and, being hailed and told that I should be fired upon if I did not bring to, in the space of a short three minutes, before I was out of breath, I was in the hands of my captors -- a prisoner.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_73910.33I stood just within the door, with suspended breath and wildly palpitating heart, praying for courage to break the spell that bound me to the spot.
Henty_G_A_G_Through_Russian_30457_43440.33The latter took a drink that caused him to cough violently, to the amusement of the peasants, for it was vodka , and the strong spirit took his breath away after his long abstinence from anything but water.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_79820.33If they had been alone Mary would have borne it patiently -- or she thought, but now she felt almost certain, her father was listening; there was a subdued breathing, a slight bracing-up of the listless attitude.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_55820.33Indeed she thought her breathing was too loud, so she smothered it, and neither moved her hands nor turned her head; in this immovable stillness it was as though they were under the shadow of gathering wings.
Ballantyne_R_Ungava_21707_5670.33The thought seemed to have struck her for the first time, and she looked up eagerly for an answer, while Chimo gave a deep sigh of indifference, and went to sleep, or pretended to do so, where he was.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_136170.33She drew, instead, the stealthy breath Marcella knew well -- the breath of one who has measured precisely her own powers of endurance, and will not risk them for a moment by any digression into alien fields of emotion.
Howells_Willia_The_Landlord_at_4645_2810.33Westover smoked a pipe, and the fire gleamed and smouldered in it regularly with his breathing; the boy, on a lower' step, pulled at the long ears of his dog and gazed up at him.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_57880.33In realms the desert ocean parts What myriads watch with tear-filled eyes, His pulse-beats echoing in their hearts, His breathings counted with their sighs!
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherh_14566_6100.33Low pitiful sobs and sighs were the only sounds the little fellow made till set down in the veranda; but then clinging to his grandfather's hand, he burst out afresh, "O grandpa, I can't go in!
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_18530.33But as he sat here alone, and remembered the pleasant evening he had had, and watched his fire smoulder and die, and heard the soft sigh of the rising wind, he reached a tremendous conclusion.
Crockett_S_R_Lochinvar_A_No_45495_47290.33The water-way which constituted the floor of the cave slept black beneath, a long, almost invisible heave passing up from without, which was just the great Atlantic Sea breathing in its sleep.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_100680.33Then unbolting the staircase door, and listening a moment for the breathing of the sleepers overhead, he crept into the dark parlour overlooking the road, and lay down on the sofa to sleep.
Ballantyne_R_Shifting_Winds_21702_42530.33The sick man turned on his side with a sigh, and fell into a sleep so deep and quiet that the colonel left the room with some uncertainty as to whether his friend were still in the land of the living.
Twain_Mark_The_Prince_and_1837_11230.33The door slammed after him, and the noise woke the boy, who sprang to a sitting posture, and shot a glad glance about him; then a grieved look came into his face and he murmured to himself, with a deep sigh, "Alack, it was but a dream, woe is me!"
Pyle_Howard_The_Merry_Adven_964_49350.33Thrice he sounded it, but weakly and faintly, for his breath was fluttering through sickness and loss of strength; nevertheless, Little John heard it where he lay in the glade, and, with a heart all sick with dread, he came running and leaping toward the nunnery.
Prescott_Willi_History_of_the_1209_62020.33A profound silence reigned throughout the martial multitude, broken only by sighs and groans, as they listened to Pizarro's request; and it was faithfully responded to, since, after his death, masses were said in many of the towns for the welfare of the departed chieftain.
Phillpotts_Ede_Sons_of_the_Mor_46857_76100.33Yet no breath stirred a grass blade, and between the intermittent thunder from on high, a silence, tense and unbroken by the murmur of an insect, magnified the listening man's heart-beat into a throbbing upon his ear.
Holland_J_G_Sevenoaks_A_St_15214_13860.33No lights were visible except in the village at the foot of the hill, and these were distant and feeble, through an open window -- left open that the asthmatic keeper of the establishment might be supplied with breath -- he heard a stertorous snore.
Connor_Ralph_The_Man_from_Gl_3287_18950.33The stately movement, the weird quavers, and the pathetic cadences had in some mysterious way reached the deep places in her heart, and before she knew, she had found the tears coursing down her cheeks and her breath catching in sobs.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_9810.33And, as he knelt, silence fell between them, and the storm howled out yonder; he heard her give a little sigh -- that sigh which would escape from Cécile's weariness in moments of rest, which had once been so familiar and so pathetic a sound in his ear.
Stevenson_Robe_The_Merry_Men_344_14240.33Footsteps and sighs, the tread of regiments marching in the distance, the chink of money in the counting, and the creaking of doors held stealthily ajar, appeared to mingle with the patter of the drops upon the cupola and the gushing of the water in the pipes.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_29530.33There was to be no sleep for me that night, and knowing this, I stepped below and built up a good fire, and then went with the lanthorn to see how Tassard did and to give him the news; but he was in so deep a sleep, that after pulling him a little without awakening him I let him lie, nothing but the sound of his breathing persuading me that he had not lapsed into his old frozen state again.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_15390.33And connected with this, there came the remembrance of that haunting face in the library, which I had only seen on canvas, but which was to me a breathing reality, -- that face which, even on the cold, silent wall, had no repose; but dark, restless, and impassioned, was either a history of past disappointment, or a prophecy of future suffering.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_33200.33* * * * * When the truth-telling accents of the elderly gentleman were hushed, I drew a long breath and looked round the room, striving with the best energy of my imagination to throw a tinge of romance and historic grandeur over the realities of the scene.
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_32160.33The shearers reclined against each other as at suppers in the early ages of the world, and so silent and absorbed were they that her breathing could almost be heard between the bars; and at the end of the ballad, when the last tone loitered on to an inexpressible close, there arose that buzz of pleasure which is the attar of applause.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_53630.33She crouched upon the cold stone floor outside it, every night, to listen even for his breath; and in her one absorbing wish to be allowed to show him some affection, to be a consolation to him, to win him over to the endurance of some tenderness from her, his solitary child, she would have knelt down at his feet, if she had dared, in humble supplication.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_48190.33And this, the third and last, seem'd in that sleep 31 Which neighbours waking in a summer's dawn, When dreams, relaxing, scarce their captive keep; Half o'er his face a veil transparent drawn, Stirr'd with quick sighs unquiet and disturb'd, Which told the impatient soul the slumber curb'd.
Reade_Charles_Hard_Cash_3067_63080.33He listened and listened, and by-and-bye he heard the slow feet recommence their journey, amidst sobs and sights; and those sorrowful feet, and the sobs and sighs of his causing, got fainter, and fainter, retreated, and left him in quiet possession of the L. 14,000 he had brought down to give it up: two minutes ago it was not worth as many pence to him.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_26620.33And haply, I would dream, 'twere sweet To feed it from my faded breast, Or mark my own heart's restless beat 380 Rock it to its untroubled rest, And watch the growing soul beneath Dawn in faint smiles; and hear its breath, Half interrupted by calm sighs, And search the depth of its fair eyes 385 For long departed memories!
Fern_Fanny_Folly_as_It_Fli_40263_24430.33Toy shops are ransacked, and small fortunes expended, to supply this lamentable deficiency; till the weary little one at six or seven has exhausted the stock, and sighs for "something new;" like a flirt who has put her slipper on a thousand hearts, or a man of the world, reduced by too much money and leisure, and too little brains, to caress the head of his cane, long, weary hours, staring out of his club window.
Mitchell_Donal_Dream_Life_A_F_17862_21220.32The nights hang long and heavy; dull, stifled breathing wakes the chamber with ominous sound; the mother's eye scarce closes, but rests with fond sadness upon the little struggling victim of sickness; her hand rests like an angel touch upon the brow, all beaded with the heats of fever; the straggling, gray light of morning breaks through the crevices of the closed blinds, -- bringing stir and bustle to the world, but in your home -- lighting only the darkness.
Blackmore_R_D_Dariel_A_Roman_42529_18160.32Sadly was I perpending this, slower and slower at every step, while the shadows of the trees grew longer, and the voice of birds was lower, and the babble of the brook began to sink into the lisping of a cradled child, as the draught of the valley hushed it; and falling into harmony with all these signs, my breath was beginning to abate me, when along a trough of sliding mist like a trysting track for the dusk, appeared the form of my friend Kuban .
Howells_Willia_The_Minister_s_7410_10310.32He heard the stir of the other prisoners in the cells along the corridors, the low groans and sighs with which people pull themselves together after a bad night; and he heard the voice of the drunken woman, now sober, poured out in voluble remorse, and in voluble promise of amendment for the future, to every one who passed, if they would let her off easy.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_550.32Then once more the people stirred, and the soft sound of their simultaneous motion was like a mighty sigh breathed up from the secret vaults and the deep foundations of the ancient church; again the pedal note of the organ boomed through the nave and aisles, and again the thousands of human voices took up the strain of song.
Pansy_The_Chautauqua_26742_46900.32It was at that moment that Ruth Erskine, the young lady who, according to Mrs. Mitchell, had so quiet, and settled, and peaceful a life, that she coveted it for her daughter, stood in the great hall that was glowing with light and beauty, and caught her breath with an almost convulsive sound, as she rested against a chair for support; her face deathly pale, her eyes bright with a calm that she had forced upon herself, in her solemn determination to try to do just the right thing, say just the right words; her ear had caught the sound of a carriage that had drawn up before the door, and the sound of a familiar voice; she knew that she was now to meet -- not only her father, but her mother, and sister!
Mitchell_Donal_Dream_Life_A_F_17862_21010.31And before the evening has waned to midnight, sweet day has broken on your gloom; -- Madge is folded to your bosom, sobbing fearfully, -- not for guilt, or any shadow of guilt, but for the agony she reads upon your brow, and in your low sighs.
MacDonald_Geor_Phantastes_A_F_325_13340.31And some who awake from their primal sleep, When the sighs of Summer through forests creep, Live, and love, and are loved again; Seek for pleasure, and find its pain; Sink to their last, their forsaken sleeping, With the same sweet odours around them creeping.
Irving_Washing_Bracebridge_Hal_13515_24230.31But as those drew near whose frightful garb marked them as destined to the flames, the noise of the rabble subsided; they seemed almost to hold in their breath; filled with that strange and dismal interest with which we contemplate a human being on the verge of suffering and death.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_40760.31Saxe heard him give a sigh of relief as he bent down and drew it away; but he turned back to the crack directly, and shouted down in slow, solemn words -- "Keep a good heart man, and if it is to be done we'll save you."
Church_Alfred_Stories_of_the_43982_34690.31I ask not that he give up his purpose; only that he grant me a short breathing space, till I may learn how to bear this sorrow.” And Anna hearkened to her sister, and took the message to Æneas, yet profited nothing, for the gods shut his ears that he should not hear.
Thoreau_Henry_A_Week_on_the_C_4232_23530.31With an Indian's stealthy tread It goes sleeping in its bed, Without joy or grief, Or the rustle of a leaf, Without a ripple or a billow, Or the sigh of a willow, From the Lyndeboro' hills To the Merrimack mills.
Spielhagen_Fri_What_the_Swallo_34599_24270.31The pretty servant-girl drew a long breath, and then in the twinkling of an eye glided noiselessly up the stairs and across the hall to the gable room Gotthold had occupied during his stay.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_40930.31The silence is disturbed only by the humming of the bees, and by the scratching at the window of an ancient apricot-tree, which seems desirous to call attention to what it has to say, but desists with a low rustle that sounds like a sigh.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_Marble_Faun_2181_1330.31Flitting moments, imminent emergencies, imperceptible intervals between two breaths, ought not to be incrusted with the eternal repose of marble; in any sculptural subject, there should be a moral standstill, since there must of necessity be a physical one.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Motherh_14566_36150.31A deep groan startled them and they sprang to their feet, pale and trembling with sudden terror, each holding his breath and straining his ear to catch a repetition of the dread sound.
Barrie_J_M_Sentimental_Tom_14961_26180.31To these and many similar stories Tommy listened open-mouthed, seeing the scene far more vividly than the narrator, who became alarmed at his quick, loud breathing, and advised him to forget them and go back to his lessons.
Allen_James_La_A_Kentucky_Card_11532_70.31I hear but the comfortable roar and snap of hickory logs, at long intervals a deeper breath from the dog stretched on his side at my feet, and the crickets under the hearth-stones.
Cervantes_Saave_Don_Quixote_996_23450.31The song ended with a deep sigh, and again the listeners remained waiting attentively for the singer to resume; but perceiving that the music had now turned to sobs and heart-rending moans they determined to find out who the unhappy being could be whose voice was as rare as his sighs were piteous, and they had not proceeded far when on turning the corner of a rock they discovered a man of the same aspect and appearance as Sancho had described to them when he told them the story of Cardenio.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_90130.31"I take my pleasures daintily, and this scene satisfies me heart and soul; balmy air; moonlight with its myriad associations; a murmurous multitude of sounds like sighs, all soothing; the silent drift and gentle rocking of the boat; and the calm human fellowship, the brotherly love undisturbed by a single violent emotion, which is the perfection of social intercourse to me.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_19810.31They took her to the hill above the battery, and her breath came quick as she trod the familiar ways; but when she was come to the summit, no longer did she exult in her lofty place and drink new life from the rush of mighty winds about her, but only quaked like a child in terror as she faced the world unseen beneath and hearkened to the voices rising out of it, and heard the breeze that had once laved her cheeks now screaming in her ears.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_57300.31"I don't know," answered Mary, with a faint sigh, which uncle Nat did not hear, for he was busy gathering himself up from his low seat on the bundle of stalks.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_32040.31Abby drew a deep breath, and hurried on, more eager to leave the house than her companion; for she was faint from the recoil of her whole nature against the old man, who had been more than a father to her.
Sedgwick_Anne_The_Confounding_41917_50230.31She lay so long without speaking that Perior thought she must, in her weakness, have fallen asleep, but at last she said, the words wavering, for her breath was very shallow, "That is what Camelia needed.
Meade_L_T_A_Girl_in_Ten_T_19761_6930.31But unceasing care presently produced a happy result, and toward evening the high temperature went down a couple of degrees, and the child's breathing became less difficult.
Finley_Martha_Christmas_with_14534_28190.31Listening with bated breath, Lulu's ear presently caught again a faint sound as of a file moving cautiously to and fro on metal.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_42410.31She threw open the window to admit a few breaths of fresher air, and in the silence of the night she could hear the receding steps of their late visitors.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_78930.31It breathes, too, sometimes, as Crowdie was breathing, very heavily, especially in the nights that come after days of passion and struggling; and the breathing of a great city at night is not like any other sound on earth.
Cooper_James_F_The_Prairie_6450_13910.31interrupted the whole body of his sons in a breath; and at that instant she re-appeared to put an end to their different surmises, and to relieve more than one sluggish nature from its unwonted excitement.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_16300.31Each night he had dreamt the same dream, and though he knew each morning when he awoke with a sigh that his dream was only a reflection of his dead wife's vision, yet he could not help but think of it the long day through.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_183330.31From this side came the persons who applied to the workgirl for succor; an ante-chamber in which they waited, a parlor in which they were received, constituted Mother Bunch's apartments, along with the bedroom, which Florine had just entered, looking about her with an anxious and alarmed air, scarcely touching the carpet with the tips of her satin shoes, holding her breath, and listening at the least noise.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_57750.31While Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose were together in the library downstairs, while John Short was waking from the short sleep he had enjoyed, and while the squire was listening in the study to Mr. Booley's graphic account of the convict's escape, Mrs. Goddard was alone with her husband, watching every movement and listening intently to every moaning breath he drew.
Wallace_Lew_Ben_Hur_a_tale_2145_113910.30In their place behind the soldiers, they noted every word and motion of the Nazarene, and hung with fear upon his sighs, and talked in whispers.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_22650.30As these sighs abated, Florence saw that the old lady was sinking into a reverie so deep, that she fancied it possible to steal away, unnoticed, to her room.
Melville_Herma_Mardi_and_A_Vo_13720_4920.30And little was heard but the humming of the still sails aloft; the dash of the waves against the bow; and the deep breathing of the dreaming sailors around.
Lynde_Francis_The_Helpers_45133_53090.30The intermittent clatter and roar of the canyon climb had begun, and in one of the breathing spaces Myra made answer.
Isham_Frederic_The_Strollers_29726_27400.30Fortunately the window was low and the distance inconsiderable, but Barnes held his breath, hoping the hazard would deter her.
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_38270.30All still save the sigh of some sleeper, and once more he lay down hot, weary, and uncomfortable, for sleeping in his clothes seemed to be a horrible mistake.
Crockett_S_R_The_Black_Dougl_17733_43180.30Gilles de Sillé lay back on his pallet with a sigh, still, however, continuing to watch the lad's countenance.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_40850.30I listened intently for a moment, and heard a low, thick, sobbing breath that seemed to come from the ground under the seat which I was occupying.
Coffin_Charles_Daughters_of_th_29849_47670.30There were not sufficient implements for all, but when one was out of breath, another took his place, and before the first glimmer of dawn appeared, the trench had been made breast deep.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Women_514_160.30"I planned to spend mine in new music," said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.
Scott_Walter_The_Monastery_6406_52760.30In the meanwhile Abbot Boniface, having given a few natural sighs to the downfall of the pre-eminence he had so long enjoyed amongst his brethren, fell fast asleep, leaving the whole cares and toils of office to his assistant and [Chapter ending is missing in the original] Chapter the Thirty-Fifth.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_28480.30A night of quiet and repose in the profound silence of Dingley Dell, and an hour's breathing of its fresh and fragrant air on the ensuing morning, completely recovered Mr. Pickwick from the effects of his late fatigue of body and anxiety of mind.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_5220.30Meanwhile an Arab maiden brought his food, Her daily portion, from her father's tent, 130 And spread her matting for his couch, and stole From duties and repose to tend his steps, Enamoured, yet not daring for deep awe To speak her love: -- and watched his nightly sleep, Sleepless herself, to gaze upon his lips 135 Parted in slumber, whence the regular breath Of innocent dreams arose; then, when red morn Made paler the pale moon, to her cold home Wildered, and wan, and panting, she returned.
Eliot_George_Daniel_Deronda_7469_133610.30They had sat perfectly still together, not knowing how long; while the clock ticked on the mantelpiece, and the light was fading, Mirah, unable to think of the food that she ought to have been taking, had not moved since she had thrown off her dust-cloak and sat down beside Mordecai with her hand in his, while he had laid his head backward, with closed eyes and difficult breathing, looking, Mirah thought, as he would look when the soul within him could no longer live in its straitened home.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_19520.30Sighing he woke, and waking he beheld; The sigh was silenced, as the look was spell'd; Look charming look, the love that ever lies In human hearts, like light'ning in the air, Flash'd in the moment from those meeting eyes, And open'd all the Heaven!
Harland_Marion_Alone_46505_51070.30The wail of a clarion stirred the air; -- nearer and nearer it sounded; and the plaintive breathing of other instruments; and at long intervals, a single roll of the drum; -- nearer and nearer -- they ceased, and the procession moved up the aisle.
Field_Eugene_The_Holy_Cross_21807_2160.30But in that yonder mountain-side had fallen a symbol never to be removed, -- ay, upon that holy ground where slept the Jew was stretched a cross, a mighty cross of snow on which the sun never fell and which no breath of wind ever disturbed.
Cooper_James_F_The_Headsman_O_10938_37980.30The chilliness of the air increased faster even than the natural change of the hour would seem to justify, and there were moments when the dull sound of the wind descended to their ears, though not a breath was stirring a withered and nearly solitary blade of grass at their feet.
Carlyle_Thomas_Past_and_Presen_26159_18930.30Yes, a noble Abbot Samson resigns himself to Oblivion too; feels it no hardship, but a comfort; counts it as a still resting-place, from much sick fret and fever and stupidity, which in the night-watches often made his strong heart sigh.
Lytton_Edward_Pelham_Comple_7623_61020.30those were moments steeped in the very elixir of life; overflowing with the hoarded fondness and sympathies of hearts too full for words, and yet too agitated for silence, when we journeyed alone, and at night, and as the shadows and stillness of the waning hours gathered round us, drew closer to each other, and concentrated this breathing world in the deep and embracing sentiment of our mutual love!
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_84440.30Heedless of the fresh air that blew upon his heated brow, of the pleasant meadows from which he turned, of the piles of roofs and chimneys upon which he looked, of the smoke and rising mist he vainly sought to pierce, of the shrill cries of children at their evening sports, the distant hum and turmoil of the town, the cheerful country breath that rustled past to meet it, and to droop, and die; he watched, and watched, till it was dark save for the specks of light that twinkled in the streets below and far away -- and, as the darkness deepened, strained his gaze and grew more eager yet.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_28200.30He was very white, and his breath was oppressed; but his look had changed very much -- it had a strange, still sort of brightness and peace about it.
Yonge_Charlott_Dynevor_Terrace_4235_5890.30'You can't conceive anything more charming,' he continued, with the same low distinct utterance, but an earnestness that almost took away her breath.
Wilson_Harry_L_The_Spenders_A_9981_67350.30There came from time to time the involuntary quick little indrawings of breath, -- the aftermath of her weeping.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_41120.30Their laboured breathing found an echo on the farther side of the door, but this again neither observed.
Verne_Jules_Twenty_Thousand_164_29160.30At half-past eight we were equipped for this new excursion, and provided with two contrivances for light and breathing.
Tyler_Moses_Co_Patrick_Henry_29368_37140.30This bowing of the soul must have been universal; for the profoundest silence reigned, as if our very breath had been suspended.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_17590.30Like a wounded deer, they sent her into the wilderness, alone, alone -- bleeding at every step, uttering moans with every breath."
Musick_John_R_The_Witch_of_Sa_26282_30820.30"I will tell you without delay; but I can but pause to thank God with every breath that she can no longer do me injury, seeing she is in prison and chains."
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_100450.30I heard you whisper; with your very breath in my ear: "There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by."
Lytton_Edward_Lucile_1852_19830.30the sigh of the wind, and the sound of the wave, Seem like voices of spirits that whisper me home!
J_kai_M_r_The_Lion_of_Jan_32234_16230.30After a few moments of deep silence, it seemed to the sailor as if he heard a long sigh behind the curtains.
Howells_Willia_The_Minister_s_7410_44370.30It seemed to Sewell that he wished to ask something else, and was mustering his courage; but if this was so, it exhaled in a sigh, and he remained silent.
Hardy_Thomas_A_Pair_of_Blue_224_70800.30Elfride only replied by quick heavy breaths, showing she was on the brink of a sob.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_21280.30"Don't look like it," said Mark bitterly, as he drew his breath with a hissing noise, as if in pain.
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_28240.30There was a low whining sigh, and a faint bark answered the first-mate's question.
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_20140.30A long silence ensued, broken only by the heavily drawn breath of the sufferer.
Ebers_Georg_An_Egyptian_Pri_5460_55430.30He has done so much for me, and I did not think I was doing wrong in allowing him to live a few hours longer, that he might...." "That is enough," said the king breathing freely.
Dickens_Charle_Hard_Times_786_11960.30From the outside of his home he gloomily passed to the inside, with suspended breath and with a slow footstep.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_37830.30Mr Toots generally said again, after a long interval of staring and hard breathing, 'How are you?'
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_10750.30I had answered in a kind of breathless whisper, but I felt, in my silence, that my breath was shorter now.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_88920.30He paused, -- every eye was fixed upon him; and the stillness was so intense that the lightest breath might be heard.
Cervantes_Saave_Don_Quixote_996_59830.30Then, as this is the case, and as the knight did really die, how comes it that he now moans and sighs from time to time, as if he were still alive?'
Castlemon_Harr_The_Boy_Trapper_18076_12770.30There don't seem to be any ducks in the bayou; so we'll stop here and take a breathing spell before we go back."
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_65870.30His breathing was short and quick -- she did not dare to look up -- she stood as silent and as immovable as the statue.
Stephens_Rober_The_Continental_30589_3300.30Then, if ever, did noise of creaking stair or sound as of human breath, or, perchance, momentary vision of flitting face against the dark, betray the present ghost of some old-time habitue of the mansion.
Scott_Walter_Waverley_Novels_6661_41200.30Door after door they passed in their descent, leading, it was probable, to different ranges of dungeons, from which was obscurely heard the stifled voice of groans and sighs, such as attracted Hereward's attention on a former occasion.
Reid_Mayne_The_Tiger_Hunte_25127_60760.30Nature had almost repaired the outrage she had voluntarily committed on her long dark tresses; but the life within her seemed fast hastening to an end, and her breathing told how feeble was the spirit that now animated her bosom.
Homer_The_Odysseys_of_48895_10110.30If till care-nurse night be spent ‭ I watch amidst the flood, the sea’s chill breath, ‭ And vegetant dews, I fear will be my death, ‭ So low brought with my labours.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_25930.30He was in a dense part of his way now, with the sky quite hidden by the overhanging boughs, so that it was not possible to see more than a few feet behind or before him, and hence he looked back in vain; and though he listened intently there was no heavy snorting breath, such as he would probably have heard if it had been pony or cow.
Eastwood_Franc_Geoffrey_the_Lo_48260_17520.30The struggle was carried on, however, in the utmost silence, neither caring to waste strength in outcries, so that the only sounds to be heard during the combat were the crackling of the branches, the trampling of feet, and the panting breath of the wrestlers.
Ballantyne_R_Freaks_on_the_F_23505_41100.30In the midst of many deep thoughts and cogitations, during that silent morning hour, when all were asleep around me save the three mechanical-looking boatmen, and when the only sounds that met my ears were the dip of the oars and the deep breathing, (to give it no other name), of the slumberers -- in the midst of many deep thoughts, I say, I came to the conclusion that in my present circumstances the worst thing I could do was to think !
Townsend_Georg_The_Entailed_Ha_19146_53830.29For some minutes he could not see the contents at all in the total darkness that prevailed, as there was no window whatever in this pen or den, but he heard various voices, and inhaled the strong, close air of many African breaths exhausting the supply of oxygen, and knew that chains and irons were being moved against the boards of the floor.
Guild_Curtis_Over_the_Ocean_41233_21150.29There is a very natural, life-like-looking figure of Madame Tussaud herself, a little old lady in a large old-fashioned bonnet, looking at a couch upon which reposes a splendid figure of a Sleeping Beauty, so arranged with clock-work that the bosom rises and falls in regular pulsations, as if breathing and asleep.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_910.29It was an altogether uncanny, uncomfortable impression -- yet it was very strong upon him -- and he breathed a sigh of intense relief when he heard the soft melody of the organ once more, and saw the oaken doors of the grotto swing wide open to admit a flood of cheerful light from the outer passage.
Cervantes_Saave_Don_Quixote_996_17200.29But, this accomplished, which he fancied was all he had to do to get out of this terrible strait and embarrassment, another still greater difficulty presented itself, for it seemed to him impossible to relieve himself without making some noise, and he ground his teeth and squeezed his shoulders together, holding his breath as much as he could; but in spite of his precautions he was unlucky enough after all to make a little noise, very different from that which was causing him so much fear.
Scott_Walter_Anne_of_Geierst_44247_2070.29His absence was no sooner perceived than signs, and nods, and even whispers were exchanged between the guests; but no one spoke above his breath, or in such connected manner, as that Philipson could understand anything distinctly from them.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_49840.29If Mr. Ochterlony slept, or if he still lay looking at the lamp, seeing his life flit past him like a shadow, giving a sigh to what might have been, and thinking with perhaps a little awakening thrill of expectation of what was so soon to be, nobody could tell.
M_hlbach_L_L_Andreas_Hofer_3666_120.29He had communicated to this confidant the full details of his interview with the emperor, and concluded his report by saying, with a deep sigh, "The emperor will be silent until the favorable moment has passed!"
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_8490.29The old man's face was turned to the pillow; but he lay so still, and his breathing was so inaudible, that his sleep might well, by that hasty, shrinking, guilty glance, be mistaken for the repose of death.
Kavanagh_Julia_Rachel_Gray_A_36160_23790.29The obstinate cough, the short breathing, the hectic flush, all rushed back to his memory; unseen, unheeded, till then, they now told him one fearful story.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_114700.29He was congratulating himself upon these promising appearances, and blessing his stars with much fervour, when one or two unpleasant symptoms manifested themselves: such as another motion of the arm, another sigh, a restless tossing of the head.
Chambers_Rober_The_Maid_At_Arm_12279_6430.29I hesitated, then broke into a harsh laugh, for my cousin sat staring at me, lips parted, like a fair shape struck into marble by a breath of magic.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_53680.29After a moment the shouting died down, and there was no sound in the vast place but a soft, quick, indrawn hiss that was like the palpitating breath of an immense flock of sheep.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_53370.29He was struggling to be calm and firm, but he was in a furnace of dread, and beneath his breath he was praying from time to time that God would prevent accident and avert bloodshed.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_22130.29Gratiolet admits[914] that when a man has to struggle with another to his utmost, or has to support a great weight, or to keep for a long time the same forced attitude, it is necessary for him first to make a deep inspiration, and then to cease breathing; but he thinks that Sir C. Bell's explanation is erroneous.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_60330.29Away once more into the day, and through the day, with a shrill yell of exultation, roaring, rattling, tearing on, spurning everything with its dark breath, sometimes pausing for a minute where a crowd of faces are, that in a minute more are not; sometimes lapping water greedily, and before the spout at which it drinks has ceased to drip upon the ground, shrieking, roaring, rattling through the purple distance!
Whitney_A_D_A_Summer_in_Les_11141_17570.28This was the easy part of the way, and there was breath for chat and merriment.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_25590.28She asked it lugubriously, with many sighs, her cap much askew.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_145790.28'It rained this morning,' she still had the spirit to murmur under her breath.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_45700.28But now -- ' A long breath came from the darkness -- a breath of pain.
Tennyson_Alfre_Enoch_Arden_c_1358_5600.28There lay the sweet little body that never had drawn a breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_19330.28The atmosphere of her presence was natural to him as the breath of roses.
Saunders_Marsh_Beautiful_Joe_2818_14660.28Ever since Jenkins cut my ears off, I had had trouble in breathing.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_3080.28She did not lift it, but by the space of a breath she seemed to stir and tremble toward him.
Mitchell_S_We_Hugh_Wynne_Fre_6485_31390.28In the hall I stood a minute to get my breath, and reflect.
Merriman_Henry_The_Grey_Lady_6517_36600.28The desire to take a deeper breath was constant and oppressive.
Marryat_Freder_The_Children_of_6471_32400.28And now, Edward Armitage, I have said more to you than I have to any person breathing, except my own kinsman."
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_47860.28-- a century of years since -- -- " and the voice broke in a sigh.
Lamb_Charles_Tales_from_Shak_1286_28640.28His story being done, she gave him for his pains a world of sighs.
Dickson_Harris_The_Black_Wolf_20330_17950.28What mattered if but lately a breathing man it had strangled in my grip.
Crockett_S_R_Cleg_Kelly_Ara_48354_68930.28His breathing was weak and irregular, but still perceptibly stronger.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_32860.28It might be purring all alone outside, in the dark, and she might have taken the sound for that of human breathing.
Cooper_James_F_The_Headsman_O_10938_20030.28His breathing was difficult, his look wandered, and his lips were convulsed.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_54410.28"It is summer time, Marian, and there is not a breath of wind.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_18280.28Upon my soul, you are the same as ever, I see, the same tombstone on your chest, and blowing yourself out with sighs, just as you used.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_28350.28Israel could hear his breathing, and smell his rags.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_21700.28His breathing was so rapid that Kallem thought he would have had a fit.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_A_Happy_Boy_12633_6220.28Oyvind looked down; his breathing became heavy and quick.
Bangs_John_Ken_The_Enchanted_T_3162_15580.28And then came a heart-rending sigh, and from that time on all was silence.
Reade_Charles_Foul_Play_3702_98470.28THE next morning came the first wedding presents from the jubilant bridegroom, who was determined to advance step by step, and give no breathing time.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_87950.28He woke one midnight, and murmured as follows, with many pauses for breath and strength: 'Robert, my time's near, I'm thinkin'; for, wakin' an' sleepin', I'm a bairn again.
Kingsley_Henry_Ravenshoe_41636_48610.28Within, warm rooms, warm beds, and the bated breath of sleepers, lying secure in the lap of wealth and order.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_33420.28She remarked not, in her own absorption, the change in Jem's breathing, the sudden clutch at the wall which told the fearfully vivid interest he took in what she said.
Catherwood_Mar_Lazarre_15108_6010.28By that time the family breathing sawed the air within the walls, and a fine starlight showed through the open door, for we had no window.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_54060.28As he paused at length, out of breath, the noise of a methodical thud and splash of oars arose, above the tumult of the elements, very near to them, upon their left.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_58800.28They stood silent for the most part, only handing round the table the little cocked hat and the mace, with sighs and deep breathing.
Ballantyne_R_Fighting_the_Wh_21202_510.28The men held their breath, and one or two of their faces turned pale as Tom went on with his description, lowering his voice to a hoarse whisper.
Bacheller_Irvi_Eben_Holden_A_2799_3230.28We were both pretty well out of breath and of hope also, if I remember rightly, when we rested again under the low hanging boughs of a basswood for a bite of luncheon.
Alger_Horatio_Luke_Walton_26083_18570.28He lit the gas and was preparing to disrobe, when his sharp ear detected the sound of suppressed breathing, and the point from which it proceeded.
White_Stewart_The_Westerners_34399_34300.28Far back in the forest of pines a little breeze rustled, faint as a whisper: then it crept nearer, ever waxing in strength, until, with a murmur as of a throng of people, it passed overhead, and vanished with a last sigh in the distance.
Edgeworth_Mari_Tales_and_Novel_8826_62970.28The idea of seeing the gay, witty Mr. Dashwood metamorphosed, by the power of her charms, into a despairing, sighing swain, played upon her imagination, and she heard his first sigh with a look which plainly showed how well she understood its meaning.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_142930.28He was lying there, he, the guilty one, with the whole island watching at his bedside, pitying him, sorrowing for him, holding its breath until he should breathe, and she, his partner, his victim, his innocent victim, was in jail, in disgrace, in a degradation more deep than death.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Vacatio_18058_19720.28Scarce a sound was to be heard, either within doors or without, save the distant lowing of cattle, the twittering of birds, and the gentle sighing of the wind in the treetops; family and servants moved with cautious tread, speaking seldom, and that with bated breath, lest they should disturb her who was so dear to all hearts.
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_64970.28Lightly, tremulously holding her breath, which ever and anon broke forth in quick convulsive gasps -- now gliding by the flower -- wreathed columns that bordered the peristyle -- now darkening the still moonshine that fell over its tessellated centre -- now ascending the terrace of the garden -- now gliding amidst the gloomy and breathless trees, she gained the fatal door -- to find it locked!
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69270.28Once, as she listened intently, it seemed to grow so loud that it struck her it was the breathing of some monster of the jungle that had stopped by the open window; but soon she recovered herself sufficiently to feel that she was wrong; it was but the regular sleep of her companions, and laying her hand upon her breast to stay the throbbings of her heart, she gathered up the loose sarong that interfered with her progress, and stepped on cautiously towards where she believed the door to be.
Upton_George_P_The_Standard_Ca_32248_19700.28From out the slumbering ocean, Fanning his cheek with breath of the sea waves, The daughters of Oceanus approach," -- introduce the opening chorus of sea-nymphs ("Prometheus, Woe to thee"), for female voices, arranged in double parts, and set to a restless, agitated accompaniment, expressive of fear and despair.
Goss_Charles_F_The_Redemption_14730_54680.28They all attain their zenith and then begin to wane; that one brilliant but transitory instant of perfect bliss can no more be recalled than the passing stroke of a bell, the vanished glory of a sunset, or the last sigh of a dying friend; and many of the vainest and most unsatisfying struggles of life are expended in the effort to reproduce that one evanescent and forevermore impossible ecstasy.
S_gur_Philippe_History_of_the_18113_56030.28At the most critical instant, when these soldiers, the survivors of so many battles, were stealing along the side of the Russian army, holding their breath and the noise of their steps; when their all depended on a look or a cry of alarm; the moon all at once coming out of a thick cloud appeared to light their movements.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_11850.28The father and mother sat -- not side by side, in that propinquity which is so sweet, when every breath, every touch of the beloved's garment gives pleasure; they sat one at each corner of the table, engrossed in their several occupations; reading with an uncommunicative eagerness, and sewing in unbroken silence.
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_5930.27All through the long day, Mrs. Ginniss, toiling at her wash-tubs, found a moment here and another there to sit upon the edge of the bed, and smooth her little patient's hair, or moisten her glowing lips and burning forehead, trying at intervals to induce her to speak, if even but one word, in answer to her tender inquiries; but all in vain: for the child already lay in the stupor preceding the delirium of a violent fever, and an occasional moan or sigh was the only sound that escaped her lips.
_The_Red_Fairy_B_540_2330.27And then she began to cry, and her nurse, and the nurse's daughter, and the cradle-rocker, and the nursery-maid, who all loved her dearly, cried too for company, so that nothing could be heard but sobs and sighs.
Stanley_Henry_How_I_Found_Liv_5157_54900.27I took a long breath, wiped my perspiring brow, and sat down for a while; my black assistants also, like myself, were almost breathless with the exertion, and the high expectations roused by the near presence of the royal beasts.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_27950.27Loud laugh'd the Fiend -- then trembled through the sky, Where haply angels watch'd, a warning sigh; -- And darkness swept the scene, and golden Quiet ceased.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_21660.27Sitting on her little stool, her head resting on her father's knee, and sleeping as soundly as any infant, her breath (still like an infant's) came and went as softly as a bird steals to her leafy nest.
Ellis_Edward_S_Wyoming_41784_15310.27While the conversation was going on between the Tory and Gray Panther, Gravity Gimp was rubbing and nursing his "game leg," with many sighs and groans, which he took care should be heard by those around him, while at the same time it did not annoy them.
Ellis_Edward_S_Camp_fire_and_W_25966_7720.27No one but Deerfoot himself could tell what thoughts took shape in his brain, but they must have been of a melancholy, serious nature, for he drew a deep sigh, muttered a few words in prayer, and then deliberately lay down in the middle of the floor.
Coues_Elliott_Citizen_Bird_S_11896_19980.27Well, we had hardly rested long enough to get our breath after such a climb, when we heard a rich ringing song, something like a House Wren's, but louder and stronger, and very quick, as if the bird were in a great hurry to get through.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_78080.27It was delicious to hear him bragging of his pilgrim ancestor, -- while in the same breath he would blandly sneer at certain "poor gentry" who could trace back their lineage to Coeur de Lion!
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_72230.27Even the breathing of the wind, soft and gentle in and out, moving things that need not move, and passing longer-stalked ones, even this was not enough among the flush of fragrance, to tell a man the reason of his quiet satisfaction.
Ballantyne_R_The_Coral_Islan_21721_14090.27"Well," exclaimed Peterkin, drawing a long breath, "I've heard of a man jumping out of his skin and sitting down in his skeleton in order to cool himself, but I never expected to see a crab do it!"
Ballantyne_R_Deep_Down_a_Ta_21726_12060.27She accompanied it, however, with a twist that suddenly placed the urchin in a sitting posture, much to his own surprise, for he opened his eyes very wide, drew his breath sharply, and appeared to meditate a roar.
Washington_Boo_Up_from_Slavery_2376_22620.27Although there are certain things, such as pauses, breathing, and pitch of voice, that are very important, none of these can take the place of soul in an address.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_58880.27Clorinda broke off abruptly to recover her breath and to allow her narrative to have its full effect upon her listener.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_54870.27As soon as we 180 Had bound him on the wheel, he smiled on us, As one who baffles a deep adversary; And holding his breath, died.
Seton_Ernest_T_Wild_Animals_I_3031_10670.27But suddenly a deep raucous breathing and a rustle of leaves showed that Ranger was back.
Prindle_France_Those_Dale_Girl_37304_25690.27"Remember 'silence is golden,'" she called out when she had recovered her breath from Hester's parting hug.
Pope_Alexander_The_Poetical_Wo_9413_36260.27Who pants for glory finds but short repose, 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_85690.27The brothers listened to his deep-drawn, but regular breathing, with envy and wonder, but they were in no mood to converse.
Fuller_Henry_B_With_the_Proces_8891_25580.27He saw the world with a wider vision; he inhaled the vast and palpitating present with a deeper breath.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_20540.27Every instant now was in favour of Berks, and already his breathing was easier and the bluish tinge fading from his face.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_78700.27It was quite clear in his mind, as simple as daylight, as easy of performance as breathing, as satisfactory as satisfaction itself.
MacDonald_Geor_Alec_Forbes_of_18810_26930.27But the representations grew so much in horror as the sermon approached its end, that, when at last it was over, and Annie drew one long breath of exhaustion, hardly of relief, she became aware that the peppermint lozenge which had been given her a quarter of an hour before, was lying still undissolved in her mouth.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_31980.27The troubled glory passed -- it throbbed itself away; the spiritual gusts of thought grew continually fainter, till, like the echoes of a dying harp, like the breath of a falling gale, they slowly sank to nothingness.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_51130.27Surely she could not render this grand strain if her soul was in fierce rebellion; and, with strained ears and hushed breath, Dr. Grey listened to the closing "Dona nobis pacem, -- pacem, -- pacem."
Bront_Emily_Wuthering_Heigh_768_16900.27I set my burden on the house-steps by the kitchen-door, and lingered to rest, and drew in a few more breaths of the soft, sweet air; my eyes were on the moon, and my back to the entrance, when I heard a voice behind me say, -- 'Nelly, is that you?'
Ballantyne_R_Gascoyne_The_S_15689_14140.27Thus, step by step, with bated breath and loudly beating hearts, pausing often to listen, and gasping in a subdued way at times, the three friends advanced from the gloom without into the thick darkness within, until their gliding forms were swallowed up.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Vale_of_Ced_12725_37320.27Twilight lingered, as loth to disappear, then deepened into night, and the silver lamps within the tents brighter and more brightly illumined the gloom; but Arthur moved not, suppressing even his breath, lest he should disturb that deep and still repose.
Spielhagen_Fri_What_the_Swallo_34599_17860.27That night -- he did not know how late it was, for he had lain there fully dressed, with throbbing temples, awake, and yet as if in some wild dream, falling from the heights of more than earthly bliss into the depths of helpless anxiety and dread -- that very night Gotthold heard above the rustling of the foliage before his window, and the plashing of the rain against the panes, a sound which made him start from his bed, and, holding his breath, listen intently.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_A_Summer_in_a_C_3147_4070.27If you had happened to be an owl in that vicinity, you might have heard not only the feverish tossing to and fro of the girls in the hammocks, but many dismal sighs and groans from Dr. Winship and the boys; for the bare ground is, after all, more rheumatic than romantic, and they too tumbled from side to side, seeking comfort.
Optic_Oliver_Little_By_Littl_22365_16990.27Paul listened to the sound of his heavy breathing, between the splashes of the waves as they broke upon the bow of the boat, till he began to feel sleepy himself, and then, wrapping the greatcoat, which he always carried with him, closely around his body, he went upon deck to see if there was any change in the weather or the position of the boat.
Kent_Charles_Charles_Dickens_21332_13260.27Speaking of the collective chimes of a great city, Victor Hugo has remarked in his prose masterpiece that, in an ordinary way, the noise issuing from a vast capital is the talking of the city, that at night it is the breathing of the city, but that when the bells are ringing it is the singing of the city.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_House_of_th_77_37720.27Or, supposing him asleep, how infantile a quietude of conscience, and what wholesome order in the gastric region, are betokened by slumber so entirely undisturbed with starts, cramp, twitches, muttered dreamtalk, trumpet-blasts through the nasal organ, or any slightest irregularity of breath!
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_46490.27But the darkness seemed to trouble no one else, for after saying a few words about its being a shame and that he could never forget it, Jimpny fell off at once into a deep sleep, his hard breathing telling its own tale; while Bruff and Jacko obtained a delicious couch by scratching away some of the dry sand and making pillows of the birds.
Whyte_Melville_Katerfelto_A_S_40883_6300.26Then he drew a deep breath of relief and contentment, satisfied he would rise a winner from the unequal game and so fell sound asleep.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_241420.26The Jesuit could hardly remain standing for a second; he fell back into a chair, and looked at Dr. Baleinier with anguish, whilst his breathing became more and more difficult.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_142980.26Storm and anger were slumbering in the wrinkles of that face, and you could easily know that when they were roused men bent before their terrible breath like woods before a tempest.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_67960.26-- Though none may mark The solemn pang, nor soothe the parting breath, Still let me seek for God amid the dark, And face, unblinded, Death!
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_33350.26A yawn was heard, and the long sigh a man gives as he stretches himself in the mingled luxury and pain of an awakening after sound refreshing sleep.
Ellis_Edward_S_Footprints_in_t_25980_27120.26Had a half dozen hostiles burst upon the scene, the Shawanoe would not have deserted Hay-uta, so long as breath remained in his body.
Eliot_George_Romola_24020_21940.26And I gather a promise of mercy to thee in this, that my breath is preserved in order to -- " The difficult breathing which continually interrupted him would not let him finish the sentence.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_19760.26He has been a little wild, and difficult to settle, but his introduction to the world was rather' -- he shrugged his shoulders with a faint sigh, and looked round the room -- 'a little adverse.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_6660.26Mr. Wopsle had greatly alarmed me more than once, by his blowing and hard breathing; but I knew the sounds by this time, and could dissociate them from the object of pursuit.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_38350.26He drew a sharp quick breath -- the hum of the gay voices around him was more meaningless to his ears than the sound of the sea breaking on the beach below.
Cooper_James_F_The_Deerslayer_3285_49770.26The necessity of breathing was common to all, and the combatants stood watching each other, like mastiffs that have been driven from their holds, and are waiting for a favorable opportunity of renewing them.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_52900.26The letters from Roma were hard to burn, but he read each of them again, as if trying to stamp their words and characters on his brain, and with a deep sigh he committed them to the flames.
Barr_Amelia_E_Prisoners_of_Co_31835_4650.26She recalled with a reluctant shiver his altered behavior, his long silences, his gloomy restlessness, the frequent breath of some icy separation between them.
Wister_Owen_The_Virginian_1298_61320.26In the early dawn Shorty sat up among his blankets on the floor of the bunk house and saw the various sleepers coiled or sprawled in their beds; their breathing had not yet grown restless at the nearing of day.
Scott_Walter_Waverley_Novels_6661_7030.26Listening profoundly, he even thought he caught such accents as befit those graves of living men, the faint echoing of groans and sighs, sounding as it were from the deep abyss beneath.
Scott_Walter_Guy_Mannering_2590_2420.26Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him, but the deep cry of the bog-blitter, or bull-of-the-bog, a large species of bittern; and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass.
Richards_Laura_Mrs_Tree_30439_32610.26Even when the two had recovered their breath, neither spoke for some minutes, and it was only when a brand broke and fell forward in tinkling red coals on the marble hearth that Mrs. Pryor found her voice.
Howells_Willia_Venetian_Life_7083_8540.26Sadder music I have never heard, but though it has at times drawn from me the sigh of sensibility without referring sympathy to my pocket, I always hear the compassionate soldo of Giovanna clink reproof to me upon the pavement.
Henty_G_A_G_The_Cat_of_Buba_29756_37190.26"It is well for the lad that my lord arrived just when he did," he said to himself as he sat down by the side of Amuba and listened to his heavy breathing -- for all in the house had heard from the charioteer of the rescue of the lad from the hands of furious peasants.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_4340.26It shook with his measured breath as he gave out the psalm, it threw its obscurity between him and the holy page as he read the Scriptures, and while he prayed the veil lay heavily on his uplifted countenance.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_130960.26But follow the good clergyman or doctor, who, with his life imperilled at every breath he draws, goes down into their dens, lying within the echoes of our carriage wheels and daily tread upon the pavement stones.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Not_Like_Other_28463_38660.26But when she reached the end of the corridor there was a soft but distinctly audible breathing behind her, and, as in Mr. Drummond's case Miss Mewlstone's shadowy gray gown swept between her and the door.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_77410.26But he wandered away in the darkness over the Curragh to the shore, and in the grey of morning he was at the door again, bringing the cold breath of the dawn into the house with the long whisper round the door ajar.
Blackmore_R_D_Alice_Lorraine_49075_40020.26For violent inflammation began to kindle beneath the bandages, and smiles were succeeded by sighs and moaning, and happy sleep by weary tossings and light-headed wakefulness.
Barrie_J_M_Sentimental_Tom_14961_13740.26The wardrobe was invisible in the darkness, but they could still hear Elspeth's breathing as she slept, and the exhausted woman listened long to it, as if she would fain carry away with her to the other world the memory of that sweet sound.
Barr_Amelia_E_Prisoners_of_Co_31835_5620.26Steeped to his lips in anguish, Liot stood motionless until a dying breath fluttered through the room; and he knew by his sudden sense of loss and loneliness that she was gone, and that for this life he was alone forevermore.
Turnbull_Lawre_A_Golden_Book_o_10455_25600.26And after that had come freedom of breath, with the Te Deum, without which no ceremonial was ever complete in Venice, chanted by all those full-throated gondoliers -- a jubilant chorus of men's voices, ringing the more heartily through the church for those unwonted hours of repression.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_12700.26"Here we three sit, from morning to night," continued the soldier; "bachelors all, well provisioned and better liquored, I grant you, but like so many well-fed anchorites, while two of the loveliest damsels in the island pine in solitude within a hundred feet of us, without tasting the homage of our sighs.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_58240.26From the cross-trees the look-out man had already been able to distinguish through the glass the faint distant glimmer of Scarthey beacon, when Captain Jack knocked for admittance at Lady Landale's cabin for the last time, as he thought, with a sigh of relief.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_32430.26So it came about that every morning the invalid spent an hour or two in her familiar seat by the great ingle, the chair she had sat in day after day in the bygone times, before these terrible disasters had come like the breath of a plague-wind and bereft her of her powers.
Whyte_Melville_The_Interpreter_40660_3810.26-- a heavy breath!!
Whitney_A_D_Real_Folks_13997_12280.26Where do you keep all your noise and your breath?
Twain_Mark_The_American_Cl_3179_33930.26You take my breath away when you look like that."
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_43330.26Her breath was hushed.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_30560.26sighs Paula.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Day_of_Fate_6113_45480.26I can no more help it than I can help breathing.
Phillpotts_Ede_Children_of_the_14527_38500.26You're sadly out of breath.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_65600.26"That's it," said I under my breath.
Howells_Willia_Venetian_Life_7083_9100.26(Really a field of sighs.)
Hay_John_The_Bread_winne_16321_49940.26I cannot help loving you, any more than I can help breathing.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_79000.26I know her by her breathing!
Ford_Paul_Leic_The_Honorable_P_14532_50870.26said Watts, under his breath.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_24120.26Come now, take a long breath.
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_61340.26At this my breath was quite taken away; for we think so much of our horses.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_196390.26Her breathing was difficult.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_1600.26Elspie turned round from the corner where she sat sewing, and looked with a half-suppressed sigh at her master's wife, whose delicate English beauty, and quick, ringing English voice, formed such a strong contrast to herself, and were so opposed to her own peculiar prejudices.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_6810.26One boy who had escaped told the others about a horse that had neighed and whinnied so hopelessly; the boy climbed to the top, but not the horse.... Edward could distinctly see what the horse must have looked like, its head, the beautiful shining eyes, he heard its breathing, its whinnying and felt himself turn quite sick.
Wolfe_Theodore_Literary_Shrine_38889_1510.25Sometimes the guests were "feasted on nectar and ambrosia" by the new Adam and Eve; sometimes they "listened to the music of the spheres which, for private convenience, is packed into a music-box," -- left here by Thoreau when he went to teach in the family of Emerson's brother; once here before this wide fireplace they sat late and told ghost stories, -- doubtless suggested by the clerical phantom whose sighs they used to hear in yonder dusky corner, and whose rustling gown sometimes almost touched the company as he moved about among them.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_84060.25'The pleasantest hours of my life,' murmured he sadly, under his breath.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_58430.25"He seems to have slept well," said Mrs. Boyce, reappearing, and speaking under her breath.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_80570.25The stout, imperious woman stifled a sigh that betrayed much.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_62830.25The very sound of his soft breath as the boy slept terrified her.
Reade_Charles_The_Cloister_an_1366_82310.25She drew him to a corner of the room, and there asked him under her breath would he do her a kindness.
Reade_Charles_A_Terrible_Temp_7895_61850.25Sharpe, spurred by Rolfe, gave him no breathing time.
Otis_James_Sarah_Dillard_s_43806_14350.25Evan said sharply, speaking with difficulty because of his heavy breathing.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_88400.25When Robert hurried to the bedside, he found that the last breath had gone in the words.
Kingsley_Henry_Ravenshoe_41636_3920.25A few more laboured sighs, and a greater effort: "Swear it to me, love."
Eddy_Mary_Bake_Science_and_Hea_3458_25380.25The wind 185:1 had not changed, but her thought of it had and so her diffi- culty in breathing had gone.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_22350.25There is the more reason that I should be thankful that I am still long of breath and sound in limb.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_71160.25said Mr Meagles, with a heavy sigh, 'I wish to God you had never had to hear it.
Davis_Richard_Ranson_s_Folly_5643_29870.25"He had another bottle hidden somewhere, and all last night -- " he broke off with a relieved sigh.
Corelli_Marie_Ziska_The_Prob_5079_27340.25Dr. Dean drew a long breath of wonderment.
Carlyle_Thomas_Sartor_Resartus_20585_4450.25-- On the other hand, let us be free to admit, he is the most unequal writer breathing.
Bird_Isabella_A_Lady_s_Life_i_755_8250.25There is health in every breath of air; I am much better already, and get up to a seven o'clock breakfast without difficulty.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_Marm_Lisa_3149_13200.25There were whisperings, sighs, tears, murmurings, but all so subdued that it seemed like silence in the midst of the fierce crackling of the flames.
Thoreau_Henry_The_Maine_Woods_42500_6610.25I have never made this soil for thy feet, this air for thy breathing, these rocks for thy neighbors.
MacDonald_Geor_Phantastes_A_F_325_31050.25My anxious hope was, that, even after they had killed me, they would be unable to undo my gripe of his throat, before the monster was past breathing.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_72740.25The sleeper drew calmly in with every breath the repose that surrounded her, -- and what a blessing it was for the poor, wearied child!
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_83610.25He uttered a long guttural sigh -- there was a contraction -- an exten- sion -- then his muscles relaxed, and he lay still.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_at_Ion_48356_16590.25The next morning, soon after breakfast, he, as usual, asked Marian if she would like to go down on the beach and get a breath of the refreshing breeze from the sea.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_23070.25I trust that you will never hear them so sung, with tears upon rugged cheeks, and catchings of the breath from strong men.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_91150.25The injury to his chest (which rendered his breathing extremely painful) he thought he had received against the side of the galley.
Crawford_F_Ma_Greifenstein_6446_39820.25At last she found him asleep, and she drew a long breath of relief, for she knew that the chief danger was past.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_111850.25Before I could move, before I could draw my breath after that discovery, I was horror-struck by a heavy thump against the door from the inside.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_32420.25Knowing what I know, I can't rest, I can't sleep -- my very breath won't come freely -- till I have got that letter out of the Myrtle Room.
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_34660.25"You have seen her in the flesh, living and breathing as you see her brother yonder," said a firm, quiet voice, from among the servants on the landing outside.
Auerbach_Berth_Black_Forest_Vi_32517_54220.25Florian continued to regard the board intently, with breath almost suppressed, though a tempest of emotion was raging within him.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_59950.25Helen yielded to her father’s entreaties, and for a moment absented herself from the sick-room -- for she was greatly overworn, -- to drink a breath of morning air.
Kelly_Florence_With_Hoops_of_S_28585_320.25He waited a few moments, listening intently, then, drawing in a deep breath, he sent out another long, loud call that bellowed across the plain and sank into the far darkness.
Disraeli_Benja_Coningsby_Or_7412_63000.25In this instance the vehemence of her emotion was transient, though the tears kept stealing down her cheek for a long time, and gentle sighs and sobs might for some period be distinguished.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_59230.25The strains rose just so loud as to become intelligible, and then grew fainter and more trembling, until they finally sank on the ear, as if borne away by a passing breath of wind.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_19930.25With a long-drawn sigh of mortal agony, the tortured roan buried his face in the cushion of the sofa, and another long silence ensued, broken only by Bertha's loud sobbing.
Eliot_George_Middlemarch_145_127920.25In that way the moments passed, until a change in the stertorous breathing was marked enough to draw his attention wholly to the bed, and forced him to think of the departing life, which had once been subservient to his own -- which he had once been glad to find base enough for him to act on as he would.
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_16890.25When you go to sleep, careless of all that is to happen, until you awake again, that servant of yours, indefatigable at his post, labors for you still, and the light breath which half opens your rosy little lips as it passes through them; that light breath which your happy mother watches with such pleasure, is his work.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_14770.25She flung the heavy shawl breathlessly on a couch, shook the snowy masses of her dress into decorous folds, and stole to the window on tip-toe, where she stood, white and panting for breath, watching the lawn and grove, with wild, eager eyes, as if she feared her footsteps in the leaves might have been detected even in the darkness.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_64830.25It was the butcher's youngest son, -- His voice was broke with sighs, And with his pocket-handkerchief He wiped his little eyes; All young and ignorant was he, But innocent and mild, And, in his soft simplicity, Out spoke the tender child: -- "Oh, father, father, list to me; The Pig is deadly sick, And men have hung him by his heels, And fed him with a stick."
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_86200.25With a sigh of anguish Eudoxia reflected what she herself, forced by cruel fate and lacking freedom and pleasurable ease, had become, from an ardent and generous young creature; and she, the narrow-hearted teacher, could make allowances for the strange, adventurous yearning of a child, where a larger souled woman might have derided, and blamed and repressed it.
Motley_John_Lo_History_of_the_4885_184010.25During the remaining days of August the ship struggled, almost like a living creature, with the perils that, beset her; now rearing in the air, her bows propped upon mighty blocks, till she absolutely sat erect upon her stern, now lying prostrate on her side, and anon righting again as the ice-masses would for a moment float away and leave her breathing space and room to move in.
Pansy_Ester_Ried_Yet_9091_39130.24Yet that woman wept bitter tears over his absence; watched for him, listened nightly for his staggering footsteps; rose up from her heap of straw in the corner in the middle of the night, and set wide open the cellar door, and listened to the angry voices floating down to her from some drunken brawl further up the street, if, perchance, she might hear his ; listened, and held her breath, and quivered all over with hope and fear: then crept back to her miserable bed, covered her head with the ragged quilt, and cried herself into a few hours of forgetfulness.
Trafton_Adelin_An_American_Gir_32289_19720.24In a little court-yard, gained by passing under its arch, we watched and listened, until at last the sweet tinkle of the silver-toned bells broke the hush of waiting -- so far away, so heavenly, we held our breath, lest we should lose the sound that fell "Like the psalms from some old cloister when the nuns sing in the choir, And the great bell tolled among them like the chanting of a friar."
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_610.24Inside the uniform was pinned a parcel wrapped in tissue paper, from which she shook out a mass of yellowed lace, and as the filmy folds of an infant's christening robe swept across her lap, a subtle perfume of withered flowers like the breath of a rose jar stole over the room.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_35090.24The captain, standing up, called upon his men to drink to me, promising me that he was very glad to have fallen in with my schooner, and then, looking at the others, made a sign, whereupon they all fixed their eyes upon me and drank as one man, every one emptying his pot and inverting it as a proof, and fetching a rousing sigh of satisfaction.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_40750.24broke from his lips in a half-sobbing sigh, as the peal of the chiming bells softened by degrees into a subdued tunefulness of indistinct and tremulous semitones, and the clarion-clearness of the cymbals again smote the still air with forceful and jarring clangor.
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_6390.24TEDDY, waving the old palm-leaf fan up and down with as much care as if it had carried the breath of life to his poor little charge, sat for some time very quiet, listening to her wild prattle without trying to interrupt it; until, after lying still for a few moments, she suddenly fixed her eyes upon him, and said, -- "Oh!
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_78710.24Victoria entered on tip-toe, though she knew plainly enough that her young mistress was awake, and whispered in the doleful semitone she reserved for sick rooms: "If you please, Mister Fuller's just arrived, and he's a asking after all of you in a breath."
Disraeli_Benja_Lothair_7835_37970.24"I know no higher sentiment," said Theodora in a low voice, and yet which sounded like the breathing of some divine shrine, and her Athenian eye met the fiery glance of Lady Corisande with an expression of noble sympathy.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_64710.23Another rush onwards, till one of the long crossings near the Docks caused a stoppage, and gave Mary time for breathing, and Charley leisure to ask another question.
Corelli_Marie_The_Sorrows_of_42332_70750.23For several minutes there was a silence, broken only by the crackling of the logs on the fire, and the regular breathing of the dogs who now both lay stretched comfortably in front of the wood blaze.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Right_of_Wa_6249_68440.23In the midst of her confusion she became sharply conscious of two things: the approach of Mrs. Flynn, and her father's heavy breathing.
Harland_Marion_Alone_46505_49830.23One and another had come in, on hearing of his danger, and the room was nearly filled; but there was not a word or loud breath, to distract the meditations of the parting soul.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_16760.23"Well, herr," he said, "I am very wet, and there were moments when I thought I could not hold my breath any longer, but there are no bones broken and no cuts or grazes."
Dante_Alighieri_The_vision_of_h_8789_6310.23Thereat the trunk breath'd hard, and the wind soon Chang'd into sounds articulate like these; "Briefly ye shall be answer'd.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_77870.23She breathed heavily in a kind of sigh, and then she was aware of some watcher close beside, who said, softly, "Are you sleeping, my dear Olive?"
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_5800.23Lines of Wordsworth were on his lips; the little well-worn volume was in his pocket, but he did not need to bring it out; and his voice had all a poet's intensity of emphasis as he strolled along, reciting under his breath -- It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless; with adoration!
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_34870.23While the cold lasted he staid squatting in his hiding-place -- not asleep, but annihilated -- congealed, so to speak, like water caught by the frost; no longer digesting, and hardly breathing, he had ceased to live in reality: and it is no imaginary regeneration which the return of warmth brings to him.
Dunbar_Paul_La_The_Strength_of_15886_12970.23As Patsy saw his mother growing worse, saw her gasping for breath, heard the rattling as she drew in the little air that kept going her clogged lungs, felt the heat of her burning hands, and saw the pitiful appeal in her poor eyes, he became convinced that the city doctor was not helping her.
Scott_Walter_The_Betrothed_6490_21090.23I cannot judge how long I had slept, when my bosom was oppressed by an unusual weight, which seemed at once to stifle my voice, stop the beating of my heart, and prevent me from drawing my breath; and when I looked up to discover the cause of this horrible suffocation, the form of the murdered British matron stood over my couch taller than life, shadowy, and with a countenance where traits of dignity and beauty were mingled with a fierce expression of vengeful exultation.
Browne_J_Ross_Crusoe_s_Island_39918_10250.23Abraham then crept back the way we came, as I supposed, for I could see nothing in any direction, and only heard a dull echo around the walls of rock, growing fainter and fainter, till all I was sensible of was the flitting of some bats by my head, and the breath passing through my nostrils.
Woolson_Consta_Horace_Chase_39067_52430.22Her soul seemed to have departed with the first stroke of the benumbing malady; there was nothing but the breathing left.
Trafton_Adelin_An_American_Gir_32289_27450.22Under this disciplinary process his nature was at last so far subdued that he would have passed the ocean itself without a sigh, I am sure.
Thompson_Mauri_Alice_of_Old_Vi_4097_49130.22He laughed jovially, there in the dark, between draughts and deep sighs of enjoyment.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_35730.22Clancy still in it, living and breathing, has his reasons for keeping the fact concealed.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_72450.22No one should share his solitude -- no one should breathe this air, still perfumed by the sighs of Barbarina.
Lawrence_Georg_Guy_Livingstone_17084_35110.22He died game, but, I am sorry to say, impenitent, speaking blasphemy against the book with his last breath.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_66420.22Again a long pause of silent recollection, broken by one or two deep sighs.
Carlyle_Thomas_The_French_Revo_1301_124010.22Thus fell the Girondins, by Insurrection; and became extinct as a Party: not without a sigh from most Historians.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_57280.22The good-naturedst bulldog breathing, though, and he hasn't had a wink on the night.
Auerbach_Berth_Black_Forest_Vi_32517_14110.22Without a breath, and on tip-toe, she came into the hall, where the ladies and gentlemen were already assembled.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_2770_30.22It was just on the edge of the twilight; and the little Peppers, all except Ben, the oldest of the flock, were enjoying a "breathing spell," as their mother called it, which meant some quiet work suitable for the hour.
Napheys_George_The_Physical_Li_24001_38520.22A very high wind, even though the day be bright and dry, is injurious to a young infant, as it has been known to suspend its breathing for a time, which accident might, if not at once observed, bring about a fatal result.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_50300.22Is this the whole sad story of creation, Lived by its breathing myriads o'er and o'er, -- One glimpse of day, then black annihilation, -- A sunlit passage to a sunless shore?
Emerson_Ralph_Poems_Household_12843_17850.22THE FLUTE FROM HILALI Hark, what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains, Without tongue, yellow-cheeked, full of winds that wail and sigh; Saying, Sweetheart!
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_34770.22All this time the Spanish wife of Ben Aboo had sat in the alcove with lips whitening under their crimson patches of paint, beating her fan restlessly on the empty air, and breathing rapid and audible breath.
Wilson_Woodrow_Congressional_G_35861_4510.21When it goes from the clerk's desk to a committee-room it crosses a parliamentary bridge of sighs to dim dungeons of silence whence it will never return.
Wallace_Lew_The_Fair_God_or_43340_115860.21"Hast thou not heard of the army of unbelievers that, in the night, while resting in their camp, were by a breath put to final sleep?
Optic_Oliver_Fighting_for_th_18803_22590.21"Not so; you can do all the breathing you want to, and I won't interfere as long as you behave yourself," replied Captain Flanger in a more civilized tone than his victim had heard him use before.
Homer_The_Odysseys_of_48895_30440.21‭ His mother, in a fair chair taking seat ‭ Directly opposite, her loom applied; ‭ Who, when her son and guest had satisfied ‭ Their appetites with feast, said: “O my son, ‭ You know that ever since your sire was won ‭ To go in Agamemnon’s guide to Troy, ‭ Attempting sleep, I never did enjoy ‭ One night’s good rest, but made my quiet bed ‭ A sea blown-up with sighs, with tears still shed ‭ Embrew’d and troubled; yet, though all your miss ‭ In your late voyage hath been made for this, ‭ That you might know th’ abode your father made.
Turnbull_Lawre_A_Golden_Book_o_10455_31840.21It was so strange, on this morning of all others, to see them turn in the direction of Ca' Giustiniani; there came a vision of her chapel, which her maidens were decking -- of the dear altar, at which she should kneel no more -- and she held her breath to hear the answer.
Scott_Walter_The_Monastery_6406_45650.21Her sorrow did not exhaust itself in sighs and tears, but when the first shock had passed away, concentrated itself with deep and steady meditation, to collect and calculate, like a bankrupt debtor, the full amount of her loss.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_53350.21The sounds that met my boyish ear My inward sense salute, -- The woodnotes wild I loved to hear, -- The robin's challenge, sharp and clear, -- The breath of evening's flute.
Runkle_Bertha_The_Helmet_of_N_14219_52190.21You may save your breath, Vigo; I know what I shall do.
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_18810.21There is not much connection, you will say, between fire and breathing .
Harland_Marion_Alone_46505_20190.21he exclaimed, at my heavy breathing.
Lever_Charles_Charles_O_Malle_8577_34520.21There was something perhaps of excitement in my manner, some flurry in my look, or some trepidation in my voice, or perhaps it was the unusual hour, or the still more remarkable circumstance of my not going at once to the drawing-room, that raised some doubts in Matthew's mind as to the object of my visit; and instead of at once complying with my request to inform Mrs. Dalrymple that I was there, he cautiously closed the door, and taking a quick but satisfactory glance round the apartment to assure himself that we were alone, he placed his back against it and heaved a deep sigh.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_14390.21"I know that you have authority for believing it to be the heavy enormity that you mention, Colonel Howard," said Miss Dunscombe, anticipating the spirited reply of Katherine, and willing to avert it; she hesitated an instant, and then drawing a heavy shivering sigh, she continued, in a voice that grew softer as she spoke: "'tis indeed a crime of magnitude, and one that throws the common blackslidings of our lives, speaking by comparison, into the sunshine of his favor.
Austen_Jane_Emma_158_44750.20-- I would not change you for the clearest-headed, longest-sighted, best-judging female breathing.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_25980.20There creeps a foot, there sighs a breath, Along the quiet floor; An old man leaves his bed of death To count his treasures o'er.
Cooper_James_F_The_Red_Rover_11409_38200.20At that hour the inconstant breeze began again to die; and, even before its last breathing was felt upon the flapping canvas, it was met by counter currents from the west.
Riley_James_Wh_Riley_Love_Lyri_16995_3520.19O rarely soft, the touches of her hands, As drowsy zephyrs in enchanted lands; Or pulse of dying fay; or fairy sighs; Or -- in between the midnight and the dawn, When long unrest and tears and fears are gone -- Sleep, smoothing down the lids of weary eyes.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Success_with_Sm_6117_7410.19The reader need not draw a sigh of relief when I tell him that I mean merely the "white grub," the larva of the May-beetle or June-bug, that so disturbs our slumbers in early summer by its sonorous hum and aimless bumping against the wall.
Carlyle_Thomas_Life_of_John_St_1085_2230.19To him and to all of us, the expressly appointed schoolmasters and schoolings we get are as nothing, compared with the unappointed incidental and continual ones, whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence, and whose lessons, noticed or unnoticed, stream in upon us with every breath we draw.
Bellamy_Edward_Looking_Backwar_624_26760.19They could scarcely have anticipated that to us the Black Hole of Calcutta, with its press of maddened men tearing and trampling one another in the struggle to win a place at the breathing holes, would seem a striking type of the society of their age.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_28010.19I must be off at dawn to see to this.” On the little beach opposite Mrs. Granite’s cottage the sea sighed in the night to answer him; ebbing, it lapped the pebbles gently, as if it felt sorry for the preacher, who had not known Windover as long as it had; it inhaled and exhaled long, soft breaths, in rhythm with which his own began to grow deep and quiet; and the start from a dream of drowning in the undertow off Ragged Rock would tell him that he had slept.
Carlyle_Thomas_The_French_Revo_1301_137320.18Red Nightcaps howl dire approval: the rest of Paris looks on; if with a sigh, that is much; Fellow-creatures whom sighing cannot help; whom black Necessity and Tinville have clutched.
Warner_Charles_The_Relation_of_3117_5890.17Watch the throng seated about an Arab or Indian or Persian story-teller and poet, men and women with all the marks of want, hungry, almost naked, without any prospect in life of ever bettering their sordid condition; see their eyes kindle, their breathing suspended, their tense absorption; see their tears, hear their laughter, note their excitement as the magician unfolds to them a realm of the imagination in which they are free for the hour to wander, tasting a keen and deep enjoyment that all the wealth of Croesus cannot purchase for his disciples.
Morris_Harriso_In_The_Yule_Log_20956_11870.15And like the flower's breath over sea, Across the gulf of time and pain, To-night returns the memory Of love that lived not all in vain.

Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_11470.72What my sensations were no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes.
Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_4340.62said Mrs. Reed under her breath: her usually cold composed grey eye became troubled with a look like fear; she took her hand from my arm, and gazed at me as if she really did not know whether I were child or fiend.
Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_58900.54His eye, as I have often said, was a black eye: it had now a tawny, nay, a bloody light in its gloom; and his face flushed -- olive cheek and hueless forehead received a glow as from spreading, ascending heart-fire: and he stirred, lifted his strong arm -- he could have struck Mason, dashed him on the church-floor, shocked by ruthless blow the breath from his body -- but Mason shrank away, and cried faintly, "Good God!"
Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_58450.45And the clergyman, who had not lifted his eyes from his book, and had held his breath but for a moment, was proceeding: his hand was already stretched towards Mr. Rochester, as his lips unclosed to ask, "Wilt thou have this woman for thy wedded wife?"
Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_70720.45Do with me and for me as you like; but excuse me from much discourse -- my breath is short -- I feel a spasm when I speak."
Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_38190.43As I spoke he gave my wrist a convulsive grip; the smile on his lips froze: apparently a spasm caught his breath.
Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_57600.34He drew his breath short, and strained me so close to him, I could scarcely pant.
Charlotte_Bronte_Jane_Eyre.txt_70420.24Her face was near mine: I saw there was pity in it, and I felt sympathy in her hurried breathing.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_16400.87I gazed motionless for a moment at his beautiful face, the breath hovered upon the half-closed lips, the closing eye- lids trembled in half resistance to the sleep that was weighing them down, and in the drooping hand thin but muscular the veins were swollen beneath the yellow- ish skin, there was life in them, a strange pulsing, I recoiled. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie.txt_41910.83Elizabeth pressed her ice-cold fingers upon her closed eyes to shut out the horrible sight; she felt her persecutor’s hot breath upon her hands; his hair brushed her cheek; she shuddered, but her physical force failed her; she succumbed beneath the twofold horror,—no sound escaped her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_34350.74the duchess had whispered, she seemed still to feel the hot breath upon her neck.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_19450.74She pressed her clasped hands upon her breast, as if her breath was failing her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS.txt_23510.73The eyes rolled from side to side, and a low rattle was heard with every deep-drawn breath,—now and then the right arm was slightly lifted, only to fall again helplessly upon the covering of the bed.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_47150.69The duchess started back, and her breath came quickly, as if he had pointed at her some deadly weapon.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS.txt_540.68She stood still for a moment as if crushed—-a fleeting blush coloured her pale cheek, and a heavy sigh escaped her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie.txt_34310.66And when night came, and the huntsman bore her up the broad stairway in his arms,—she did not resist, but she turned her face from him, that his breath might not touch her cheek, that no glance of his loving eyes might fall upon her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_43360.66The hard hollow cough shook her emaciated frame much more frequently than formerly, her hands were burning hot, and her breath came with great difficulty.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_44900.63The breath of the grave seemed already to come from the parted lips, but the bosom still rose and fell with gentle regularity. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_43150.61I hated those laughing brown eyes ; they had tempted me to the meanness of which I had been guilty, and that warm breath upon my cheek was an insult.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_46360.59The poor invalid stood before him gasping for breath, looking up to him with eyes dimmed with tears.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_93050.59My godmother, too, sat so near, that, had I leaned forward, my breath might have stirred the ribbon of her bonnet.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_25920.59He paused for a moment upon the threshold, and drew a long breath, passing his hand across his brow; he was as unconscious as his aunt had been of the presence, behind the leafy screen at the window, of a human heart throbbing in mortal agitation.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_41510.58The strong woman struggled against her tears; I heard her laboured breathing; for one moment she clasped me to her convulsively.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_39620.57for breath, her flashing eyes were riveted upon the speaker. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela.txt_18040.56But there was a sudden stir In the solitude,—gasping sighs escaped the lips of a man hurrying on in the wildest agitation,—he broke through the pathless shrubbery, and bent and twisted the boughs that snapped back in his face as he passed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS.txt_8140.56Shyly, with bated breath she lifted the cover; on top lay the light-blue dress with the delicate embroidery upon the skirt and sleeves.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_27570.55Leaning back in the corner of the lounge, he never stirred, he almost held his breath.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS.txt_20970.53The feverish glow upon her cheeks was gradually disappearing beneath the refreshing breath of Spring, but it was powerless to remove the expression of gloomy reflection upon her brow.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_24990.52He paused for breath, never for an instant averting his indignant gaze from the beautiful woman, who looked mean and pitiable enough as she strove in vain to retain her usual arrogant demeanour and carriage.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_18860.52He sat with his head rest- ing on his left hand, his eyes closed, and was again in the farm-garden with that lovely, startled, ashenpale face so close to his own that he could almost feel the breath issuing from the lips. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_43130.50And Dago- bert leaned towards me, so that I felt his breath upon my cheek.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_53390.50The smile faded, and the dying girl struggled for breath.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_49120.50The heart of the poor lotos-blossom throbbed no more, and yet the fresh water-lily upon her breast still seemed to rise and fall with that breast's measured breathing.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_24670.50She leaned over the sleeper, listening to his breathing, and gently brushed away a fly that was buzzing about the pillow; then she turned round, F and the man in the hall stood thunderstruck.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_26500.50S She screamed; her face, that drooped as though she were half-fainting upon his shoulder, showed traces of tears and of great distress, but in an instant it was irradiated with joy, and she drew a deep sigh of relief. "
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_28050.48Many of the girls -- it may be noted in parenthesis -- were not pure-minded at all, very much otherwise; but they no more dare betray their natural coarseness in M. Paul's presence, than they dare tread purposely on his corns, laugh in his face during a stormy apostrophe, or speak above their breath while some crisis of irritability was covering his human visage with the mask of an intelligent tiger.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_52790.48She was silent; and Liana lay back with closed eyes, her hands clasped on her breast, her lips wreathed in a happy smile, scarcely breathing, as if even her lightest sigh might disperse all these lovely pictures of the future.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_17570.47The young composer sat there, her eyes earnestly riveted upon the notes, so calm and quiet that one could see the jet cross upon her breast rise and fall with each breath.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_69110.46But now at last I had him: there he was -- the very brownie himself; and there, curling from his lips, was the pale blue breath of his Indian darling: he was smoking into my desk: it might well betray him.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_43370.46The eyes beneath the closed lids did not see him draw to his side the ill-used boy, watching in tearless agony his mother's parting breath ; the dying ears did not hear him tenderly call the poor " bastard" " my son."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS.txt_19710.46The Professor leaned over her silently for awhile, and then raising his head, he whispered with emotion,—"I think she will recoverl" Felieitas gazed anxiously at her little charge,—she listened to her gentle breathing, and saw how the wearied limbs had fallen into a childish attitude of repose.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_44240.45She saw a tear tremble beneath the invalid’s eyelid at the thoughtless toast as she bit her lip in indignant pain; for her, existence was a rack of torture,—for her, the delights of life were purchased by suffering with every breath she drew.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_23990.45A sudden shadow fell upon the thirsty earth, and a hot breath of air swept past the farm-house and lifted the thin white locks upon the old man’s temples. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_36320.45One trembling sigh escaped her lips ; the priest felt its breath.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie.txt_31780.45he asked, stepping so close to her that she felt his hot breath upon her cheek.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_35370.45She approached her sister, so closely that Kitty felt her breath upon her cheek.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_39470.44He paused a moment, and slowly stroked his chin, while I sat in silent despair upon my trembling bough, curling up my feet as well as I could to keep my shoes on, while the blood began to throb in my temples, for I did not dare to take a long breath ; and yet that old man would talk so slowly that it seemed as if he never would come to the end of his story. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela.txt_8870.44A long-drawn sigh heaved his broad chest, the smile died away, he passed his hand across his brow as though to drive away some enchanting dream.
Charlotte_Bronte_Villette.txt_90430.44I felt it hard that Madame Beck should dog me thus; following and watching me close; my neck and shoulder shrunk in fever under her breath; I became terribly goaded.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife.txt_48440.44The loss of light to my eyes, of the breath of my life.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_18290.44he asked, after a long-drawn breath, almost entreatingly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS.txt_33820.43And I too had my soul to save l" She took breath and riveted her clear brown eyes with an expression of the greatest decision upon Madame’s face.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_48550.42At first, in deed, the pen was often tossed under the table, and I ran off into the forest with a throbbing head and eyes filled with tears; but I always returned with a sigh, and slowly picked up the small steel tyrant from the floor, and worked away until at last my hard labour brought forth results.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela.txt_6580.42Frau von Zweiflingen gave a sigh of relief, and pressed her hands for one moment upon her temples,—the noisy music must have been perfect torture to her shattered nerves.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors.txt_34270.42"Here, my dear, dear child, my faithful, true-hearted Kitty," she said, gently, in a voice which trembled as if she were suppressing a sigh, and then she put her arm around the girl’s waist and drew her towards her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess.txt_53640.42I will not touch you, my breath shall not even brush your cheek 1" she said, with bitter emphasis, as she stood upon tbe threshold of the door. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff.txt_19830.41His breath came quick and laboured.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS.txt_26170.41She drew a long breath, and then with quick decision lifted the latch and opened it.

Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_101330.90Then she parted the pearly teeth (feebly clenched on the hovering breath), and poured in wine from a christening spoon, and raised the graceful neck and breast, and stroked the delicate throat, and waited; and then poured in a little more.
MacDonald_Geor_The_Marquis_of_7174_82810.89She stood with one hand on the back of a chair, her face white, her eyes starting, her mouth a little open and rigid -- her whole appearance, except for the breath that came short and quick, that of one who had died in sore pain.
Alcott_Louisa_Work_A_Story_o_4770_44600.88Lying with closed eyes already sunken by keen suffering, hair damp with the cold dew on his forehead, a scarlet spot on either cheek, gray lines about the mouth, and pale lips parted by the painful breaths that came in heavy gasps or fluttered fitfully.
Ward_Humphry_Helbeck_of_Bann_9441_26710.88Then she hastily raised her handkerchief; a struggle passed over the face; she wiped away her tears, and threw back her head, with a sobbing breath and a little shake of the bright hair, like one who reproves herself.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_113670.88His hand was bathed in the blood of his friend, but not a pulse beat beneath it; no breath warmed the paralyzed chill of his face as it hung over the motionless lips of Edwin.
Taylor_Bayard_The_Story_of_Ke_8680_20210.85Her warm breath was on Gilbert's forehead; her bosom swept his breast, and the arm that until then had supported, now swiftly, tenderly, irresistibly embraced her.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_82620.85She passed the first and the second, stretching out her hand in the darkness before her; suddenly her head whirled, the breath failed in her bosom, and she fell, as if dead, on the floor.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_The_Bondwoman_29581_65650.85Her eyes dilated, and she drew a long breath, as she turned and faced him again with both hands clasped over her bosom, and the open picture pressed there.
Musick_John_R_The_Witch_of_Sa_26282_24060.85he demanded, his eyes glaring with hatred and his breath coming hard, while a white froth, tinged with blood, exuded from his lips.
Heimburg_W_Gertrude_s_Marr_32442_1720.85Scarcely breathing, he leaned against one of the old stalls, and his eyes followed every movement of the slender, girlish figure, as she took the child in her arms and approached the clergyman.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_79360.85The sunny short rings of hair clung to his sunken, blue veined temples, where cold drops gathered; and a gray seal was set about the wan lips that writhed in the fight for breath.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_80090.85She had drawn his head on to her shoulder, and stood supporting him, holding his hands, gazing down in anxiety beyond all words upon the colourless face, with its heavy eyelids closed, and lips a little apart, and quick irregular breath.
Lynde_Francis_The_Master_of_A_17690_43640.85The soft glow of the candles fell upon her shining hair, and upon cheek and brow; and I could see her bosom rise and fall with the quick-coming breath, and the pulse throbbing in her fair white neck.
Weyman_Stanley_Under_the_Red_R_1896_25950.84She caught her breath, and stood with one hand clasped to her bosom, gazing at me with parted lips, the blood mounting to her checks.
Hope_Anthony_Simon_Dale_20328_64440.84She looked for a moment keenly in his face; her breath came quick and fast, the hue of her cheek flashed from red to white.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Firm_of_Gir_13152_2920.84His glazed eyes were turned upwards towards the ceiling, and his parched lips were parted, while the breath came in quick, spasmodic gasps.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_28460.84When they opened again, Magdalen's arm was supporting her, Magdalen's breath fanned her cheek, Magdalen's cold lips kissed her.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Men_2788_26300.84The berry-stained lips were half-open as the breath came and went, the yellow hair lay damp on the hot forehead, and both the chubby hands held fast the little pail still full.
Taylor_Bayard_The_Story_of_Ke_8680_57710.83She looked at him, started, suddenly lost her breath, and stood with open mouth and wide, fixed eyes.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Taken_Alive_5320_62000.83Her head rested slightly against his shoulder; her breath fanned his cheek; her eyes, soft and lustrous, sought his.
Meade_L_T_Polly_A_New_Fa_18666_38390.83The little white cheek was cold, but not deadly cold, and some faint, faint breath still came from the slightly parted lips.
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_27710.83Arbaces came nearer to her -- his breath glowed fiercely on her cheek; he wound his arms round her -- she sprang from his embrace.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_14900.83"It is I" said Fabien, and he stopped, panting for breath, -- then threw his arms round his mother's neck and faced them, -- "It is I -- strong and well!
Wallace_Lew_The_Fair_God_or_43340_65420.82He was speechless; but in the step half taken, his flushed face, his quick breathing, Nenetzin read all he could have said, and more; and so he waited a sign from her, -- a sign, though but a glance or a motion of the lip or hand.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_61670.82His breath comes quick, the cold perspiration breaks out upon his forehead, his heart beats strong and fast.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_11220.82Jack did not return the look but sat with dry and choking throat, his breath coming hot and heavy from him.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Seats_of_th_6229_28660.82"He mistook me; he thought I was coquetting with him, and he leaned forward to speak in my ear, so that I could feel his breath on my cheek.
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_31990.82She stood upright and unyielding, but her face was ghastly, and she drew her breath in long, husky gasps.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_73250.82Her eyes followed him fiercely, and she breathed audibly with a quick, sob-like breath, with parted lips, between her teeth.
Stephens_Rober_Captain_Ravensh_47738_32120.81With set teeth, fast breath, glowing eyes, he thrust, and turned, and darted, maintaining around him a magic circle, into which it was death to set foot.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_56230.81She had started up, with arms clasped around her knees, and her convulsed face lifted toward the low ceiling of the cell, writhed, as she drew her breath in hissing gasps.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_69630.81At last they were still, her eyelids fell, her hands dropped the crucifix, a slight shiver ran through her limbs, which then relaxed, and she opened her mouth as though to draw a deeper breath.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_15360.81His hot, thick breath hissed through his closed teeth, and his hands strained at the strong metal supports of the lattice until they bent beneath his grasp.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_79390.81Pressing her quivering lips to his, she sobbed: "Tell mother, her little girl was faithful -- " Another spasm shook the form, and after a little while, the eyes closed; the panting ceased, and the tired breath was drawn in long, shuddering sighs.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_5320.81He reared his shuddering limbs and quelled His gasping breath, and spread his arms to meet Her panting bosom:...she drew back a while, Then, yielding to the irresistible joy, 185 With frantic gesture and short breathless cry Folded his frame in her dissolving arms.
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_1760.81Between them and the dead knight, Gilbert stood still with bent head and downcast eyes, with pale face and set lips, looking at his mother's bright hair, and at her clutching hands, and listening to the painfully drawn breath, broken continually by her agonized weeping.
Ward_Humphry_Helbeck_of_Bann_9441_13990.80She turned at last into the fell-gate to which a passing boy directed her, with a long breath that was almost a sob.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_13980.80Their stern and rigid features relaxed, their eyes glistened, their breath came short and thick.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_25730.80Her breath came in gasps, her heart beat audibly, but no more kindly tears came to her burning eyes.
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_34150.80Thoughtless at last, and sudden, he took her into his arms, and his face was close to hers, and his eyes were in hers, and their lips breathed the same breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_28830.80Matilde drew breath, and pressed her hand to her left side for one moment -- she, who was so strong.
_The_Red_Fairy_B_540_54720.80Snowdrop, suspecting no evil, stood before her and let her lace her bodice up, but the old woman laced her so quickly and so tightly that it took Snowdrop's breath away, and she fell down dead.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_31320.80With a cry of terror Patricia seized and clung to Landless's arm, trembling violently, and with her breath coming in long, gasping sobs.
J_kai_M_r_The_Green_Book_34503_95460.80With rigid, wide-open mouth he gasped for breath; his hands convulsively grasped at some invisible phantom, his heart was nigh to bursting.
J_kai_M_r_The_Green_Book_34503_58140.80Sophie, pressing her hands to her heart, turned white as death; her eyes closed, her breathing stopped, and she fell lifeless to the ground.
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_19560.80Slowly, feebly, the transparent hand wandered over the canvas, and Electra heard with alarm the laboured breath that came panting from his parted lips.
Alcott_Louisa_Work_A_Story_o_4770_17240.80It was an awesome fancy, but it took possession of her, and, as it grew, her eyes dilated, her breath came fast, and her lips fell apart, for she seemed to see the phantom she had conjured up, and it wore the likeness of herself.
Alcott_Louisa_Work_A_Story_o_4770_13460.80She listened at her lips; only a faint flutter of breath parted them; she lifted up the averted head, and on the white throat saw a little wound, from which the blood still flowed.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_37120.80Her whole heart and soul appeared centred in the picture; but as she gazed, her own eloquent face grew whiter, she drew her breath quickly, and tears rolled over her cheeks, as she lifted her arms toward the painting.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_86610.80Sometimes, a strong man's hand, sometimes a strong man's breast, was set against my mouth to deaden my cries, and with a hot breath always close to me, I struggled ineffectually in the dark, while I was fastened tight to the wall.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_40310.79But when the soul broke faint from its eclipse, 128 And his own name came, shaping life's first sigh, His very heart seem'd breaking in the lips Press'd to those faithful ones; -- then tremblingly, He rose; -- he moved; -- he paused; -- his nerveless hand Veil'd the dread agony of man unmann'd.
Verne_Jules_Twenty_Thousand_164_64190.79Paralysed, stiffened with anguish, my hair standing on end, with eyes wide open, panting, without breath, and without voice, I too was watching!
Collins_Wilkie_Poor_Miss_Finch_3632_118550.79The life flowed back into her face; her lovely smile just trembled on her parted lips; her breath came faint and quick and fluttering.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_16620.78He kept turning red and white, and catching up his breath in agitation; it was painful to him to tell of his embarrassments.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_12890.78The woman reeled on her feet as she stood, and fell into the chair again, panting for breath.
Maclaren_Ian_Kate_Carnegie_a_20399_33650.78His head fell on his breast, his breath was short and rapid, and he coughed every few seconds.
J_kai_M_r_Eyes_Like_the_S_31642_18430.78She leant right over me so that I could feel her burning breath on my face, and the throbbing of her heart against my shoulder.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Ethelyn_s_Mista_12104_4020.78there was no answering throb in her heart when she felt the touch of his hand or his breath upon her cheek.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_47540.78Then he watched her with bright eyes as she picked, his breath coming hard and quick.
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_68060.78She caught her breath, feeling the blood leaving her face, and herself growing cold.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_76510.78She shuddered, and drew a quick breath between her pale lips, but no sound escaped her.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_73740.78Her breath came and went quickly, -- her cheeks were flushed, and great tears stood in her eyes.
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_2460.78My breath came again, and my heart stood cool, and my eyes struck fire no longer.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_34730.78The wide eyes stared blankly at the vast audience, where people held their breath, watching the ghastly livid pallor that actually settled upon the face of the dying Queen, and in another instant the proud lovely head drooped like a broken lily, and she fell forward senseless.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Vale_of_Ced_12725_29160.78The boy laid his hand on Stanley's without hesitation, but without speaking; he merely raised his heavy eyes a moment to his face, and vainly did Stanley endeavor to account for the thrill which shot through his heart so suddenly as almost to take away his breath, as he felt the soft touch of that little hand and met that momentary glance.
Burnett_France_Little_Lord_Fau_479_13600.78The hand on his shoulder seemed to grow heavier at every step, and his face grew redder and hotter, and his breath shorter, but he never thought of giving up; he stiffened his childish muscles, held his head erect, and encouraged the Earl as he limped along.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_105110.78Mrs. Jervis laid her waxen cheek against her daughter's tangle of brown hair with a faint smile, while her breathing, which had grown quick and panting, gradually subsided.
Meade_L_T_A_Sweet_Girl_Gr_4989_10510.78In this attitude she made a charming picture: her thick black lashes lay heavily on her pale cheeks; her red lips were slightly parted; her breathing came quietly.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_at_Nantuc_14379_17650.78she said, with a happy sigh, leaning her head on his shoulder and gazing fondly up into his face, his right arm about her waist, while Grace clung to the other hand, holding it lovingly between her own and pressing her lips to it again and again.
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_120610.77He glanced up, and saw her standing rooted, with a look of tension on her face, her head slightly tilted, lips parted, breath held.
Musick_John_R_The_Witch_of_Sa_26282_45690.77She involuntarily started and stared impudently at the stranger, her heart beating, and her breath coming in short quick gasps.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_28140.77Still one last gasp, one last breath; then came a cry from Marie Antoinette's lips, and her head sank upon the hand of her son, which rested in her own, and which was now stiff.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_9230.77She came up panting and catching her breath in hiccoughs, took Pete's face in both her hands, drew it down to her own face, kissed it on the mouth, and was gone again without a word.
Bulfinch_Thoma_The_Age_of_Chiv_4926_20190.77And suddenly a breath that seemed intermixed with fire smote him so sore in the visage that therewith he fell to the ground, and had no power to rise.
Crawford_F_Ma_Greifenstein_6446_38910.77The pain in his temples was as that of a red-hot screw boring its way through his brain, and while his white teeth ground audibly upon each other his quick-coming breath blew a scarcely perceptible foam from his strained and parted lips.
Woolson_Consta_Anne_A_Novel_32707_23650.77The child seemed exhausted, her breath came in panting gasps; her skirt was torn, her hair streaming, and the dark red hue of her face was changed to a yellow pallor.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_36430.77A chair overturned with a crash; a great body struck him on the chest; a hot, pestilent breath volleyed in his face, and wolfish teeth were reaching for his throat.
Hardy_Thomas_The_Trumpet_Maj_2864_64800.77Having remained with suspended breath in this attitude for a few seconds she turned round, bent her head upon the table, and burst out weeping anew with thrice the violence of the former time.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_38030.77At last the pen lay on the table, and she was resting her chin upon her folded hands, her eyes half closed, her breath drawn in short sighs that came and went between her parted lips.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_170190.77She is wearing a delicate muslin now, as she sits by Lady Verner, and her blue eyes are suspiciously bright, and her cheeks are suspiciously hectic, and the old laboured breath can be seen through the muslin moving her chest up and down, as it used to be seen -- a lovely vision still, with her golden hair clustering about her; but her hands are hot and trembling, and her frame is painfully thin.
Marlitt_E_Eu_Gold_Elsie_42426_42270.77Elizabeth pressed her ice-cold fingers upon her closed eyes to shut out the horrible sight; she felt her persecutor's hot breath upon her hands; his hair brushed her cheek; she shuddered, but her physical force failed her; she succumbed beneath the twofold horror, -- no sound escaped her lips.
James_G_P_R_Agincourt_A_Ro_39519_23750.76Her very breath seemed stopped; her bosom fluttered, as if there had been a caged bird within; her cheek turned very pale, and then flushed warm again with the blood spreading in a brighter glow over her fair forehead and her blue-veined temples.
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_64760.76Yet the eyes I praised pierced the gloom and shone in the darkness; and suddenly I felt arms about my neck, clasping me tightly; her breath was on my cheek, coming quick and uneven, and she whispered: 'Yes, you shall hear it again and again and again, for I am not ashamed now; for I know, yes, I know.
Dickens_Charle_Hard_Times_786_42080.76For, there was Bitzer, out of breath, his thin lips parted, his thin nostrils distended, his white eyelashes quivering, his colourless face more colourless than ever, as if he ran himself into a white heat, when other people ran themselves into a glow.
Woolson_Consta_Horace_Chase_39067_41130.76Her face had a strange, stiffened aspect, as though her breathing had suddenly been arrested.
Wallace_Lew_The_Fair_God_or_43340_15050.76He bent his cheek close to her parted lips, listening to her breathing.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Miss_Lou_5309_59840.76So would have faded also the various aspects of passion from which she had shrunk, frightened by its hot breath.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_45270.76All at once the breath of the queen stopped, and her heart ceased beating, with horror.
Lynde_Francis_The_Helpers_45133_35800.76The steady eyes were veiled and Connie's breath came in nervous little gasps.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_43660.76His eyes glowed, his figure was dilated, his breath came thick and fast.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_14540.76She caught her breath, leaned against the wall, and covered her face with her hands.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_62300.76Helen said passionately, her breath still quick, and her face white to the lips.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_7910.76From head to foot she trembled, and now and then drew a short and gasping breath.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_4950.76Her eyes flashed their burning light into his; her breath beat on his cheek.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_101820.76She turned and crossed the room again, her hands clasped tightly on her bosom, her breath catching itself in hysterical sobs.
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_19290.76She drew a hard breath, ran back to the table, and knelt down before it with folded hands and trembling lips.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_44710.76It felt as if some invisible hand had seized upon her heart and compressed it tightly; and her breathing failed, and a chill went through her veins.
Irving_Washing_Bracebridge_Hal_13515_34710.76Her lover sat by her side, watching her with painful anxiety, and fearing that every breath which stole from her pale lips would be the last.
Crockett_S_R_The_Lilac_Sunbo_4918_33480.76With a great effort she forced herself back a step from him, and just as she felt the breath of his mouth upon hers her heart made way through her lips.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_35440.76But Gloria stood still, The rich colour had faded from her cheeks -- her eyes were dilated with alarm, and her breath came and went quickly.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_41110.76Her lips parted in a faint sigh, -- a glance like fire flashed from beneath her black, silken lashes, ...
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_40600.76After a while her breath began to come and go slowly, in faint sighs, the muscles of her face moved a little, and she feebly opened her eyes.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_74280.76Sheba stood a few feet away from him, her cheeks flushed, light breaths coming quickly through her parted lips.
Alcott_Louisa_Moods_28203_36780.76"When I woke my hair was damp on my forehead, my breath quite still, my heart so cold I felt as if death had indeed been near me and left its chill behind.
Alcott_Louisa_Moods_28203_16070.76"I did not know -- perhaps he did not wish it -- " began Sylvia, folding one hand tightly in the other, with a quick breath and a momentary sensation as if some one had struck her in the face.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_9330.75He would have screamed for his mother in the sore terror and agony that had come over him, in hopes she might drive the notion from him; but the dread of seeing her followed by that woman kept his lips shut, except for his long gasps of breath.
Hentz_Caroline_Helen_and_Arthu_23106_7530.75Her breath came quick and short, a film came over her eyes, and cold drops of sweat stood upon her forehead, yet she would not now have left the room without penetrating into the mystery of death.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_30840.75Blushing, panting, struggling, chiding, laughing, her warm breath fanning each of their faces by turns, she strove to disengage herself, yet still remained in their triple embrace.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_102980.75With a shuddering sigh, the King bent over the piteous sight, -- and stooping lower and lower still, touched with trembling lips the small, crossed hands.
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_32740.74I was running on, very fast indeed, when my eyes rested on little Em'ly's face, which was bent forward over the table, listening with the deepest attention, her breath held, her blue eyes sparkling like jewels, and the colour mantling in her cheeks.
Weyman_Stanley_Under_the_Red_R_1896_30760.74Covered, as his shoulders were, the man sprang erect with a shriek of pain, raising his chin, and hollowing his back; and in that attitude stood an instant with starting eyes, gasping for breath.
Hope_Anthony_The_Heart_of_Pr_41438_14450.74The King threw; his throw was a six and a five, and a sudden gleam of hope lit up his eyes; he leant forward in his chair, gripping the elbows of it with his hands; his cheeks flushed and his breath came quickly.
Hentz_Caroline_Helen_and_Arthu_23106_7580.74Helen held her breath, bending slowly, lower and lower, as if drawn down by a mighty, irresistible power, till her cheek almost touched the clay-cold cheek over which she leaned.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_82090.74As she watched her breathing became rapid, laboured, her eyes filled, her face quivered uncontrollably, and she half rose from her seat, but Mr. Chesley held her back, and dropped the curtain.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_122730.74She stole close to the bed, and drawing in her breath, bent down, and softly kissed him on the face, and laid her own for one brief moment by its side, and put the arm, with which she dared not touch him, round about him on the pillow.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_46840.74But at last she threw back her head and let him go, and her hands brushed away the last tears from her grey eyes, and she looked into his face and smiled with parted lips, drinking the sight of him with her breath and eyes and heart.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Gretchen_A_Nov_40702_16050.74The lock of hair and the faded flowers caught his attention, and his breath came hard and pantingly, as for a moment he held the little golden tress in his hand.
Ellis_Edward_S_Blazing_Arrow_41777_4120.74The handsome face of the youth was pale with an unshakable resolve, and the thin lips were compressed, his breath coming thick and fast through the nostrils.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_100300.74Rose, left alone, sprang up suddenly, and clasped her white fingers above her head, with a long breath.
Townsend_Georg_The_Entailed_Ha_19146_21360.74As she obediently raised her lips, a strange, warm, husky breath, not natural nor even passionate, came from his nostrils.
Roe_Edward_Pay_The_Earth_Tremb_6719_62030.74He bent toward her that he might look deeper into her rosy face, and felt her sweet breath coming quickly against his cheek.
Roe_Edward_Pay_An_Original_Bel_5437_15940.74Ardent words to the beautiful girl who looked over his shoulder and inspired his touch seemed as natural as breath.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_49750.74Every eye was now fixed on the commanding figure of the young Edwin, who stood with the determination of being obeyed breathing in every look.
Munroe_Kirk_Under_the_Great_19235_24280.74As the man-wolf fell, a stream of blood trickled from his mouth, and he choked for breath as though strangling.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_108070.74The colour left her face and returned to it, red chasing white as one breath follows another, and she glared at the woman.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_63610.74She shut her eyes an instant, grasped the coverlet, and drew it down; then caught her breath, and looked at the dead.
Eliot_George_Adam_Bede_507_49880.74She was very beautiful in her paleness and agitation, with her dark childish eyes dilated and her breath shorter than usual.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_27980.74All that, if she but let that heavy breathing go on a little longer, if she did not raise her hand and set a glass to those grey, parted lips.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_2220.74She leaned back in her chair, and her lips parted as she breathed, with a perceptible desire for refreshment in the breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_21240.74Then she listened for its breathing, and felt for its breath; but when neither the one came to her ear, nor the other to her cheek, her own breath beat hot and fast.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_59090.74His lips were tightly pressed together, his eyes were bloodshot, and his breath was labouring hard in his heaving breast.
Weyman_Stanley_The_Castle_Inn_11918_63730.74Burning with indignation she turned to the other two, her breath coming quick.
Sedgwick_Anne_The_Confounding_41917_41780.74Camelia clasped her hands behind her back, and tried to still her quick breathing.
Sand_George_Mauprat_2194_17060.74I grew pale; I grew red; I gasped for breath.
Melville_Herma_Omoo_Adventure_4045_6800.74The eyes were open and fixed, and his breath coming and going convulsively.
Meade_L_T_A_Young_Mutinee_24599_5300.74A sob caught Judy's breath -- she felt as if she should choke.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_33990.74"'Let not your heart be troubled,'" he said beneath his breath; and again, "'Let not your heart be troubled.'"
Henty_G_A_G_The_Young_Carth_5128_13740.74A third sprang upon his shoulder, and he felt its hot breath in his face.
Glasgow_Ellen_The_Voice_of_th_16505_36740.74Her head lay on his arm, and he felt her warm breath come and go.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_15890.74His chest swelled, and his legs got weak, and he was short of breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_56760.74Nearer and nearer it came, and she could feel the warm breath of it upon her cheek.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_79260.74His laboured breath deafened her, and she could feel it through her sleeve upon her other arm.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_42470.74Her colourless lips were parted and a little drawn, and her breath came faintly.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_41640.74she said, turning her face over his shoulder, and tickling his neck with her breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_24060.74Mona clutched her cloak convulsively, and held her breath.
Bethusy_Huc_Va_The_Eichhofs_A_35311_21780.74He saw her sudden blush; her breath came quicker and her lips quivered.
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_9990.73At last, with a long, soft sigh, the lips lightly parted; the eyelids opened slowly, showing for a moment the blue eyes, dim and languid, but no longer wild with delirium; and then they slowly closed, and the breath came softly and regularly from the parted lips.
Isham_Frederic_The_Strollers_29726_67380.73Above his bronzed face the light curls waved like those of a Viking; though his clothes were dyed with the sanguinary hue and his chest rose and fell with labored breathing, it was with an almost quizzical glance he regarded the other who stood as if turned to stone.
Voynich_E_L_The_Gadfly_3431_51400.73His face was livid with pain and exhaustion, and he panted fearfully for breath; but he looked round at the Cardinal, smiling with white lips, and whispered: "I c-cong-gratulate your Eminence."
Turnbull_Lawre_A_Golden_Book_o_10455_10640.73He folded her to his breast with sudden passion, and stooped his head to her shoulder for an instant, lifting it quickly that she might not feel the sobbing of his breath which, even more than his broken words, betrayed his anguish.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_24740.73There was every symptom of foul play: the tongue was swollen and almost black; the breathing labored; the body twitched horribly; and the soft gray eyes all bloodshot and straining in agony.
Black_William_The_Beautiful_W_24094_42280.73Douglas looked at the girl, lying there with her flushed face, closed eyes, and troubled breathing, unconscious of his presence, only twisting the bed-clothes about with her hot hands.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_56940.72Then, as her fingers closed upon it and grasped it, and his breath rose hot to her burning cheek, she knew that the real danger lay in the withdrawal.
Lawrence_Georg_Sword_and_Gown_19121_6440.72Royston's hard cold face changed for an instant, and the faintest flush lingered there, about as long as your breath would upon polished steel.
James_Henry_The_Spoils_of_P_33325_25560.72He clasped his hands before her as he might have clasped them at an altar; his pressed palms shook together while he held his breath and while she stilled herself in the effort to come round again to the real and the right.
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_24780.72She clutched the cushions of the sofa in her clenched hand; her breathing came quick and fast; her eyes gleamed at me even in the gloom of the curtained room.
Fothergill_Jes_The_First_Violi_29219_51440.72As he came in her eyes dropped; her hand closed tightly over the handkerchief she held, crushing it together in her grasp; she held her breath; then, recovered, she faced him.
Ford_Paul_Leic_Janice_Meredith_5719_46390.72Here, cowering and shivering, she crouched on the floor behind her bed, her breath coming fast and short, as she waited for the sword of vengeance to fall.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_103080.72The sobs came fast now as two dark arms were flung round Grey's white neck, and Mrs Bolter's eyes grew wet as well, as she drew a long breath, and then sat down by the bedside, saying, softly: "Oh!
Coffin_Charles_Winning_His_Way_22913_31790.72The people were going to hurrah, but when they saw how poor, pale, and emaciated he was, how thin his cheeks, how hollow and sunken his eyes, how languid and weary, how little there was left of one who once was so manly, they held their breaths, and felt a strange choking in their throats.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_28690.72What emotion was it that agitated his countenance, impeded his breath, and dyed his face blood-red?
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_45260.72But when he had succeeded his quick panting breaths still shook his tiny frame and Wharton's knee.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_51310.72He went back and bent over her; the velvet of his cloak swept her lap, his breath almost stirred her hair.
Smith_Francis_The_Fortunes_of_3417_60350.72Margaret sat beside him, watching every breath he drew, the scalding tears streaming down her face.
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_1170.72said one or two under their breath, while the others stood speechless, with mouths open and round eyes fixed and staring.
Reid_Mayne_The_Desert_Home_24268_41770.72So close had he been in passing, that his claws brushed my arm, and I could feel his warm breath upon my face!
Reade_Charles_The_Cloister_an_1366_38560.72At this, by a convulsive effort, she raised her head up, up, till he felt her hot fetid breath.
Major_Charles_When_Knighthood_17498_910.72Judson was pale from exhaustion, and his breath was coming in gasps as he tried to keep the merciless sword from his throat.
Lawrence_Georg_Guy_Livingstone_17084_20880.72She was so near him now that her quick breath stirred his hair, and he could feel the pulse of her heart beating against his own side.
Hough_Emerson_The_Mississippi_14001_11690.72Her breath came in soft measure, and unconsciously a hand was raised to touch the cheek pressed down to hers.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_60200.72His limbs grew weak, his breath came in gasps, and the pain in his side was cutting him like a knife.
Gl_mer_Claire_A_Noble_Name_o_36550_46020.72She looked up at him angrily; then suddenly her eyes were veiled in sadness, and, with a sigh, she turned and left him.
Finley_Martha_Grandmother_Els_14883_24640.72"Yes," she said half under her breath, with a quick glance up into his face, then hid her own on his breast, sobbing, "Oh, take care of me!
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_680.72She came close to him, and he heard her quick and laboured breathing, and saw the convulsive quivering of her compressed lips.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_32600.72Her breathing grew short, and large drops stood on her pure beautiful brow.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_42930.72When her breathing grew stronger, he rose, relinquished her hands, and after a moment she opened her eyes.
Eastwood_Franc_Geoffrey_the_Lo_48260_18570.72All felt his presence, and there was silence, only broken by the gasping breath, each moment growing shorter.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_30320.72Instinctively her eyes turn to Lady Chetwoode, and the breath comes a little quicker from her parted lips.
Crawford_F_Ma_Saracinesca_13757_62140.72She was not weeping, but her face was white, and her bosom heaved with quick and strong-drawn breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_Saracinesca_13757_24540.72Then he turned and went out by the way he had entered, leaving Del Ferice writhing with pain and gasping for breath.
Connor_Ralph_The_Sky_Pilot_i_3288_82340.72I'm so glad," whispered the girl, with a quick breath and a sudden flushing of her pale cheeks.
Besant_Walter_The_Orange_Girl_41545_2830.72The light went out of her face: a cloud fell upon it: she sighed again: her lips parted: she caught her breath.
Allen_James_La_The_Reign_of_La_3791_7630.72The pastor leaned back in his chair and drew a quivering breath through his white lips.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_161560.71She wore an evening dress of white muslin, its body very low and its sleeves very short; her chest was painfully thin, and every breath she took lifted it ominously: she seemed to be breathing outside as well as in.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_31370.71He took my hand and put it to his heart, which was beating with increased pulsation; his breath was short; and at the moment when he had to appear he grew as pale as a parchment, and his forehead was covered with drops of sweat.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_20710.71Besides, I’m a bit tired.” He looked, indeed, exhausted, as the electric light smote his thin face; his eyes glowed like fire fed by metal, and his breath came short.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_childre_14875_25420.71In the sick-room the golden head lay on a snow white pillow, the blue eyes were closed, and the breath came pantingly from the pale, parted lips.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_33690.71He had put his hands for an instant upon her shoulders, and his handsome face flushed, eloquent with the feeling that he no longer cared to disguise, was so close to hers, that she felt his breath on her cheek.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_38610.71“I’ll tell him.” Again the heavy breathing blew the stiff white hairs of his beard and moustache, as his chin, raised in the effort of speaking, fell suddenly to his breast again.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_50450.71Down to that moment her breath had been coming and going in hot gasps, and she had felt a dryness in her throat; but every symptom of nervousness suddenly disappeared, and she threw up her head like a charger in battle.
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_22320.71You were quite out of breath; your heart beat so rapidly it almost hurt you; and you were so hot that the perspiration poured in great drops down your face, so that your mamma, quite frightened, took you up in her arms and carried you to the fire; for the coolness of evening was coming on, and a little girl drenched with perspiration is soon chilled.
Alcott_Louisa_Work_A_Story_o_4770_33080.71For one happy moment her head lay on his arm, and his hand brushed back her hair with a touch that was a caress: she heard his heart beat fast with anxiety; felt his breath on her cheek, and wished that she might die then and there, though a bread-knife was not a romantic weapon, nor a cut finger as interesting as a broken heart.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_57230.71And in that moment of contact with the seer she suffered a shock that penetrated every fibre; she shuddered, the cry of pain died off in her throat, her parted lips whitened and stiffened, her eyes were frozen in their look of terror, her breath ceased to come, her heart to beat, and body and soul together seemed transfixed.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_5632_20460.71Her breath came in quick, short gasps, the hot indignant blood mounting to the brown waves of hair on her brow, while she clasped her hands so tightly together, the pain at any other time would have made her scream.
Crawford_F_Ma_Marietta_A_Mai_16100_37610.71Her head lay on the cushions now, and she watched him with half-closed eyes in the soft light, and now and then the thin embroideries that covered her neck and bosom rose and fell with a long, satisfied sigh.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_71160.70"Not alone from henceforth, Sibylla," he murmured, bending towards her in agitation, his lips apart, his breath coming fast and loud, his cheeks scarlet.
Weyman_Stanley_The_New_Rector_39215_30710.70Jack heard him draw in his breath with the sharp sound of sudden fear, and even by that light could see that his face was drawn and white.
Stephens_Rober_The_Continental_30589_18470.70Now, as he leaned towards her, over the chair-back, his breath coming rapidly, his eyes luminous, she seemed for a moment abashed, softened, subdued.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_52660.70As she said this, she pressed her lips to his through the veil, drawing toward her his head at the same time, till at last breath failed the woman and she tore her face from him.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_26400.70For some days she had been in a fever; her face had grown pale; her eyes had sunk; her breast was moving with short, broken breath.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Barriers_Burned_6627_78320.70Her breath came quick and short, and her face was so pale and agonized that he trembled for her, but he tightened his grasp on her hand, and his tears fell with hers.
M_hlbach_L_L_Andreas_Hofer_3666_83140.70While he was doing so, his cheeks turned pale, his breath issued heavily and painfully from his breast, and the paper rustled in his trembling hands.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_20110.70His breath came quick -- he clasped her tighter and tighter in his arms, until suddenly a burst of tears relieved his overburdened soul.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_53360.70As Eglah watched him her breath fluttered; involuntarily she stretched her arms an instant toward him, and her eyes lighted with a tender glow.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_A_Noble_Life_14373_20080.70She leant against the doorway -- not for weeping; she looked like one who had wept till she could weep no more, but breathing hard in heavy breaths, like sobs.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Moonstone_155_90520.70The hysterical passion swelled in her bosom -- her quickened convulsive breathing almost beat on my face, as she held me back at the door.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_24040.70The hot breath of the woman, as she spoke, beat on Rosamond's cheek, and seemed to fly in one fever-throb through every vein of her body.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_115030.70Yes, her eyes had another lustre, a deeper light, but she lay back in the cool bed with a smile and a long-drawn sigh.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_21640.70Tom's honest face flamed into red which was almost purple, the veins swelled on his forehead, his indignation almost deprived him of his breath.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_5300.70Sudden she rose, As if her heart impatiently endured Its bursting burthen: at the sound he turned, And saw by the warm light of their own life 175 Her glowing limbs beneath the sinuous veil Of woven wind, her outspread arms now bare, Her dark locks floating in the breath of night, Her beamy bending eyes, her parted lips Outstretched, and pale, and quivering eagerly.
Weyman_Stanley_The_House_of_th_2041_33610.70My breath came fast and short, for I felt it was a crisis.
Warner_Susan_Hills_of_the_Sh_16918_147810.70Elizabeth's heart beat and her breath came short.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_28780.70Her straight young figure was just above him, her breath almost on his cheek.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_143990.70No priest interfered while he drew his last breath upon her bosom.
McLennan_Willi_The_Span_o_Lif_33731_33990.70was all he said, but he caught me in his strong arms and nearly crushed the breath out of me.
Hornung_E_W_Peccavi_36115_58450.70"And I know that it would not," said Gwynneth, half under her breath and half through her teeth.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_24860.70Her pale face flushed, her breath came quick.
Haggard_H_Rid_Montezuma_s_Dau_1848_61710.70It was white and cold, and I could feel no breath upon her lips.
Garland_Hamlin_The_Eagle_s_Hea_21255_47350.70she said, still staring at him, her bosom pulsating with her quickened breath.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_130180.70His breathing was hard and thick, and he moaned painfully as it came and went.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_49690.70His eyes suddenly dilated; he panted for breath.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_33570.70I was running on, very fast indeed, when my eyes rested on little Em'ly's face, which was bent forward over the table, listening with the deepest attention, her breath held, her blue eyes sparkling like jewels, and the color mantling in her cheeks.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Vale_of_Ced_12725_26700.70She stood for many, many minutes, in the fearful dread of his return; and then she raised her hand to her brow, and her lip blanched and quivered, and, with a long, gasping breath, she sunk down upon the cold floor -- all the heroine lost in an agonized burst of tears.
Wolf_Emma_Other_Things_Be_1839_28920.70Levice pressed his lips hard together as the shuddering breath left him; his heavy-veined hands were tightly clinched; when he spoke, however, his voice was quite peaceful.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_294000.70She spoke those words in a low voice, trembling with passionate love, and, leaning upon Djalma's knees, approached so near, that he felt her warm breath upon his cheek.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_18300.70A long-drawn, shivering sigh was the only answer; but she lifted her dark eyes, and fixed them on her with such a forlorn and imploring expression, that the tears came into the little woman's eyes.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_80570.70A faint smile dawned upon the face, and he folded his hands softly upon his bosom, with a deeper breath, as if some vision of ineffable happiness filled his thought.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_38830.70"The woman felt the cold hand fail her own; 54 The head that lean'd fell heavy on the sod; She knelt -- she kiss'd the lips, -- the breath was flown!
Finley_Martha_Holidays_at_Ros_14280_32830.70He was leaning over her, with his finger on her slender wrist, watching her breathing and counting her pulse, when she opened her eyes, and looking up lovingly into his face, said "Dear papa, I feel so much better."
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_83820.70But at the thought he draws his breath hard; his handsome face grows set and stern, a haggard look comes into his blue eyes and lingers round his mouth.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_142590.70The other, kneeling on the floor, drooped over it; the arms easily and peacefully resting on the coverlet; the face bowed down, so that the lips touched the hand over which with its last breath it had bent.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_24040.70Instinctively he drew Sah-luma closer to his side -- his breath came thick and fast.. he struggled with all his might to speak the words ... "One HAS died and risen from the dead!"
Yonge_Charlott_The_Heir_of_Red_2505_82560.69She leant on his breast, and rested her head on his shoulder again in silence, for her heart was too full of awe and thankfulness for words, even had she not been without breath or power to speak, and needing his support in her giddiness and trembling.
Lawrence_Georg_Guy_Livingstone_17084_42970.69Through the awful minutes that followed, not another sound than the hissing breath escaped through his set lips; his face was not once distorted, though the hair and beard clung round it, matted and dank with the sweat of agony.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_91070.69The late John Harmon, looking at the proud face with the down-cast eyes, and at the quick breathing as it stirred the fall of bright brown hair over the beautiful neck, would probably have remained silent.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_53120.69Dan found his breath coming audibly from his throat, his finger-nails digging trenches in his palms, and his teeth set so hard on his lips that both teeth and lips were bleeding.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_35980.69Without answering, he tore the bandage from his eyes, and he raised himself up, did it quickly, flung the bedclothes aside and fell back on his pillow, put his hand on his chest, crying out that he was suffocating, his breathing was alarming.
Bethusy_Huc_Va_The_Eichhofs_A_35311_13730.69Adela's blue eyes were so near Walter's face that his breath stirred the curls upon her forehead, and she looked at him so earnestly and kindly that his cheek suddenly flushed, and the voice in which he answered her was rather unsteady.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_127360.69All of emotion was stirred up within her -- her temples throbbed, her throat beat, her breath became hysterical.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_114720.69The breath came quickly through her slightly parted lips; her bright color was ebbing.
Vaile_Charlott_Wheat_and_Huckl_41515_33400.69The old man lifted his head with an obvious effort, and his breath came quick for a moment.
Twain_Mark_The_Adventures_74_11560.69She bent timidly around till her breath stirred his curls and whispered, "I -- love -- you!"
Trowbridge_J_Cudjo_s_Cave_31406_20020.69The negro knitted his brows, his breath came thick, and there was a strange moisture in his eye.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_225320.69From the lips, writhing with pain, issued the struggling breath, mingled with the words: "Oh!
Stockton_Frank_The_Great_Stone_6127_6990.69Between himself and the illuminated space on which he gazed -- his breath quick and his eyes widely distended -- there seemed to be nothing at all.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_17800.69"Then the thoughts died in her brain, and the breath sank to a quiver on her blue lips.
Richards_Laura_Captain_January_7790_3410.69The child drew a long breath, and her face glowed with eager anticipation.
Phillpotts_Ede_Sons_of_the_Mor_46857_78870.69His breath began to come hard, and he felt his heart flogging against his ribs very painfully.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_46760.69The poor invalid stood before him gasping for breath, looking up to him with eyes dimmed with tears.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_61210.69He did not feel how violently the young heart beat, how quick the hot breath came.
Ludlow_James_M_The_Captain_of_40519_30060.69The tears shot into his eyes; but with a deep breath he dropped the curtain, and turned away.
Hay_John_The_Bread_winne_16321_16970.69He leaned over her shoulder, so near her she could feel his breath on the light curls that played about her ear.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_43450.69His face flushed, his heart began to beat wildly, his breath came in gasps.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_39220.69His heart beat wildly with the thought, his breath came in gasps, something in his throat seemed choking him.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_32980.69Too feeble to speak more, she closed her eyes, while her breathing grew painfully short.
Ellis_Edward_S_Blazing_Arrow_41777_1850.69He instinctively held his breath until he felt that the distended blood-vessels must burst.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_161710.69It rose against her father with the breath she drew, it lay between her and her lover when he pressed her to his heart.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_10090.69She paused and drew breath before she spoke again, and she pressed one hand to her side under her cloak.
Connor_Ralph_The_Man_from_Gl_3287_51770.69Ranald stood before the lieutenant with eyes blazing and breath coming quick.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_6610.69A sigh lifted the fair young bosom, but she showed no other sign of weakness.
Bolton_Sarah_K_Lives_of_Poor_B_35950_23940.69The breath came shorter, the face took on a heavenly expression, and grew cold as marble.
Weyman_Stanley_The_Castle_Inn_11918_20770.69But the girl, who through all remained silent, white, and defiant, who faced all, the fingers of one hand drumming on the table before her, and her fine eyes brooding scornfully on the crowd, drew from more than one the compliment of a quicker breath and a choking throat.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_23630.69He felt that the hot breath floating across his cheek was heavy with contagion; he knew that fever raged and burned in the blue veins that swelled over those drooping arms and the unstockinged feet, but, he neither shrank nor trembled at the danger.
Watts_Dunton_T_Aylwin_13454_54040.69There was a turn about the outlined neck and head that riveted my gaze; and, as I looked from these to the veil falling over the face, a vision seemed to be rapidly growing before my eyes -- a vision that stopped my breath -- a vision of a face struggling to express itself through that snowy film -- whose face?
Wilson_Harry_L_The_Spenders_A_9981_25170.68He tried to stop breathing, fearful of discovery, grasping with one hand the heavy fold of the curtain back of him to steady himself.
Weyman_Stanley_Shrewsbury_A_R_39137_7410.68she answered, flinging her arms round my neck, and hanging on my breast, while her hot breath fanned my cheek.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_76510.68At that solemn moment she drew her breath heavily, and listened with painful attention for the first words that might fall upon the court.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_65360.68His eyes were dry, his tongue was parched, a fever was burning in his veins, and at each breath he seemed to be lifting some ponderous weight.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_21810.68Finding, by her shortened breath, that she was fainting, the knight took her in his arms, and supporting her on his breast, chafed her hands and her forehead.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_104820.68She spoke all this softly, with quick breath, while the tears were streaming over her beautiful face, and her whole frame trembled with emotion.
Hope_Anthony_The_Prisoner_of_95_25250.68And my breath went quick and fast, for on this lower side, where the pipe should have clung close to the masonry, there was a gleam of light!
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_4170.68Swathed about his forehead and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath, Mr. Hooper had on a black veil.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_52810.68He looked at the proud but quivering mouth, -- into the great, shadowy, gray eyes, and a heavy sigh escaped him.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_94560.68He pointed to his dress and to his bandaged head, and still panting for breath, glanced round the room; then faced towards Hugh again.
Collins_Wilkie_Poor_Miss_Finch_3632_39830.68His eyes looked up at her, spell-bound; his color came and went; his breath quickened audibly when her fingers touched his face.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_74700.68As if the grave countenances were insupportable, he gave a long-drawn breath, hid his face on his mother's knee, and burst into an agony of weeping.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_27490.68A terrible pain in the side had come on in the night, making every breath painful, every cough agonizing, and his whole face and brow were crimson with the effort of gasping.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_15830.68Her cheeks glowed, her nostrils dilated, a quick and violent breathing agitated her breast, and a nervous and convulsive trembling for action was seen in every movement.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_98190.68He drew his breath painfully through his teeth as he uttered these words, for just then a showily-dressed Malay went to where Helen was seated, and going down upon one knee, he raised her head.
Ballantyne_R_Gascoyne_The_S_15689_19420.68Presently the other eye also quivered; then the broad chest rose almost imperceptibly, and a faint sigh came feebly and broken from the cold blue lips.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_106390.68Who knows whether the mask of intellectual affinity may not have served to screen -- Quick as thought, she dropped her veil; her breathing was short and fast; her cheeks were burning.
Allen_James_La_The_Choir_Invis_2316_20190.68He bent his head down so close that his lids touched her hair -- so close that his warm breath was on her forehead -- and she felt rather than knew him saying to himself, not to her: "Good-bye!"
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_22110.68the thankfulness -- ' she said; but she could not go on, she must stifle all that swelled within her, for the babe felt each throb of her beating heart; and she could barely keep from bursting into tears as his father kissed him; then, as he marked the still sobbing breath, said, 'Bowles must see him again.'
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_8420.68I had sprung round with a catch of my breath, and there was the valet, Ambrose, his body in the shadow of the doorway, his dark face protruded into the light, and two burning eyes fixed upon mine.
Dickens_Charle_The_Posthumous_47534_60160.68A deep sigh escaped from the wasted form before him; the lips moved and a smile played upon the face; but the lips were pallid, and the smile faded into a rigid and ghastly stare.
Goss_Charles_F_The_Redemption_14730_49560.67An expression of despairing agony followed the attempt, and then, with both his great bony hands, he clutched at the throat of his night robe as if choking for breath, tore it open and reaching down into his bosom felt for some concealed object.
Riley_James_Wh_Riley_Love_Lyri_16995_1160.67But yesterday I kissed your lips, and yet Did thrill you not enough to shake the dew From your drenched lids -- and missed, with no regret, Your kiss shot back, with sharp breaths failing you: And so, to-day, while our worn eyes are wet With all this waste of tears, let us forget!
Riley_James_Wh_Green_Fields_an_15079_10470.67But yesterday I kissed your lips, and yet Did thrill you not enough to shake the dew From your drenched lids -- and missed, with no regret, Your kiss shot back, with sharp breaths failing you; And so, to-day, while our worn eyes are wet With all this waste of tears, let us forget!
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_22250.67She gasped for breath, her face turned suddenly to a livid paleness, the torchlight fell upon her distorted features, she looked unearthly at that fearful moment; but the divinity of mercy had now braced the determination of the young Goth to meet all emergencies.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_15910.67Waiting until the Quaker-like duenna had retreated to her former seat, he rose and leaned across the small table, and under his rich low voice and passionately pleading eyes the actress held her breath and clutched the locket till its sharp edge sunk into her quivering flesh.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_42740.67A darker blindness seemed to have sunk over his bodily perceptions; his eyes rolled slowly to and fro over the prospect before him, but regarded nothing; his panting breaths came thick and fast; his shrunk chest heaved as if some deep, dread agony were pent within it -- it was evident that a new crisis in his insanity was at hand.
Whyte_Melville_Katerfelto_A_S_40883_34000.67One convulsive effort of the braced sinews, one flash of the descending steel, a choking sob, a gasping cry, a hoarse rattle of the hard-drawn parting breath, and all would have been over; but even while the knife quivered in air, John Garnet turned his head, leaped to his feet, and caught his enemy by the wrist.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_5120.67The limbs grew stiff and rigid -- the features smoothed into that mysteriously wise placidity which is so often seen in the faces of the dead, -- the closed eyelids looked purple and livid as though bruised ... there was not a breath, not a tremor, to offer any outward suggestion of returning animation, -- and when, after some little time, Heliobas bent down and listened, there was no pulsation of the heart ... it had ceased to beat!
Allen_James_La_Flute_and_Violi_50597_23130.67Her motionless figure was so lightly poised that her feet, just visible beneath the hem of her heavy black dress, appeared all but rising from the dust of the path-way; her pure and gentle face was upturned, so that the dark veil fell away from her neck and shoulders; her lips were slightly parted; her breath came and went so imperceptibly that her hands did not appear to rise and fall as they clasped the cross to her bosom.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_29020.66Zephoranim's glance rested upon him with cold and supercilious indifference, -- seated haughtily upright in his throne, with one hand resting on the hilt of his sword, he showed no sign of anger against, or interest in, his prisoner, save that, to the observant eye of Theos, the veins in his forehead seemed to become suddenly knotted and swollen, while the jewels on his bare chest heaved restlessly up and down with the unquiet panting of his quickened breath.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_13830.66From the moment when Amy Robsart entered, Cuthbert Laurance felt a strange magnetic thrill dart through every fibre of his frame; his sluggish pulse stirred, and as her mesmeric brown eyes, luminous, overmastering, met his, he drew his breath in quick gasps, and his heart in its rapid throbbing seemed to pour liquid fire into the bounding arteries.
Stanley_Henry_My_Kalulu_Prin_32923_37350.66The great form bent, and suddenly drooped, with two great bony, sinewy hands clutching the sleeping man's throat, crushing, compressing bone, gristle, sinew, and vein into a soft, yielding, pulpy mass, until there was no breath of life nor power of motion left in him.
Marryat_Freder_The_Phantom_Shi_12954_25770.66Philip recoiled; the blood retreated to his heart; he could not speak: panting for breath, he supported himself against the wall, and at last vented his agony of feeling by a deep groan, which aroused the priest, who turned his head, and perceiving who it was, rose from his knees, and extended his hand in silence.
Ingelow_Jean_Fated_to_Be_Fre_12303_65700.66Emily drew a long breath, put her hand to her delicate throat, and turning away hastily moved into the window, and gazed out with wide-opened eyes; Her face suffused with a pale tint of carnation was too full of unbelieving joy to be shown to him yet.
Chambers_Rober_Cardigan_38958_104050.66She raised her face; her mouth touched mine, then clung to it, and I breathed the sweetest breath a maid e'er drew, and all my soul grew dim and warm and faint, with her arms now around my neck, now clinging to my shoulders, and her face like a blossom crushed to mine.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_201640.66Yesterday, I came suddenly upon him; his eyes were bloodshot, his features contracted with rage; yielding to an impulse of mad furry, he was piercing with his poinard a cushion of red cloth, whilst he exclaimed, panting for breath, 'Ha blood!
Dumas_Alexandr_Twenty_Years_Af_1259_151940.66The queen stretched out her hand, seized the ring, pressed it convulsively to her lips -- and without being able to breathe a sigh, to give vent to a sob, she extended her arms, became deadly pale, and fell senseless in the arms of her attendants and her daughter.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_84240.66The boy stared at them with great, wide-opened eyes, but they were without expression and life, and only the breath, as it came slowly and heavily from the half-opened lips, showed that there was vitality still in this poor, little, shrunken form.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_5180.66After he had seated himself she fixed her eyes steadfastly upon the veil, but could discern nothing of the dreadful gloom that had so overawed the multitude; it was but a double fold of crape hanging down from his forehead to his mouth and slightly stirring with his breath.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_22640.66The view was so appalling, as he clung there, that a low hoarse sigh escaped him; his nerves tingled; a curious sensation ran up his spine, and as he wrenched his head away from the sight which fascinated him, he closed his eyes.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_105790.66"You shall not die," he whispered, as he raised her thin arm and laid it tenderly round his neck, while his heart throbbed heavily against hers; "I am strong, and my strength shall give you strength, my breath should be yours, Helen, love, were it my last.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_23900.66Out of the flowery coverlet Leighton's hand stole, feeling for his father's fingers, and a happy light shone in the boy's violet eyes, but his breathing had grown quick and painfully labored.
Balzac_Honor_The_Country_Doc_1350_20530.66She sat there under the officer's eyes, half bashful, afraid to look up, and calm to all appearance; but her bodice rose and fell with the rapid breathing that betrayed her nervousness, and it struck Genestas that her figure was very graceful.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_64950.66You fancied you saw her auburn tresses stirred upon her pale but calm brow by the breath of the approaching storm; and that she also felt it, but trembled not, gazing on it with a bright and steadfast eye.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_16100.66She looked at her clear forehead, at the calm arch of her brows, at her dark tresses, at her parted lips, at her virgin bosom moved by calm breathing; then she thought again, -- "How different from me!"
Merriman_Henry_The_Slave_of_th_9195_32300.66Suddenly the one-armed man loosened the scarf, but before Christian could recover his breath a handkerchief was pressed over his lips, and a sweet, pungent odour filled his nostrils.
Marlitt_E_Eu_Gold_Elsie_42426_34610.66And when night came, and the huntsman bore her up the broad stairway in his arms, -- she did not resist, but she turned her face from him, that his breath might not touch her cheek, that no glance of his loving eyes might fall upon her.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_11540.66His head distilled such oil upon his whiskers, that they were rich and clogged with unctuous drops; his face was violently inflamed, his limbs trembled; and he gasped and strove for breath.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_125810.66His breathing was scarcely perceptible, and Svensen, alarmed at his appearance, forced some drops of wine between his set lips, and chafed his cold hands with anxious solicitude.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_38360.66Theos, watching him in wonder and fear, saw his broad chest heave with the rapid-drawn gasping of his breath, ..he advanced a step or two -- then all at once stretched out his hands in imploring agony.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_21920.66His breath came short and thick, his face grew pale, and his glance, after resting for an instant on the woman and the girl, travelled slowly and anxiously round the tent.
Auerbach_Berth_Edelweiss_A_St_33007_43270.66Suddenly the bays seemed to have entered the chamber; he rubbed his eyes; there they were, stretching their heads over the bed, and glaring at him with their great eyes; he felt their hot breath on his face.
_The_Green_Fairy_7277_39360.66Her eyes were closed, but the bright colour in her face, and the movement of a ribbon, which rose and fell with her breath, left no doubt as to her being alive.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_89220.66His breath grew thick and short; a mist gathered before his eyes; he silently pressed the little hand that lay trembling on his arm.
Pyle_Howard_The_Merry_Adven_964_30080.66So, with heavy, hot breathing, they stood for a while straining, their bodies all glistening with sweat, and great drops of sweat trickling down their faces.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_43760.66The hard hollow cough shook her emaciated frame much more frequently than formerly, her hands were burning hot, and her breath came with great difficulty.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_2130.66At that, though the word was spoken barely above a breath, Eric turned slowly round and faced us with blood-shot, gleaming eyes.
Kipling_Rudyar_The_Jungle_Book_236_26090.66Little Toomai looked, holding his breath, with his eyes starting out of his head, and as he looked, more and more and more elephants swung out into the open from between the tree trunks.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_9610.66But, all the same, he felt a thrill of horror run through him, and tried to pierce the gloom by which he was surrounded, for certainly something was holding him down with its feet upon his chest, and stooping by him so that he could feel its breath.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_18400.66Then with one hand she held his head raised slightly, and with the other sponged the lips until the flow ceased and the gasping breath grew easy.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_52890.66Besides, it seemed as though these close cords of love were knitted so tightly around the mother, and every breath of her fading life so fondly cherished, that she could not perforce depart.
Allen_James_La_The_Choir_Invis_2316_20170.66She waited, Out of the darkness she could distinguish not the rustle of a movement, not a breath of sound; and at last cowering back into herself with shame, she buried her face in her hands.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Vale_of_Ced_12725_32950.66She stood leaning against the back of one of the ponderous chairs; her head bent down, and her heart so loudly and thickly throbbing that it choked her very breath.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_93380.66He had hidden his face in his mother's lap, and when she raised it struggled to keep it down, and she felt him sobbing and panting for breath.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_190.66And the eyes filled with tears; there was a working about the thin cheeks and the white lips, and a long sigh came out at last, 'Oh, if I was but like him!'
Whitney_A_D_Faith_Gartney_s_18896_42600.66All -- though the hot crimson flushed up painfully, and the breath came quick, and she trembled from head to foot, there, where she stood.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_153190.66The Squire's head had fallen back, his mouth was slightly open, and the breath came lightly, quiveringly through.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_20330.66At last she was aroused by Elsie coming suddenly upon the ledge, flushed, panting for breath and glowing with anger.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_52800.66The Cossacks, holding their breath, let their sabres hang, and motionless, as if fastened to the floor, followed with their eyes the course of the conflict.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Knights_of_9473_79070.66Perspiration flowed from the brows of both fighters, and panting breath escaped from their breasts through their clenched teeth.
Malory_Thomas_King_Arthur_and_36462_33380.66So saying, he went in, but when he came towards the table he felt a breath of fire which issued out therefrom and smote him to the ground, so that he had no power to rise.
MacDonald_Geor_Alec_Forbes_of_18810_90580.66He started from the sofa, and went pacing about the room, his face flushed and his breath coming faster and shorter.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_51950.66As I looked, there came a long tremulous sigh, and the head drooped lower and lower, as if in a growing hopelessness.
Green_Anna_Kat_That_Affair_Nex_21617_41300.66As the needles fell from my hand, she sank back and a quick, short sigh escaped her lips.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_105780.66Her eyes closed, and as he clasped her more firmly to his breast a faint shuddering sigh seemed to fan his cheek.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_14300.66She struggled into a partially upright position, but fell back upon her pillow exhausted and panting for breath.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_20200.66He drew his breath with a hissing sound, and a dark flush Stained his broad smooth brow.
Dunbar_Paul_La_The_Strength_of_15886_10450.66To own himself, to be master of his hands, feet, of his whole body -- something would clutch at his heart as he thought of it; and the breath would come hard between his lips.
Du_Maurier_Geo_Trilby_39858_46490.66But soon she folded her hands across her breast, and uttered a little short sigh, and in a weak voice said: " Svengali.... Svengali....
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_55050.66Ere the words were past the other's lips he was beside him, his face nigh touching, and his breath hot upon his cheeks.
Davis_Richard_The_Princess_Al_327_13020.66The girl moved restlessly; she leaned forward, and drew in her breath with a slight, nervous tremor.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_6490.66Hence the nostrils are generally dilated and often quiver; or the breath may be held until the blood stagnates in the purple face.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_5650.66The smooth lips were drawn in and tightly compressed; and she held her breath, while her right hand strained upon her left with all her might.
Corelli_Marie_Ziska_The_Prob_5079_30500.66and the Princess Ziska regarded him intently, her breath coming and going, and a strange smile quivering on her lips.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_98830.66Villiers drew a long breath, -- his compressed lips parted in a slightly sarcastic smile.
Connor_Ralph_Black_Rock_A_T_3245_8210.66-- the red colour faded from her cheek, her breath came in a sob, and she rose quickly and passed out without a word.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_39760.66A moment before, while she was as yet unconscious of the faint sound moving to and fro within it, she had been drawing her breath heavily and quickly.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_32300.66Her lips moved, but her quick convulsive breathing stifled the words that she vainly endeavoured to form.
Ballantyne_R_The_Dog_Crusoe_21728_7320.66Dick's eyes glittered, and his heart swelled, and his cheeks flushed, and his breath came thick and quick.
Auerbach_Berth_Edelweiss_A_St_33007_60250.66Pilgrim's breath came short and quick; his lips grew white, and without another word he left the room.
Werner_E_The_Alpine_Fay_35229_14460.66"You are right," she said, with a deep breath, passing her hand across her forehead and standing erect.
Tomlinson_Ever_The_Boys_of_Old_34864_16060.66His breath was coming in gasps now, and down his face the perspiration was pouring in streams.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_28070.66cried the invalid, panting for breath, and moving restlessly on her pillow.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_81390.66The old man was before them; the last gleam of life in his eyes; the last breath freezing upon his lips.
Smith_Francis_Caleb_West_Mas_42362_21820.66His eyes shone with excitement, and his breath came in short, quick puffs.
Schubin_Ossip_Erlach_Court_35541_38880.66Her breath comes quick, as it does when there is something in the heart, longing for utterance, which will not rise to the lips.
Pyle_Howard_Men_of_Iron_1557_6680.66White as death, he stood for a while glaring about him, catching his breath convulsively.
Musick_John_R_Sustained_honor_10370_25700.66The captain's face was flushed, and his breath was strong with brandy, and he seemed but little moved.
Murfree_Mary_N_The_Prophet_of_35619_6130.66Rick Tyler was eager, his eyes kindling, his breath quick.
Merriman_Henry_The_Slave_of_th_9195_39870.66He was looking intently into the veiled eyes, inhaling the very breath of the swollen lips.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_8020.66Betty drew a little shuddering breath, and her hand went to clasp Patricia's.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_59950.66Landless drew a breath that was like a moan, but kept his eyes upon the yellow menace before him.
Johnston_Annie_Joel_A_Boy_of_39231_26330.66Her breath came quick, and her heart beat fast, as she slipped in behind the guests again.
Hope_Anthony_Tristram_of_Ble_20981_41730.66She was no match for him; she grew rather pale, her lips twitched, and her breath came quick.
Hope_Anthony_Quisant_19752_6590.66Her breath came quick as she lay back in the brougham and closed her eyes.
Hope_Anthony_Quisant_19752_49380.66"Your eyes shall still sparkle for me, your breath shall still come quick for me, your heart beat for me; or I'll have no more of it at all."
Heimburg_W_Gertrude_s_Marr_32442_31080.66The color came back into her pale cheek, and she drew a long breath.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_35510.66She did not cry -- she only quivered up her breath, 'My heart's drained dry o' tears,' she said.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_35580.66He strove again, and his voice was weak and gasping as if the breath of life had almost left him.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_21830.66Quicker grew the breathing, and tighter the cold fingers clasped each other.
Davis_Richard_Captain_Macklin_6015_12040.66For a moment Aiken stared at him helplessly, and then drew in a quick breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_58160.66Her breath came evenly, her heart beat naturally, she thought connectedly of what she was about to do.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_46810.66But within it there was silence for a while, as heart beat with heart and breath breathed with breath.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_104750.66Gherardi turned a livid paleness, and drew a quick breath.
Churchill_Wins_Richard_Carvel_5373_117680.66All at once, ere I could draw a breath, she had stooped and kissed me ever so lightly on the forehead.
Burnett_France_Little_Lord_Fau_479_21240.66He was out of breath and his face grew red, but he held on with all his might, and sat as straight as he could.
Bennett_John_Master_Skylark_11574_12030.66Nick's frightened heart was in his mouth, and his breath came quick and sharp.
Bates_Arlo_The_Puritans_8522_36120.66Once he was struck on the side of the throat so that he gasped for breath with the sensation that he was drowning.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_111490.66Her breath was panting, her bosom throbbing.
Smith_Francis_Caleb_West_Mas_42362_33370.66She felt his hot breath on her face.
Seawell_Molly_Throckmorton_A_36829_7970.66Her eyes dilated and her breath came quickly.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_30490.66Helen drew a little quick breath.
Peard_Frances_Unawares_43156_25950.66Then she went on bravely, except that she drew her breath a little quicker.
Kingsley_Charl_Alton_Locke_Ta_8374_43570.66My brain is wild, my breath comes quick.
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_21970.66Her breath came quick and her cheek flushed.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_94360.66Her breath came in gasps, her pulses throbbed.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_44800.66Her lips parted, as if her breath came hard.
Du_Chaillu_Pau_The_Land_of_the_22727_22360.66Still it took my breath away; my heart beat so quickly.
Dickens_Charle_Bleak_House_1023_184570.66He had to shake it from his face and get his breath before he spoke to me.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_43410.66But her breath came and went quickly, and her face was very pale.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_114490.66White to the lips, he struggled for breath .
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_7400.66His breath was coming quick and fast.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_73800.66Again Mona drew her breath audibly.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_22070.66Mona's breath seemed to be suddenly arrested.
Bront_Emily_Wuthering_Heigh_768_24640.66Do let me feel it -- it comes straight down the moor -- do let me have one breath!'
Bates_Arlo_Love_in_a_Cloud_42831_38380.66Her face was crimson, and her breath came quickly.
Auerbach_Berth_Edelweiss_A_St_33007_61010.66Lenz felt his breath come hard.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Pomp_of_the_6217_10380.65The bear's teeth fastened in his shoulder; the horrible pressure of its arms was turning his face black; he felt death coming, when another pistol shot rang out close to his own head, and his breath suddenly came back.
Henty_G_A_G_In_Freedom_s_Ca_4792_39890.64Hitherto he had stood often for hours leaning motionless, with his arms crossed, in the corner of his cage, with head bent down and listless air, his thoughts only being busy; now he paced restlessly up and down his narrow limits, two steps each way and then a turn, like a caged beast; his hands were clenched, his breast heaved, his breath came fast, his head was thrown back, often he brushed his hand across his eyes, and rapid words came from his lips.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_Told_in_the_Hil_36246_9840.64And then with a great shivering breath, he drew the still face to his own, and in a half-motherly way smoothed back the fair hair as if she had been a child, whispering over and over: "Not dead, my pretty!
Homer_The_Odysseys_of_48895_10040.64‭ Then forth he came, his both knees falt’ring, both ‭ His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth ‭ His cheeks and nosthrils flowing, voice and breath ‭ Spent to all use, and down he sunk to death.
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_48270.64She laid her head close to the boy's mouth to listen to his low breathing, and the minister saw her tears fall on his pillow and gleam on his auburn locks.
Corelli_Marie_The_Sorrows_of_42332_79890.64I drew a quick sharp breath, ... again I felt for the letter of Mavis, and then, ... meeting his gaze fixedly and straightly in my turn, I moved slowly on in silence.
Connor_Ralph_The_Man_from_Gl_3287_4450.64His face was a ghastly greenish hue, lined with purple and swollen veins, his eyes were standing out of his head, and his breath sobbing in raucous gasps.
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_26360.64His head sunk on his breast; he drew his breath heavily, his countenance darkened and grew distorted, as if he were suffering some sharp pang of physical pain.
Chambers_Rober_Lorraine_A_Rom_24181_32310.64His short hawk's nose, keen and fine as a falcon's beak, quivered with every breath; his thin lips rested one upon the other in stern, delicate curves.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_30530.64Here he stopped abruptly and caught his breath hard, -- his blazing eyes preternaturally large and brilliant fixed themselves steadfastly on the sculptured ivory shield that surmounted the back of the King's throne, and over his drawn and wrinkled features came an expression of such ghastly horror that instinctively every one present turned their looks in the same direction.
Wolf_Emma_Other_Things_Be_1839_28400.64The curious, well-known flush rose slowly to her sensitive face at the action; when he had caught her swiftly to him, a sobbing sigh escaped her.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_220090.64The Englishman leaned almost out of his box, with a frightful sardonic smile on his lip, and with his large eyes still fixed, panted for breath.
Munroe_Kirk_Raftmates_A_St_19303_26620.64Then he stared, stammered, tried to speak, but only choked in the effort, and threw his arms about the neck of the old negro, laughing and sobbing in the same breath.
Irving_Washing_Bracebridge_Hal_13515_19080.64Blushes stole to her cheek without any apparent cause, and light, half-suppressed sighs would follow these short fits of musing.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_House_of_th_77_28740.64With the lids drooping over her eyes, -- now lifted for an instant, and drawn down again as with leaden weights, -- she leaned slightly towards him, and seemed almost to regulate her breath by his.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_19870.64The leech rose and wiped his forehead, looking uneasily at Paula who had remained seated; her breath came fast, and she was more confused and undecided than he had ever seen her.
Crawford_F_Ma_Don_Orsino_13218_69130.64His heart was beating hard and the hot blood throbbed in his temples, his lips closed tightly and his breathing was audible.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_90480.64You have ratified -- " here she paused, while the colour suddenly sprang to her cheeks, and her breath came pantingly and quick, -- "and strengthened the thoughts I had of you as our Pasquin!"
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_27600.64His face was flushed -- his eyes wandered -- his breath on the chief agent's cheek, while he spoke, felt scorching hot.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_47960.63With suspended breath, and great eyes directed fixedly to Marie Antoinette, the dauphin listened, but gradually his eyes fell, and motionless and with grave face the child sat in his arm-chair.
Dickinson_Anna_What_Answer_15402_22800.63She felt it, recognized it, yielded without power to longer contend, clasped her arms about his neck, met his eyes, and dropped her face upon his heart with a long, tremulous sigh which confessed that heaven was won.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_4970.63His nerves began to throb acutely, -- the blood in his veins was like fire, -- there was a curious strangling tightness in his throat that interrupted and oppressed his breathing, -- he stared straight before him with large, luminous, impassioned eyes.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_52150.63"It is so," said Cora, drawing a long breath, as if reviving from a trance, raising her face, and shaking back her shining veil, with a kindling eye, that contradicted the death-like paleness of her countenance; "but why -- it is not permitted us to inquire.
Chambers_Rober_Lorraine_A_Rom_24181_53730.63The silence was enervating; even the horses turned their gentle eyes wonderingly to that line of steel and lances; even the wounded, tremulous, haggard, held their breath between clenched teeth and stiff, swollen lips.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_171980.63She wore a low dress, and the gold chain on her neck rose and fell with every breath.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_104740.63He's a-lying without a bit of conscientiousness on my bed, his eyes shut, and his breath a-coming hard."
Whyte_Melville_The_Interpreter_40660_59130.63In an instant he embraced me with his huge hairy arms, and I felt his hot breath against my very face.
Weyman_Stanley_The_Castle_Inn_11918_43930.63From her corner she watched him, her eyes glittering with excitement, her breath coming quick and short.
Werner_E_The_Alpine_Fay_35229_54090.63His breath came short and in gasps, the moisture stood out upon his forehead, and his sight grew uncertain.
Wells_H_G_H_The_Wheels_of_C_1264_42550.63He heard a catching in her breath and glanced at her and saw her ips pressed tight and a tear on her cheek.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_145920.63It seemed to him an age before, drawn by the magnetism of his look, her hands dropped, and she faced him, crimson, her breath fluttering a little.
Pyle_Howard_Men_of_Iron_1557_9780.63"Mowbray beat me with a strap," said he, rubbing his sleeve across his eyes, and catching his breath at the recollection.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_102870.63cried Kirkpatrick and Edwin in one breath, and grasping their daggers, Edwin's flashed in his hand.
Pansy_Four_Girls_at_C_12662_7320.63With the first breath of morning she opened her eyes and felt that the weight of yesterday was still pressing on her heart.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_10760.63At his heels followed Red Wull, his hot breath fanning the boy's bare legs.
Merriman_Henry_The_Grey_Lady_6517_19190.63He was standing in a conventional attitude, holding her programme -- and that which took the girl's breath away lay in his eyes alone.
McCutcheon_Geo_Graustark_5142_35860.63His eyes were burning with the admiration that knows no defining, and his breath came quick and sharp through parted lips.
MacDonald_Geor_Sir_Gibbie_2370_77250.63She opened her eyes, looked up, uttered a terrified cry, closed them, and was again motionless, except for her breathing.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_Scarlet_Let_33_24920.63The minister started to his feet, gasping for breath, and clutching at his heart, as if he would have torn it out of his bosom.
Harben_Will_N_Abner_Daniel_A_50494_43580.63Pole could hear his rapid breathing and see the terrified gleaming of his wide-open eyes.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_70080.63He stooped close to her, and even then she noted how laboured was his breathing, and that his mouth quivered: "Answer me; do you mean to marry him?"
Crawford_F_Ma_Pietro_Ghisleri_40922_19320.63She opened and shut her hands convulsively, as though she were clutching some one and strangling the breath in a living throat.
Connor_Ralph_The_Man_from_Gl_3287_4280.63He was pale, his breath came in quick gasps, and his eyes showed the fear of a hunted beast.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_13290.63Face to face, eye to eye, with panting breath and scornful looks, there they stood for one moment.
Blackmore_R_D_Dariel_A_Roman_42529_73310.63Long white hair flowed down his shoulders and over his breast, and I heard a hollow sigh.
Barrie_J_M_When_a_Man_s_Si_41031_12450.63The ravine coming upon him suddenly, took away Rob's breath, and he hardly felt Nell snatch away her arm.
Hope_Anthony_Simon_Dale_20328_38530.63As it touched them, I saw Madame hide her eyes with her hand and M. de Perrencourt lean farther across the table, while a short quick gasp of breath came from where Darrell stood by my side.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Life_and_De_14813_14420.63A religious man himself, he pointed her to the Christ on the wall; but she waved it out of sight, shook her wild hair back, and clung to him still, asking some unguessed mercy with her eyes and sobbing breath.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_80390.63And it was Sylvia who held his hand tight in her warm, living grasp; it was his wife whose arm was thrown around him, whose sobbing sighs shook his numbed frame from time to time.
Cable_George_W_The_Cavalier_9839_38730.63Her face was fearfully pale, the brows glistened with the damp of nervous shock, and every few moments she feebly brought a handkerchief to her lips to wipe away the blood that rose to them with every sigh.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_58480.62His breathing, usually short, became still shorter; his broad breast welled up under the gold brocade, his eyes were half covered with their lids, and there was a species of terror and an iciness on that powerful face such as are usual on features stiffening in the moments before death.
Hope_Anthony_Simon_Dale_20328_38840.62There stood Darrell and the lieutenant of the Guards who had arrested me, and between them, with clothes torn and muddy, face scratched and stained with blood, with panting breath and gleaming eyes, firmly held by either arm, was Phineas Tate the Ranter.
Woolson_Consta_Anne_A_Novel_32707_79690.62As for Anne, she felt an outburst of happiness almost too great to bear; her breath came and went so quickly that Heathcote perceived it, and raising her hand he pressed it to his lips.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_Marm_Lisa_3149_8370.62But the longer they looked, the less they feared this; her face, though white and tear-stained, was tranquil, her lips only slightly pale, and her breathing calm and steady.
Weyman_Stanley_Sophia_A_Roman_39168_79530.62The next moment his hot breath was on her neck, his arm was round her; and despite her scream of rage, despite her frantic, furious attempt to push him away, he held her to him while he kissed her twice.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_7960.62The thong fell upon the deck, leaving a crimson trail along the white boards, while its holder stood panting and out of breath from the violence of his exercise.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_19870.62He stood still, holding his breath, trembling in all his limbs, and beginning to move to and fro, as he perceived that her pale eyelids began to quiver in the moonlight.
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_78250.62She turned at last with wide, shining eyes, putting her face close to his in the uncertain light, and saying, with a quick-drawn breath: "Why, cousin Ethan!"
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_44570.62His face was white beneath the perspiration; his breath came in quavering gasps; his trousers were wet and clinging to his legs; he was trembling in every limb, and yet indomitable.
Moore_George_Evelyn_Innes_13201_49650.62Since she had seen her mother's portrait, this sensation had come closer; and Evelyn drew back as if she felt the breath of the dead on her face, as if a dead hand had been laid upon hers.
Marchmont_Arth_A_Dash_for_a_Th_40907_33340.62She sat, her fingers interlocked and her eyes staring in a fixed, set gaze of abject fright, while her breath came and went with quick catches of agitation.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_64440.62She swayed towards him with the grace of a wind-bowed lily, her breath fanning his forehead, and her hand touching his, softly, flutteringly, like a young bird.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_10740.62Gasping for breath, Mr. Hamilton clasped a crucifix to his lips, though unable from weakness to secure it there; for twice it fell from his fingers, and rolled to the floor.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_52600.62But whilst these things had been done, the senseless man beneath the mast had twitched his eyelids, had drawn a little gasping breath, and then finally had opened his eyes.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_172550.62Anon, it was the same figure, alone, stopping for an instant, with suspended breath; the bright hair clustering loosely round its tearful face; and looking back at him.
Crockett_S_R_The_Lilac_Sunbo_4918_4940.62Winsome Charteris had risen instinctively, and stood looking with crimson cheeks and quicker-coming breath at this young man who came upon her in the nick of time.
Crawford_F_Ma_Saracinesca_13757_24480.62Quick as thought his strong brown hands gripped the throat of Ugo del Ferice, stifling his breath like a collar of iron.
Crawford_F_Ma_Mr_Isaacs_A_T_13340_6770.62The long dark lashes threw little shadows on her cheeks, and the parted lips seemed to smile at the sweetness of the gently heaving breath that fanned them as it came and went.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_171290.62Not a cry or a tear escaped her when the interval had passed, and she felt the first faint fluttering of his heart, and heard the first faint catching of the breath of his lips.
Chambers_Rober_Lorraine_A_Rom_24181_47330.62Tear-stained and ghastly pale, she leaned over the sleeping man beside her, listened to his breathing, touched his hair, then rose and looked fearfully about her.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_12960.62Her large-featured face was flushed, her breath came quickly, her voice was rather hesitating, and the parasol she held in her left hand was not altogether steady.
Warner_Susan_Hills_of_the_Sh_16918_145340.62She felt her heart grow stronger and her breath come freer.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_95180.62She turned away with a long sobbing breath which seemed to go through her from head to foot.
Vaile_Charlott_Wheat_and_Huckl_41515_36380.62He threw back his head and drew a long breath.
Twain_Mark_The_Innocents_A_3176_21300.62Such an awful sinking at the heart -- such a sudden gasp for breath!
Tarkington_Boo_The_Two_Vanreve_3428_30430.62she cried, with a quick intake of breath through closed teeth.
Stratemeyer_Ed_The_Campaign_of_31317_23590.62His eyes bulged from their sockets, and he felt his breath leaving him.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_3020.62With a pale cheek and suspended breath she watched every look and motion.
Stanley_Henry_How_I_Found_Liv_5157_13670.62-- "Nor over the left nipple sometimes -- a quick throbbing, with a shortness of breath?"
Seton_Ernest_T_Wild_Animals_I_3031_15860.62His heaving ribs and noisy breath showed what he felt -- but on and on he Went.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Pomp_of_the_6217_10850.62A few minutes later as she lifted up his head, her face was very near him; her breath was in his face.
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_52280.62She was so near him that her breath fanned his cheek, and her locks touched his brow.
Lynde_Francis_The_Helpers_45133_28490.62His breath came hard, and the veins in his forehead were like knotted whipcords.
Kipling_Rudyar_Captains_Coura_2186_22940.62Penn changed colour and caught his breath with a click.
Kelly_Florence_With_Hoops_of_S_28585_22610.62His eyelids fell, and with a gasping breath he put it to his lips.
Hugo_Victor_Toilers_of_the_32338_68090.62Suddenly Gilliatt felt a breath moving his hair.
Hope_Anthony_Tristram_of_Ble_20981_33440.62She was very quiet, but he saw her breast rise and fall in quick breathing.
Harben_Will_N_Westerfelt_17178_37600.62Bates slowly released his chin and caught his breath.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_23000.62His hands trembled, his breath came fast, but he did his task quickly.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_7010.62It caught the breath from my lips—that monstrous, glistening eye.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_53800.62His breath was short, and he was tingling with passion, but he had no glow of triumph.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_28810.62"I am little enough to -- those who know me," said Unorna, growing pale, and drawing a quick breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_Don_Orsino_13218_79760.62She drew a sharp breath and clasped her hands nervously together.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_17570.62Her features relaxed, and she drew a heavy breath of relief.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_108030.62Her cheeks flushed deep; her breath came thick and fast.
Collins_Wilkie_I_Say_No_1629_62860.62She bent her head near enough to him when he spoke to feel his breath on her face.
Coffin_Charles_Daughters_of_th_29849_51460.62The fluttering heart was beating more strongly; more deep the breathing.
Churchill_Wins_Richard_Carvel_5373_86340.62Her breath came fast, and mine, as she laid a hand upon my arm.
Churchill_Wins_Richard_Carvel_5373_20770.62Her face was so close to mine that her breath fanned my cheek.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_94350.62But his teeth were set hard, and his breathing was quick and audible.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_51210.62Mona's left hand went up to her breast, and her breath came quick.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_41850.62The back of his neck was aching and his breath was coming quick.
Bates_Arlo_Love_in_a_Cloud_42831_24330.62Actual tears were in her eyes, and her breath was coming quickly.
Taylor_Bayard_The_Story_of_Ke_8680_15310.61Then the black jugs were produced, and passed from mouth to mouth, and the ruddy, glowing young fellows drew their shirt-sleeves across their faces, and breathed the free, full breath of rest.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_37880.61You don't know what it is to have something to hide -- to go about with a secret gnawing at your heart -- never able to open your lips -- suffering night and day -- " He stopped suddenly and looked at his cousin with wonder; she was leaning back in her chair, her face was pale as death, and her lips parted in a dreary sigh.
Weyman_Stanley_A_Gentleman_of_1939_23540.61Her grasp relaxed, and her breath came and went with so loud a rattle that I removed my gaze from him, and bent over her, full of concern and solicitude.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_93330.61Her face and eyes were full of an incredible animation; her lips were lightly parted to let the quick breath pass.
Tolstoy_Leo_g_Resurrection_1938_11030.61His heart was beating so fiercely in his breast that he seemed to hear it, his laboured breath came and went in a burst of long-drawn sighs.
Stockton_Frank_Rudder_Grange_2011_29700.61She hardly ever speaked above her breath, an' always wore white gowns with a silk kerchief a-folded placidly aroun' her neck.'
Peard_Frances_Unawares_43156_5710.61She flung herself down by the table and hid her face on her arms; her figure shook, her rapid breathing was broken by sobs.
Musick_John_R_A_Century_Too_S_10387_19460.61His hand involuntarily clutched the stick as if it were a sword, and his breath came hard and quick, as if he were eager to rush into battle.
Munroe_Kirk_The_White_Conqu_47810_10880.61The face of the young Toltec grew pale, his breath came in gasps, and it was apparent to all that his powers of endurance were nearly spent.
Meade_L_T_The_Palace_Beau_15149_22980.61Daisy's face had grown deadly white, her breath came in gasps, her eyes were fixed on the cruel man.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_59330.61I heard Lilian sigh; I looked towards her furtively; tears stood in her softened eyes; her lip was quivering.
Lawrence_Georg_Guy_Livingstone_17084_27470.61Guy's lips worked and moved, but no sound came from them, except an irregular catching of the breath and a gasping rattle in the throat.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_34440.61Under that genial breath the color came slowly back to madam's cheek and lip, and her heart beat more strongly.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_The_English_Orp_13878_2450.61On the other side of Frank and nestled so closely to him that her warm breath lifted the brown curls from his brow, was Ella.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_58700.61hissed the countess, gasping for breath, while the blood rushed to her head and the room grew dark before her eyes.
Du_Chaillu_Pau_Lost_in_the_Jun_36324_19430.61Just as he opened his mouth to utter another of his frightful roars, and I could feel his breath on my face, I fired, and shot him right through the heart.
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_23970.61Her hands chafed his temples softly, and she bent lower and blew upon his face, that her cool breath might wake him.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_59080.61Britta gasped for breath, and Duprèz soothingly placed an arm round her waist, an action which the little maiden seemed not to be aware of.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_71050.61Soon a faint flush tinged her dead-white skin, and presently, with a deep sigh, she opened her eyes again.
Collins_Wilkie_Poor_Miss_Finch_3632_118430.61The tears were falling fast over his cheeks -- the one faint sobbing breath which had escaped him had caught my ear as well as Lucilla's.
Bulfinch_Thoma_Legends_of_Char_4927_6110.61Orlando muttered with his lips closed and his teeth ground together; and you might have thought that fire instead of breath came out of his nose and mouth.
Besant_Walter_Armorel_of_Lyon_42125_1470.61Then she started up suddenly and sprang to her feet, stung by a sudden pang of restlessness, with a quick breath and a sigh.
Auerbach_Berth_Edelweiss_A_St_33007_64160.61Lenz rubbed her with the brandy, which happily was just under his hand, until she presently drew a shuddering breath and placed her hand on his face.
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_58310.61The thin white hair fell off as if blown away by a breath of air, the loosened teeth fell from their sockets, the formerly quietly smiling visage became horribly distorted, the nose sank in and the eyes fell out, the muscles of all his limbs became relaxed as if by a magic stroke, and the rapidly putrefying members fell from each other.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_35160.61It came, and displayed to him the man's fierce eyes glaring steadily down upon his face; another gleam, and he beheld his haggard finger placed upon his lip in token of silence; a third, and he saw the arm of the figure pointing towards the plain behind him; and then in the darkness that followed, a hot breath played upon his ear, and a voice whispered to him, through a pause in the rolling of the thunder -- 'Follow me.'
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_43260.61Not even the look of Leonard, as the early dawn fell on him, and Mr Benson's sleepless eyes saw the rosy glow on his firm round cheeks; his open mouth, through which the soft, long-drawn breath came gently quivering; and his eyes not fully shut, but closed to outward sight -- not even the aspect of the quiet, innocent child could soothe the troubled spirit.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_8510.61The negro looked up with his heavy, bloodshot eyes, in which there was a gleam of patient heroism that touched the sailor greatly, while the boy grew faint and gasped for breath.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_7498_30350.61Polly drew a long breath, and bending suddenly dropped a kiss on the peaceful cheek; then she drew out her handkerchief, and softly laid it over the dead face.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Pomp_of_the_6217_8900.61His body was bent forwards, his eyes straining into the dark, his hot face dripping, dripping sweat, his breath coming hard and laboured from his throat.
Cooper_James_F_The_Prairie_6450_8190.61The breathing of Paul grew louder and deeper, and more than once Ellen trembled at she knew not what, as she felt the quivering of his active frame, while she leaned dependently on his arm for support.
Blackmore_R_D_Perlycross_A_Ta_45038_46740.61The face was as pale as death, the eyes half open but without expression; the breathing scarcely perceptible, and the pulse like the flutter of eider down, or gossamer in a sheltered spot.
Bacheller_Irvi_Eben_Holden_A_2799_6290.61The bee's tail was moving faintly and Uncle Eb laid him out in the warm sunlight and fanned him awhile with his hat, trying to bring back the breath of life.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Women_514_26450.61At the top of these steps he came plump upon a sight that took his breath away and chilled his blood..." "A tall figure, all in white with a veil over its face and a lamp in its wasted hand," went on Meg.
Chambers_Rober_Cardigan_38958_77750.60True, she paled a little, and took one short breath, with her hand to her breast; then, like sunlight breaking, her bright eyes softened and that sweet, fresh mouth parted in a smile which spite of me set my own pulse a quickstep marching.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_58240.60As she swung and whirled, -- sometimes pirouetting so swiftly that her scarlet skirt looked like a mere red flower in the wind, -- her bright eyes flashed, her dark hair tangled itself in still richer masses, and her lips, crimson as the pomegranate, were half parted with her panting breath.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_6987_5950.60So Polly launched out in her gayest mood, and the big blue eyes in the round faces before her widened, and the mouths flew open, showing the white teeth; and the stolid mother leaned forward, and her eyes and mouth looked just like those of her children, only they were bigger; and at last Polly drew a long breath and wound up with a flourish, "And that's all."
Ebers_Georg_Uarda_a_Roman_5449_35600.60She looked like a beautiful demon of revenge; her eyes sparkled, her breath came quickly, her limbs quivered, and with extraordinary strength and rapidity she seized the dwarf by the hand, led him to the door of one of the rooms which opened out of the hall, threw it open, pushed the little man over the threshold, and closed it sharply upon him; then with white lips she came up to her mother.
Woolson_Consta_Horace_Chase_39067_56600.59For when she beheld the changed, drawn, unconscious face of her mother, that "mother" who had seemed to her as much a fixed part of her life as her own breath, her heart had failed her, failed not merely in the common meaning of the phrase, but actually; its pulsations grew so weak that a great dread seized her -- the instinctive shrinking of her whole young being from the touch of death.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_11080.59When she lifted her white face, with the violet circles under her dry eyes, making them appear preternaturally large and luminous, and the beautiful mouth contracted by a spasm of intense pain, a deep sigh of compassion passed the stranger's lips.
MacDonald_Geor_David_Elginbrod_2291_104490.59She would have shone upon him out of the eyes of her infants, the flowers, but they had their faces turned to her breast now, hiding from the pale blue eyes and the freezing breath of old Winter, who was looking for them with his face bent close to their refuge.
Eliot_George_The_Mill_on_the_6688_29310.59Tom looked up with that momentary stopping of the breath which comes with a sudden joy; then he gave a long sigh, and turned his blue-gray eyes straight on Philip's face, as he had not done for a fortnight or more.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_103620.59That when she bent her head again over her work, he drew his breath more easily, but with the same attention looked upon her still -- upon her white brow and her falling hair, and busy hands; and once attracted, seemed to have no power to turn his eyes away!
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_77970.59He listened while he could, and when the tears welled up to his eyes, with his horny hands he drew her fair head down to his heaving breast, and sobbed beneath his breath, "Ailee ven, Ailee ven."
Wolf_Emma_Other_Things_Be_1839_26030.59She never had been able to resist his compelling voice; and now with a swift-drawn breath she threw back her head and looked up at him fairly, with all her soul in her eyes.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_165720.59The latter leaned forward, with half-open lips and deep-drawn breath, nor could she take her eyes from the Jesuit's; he had ceased to speak, and yet she was still listening.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_29740.59You could see her cheek grow pale in the dim light, as she held her own breath, hoping to catch one flutter from those white and parted lips.
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_81230.59She held an out-stretched hand a few inches above the grass, dropped it, and, leaning forward upon it, said, with a quick-drawn breath: "It's been so exciting for us all here, knowing you.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_75330.59He can see their wolfish eyes, the white serrature of their teeth, the red panting tongues; can feel their fetid breath blown against his brow.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_53320.59As he stood there, shivering a little, his eyes rolling back, his breath grating in his throat to set every bristle on end, he looked a devil indeed.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_22760.59Nothing indeed could break the stolid calm of his features, but the violence of his emotion was evident in the quick shivering of his limbs and his short deep breaths.
Crawford_F_Ma_Marietta_A_Mai_16100_7070.59But by and by he fell asleep, and then she very softly drew her arm from beneath his tired head, and slipped from his side, and stood up, with a little sigh of relief.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_64880.59The crowd held its breath while the Bishop spoke, but the guilty man moaned feebly and his bowed head swayed to and fro.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_76310.59He heard his own breathing as he sat down; he felt the heavy, rapid pulsations of his heart, as he took the papers from his breast his hand was shaking, he could not hold it still.
Alcott_Louisa_Aunt_Jo_s_Scrap_26041_14890.59I was walking toward the camel's pagoda, when, all of a sudden, a long, dark, curling thing came over my shoulder, and I felt warm breath in my face.
Wyss_Johann_Da_Swiss_Family_Ro_3836_13840.59In his hand he held a plant, and, panting for breath, and with sparkling eyes, he held it up to me.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_61490.59He appeared to be in a strange state of emotion -- his breath labored, his whole frame trembling.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_34290.59For the first time he followed her, watching her gasping struggle for breath, in spite of her impatient motion to him to go.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_91920.59And she, struck by his silence, struck by his expression, felt a sudden seizing of the breath.
Voynich_E_L_The_Gadfly_3431_59140.59He started convulsively, and then shrank down, catching his breath under the stinging pressure of the straps.
Stratemeyer_Ed_The_Campaign_of_31317_15200.59Casey was at his heels, almost holding his breath, and his small eyes glistening with expectancy.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_82590.59Katharine, who was leaning eagerly forward, fell back with a heavy sigh.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_47190.59The old man held his breath, while the wife clung to him with her head lifted from the pillow.
Reade_Charles_Peg_Woffington_3670_11640.59His anguish was so sharp, it choked his breath; when he recovered it, his eye bent down upon the picture.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_70720.59Helen drew a quick sigh, and closing her eyes, dropped against the arras.
Phillpotts_Ede_Sons_of_the_Mor_46857_75670.59She sighed once or twice -- the shaken sigh that follows upon tears -- then her hand, that held his, relaxed and fell away.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Pomp_of_the_6217_8610.59His breath was becoming shorter and shorter; he had a stifling sensation, a terrible tightness across his chest.
Musick_John_R_A_Century_Too_S_10387_12330.59The blood forsook her face, her breast heaved, and her breath came in painful gasps.
Munroe_Kirk_Campmates_A_St_33343_18860.59For a moment they stood together panting for breath, and the weaker boy clinging to the stronger.
Meade_L_T_Polly_A_New_Fa_18666_33710.59To keep up with him at all she had almost to run; and she was now not only hungry, cold, and tired, but the constant quick motion took her breath away.
Marryat_Freder_Peter_Simple_21577_12170.59I was quite warm and still breathing, for the sand had stopped the blood, and prevented my bleeding to death.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_65700.59When she commenced writing, a deathly pallor came over her face; her breath came and went hurriedly and painfully.
Hough_Emerson_The_Girl_at_the_14948_47050.59He caught his breath if the glitter of her glasses faced him, and went in a fever as he saw her sail across the floor.
Hope_Anthony_Sport_Royal_an_40697_6980.59The man turned as white as a sheet, and, gripping my hand, said under his breath: "Hush!
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_32350.59She gave a quick gasp for breath, and her face, always pale, went white as marble.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_84590.59The smile faded from my lip, and a quick sigh that I could not repress saddened its expression.
Harland_Marion_Alone_46505_42860.59she hissed, under her breath; -- and the small hands clenched in passionate resolve, as she added -- "never!"
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_57420.59He was exhausted by the effort and lay down on the bed of coal to rest, gasping for breath.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_55640.59He put his fingers on her pulse, and when he removed them, compressed his lips to stifle a sigh.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_67730.59His breath swept warm across her cold cheek, and she hastily inclined her head.
Eliot_George_Middlemarch_145_83470.59"I never had any caste," he would have said, if that prophecy had been uttered to him, and the quick blood would have come and gone like breath in his transparent skin.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_31110.59She leaned back in her chair, and tried to draw her breath, closing her eyes, and wishing she were alone.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_109560.59How can I -- " he suddenly bent over her as though to caress her, then drew back with a quick agonized sigh.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_65040.59He drew a quick breath and pressed his friend's arm with unconscious fervor, .
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_66370.59For all her brave words her heart was breaking, and she was holding her breath to repress a sob.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_13290.59When next he knew where he was, and what he was doing, behold, there were Mona's rosy lips under his, and she was panting and gasping for breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_25830.59The old lady was holding her breath and watching his flushed face with strained attention.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_6020.59The poor child shivered; she had become still paler, and the breath came in sharp little puffs through her nostrils.
Browne_J_Ross_Crusoe_s_Island_39918_7760.59I lay panting for breath, while every muscle quivered as if it would shake loose my grasp.
Browne_J_Ross_Crusoe_s_Island_39918_32450.59The strain upon his neck soon choked off his breath, and he was forced to let loose his grasp upon the other lasso.
Alcott_Louisa_Hospital_Sketch_3837_3410.59He seemed asleep; but something in the tired white face caused me to listen at his lips for a breath.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Days_of_Bru_18387_18170.59were the only words he had power to gasp, panting painfully for the breath of which speed had deprived him.
Wilcox_Ella_Wh_Maurine_and_Oth_3665_6890.59He swayed so near his breath was on my cheek.
Whyte_Melville_The_Interpreter_40660_3510.59My breath came quicker and quicker.
Verne_Jules_Twenty_Thousand_164_28150.59My breathing grew weak.
Smith_Francis_The_Fortunes_of_3417_6270.59The boy caught his breath.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_112380.59Open not your lips; let not a breath out.
Runkle_Bertha_The_Helmet_of_N_14219_40440.59She caught her breath as if in pain.
Hope_Anthony_Simon_Dale_20328_44810.59His breath was hot on my face.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_80320.59She felt his breath upon her hair.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_44720.59Matilde held her breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_Doctor_Claudius_15223_46770.59He was gone with her kiss on his lips and her breath in his.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_90560.59"Then" -- she drew a quick breath -- "I should know what to do.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_43130.59She was very pale, and her breath came and went quickly.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_78250.59he said with quick-coming breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_12020.59His breath was coming fast.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_39810.59Her breath came quick and fast.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_17520.59His breath came audibly and hard.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_65180.59What the light showed her was a slim form in a white dressing-gown, that fell loosely about it; a rounded arm up-stretched; a head, still crowned with its jessamine wreath, from which the bright hair fell heavily over shoulders and bosom; eyes, under frowning brows, flashing a proud challenge at what they saw; two lips, 'indifferent red' just open to let the quick breath come through -- all thrown into the wildest chiaroscuro by the wavering candle flame.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_47930.59A bright flush flickered on her delicate cheek, deepening or fading at every breath; her large eyes floated in light; even the bright strands of her yellow hair shone with unusual lustre; her step was so buoyant she scarcely seemed to touch the ground at all; she was all shy smiles; and as she came, with her slender white right hand she played with the new ring she wore on her left, fingering it nervously.
Gordon_Hanford_The_Feast_of_th_15205_29990.59Lo the blood-spattered bosom, the shot-shattered limb, The hand-clutch of fear as the vision grows dim, The half-uttered prayer and the blood-fettered breath, The cold marble brow and the calm face of death.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_29170.59He felt the light, quick motion of her breath; the folds of her summer dress -- he could not have told what she wore -- fell over the carpet lounge; the hem of the dress touched his boot, and just covered the patch on it from sight.
Meade_L_T_A_Young_Mutinee_24599_21150.59There came a sigh from the bed -- the faintest of sounds; Mrs. Quentyns turned her head quickly, and saw to her rapture that Judy's big greeny-gray eyes were wide open and fixed earnestly on her face.
Marryat_Freder_Jacob_Faithful_21549_6910.59He appeared to rise at least a foot more in stature, his eyes sparkled, his great nose turned red, his nostrils dilated, and his mouth was more than half open, to give vent to the ponderous breathing from his chest.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_9310.58He lay half lifted up on his pillows, drawing his breath short with apprehension; his days were numbered, and death was coming fast, fast, straight upon him.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_Children_s_Righ_10335_9330.58So, while its hold on life was yet uncertain, the husband's mother placed wet cloths upon its lips, and soon the faint breath stopped, and the white soul went fluttering heavenward again.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_3790.58The words smote heavily on Eliza's heart; the vision of the trader came before her eyes, and, as if some one had struck her a deadly blow, she turned pale and gasped for breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_49090.58She remained a long time in that despondent attitude, her whole frame shaking at intervals with nervous tremors, and her breath struggling upwards in shuddering gasps.
Reade_Charles_The_Cloister_an_1366_174040.58Soon the left hand of the hermit began to swim indistinctly before her gloating eyes; and with a deep sigh her head drooped, and she lay like a broken lily.
Reade_Charles_Foul_Play_3702_750.58His color came and went violently all the time his father was speaking, and, when he ceased, he sank into his chair with another sigh deeper than the last, and two half-hysterical tears came to his pale eyes.
McCutcheon_Geo_Castle_Craneycr_5349_20930.58As Ugo and Kapolski crossed the room, the former, whose face was white with suppressed passion, hissed under his breath into the ear of the raging Russian: "You fool, it was the other one -- the tall one!
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_82990.58Motionless and pale as death the boy lay upon his bed, and only the breath that came hot and in gasps from his breast disclosed that there was still life in this poor shattered frame.
Eastwood_Franc_Geoffrey_the_Lo_48260_16210.58His breath came in hard, short gasps, and Kate seated herself so that his head could rest on her shoulder, while Geoffrey bathed his face and moistened his parched lips.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_77580.58He raised the pistol, and then, with a quick sudden intaking of the breath, he dropped it, and knelt with glaring eyes looking up at a tree which faced the open door of the hut.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_17380.58For one moment her face became an impenetrable mask, her eyes grew dull as uncut jewels, her breathing ceased, her lips were set like cold marble.
Alcott_Louisa_Moods_28203_13410.58Presently she seemed to glow and kindle with an inward fire; over face and forehead rushed an impetuous color, her eyes shone, and her lips trembled with the fluttering of her breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_22170.58That voice flowed through her chilled heart like dew upon a perishing lily -- like sunshine upon a rose that the storm has shaken; her drooping form became more erect; her hand began to tremble; her pale lips were softly parted, and grew red as if the warm breath, flashing through, kindled a richer glow with each short, eager gasp.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_95740.58He leant his head on his hand for a moment with a sigh, then forcibly wrenched himself from what were evidently recurrent thoughts.
Souvestre_mil_An_Attic_Philos_3999_12940.58I tried in vain to warm him again with my breath; I felt the last pulsations of life; his eyes were already closed, and his wings hung down!
Smith_Francis_The_Other_Fello_37148_21030.58I've been ill all" -- -- He stopped suddenly, caught his breath quickly, and his hand fell from my knee.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_70030.58It grew redder still in his eyes, breath failed his lungs, strength failed his bones; he fell.
Roe_Edward_Pay_His_Sombre_Riva_6128_1870.58Turning to his daughter he added a little querulously, "There must be a storm brewing, Grace," and he drew in his breath as if in pain.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Lane_That_H_6241_2370.58There had been only the one lightning instant in which he had felt a kind of suspension of her breath and being, but when he had looked her in the face, she was composed and smiling.
Hope_Anthony_The_Prisoner_of_95_32440.58Yes, and to get my breath: and I tore my shirt and twisted a strip of it round my bleeding arm; and stood listening again.
Hope_Anthony_The_Indiscretio_13909_30940.58But the moment I had uttered it I perceived what I had done, for she drew back further, gazing at me with inquiring eyes, and her breath seemed arrested.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Tempest_and_Sun_17260_10740.58Falling back on his pillow, he drew Fanny’s face to his, and with his last breath kissed her quivering lips, and all was over.
Harben_Will_N_Westerfelt_17178_32330.58Hettie drew in her breath quickly and held it, raising a glad glance to the speaker's face.
Ford_Paul_Leic_The_Story_of_an_36439_24120.58As I sit and write, every breath brings with it the feeling that a knife is being thrust into my breast, and I am faint with the pain.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_8810.58As the two gentlemen stood before her she rose, and caught her breath, pressing one little palm over her heart, while the other grasped the balustrade.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_47760.58She was growing strangely white, and her breath fluttered, but eyes and lips came to the rescue with a steadfast smile.
Ebers_Georg_Uarda_a_Roman_5449_56650.58But his mood soon changed, his breath came quickly, his breast heaved, and an ominous light glowed in his eyes.
Eastwood_Franc_Geoffrey_the_Lo_48260_4530.58A boy, who had just edged his way through the crowd, stood, with flushed cheeks and panting breath, as near to them as he could get, and then the trial began.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_61130.58Alleyne, glancing at her, noted that her breath came quick and short, and that her cheeks had blanched to a lily white.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_54700.58"You were not always kind to me," he continued, "but when I come back" -- She turned with a sudden impulse toward him, her breath quick and her lips unsteady.
Davis_Richard_Soldiers_of_For_403_16700.58But she drew in her breath quickly and blushed, as she saw the two young men moving away out of hearing of this family crisis.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_80590.58Unorna felt a cold breath, that was not his, upon her forehead, and she felt as though her heavy hair were rising of itself upon her head.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_87700.58Corona held her breath and watched his face while he read the lines written upon one of the two papers he took from the envelope.
Crawford_F_Ma_Don_Orsino_13218_69360.58Then Orsino heard the quick-drawn breath again, and the white hand went nervously to the fastening of the window.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_74100.58Theos drew a quick breath of relief, and glanced at Niphrata, ... how cold and unconcerned was her demeanor!
Cable_George_W_The_Cavalier_9839_11070.58she whispered, snatched in her breath, bit her lip, and half averting her face, shot me through with both "twinklers" at once.
Whyte_Melville_The_Interpreter_40660_17550.58Bold had the eye of a hawk, but I saw her before Bold did; long ere my dog erected his silken ears and stopped his panting breath, my beating heart and throbbing pulses made me feel too keenly that I was Vere Egerton again.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Gentleman_f_9659_27980.58To-day, as he slowly limped over the ties, his eyes were bright and dry under the solemn lids, and, though his heavy nostrils were unusually distended in the effort for regular breathing, the deeply puckered lips beneath them were set firmly.
Spielhagen_Fri_Hammer_and_Anvi_34868_101120.58Next I found myself outside in the hall, trembling in every limb of my strong body, with sharp pain in my heart and a burning desire to cry out aloud, and then I pressed both hands upon my breast, and said to myself, with deeply-drawn breath and trembling lips, "Thank heaven, it is all over."
Finley_Martha_Elsie_Dinsmore_6440_34790.58She obeyed at once; the white lids gently closed over the sweet eyes, the long, dark lashes rested quietly on the fair, round cheek, and soon her soft regular breathing told that she had passed into the land of dreams.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_82240.58Minnie sat with her countenance turned fully to the audience, and when Cuthbert Laurance's eyes fell on the cottage front, and upon the face under that cloud of dark elfish locks, he caught his breath, and his eyes seemed almost starting from their sockets.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_28970.58She put out her hand, barely touched the fingers of the stranger, and her keen, probing, inquisitorial eyes of palest grey wandered searchingly over the face and figure; while her haughty tone was chill -- as the damp breath of a vault.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_65100.57She drew a deep, unsteady breath; her eyes began to brighten through their tears; he held her close to his breast, and pressed his lips, quivering with an ecstasy of love, upon her forehead.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_24720.57For some days they met under strong restraint; only by stolen glances and sighs, by a momentary pressure of the hand, or a few slightly murmured words, could they give expression to their rapture and their passion.
Howells_Willia_A_Hazard_of_New_4600_84900.57Lindau's grand, patriarchal head, foreshortened to their view, lay white upon the pillow, and his broad, white beard flowed upon the sheet, which heaved with those long last breaths.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Autocrat_of_751_13390.57Then comes a creeping as of centipedes running down the spine, -- then a gasp and a great jump of the heart, -- then a sudden flush and a beating in the vessels of the head, -- then a long sigh, -- and the poem is written.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_60520.57A deep sigh escaped from the wasted form before him; the lips moved, and a smile played upon the face; but the lips were pallid, and the smile faded into a rigid and ghastly stare.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pioneers_O_2275_2170.57I took him on the posteerum, saving the lady's presence, as he got up from the ambushment, and rattled three buckshot into his naked hide, so close that you might have laid a broad joe upon them all" -- here Natty stretched out his long neck, and straightened his body, as he opened his mouth, which exposed a single tusk of yellow bone, while his eyes, his face, even his whole frame seemed to laugh, although no sound was emitted except a kind of thick hissing, as he inhaled his breath in quavers.
_The_Green_Fairy_7277_40120.57Then she drew her breath, opened her eyes, and said, 'Ah!
Weyman_Stanley_Sophia_A_Roman_39168_60890.57And by-and-by she pressed on again, her breath fluttering between sobs and exhaustion.
Watts_Dunton_T_Aylwin_13454_89820.57When he drew his last breath at Birchington it was in that friend's arms.
Warner_Susan_Hills_of_the_Sh_16918_111850.57But the breaths came painfully now, and her heart was weary with its own aching.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_44940.57She had caught no breath yet of his coming, but her heart was ready for him.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_85740.57she cried under her breath, pressing her hands to her eyes.
Verne_Jules_A_Journey_to_th_18857_28470.57At the first sigh which struggled from my bosom, he took hold of my hand.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_120260.57and, taking those feeble palms in his own, he tried to warm them with his breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_77600.57The young girl drew a quick breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_30600.57Filled with this idea she held her breath, as if that would betray her.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_28540.57Katharine turned very white, and gasped for breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_45930.57The breath settles in my throat, strangling me when I speak.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_103050.57His face quivered, his breast heaved with breath.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_32100.57On a sudden -- in a breath -- I felt the vessel rise.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Without_a_Home_5433_81650.57His eyes closed again, his breath came more and more slowly, and at last it ceased.
Reid_Mayne_The_Young_Yager_34668_23270.57He was already panting for breath, with the perspiration flowing from every pore.
Marryat_Freder_Snarleyyow_or_21579_30790.57Vanslyperken compressed his lips, and held his breath.
Lang_Andrew_The_Pink_Fairy_5615_21280.57No sooner had he done so than he felt a warm breath upon his cheek.
Kipling_Rudyar_Soldiers_Three_6120_61970.57And out of that embrace Daoud Shah shall not go forth with the breath in his nostrils.
Kipling_Rudyar_Life_s_Handicap_5777_57800.57Then he fell face down and whined, drawing in his breath as he did so.
Johnston_Annie_The_Little_Colo_15741_3220.57Her breath came short and her heart beat fast.
Howells_Willia_The_Minister_s_7410_23640.57Once her breath came across his cheek, when she turned quickly to see if he was looking where she was pointing.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Life_and_De_14813_24040.57he said in our tongue, below his breath; and Jehane slid off his knee and on to her own.
Hammond_Willia_Sleep_and_Its_D_43887_24810.57He was in a breathing sweat, and had an agreeable warmth all over his body.
Haggard_H_Rid_Montezuma_s_Dau_1848_36740.57And he ceased for lack of breath, and looked upon her fiercely.
Gl_mer_Claire_A_Noble_Name_o_36550_42360.57Her hands trembled, and her breath came quick and short.
Freeman_Mary_E_Jerome_A_Poor_17886_54990.57She felt as if Jerome's hands were her hands, his breath hers.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_63460.57She caught her breath, and the color in her cheeks flickered.
Eliot_George_Romola_24020_25880.57And yet it was so piteous -- the struggling breath, and the eyes that seemed to look towards the crucifix, and yet not to see it.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_51140.57They looked at each other, turned pale, and held their breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_44500.57Her eyes were closed and her breathing was scarcely perceptible.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Law_and_the_1622_86040.57My breath failed me; a nameless horror crept through my whole being.
Coffin_Charles_The_Boys_of_34843_87810.57He dashed away a tear, took in a long breath, and was strong again.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_115010.57His arms seemed to be about her waist still, and his breath to linger about her neck.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_33430.57She held out her hand in her pretty, affectionate way, but she was actually a little out of breath.
Bullen_Frank_T_The_Cruise_of_t_1356_40230.57Instinctively you clutch at something firm, and hold your breath.
Bulfinch_Thoma_The_Age_of_Fabl_4925_16580.57At first the cheek was flushed, and the breath drawn with difficulty.
Watts_Dunton_T_Aylwin_13454_57050.57They were more dreadful by far to look at than Winifred's own -- they were rolling wildly as if in an agony of hate, while she was drawing in her breath till that marble throat of hers seemed choking.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_18590.57When she found that his eyes were closed and his breath came evenly, she bent down and kissed him on the forehead more than once, whispering his name to herself, as she had done a thousand times over his cradle.
Runkle_Bertha_The_Helmet_of_N_14219_88820.57The colour waxed and waned in her cheeks; her breath fluttered uncertainly; her eyes, anxious, eager, searched his face.
Merriman_Henry_The_Isle_of_Unr_8873_5450.57Her colour was now returning -- that brilliant, delicate colour which so often accompanies dark red hair -- and she gave a little sigh of resignation.
Marryat_Freder_Jacob_Faithful_21549_29020.57I felt it, and I remained with the handle of the door in my hand, gasping for breath -- blinded with the tears that coursed each other rapidly down my cheeks.
Kelly_Florence_With_Hoops_of_S_28585_39270.57"What is the -- " she began, but the look in his eyes stopped her tongue and held her gaze, while she felt her breath come hard and her heart beat like a triphammer.
Hardy_Thomas_A_Pair_of_Blue_224_65130.57Not wishing to disturb her, he continued still, and took an intense pleasure in supporting her warm young form as it rose and fell with her every breath.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_57730.57He was down on his knees now, with his head wedged into the aperture, drawing in his breath with long, forced gasps, looking piteously into the boy's face.
Green_Anna_Kat_Hand_and_Ring_31681_16770.57Earnestly, almost wildly, the young man watched him, drawing a deep breath and turning quite pale as the other paused and looked up.
Gibson_W_Hami_Eye_Spy_Afield_38954_17040.57Eager anticipation and shortness of breath were equally manifest as he approached my easel and, with his right hand still outstretched towards me, exclaimed, "Well, what ails him ?"
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_24000.57But suddenly there was life in his look, with a gentle smile, and the strained fingers were loosed with a sigh, and a long-unused word came from his lips.
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_50850.57When the whispering ceased, she loosened her hold, and, with a sigh of relief, pushed back her heavy black hair from her temples.
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_45680.57His heart throbbed violently, his breath almost failed him; but he forced himself to crawl a few feet into the cavity, and then groped with his hand on the ground about him.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_58300.57Paul looked dangerous; his forehead contracted into painful lines; his quick breathing beat on Hugh's face.
Bullen_Frank_T_The_Cruise_of_t_1356_19560.57But the agony of holding my breath soon overpowered every other feeling and thought, till just as something was going to snap inside my head I rose to the surface.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_43370.57She was so busy with her work now that her face bent quite close to his, her fair curls touched his cheeks, her breath stirred the hair on his temples; the intoxication of the moment carried Tom beyond all power of self-restraint.
Crawford_F_Ma_Greifenstein_6446_73890.57But she sat patiently by his side, her white hand resting on his shoulder, her anxious face turned towards his, her lips already parted, as though but awaiting her breath to speak words of consolation for the suffering that had not yet begun.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_70970.57I mean only a look, or a smile, or a glance of the eye, or the trembling of an arm or a hand when the young woman has had occasion to touch me; and because I have been weak enough to tremble even at Mabel's breath, or her brushing me with her clothes, my vain thoughts have misled me.
Lawrence_Georg_Sword_and_Gown_19121_31810.57He looked for a second gravely at the motionless figure; and laid his ear against the lips; no breath issued thence that would have stirred a feather; then he drew very gently the sheet over the dead man's face, -- a quiet, steadfast face, -- that even in the death-throe had retained its proud, placid calm.
Crockett_S_R_Lochinvar_A_No_45495_4830.57Yet when a moment later the girl lifted her long, dark lashes and revealed her eyes shining shyly glorious beneath them, Wat Gordon gazed into their depths till his breath came quick and short through his nostrils, and a peal of bells seemed to jangle all out of tune in his heart.
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_63480.56He gently encircled her delicate form with his arm, and, inclining his mouth so close to her ear that she felt his hot breath upon her cheek, whispered: "Will Natalie love her Alexis as Elizabeth loved Alexis Razumovsky?
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_83490.56She bent over the face of Glaucus -- she inhaled the deep breath of his heavy slumber -- timidly and sadly she kissed his brow -- his lips; she felt for his hand -- it was locked in that of Ione; she sighed deeply, and her face darkened.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_82030.56His eyes are directed toward Florence, who is standing, carrying on a lifeless flirtation at a little distance from him; there is distaste in every line of his face, and Lilian, marking it, draws a long breath, and lets the smile return to her mobile lips.
Woolson_Consta_Anne_A_Novel_32707_84190.56Involuntarily the girl opposite had paused; then, recovering herself, she drew down her veil and walked on, her heart beating rapidly, her breath coming in throbs.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_68670.56A moment to take breath, and press his torn and bleeding fingers to his lips; then, reaching down, he gave a hand to his companion and dragged him to the same place of vantage.
Warner_Susan_Hills_of_the_Sh_16918_73810.56-- " And Winthrop laid his face on his father's breast, and for a few breaths, sobbed, as he had not done since -- since his childish eyes had found hiding-place on that other breast that could rest them no more.
Van_Dyke_Henry_The_Ruling_Pass_1048_17650.56Dan Scott lay in the bottom of the boat, shivering, dazed, until he felt the dog's cold nose and warm breath against his cheek.
Steel_Flora_An_Voices_in_the_N_40045_21270.56And another man, as he bent to touch a fuse with his port-fire, gave a sinister laugh, and remarked under his breath that scarred necks could do without pearls!
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_2770_33660.56The tangled hair fell off from the tired little face; the breathing came peaceful and regular, and with her little hand fast clasped in Mrs. Whitney's she slept on and on.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_27100.56She opened her eyes, and seeing Campan kneeling before her bed, she threw her arms around the faithful friend, and with gasping breath bowed her head upon her shoulder.
Kipling_Rudyar_Plain_Tales_fro_1858_18450.56I looked at the body lying near the doorway, and saw, just where the hollow of the throat joins on the shoulders, a muscle that had nothing to do with any man's regular breathing, twitching away steadily.
Hay_John_The_Bread_winne_16321_14570.56He looked a moment at the girl's brilliant color, her quick, high breathing, her eager eyes, with a gloating sense of his good luck.
Garland_Hamlin_Rose_of_Dutcher_35805_16350.56When they came before her in their athletic suits, lithe, clean-limbed, joyous, then her eyes dreamed and her heart beat till the blood choked her breathing.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_28800.56“No -- yes -- wait a moment -- don’t speak!” She held her breath, her eyes fixed upon his grey face as she pressed the point where she thought the pulse should be.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_50200.56The long dark fringes of her eyelashes cast a shade upon the transparent colour of her cheek, and the light breath came softly through her parted lips.
Ballantyne_R_Shifting_Winds_21702_1410.56In a few minutes he felt a flutter of the heart, then a gentle sigh escaped from the blue lips; the eyelids quivered, and finally the child revived.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Women_514_12640.56Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irresistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
Hope_Anthony_The_Heart_of_Pr_41438_8810.56But once she wore the ruby necklace, and the breath of the trooper went quick and eager when he saw it on her neck; and a sudden flush of colour spread over all his face, so that the Princess, chancing to glance at him in passing, and seeing the colour beneath and through the dye that stained him, was greatly astonished, and she reined in her horse for an instant and looked very intently at him; yet she rode on again in silence.
Twain_Mark_A_Tramp_Abroad_119_5320.56So he flew down and got that acorn, and fetched it up and dropped it in, and was just tilting his head back, with the heavenliest smile on his face, when all of a sudden he was paralyzed into a listening attitude and that smile faded gradually out of his countenance like breath off'n a razor, and the queerest look of surprise took its place.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_58440.56The faithful old heart felt a sudden thrust; and Tom thought how often he had noticed, within six months, that Eva's little hands had grown thinner, and her skin more transparent, and her breath shorter; and how, when she ran or played in the garden, as she once could for hours, she became soon so tired and languid.
Lever_Charles_Charles_O_Malle_8577_35730.56I know, unfortunately, but very little what passed between myself and my fair companion; I can only say that when supper was announced at twelve (an hour later than usual), I was sitting upon the sofa with my arm round her waist, my cheek so close that already her lovely tresses brushed my forehead, and her breath fanned my burning brow.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_39210.56Suddenly springing to his feet, Nir-jalis tore open his richly jewelled vest, and pressed his two hands hard upon his heart, ... the veins in his flesh were swollen and blue, -- his labored breath seemed as though it must break his ribs in its terrible, panting struggle, -- his face, livid and lined with purple marks like heavy bruises, bore not a single trace of its former fairness, ... and his eyes, rolled up and fixed glassily in their quivering sockets, seemed to be dreadfully filled with the speechless memory of his lately spoken curse.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_27820.55The heart beats wildly, or may fail to act and faintness ensue; there is a death-like pallor; the breathing is laboured; the wings of the nostrils are wildly dilated; "there is a gasping and convulsive motion of the lips, a tremor on the hollow cheek, a gulping and catching of the throat;"[1217] the uncovered and protruding eyeballs are fixed on the object of terror; or they may roll restlessly from side to side, huc illuc volvens oculos totumque pererrat .
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_82160.55said Manuel, with one swift flashing glance, which like a shaft of lightning seemed to pierce through flesh and bone, -- for, as he met that radiant and commanding look, the jewel-like eyes of the Pope lost their lustre and became fixed and glassy, -- he put his hand to his throat with a choking gasp for breath, -- and like a dead body which had only been kept in place by some secret mechanical action, he fell back in his chair senseless, his limbs stretching themselves out with a convulsive shudder into stark immovability.
Weyman_Stanley_A_Gentleman_of_1939_13870.55She fell back with a sigh of relief, and a little colour came into her wan face.
Ward_Humphry_Helbeck_of_Bann_9441_19330.55Her chest heaved with one long breath, then subsided; her brow tightened.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_5720.55Lucy Foster drew a long breath -- a breath of emotion.
Wallace_Lew_The_Prince_of_I_6848_44840.55She timidly took the hand he dropped upon his knee at the close of a long sigh.
Van_Dyke_Henry_The_Ruling_Pass_1048_12180.55She was speaking eagerly, and her bosom rose and fell with quick breaths.
Twain_Mark_Life_on_the_Mis_245_13360.55Every pilot in the lot was watching now, with fixed eyes, and talking under his breath.
Trowbridge_J_Cudjo_s_Cave_31406_85740.55I would have clung to your knees, and pleaded with you so long as there was breath in me to ask or heart to feel.
Stratemeyer_Ed_The_Campaign_of_31317_11350.55All were panting for breath, for the brush at close quarters had put them on their mettle.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_81300.55and every one involuntarily looked at each other and drew in their breath, as if to prepare for the storm that was about to burst.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_67670.55She saw it; and, going round the table, leaned over his chair, fanning his cheek with her breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_45730.55The breath choked up her throat, and from heart to limb she seemed turning to stone.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_118960.55Zagloba's breath died within his breast, his eyes were almost bursting through his lids; for what does he see?
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_133600.55Tears came suddenly into the eyes of the maiden: "To the last breath, to the hour of death!"
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_5632_40680.55cried Polly in a breath, with a fearful glance at the boy lying there.
Sheppard_Eliza_Charles_Auchest_38949_31070.55He drew me after him gently and carefully to the first floor, and again to the second without speaking, and then we stood still to take breath.
Richards_Laura_Captain_January_7790_10840.55She was pale, and her breath came short and quick, but otherwise she showed no sign of agitation.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_58500.55Her breath fanned his cheek, and a part of her dress touched his shoulder.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_26720.55His breath came thick and hoarse, and his face was strained and knotted with fury.
Pope_Alexander_The_Poetical_Wo_9413_20830.55Till every motion, pulse, and breath be o'er; And even my Abelard be loved no more.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Seats_of_th_6229_22620.55My breath came short and labored, and my heart felt as though it were in a vise and being clamped to nothing.
Ouida_B_b_e_Or_Two_13912_19300.55she answered him softly under her breath, and sat still, while all her body quivered like a leaf.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_80160.55Only her mouth, a little open for the sharp breath, appeared dumbly beseeching.
Marlitt_E_Eu_Gold_Elsie_42426_32060.55he asked, stepping so close to her that she felt his hot breath upon her cheek.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_35770.55She approached her sister, so closely that Kitty felt her breath upon her cheek.
Major_Charles_Dorothy_Vernon_14671_27740.55Her heart again was beating in a provoking manner, and her breath would not come with ease and regularity.
MacGrath_Harol_The_Puppet_Crow_3239_68990.55He bit his lips; and when he drew his breath the pain which followed almost robbed him of his senses.
Maartens_Maart_My_Lady_Nobody_49903_41210.55I’m proud of my nephews.” She paused, out of breath, and aimlessly stroked her dress.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_58010.55It was long before the colour came back to her cheek, before the breath was perceptible on her lip.
Keenan_Henry_F_The_Iron_Game_A_10062_84580.55A still graver look settled on his face as he tested the breath and action of the heart.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Life_and_De_14813_62220.55Gilles now shivered and looked about him; but Jehane, having mastered her breath, smiled.
Heimburg_W_Gertrude_s_Marr_32442_16750.55she said, drawing a long breath, while a rosy flush overspread her face.
Hardy_Thomas_The_Trumpet_Maj_2864_37140.55Apparently his face was turning to a livid hue, and his breathing had become obstructed.
Garland_Hamlin_Rose_of_Dutcher_35805_53310.55Rose held her breath, her face white and set with horror.
Ford_Paul_Leic_The_Story_of_an_36439_4080.55You were leaning over me with the moonlight shining on your face, and I caught my breath, you were so beautiful.
Ford_Paul_Leic_Janice_Meredith_5719_84830.55The girl stood irresolute for a breath, then, though she coloured, she said steadily, "Certainly, if you wish it, Philemon."
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_16010.55Drawing her breath quickly, she turned back and threw her arms around him.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_28130.55Her face was turned away from him, but he could see, by the sharp intake of her breath, that she was weeping bitterly.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_59010.55As we looked full at one another, I felt my breath come quicker in my strong desire to get something out of him.
Crawford_F_Ma_Marion_Darche_33924_42560.55Brett drew a long breath and clasped his hands nervously together.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_47830.55It was not true, but I hoped they would believe it I said -- " the colour filled her face and she caught her breath.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_101750.55-- she caught her breath sobbingly, "The left-off rapture of a slain caress!"
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_40200.55said Moretti, his small eyes glistening, and his breath going and coming quickly.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_23730.55Her lips trembled -- a faint sigh fluttered from them, which she tried vainly to suppress.
Collins_Wilkie_Poor_Miss_Finch_3632_73780.55He drew a long trembling breath, and pressed my hand gratefully.
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_175400.55A feeling as of a breath of cold air passed over the right side of his head.
Catherwood_Mar_The_Lady_of_For_18631_8090.55Marie was repelled by a faint odor aside from its breath of dead spices.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_55170.55"We could leave you -- -- " Her bosom rose and fell quickly with stormy breaths.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_72350.55Kate's hot breath on her hands grew damp against her face.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_102510.55John's pale face was breaking, and his breath was coming fast.
Burnett_France_A_Fair_Barbaria_9487_26190.55Her delicate nostrils were dilated, she held her head up, her breath came fast.
Warner_Susan_Hills_of_the_Sh_16918_90310.55She had gone to her own room, where she put herself on a low seat by the window and sat with labouring breath and heaving bosom, and the fire in her heart and in her eyes glowing still, though she looked now as if it were more likely to consume herself than anybody else.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_17900.55Then he thought of the flask of fire-water in his bosom, and forced a few drops through those pale lips -- a shiver and a deep sigh -- the lashes unclose, and the deathly eyes look into his.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_55300.55Black and white, all huddled around the bench she occupied, pouring their hot breath out, till she sickened and grew faint, as if the boughs of a Upas tree were drooping over her.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Knights_of_9473_122970.55Zygfried's face had become blue whilst hanging; he had an awful appearance, because his eyes were open and terror-stricken, his mouth was also open as though in the act of trying to catch his last breath.
Scott_Walter_The_Monastery_6406_53820.55When he mentioned the manner in which Julian had cast from him his concubine, Murray drew a deep breath, set his teeth hard, and laid his hand on the hilt of his dagger.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_12880.55Presently his left leg, that was slightly bent towards the furnace, stretched itself out to its full length, and my ear caught a faint sound, as of a weak and melancholy sigh.
Phelps_Elizabe_The_Gates_Betwe_30540_9810.55And when I had her -- to myself again -- when these arms were sure of their own, and these lips of hers, when her precious breath was on this cheek again, and I could say; -- "Helen, Helen, Helen" -- and could say no more, for love and shame and sorrow, but only -- "Helen, Helen" -- "Yes," said the watchman's voice in the corridor.
Marchmont_Arth_A_Dash_for_a_Th_40907_53980.55He had drawn himself to his full height; and every muscle of his sinewy, powerful, tireless frame was at full tension, while his breath was labored, and came and went through his dilated nostrils as though the passing of it were a pain.
Inchbald_Mrs_A_Simple_Story_22002_39100.55She put out her hand -- which he knelt to receive, but did not raise it to his lips -- he held the boon too sacred -- and looking earnestly upon it, as it lay pale and wan in his, he breathed one sigh over it, and withdrew.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_89730.55Katharina detained her, questioned her with a trembling voice, put the lamp close to her, and held her breath while she examined her face, her neck, and her arms for the dreadful spots.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_58110.55What nonsense you talk sometimes!” “No, but seriously, would you like me any better if I were like Katharine Lauderdale?” The passionate eyes sought his, and there was a quick breath, half suppressed, as her hand ceased to caress his passive fingers.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_132290.55The lines of pain had disappeared from her sweet face -- a smile was on her lips -- her breath came and went with peaceful regularity, -- and the delicate hue of a pale rose flushed her cheeks.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_55810.55With bloodshot eyes, hollow cheeks, and short thick breath, he ran from dark alley to dark alley, trying every house where he thought he might find a friend.
Bront_Emily_Wuthering_Heigh_768_54440.55A touch on the chest silenced me: I am stout, and soon put out of breath; and, what with that and the rage, I staggered dizzily back and felt ready to suffocate, or to burst a blood-vessel.
Altsheler_Jose_In_Hostile_Red_41050_41280.55They crossed swords, testing each other's attack and defence, and then began to fight in earnest, their eyes gleaming, their faces hot, and their breath coming short and hard.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_132350.55The eyes were lined and hollow -- the brow contracted; the young roundness of the cheek was lost in the general pallor and patchiness of the skin; the lower part of the face seemed to have sharpened and lengthened, -- and over the whole had passed a breath of something aging and withering the traces of which sent a shiver through Marcella.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_16090.55Stooping close, Mrs. Singleton saw that tears yet hung on the black lashes which swept the flushed cheeks, but the parted lips were at rest, and the deep regularly drawn breath told her that at last the weary soul reposed in the peaceful domain of dreams.
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_27080.55She thought that the girl's eyelids quivered, and she called her again; but there was no answer, nor any movement of the hand this time, and the face was so white and deathly that any one might have believed life gone, but for the faintly perceptible breath that stirred the feathers of the Greek fan when the Queen held it close to the lips.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_80530.55The child stole into his room again, sat down upon the floor, folded his little hands in one another, fixed his great blue eyes on the ceiling above, and held his breath to listen to every little sound, every footfall that came from the room above.
Holley_Mariett_Samantha_at_Sar_3425_18220.55She couldn't get her hands up to her head to save her life; if she felt her head a tottlin' off her shoulders she couldn't have lifted her hands to have stiddied it, and, of course, she couldn't get a long breath, or short ones with any comfort.
Henty_G_A_G_Wulf_the_Saxon_8745_44350.55They say that his heart beats more strongly than it did last night, Osgod says that he has not moved or opened his eyes, but they say that this is not a bad sign, and that it may be anxiety has brought on an exhaustion, for his breathing is more like that of one who sleeps than of a man wounded to death."
Hawthorne_Nath_The_Scarlet_Let_33_10540.55Then, gasping for breath, did Hester Prynne clutch the fatal token, instinctively endeavouring to tear it away, so infinite was the torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl's baby-hand.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_79380.55It so happened that the rays of the lamp fell bright and full upon Ruth's countenance, as she stood with her crimson lips parted with the hurrying breath, and the fever-flush brilliant on her cheeks.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_52610.55With this she grows a little paler, and draws her breath with a sharp sound, then whiter, whiter still, until at last her head sinks heavily upon Cyril's supporting arm, and he finds she has fallen into a deep swoon.
Du_Maurier_Geo_Trilby_39858_7150.55and in her gratitude she kissed Svengali's hand; and he leered, and showed his big brown teeth and the yellow whites at the top of his big black eyes, and drew his breath with a hiss.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pioneers_O_2275_57970.55Elizabeth approached the brow of the mountain, where a faint cry, like the noise produced by striking the hand against the mouth, at the same time that the breath is strongly exhaled, was heard answering to her own voice.
A_L_O_E_Hebrew_Heroes_26094_2900.55Then, ashamed at having been betrayed into showing what might look like cowardly fear, the Greek stood erect, but gasping, expecting that ere he could draw another breath he should feel the dagger in his side, or the sword at his throat.
Murfree_Mary_N_The_Prophet_of_35619_31910.54It seemed to Dorinda a long time that he sat with his book before him on the table, his spectacles gleaming in the light of the tallow dip, close at hand, his lips moving as he slowly read beneath his breath, now and then clutching his big red handkerchief, and polishing off the top of his round head and his wrinkled brow.
James_G_P_R_Forest_Days_A_R_49987_34230.54His countenance was pale; the dull shadow of death was upon it; the lips were colourless and the nostrils widely expanded, as if it caused an agonizing effort to draw his breath; but the eye was still bright and clear, and -- while the man of God repeated the last words -- it rolled thoughtfully over the faces of all around, resting with an anxious gaze upon those with whom he was most familiar.
Andersen_H_C_Andersen_s_Fair_1597_23070.54As the old man trembled with cold, and the little child slept a moment, the mother went and poured some ale into a pot and set it on the stove, that it might be warm for him; the old man sat and rocked the cradle, and the mother sat down on a chair close by him, and looked at her little sick child that drew its breath so deep, and raised its little hand.
Mathews_France_My_Lady_Peggy_G_50388_22380.54'Twas indeed Lady Peggy, her heart in her mouth, her breath coming fiercely betwixt her tight-shut lips, the drops standing on her forehead, each hand grasping a pistol ready cocked, and her dark eyes pinned to the two crouching objects not three yards away from her; anon, following the jerks of these worthies' thumbs as they indicate the tall figure with bent head still pacing the pier back and forth, she knows her lover and his doom are nearing each the other.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_69890.54The pale, parted lips opened, closed, quivered, opened again; the toiling breath came and went quickly and more quickly; the head moved uneasily on the pillow; the eyelids half unclosed themselves; low, faint, moaning sounds poured rapidly from the lips -- changed ere long to half-articulated sentences -- then merged softly into intelligible speech, and uttered these words: "Swear that you will not destroy this paper!
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_22540.54But it was a painful task, and the color went and came in her pale face, and her breath was labored with the excess of her tribulation.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_142170.54His face was white with terror, his breath was gone -- in short, I never saw any living man betray so much agitation.
White_Stewart_The_Westerners_34399_51840.54Twice she half slipped and caught by the shoulder of her partner of the moment, and her breath was hot against his throat.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_68840.54His eyes shone through the mask of dust, the sweat ran down to his chin, his breath came and went noisily.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_158540.54An instant's strained looking, and, sinking back into her arms, he gave two or three gasping breaths, and died.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_79110.54Lord Maxwell looked at the two -- the man's face of suffering, the girl's struggling breath.
Twain_Mark_Following_the_E_2895_77250.54Everybody catches his breath, and feels a swelling in his throat and a moisture in his eyes-but waits again; for he knows what is coming; there is more yet.
Thompson_Mauri_Alice_of_Old_Vi_4097_19360.54She drew a quick breath and turned so white that her look struck him like a sudden and hard blow.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_7920.54The young man's eyes grew misty, the breath broke almost in a sob on his lips.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_73240.54The old woman wove her wrinkled fingers together; the kerchief on her bosom quivered with the struggle of her breath.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_131540.54His head whirled; he could not believe what his eyes saw; the breath died in his breast; hell would not have more greatly amazed him.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_6987_8310.54Phronsie, after her first scream of delight, had pressed her face close to the rail and held her breath.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_61440.54Jack’s fingers were still stiff with cold, and his breath blew out like a cloud in the light of the candles.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_124130.54She gasped for breath, and would have sunk without a word, had not Bothwell supported her shadowy form upon his breast.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_37350.54Her breath was coming painfully, and her heart pattered against her side like the beatings of an imprisoned bird.
Munroe_Kirk_Campmates_A_St_33343_11520.54Although he strained his eyes, and watched intently, almost holding his breath in his excitement, he could see only one object, and it certainly was moving towards him.
Mitchell_Donal_English_Lands_L_37226_23570.54Here (says Wraxall, who was an auditor) he cast his eyes down -- passing his handkerchief across his lips -- to recover breath only.
Merriman_Henry_The_Slave_of_th_9195_32280.54With his uninjured hand he twisted the scarf tighter and tighter until Christian gasped for breath.
Martineau_Harr_Feats_on_the_Fi_35892_13580.54It disturbed him, now that his joints were strained, his limbs trembling, and his mouth parched so that his breath rattled as it came.
Hope_Anthony_Rupert_of_Hentz_1145_49080.54The sweat was pouring from his face, and his breast seemed like to burst in the effort after breath; yet he had enough strength for his purpose.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_123450.54Then it seemed as if a strong, tender hand clasped hers, and she felt a quick, anxious breath upon her brow.
Heimburg_W_Gertrude_s_Marr_32442_36420.54Gertrude shivered; a great weakness had come over her, her temples throbbed, the smell of the fire nearly took her breath away.
Hay_John_The_Bread_winne_16321_15870.54She was looking with all her soul, and her breath was quick and high, and her soft red lips were parted and tremulous.
Harte_Bret_The_Luck_of_Roa_6373_70320.54Sometimes strong currents of air blew my hair all over the pillow, as with strange whispering breaths.
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_28080.54Many of them foamed at the mouth, their breathing being quick and short, whilst the bodies of all were fearfully distended.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_45340.54Above them moaned the rising gale, though sheltered as they were by cliffs its breath scarcely stirred their hair.
Glasgow_Ellen_The_Voice_of_th_16505_44700.54She hurried to the bed and sat down again, her eyes on the blanket that rose and fell with the difficult breath.
Gl_mer_Claire_A_Noble_Name_o_36550_60740.54His head was sunk upon his breast; the white eyebrows were gathered in a frown; his breath came almost like a groan.
Gl_mer_Claire_A_Noble_Name_o_36550_18320.54He drew a long breath, paused, and stroked back the hair from his pale forehead.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_51060.54He caught his breath, and the blood ebbed from his lips, but he hurled aside the suggestion as though it were a coiled viper.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_29550.54Too tired -- to be afraid -- -- " A moment passed, while she struggled for breath, and over her face stole a smile.
Eliot_George_Romola_24020_33620.54He looked round with the tears still slowly rolling down his face, but with a vigorous sigh, as if he had done with that outburst.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_68050.54Then he let her go; and as she ran into the little chamber where I used to sleep, looked round upon us, quite hot and out of breath with his uncommon satisfaction.
Crockett_S_R_Cleg_Kelly_Ara_48354_4570.54Faint tremors ran through her body, and though the window was wide open, she often gasped for breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_38470.54“Poor child -- little girl -- ought to be in bed.” The words came indistinctly, and the breathing grew more heavy.
Crawford_F_Ma_Marietta_A_Mai_16100_49230.54But swifter feet followed him, and in an instant iron fingers were clutching his throat and squeezing his breath out.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_7720.54Nervous and exhausted by all she had felt and been made to feel since the afternoon, she held her breath and waited.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_43180.54Then he felt her breath, and his strength returned for an instant, his arms contracted and clasped her to him violently.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_27720.54When the breath was drawn in, the thin nostrils flattened themselves strangely on each side, and the features had a peaked look.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_John_Halifax_G_2351_86150.54Their breaths seemed to mix and mingle, and the two faces, lying close together, to grow into a strange likeness each to each.
Connor_Ralph_The_Sky_Pilot_i_3288_19320.54He found him fighting for breath, his eyes starting from his head, a look of infinite distress on his face.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_71720.54She ceased, panting for breath; and laid her hot, throbbing cheek against the cheek of her daughter.
Catherwood_Mar_The_Lady_of_For_18631_3720.54She then took the child from its mother's limp hands, and exclaimed and muttered under her breath as she turned it on her knees.
Castlemon_Harr_George_at_the_F_21664_18120.54He went on in this strain until he had talked himself out of breath, and then he went back to his seat on the doorstep and covered his face with his hands.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_128630.54The little face, with its twitching mouth and pinched nostrils, beating with every breath, was the face of Kate.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_70600.54Then the man, taking a long breath, opened his eyes, and seeing me he made some tender of gratitude.
Cable_George_W_The_Cavalier_9839_9860.54That explains -- " She drew an awesome breath, rose to her toes and knit her knuckles under her throat.
Cable_George_W_John_March_Sou_31470_38250.54Just outside the closed door she covered her face in her hands and sank to the floor, moaning under her breath, "What have I done?
Brackett_Anna_The_Education_o_23312_3610.54The only test for a girl's clothing, as to tightness, should be, "Can you take a good, full breath, and not feel your clothes?"
Barr_Robert_A_Prince_of_Goo_31715_350.54"You are flushed in the face; your breath comes quick as if you had been running, and there's a set about your lips that spells anger."
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_86710.54Then he thought he felt that hair twining round his fingers; and then, that it slid smoothly round his neck, and tightened and tightened, and he could not draw his breath; and then he thought voices whispered to him, -- whispers that chilled him with horror.
Richardson_Alb_The_Secret_Serv_44865_72660.54Davis was haggard, with blood-shot eyes; "Junius" was pallid, and threatened with typhoid fever; Wolfe, with a sprained ankle, could barely limp; I was weak and short of breath, from the pneumonic affection.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_5070.54Her hair, deprived of its unnatural disfigurement, and almost entirely freed from powder, arched itself above her fine forehead in a light toupet, and fell upon her shoulders in rich brown locks, on which only a mere breath of powder had been blown.
M_hlbach_L_L_Andreas_Hofer_3666_24850.54She hastened to him, seized both his hands despite his resistance, and drew his face so close to hers that his hot, panting breath touched her cheek; but he averted his eyes with a gloomy expression and avoided meeting her fiery glances.
Kingsley_Charl_Yeast_a_Proble_10364_30840.54And as Argemone and Lancelot leant together over his pillow, her hair touched her lover's, and her fragrant breath was warm upon his cheek; and her bright eyes met his and drank light from them, like glittering planets gazing at their sun.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Gretchen_A_Nov_40702_43860.54Wear it for me," and taking a pin from his collar, he fastened it rather awkwardly to the bib, while his face came in so close proximity to Jerrie's that he felt her breath stir his hair, and felt, too, a strong temptation to kiss the cheek so near his own.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_6010.54And there lay the hoary head of good Father Hooper upon the death-pillow with the black veil still swathed about his brow and reaching down over his face, so that each more difficult gasp of his faint breath caused it to stir.
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_2960.54Not relaxing his own gaze on the fire, but rather strengthening it with a fierce, firm grip upon his elbow-chair, the elder sits for a few moments rigid, and then, with thick drops standing on his forehead, and a sharp catch of his breath, becomes as he was before.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_120610.54He stood, with his withered face lit up by a sudden irradiation from within, which made him look younger than his age by a good twenty years -- he stood, gasping for breath enough to speak, and gesticulated entreatingly at the lawyer with both hands.
Wallace_Lew_The_Prince_of_I_6848_56250.54Leaning heavily on the golden cone at the right of his chair, his chin depressed, his eyes staring, scarcely breathing, he waited, knowing, that having gone so far, there was before the speaker an unavoidable climax; and seeing it in his face, and coming, he presently aroused, and motioned for silence.
Lever_Charles_The_Knight_Of_G_35755_40880.54For a few seconds Forester was struck with the wonderful resemblance to her brother, as, with indrawn breath and compressed lips, she read; but gradually her color faded away, her hands trembled, and the paper fell from them, while, with a voice scarcely audible, she whispered: "And it has come to this!"
Field_Eugene_Second_Book_of_21809_18710.54With fearful precision the weapon smote home and buried itself by half its length in the werewolf's shaggy breast just above the heart, and then, with a monstrous sigh -- as if he yielded up his life without regret -- the werewolf fell dead in the shadow of the yews.
Barr_Robert_In_the_Midst_of_9263_37830.54The outer door to the kitchen burst open, and Margaret Howard stood on the threshold, her lovely face aflame with indignation, and her dark hair down over her shoulders, forming a picture of beauty that fairly took Yates' breath away.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Heir_of_Red_2505_98790.54He slept, but his breath grew short, and unequal; and as she wiped the moisture on his brow, she knew it was the death-damp.
Sage_William_Robert_Tournay_34846_47240.54Citizeness Privat signed that she was not in any pain, and after a few moments, during which her breath came regularly, she said faintly: -- "I shall be better soon; I am used to these attacks of sudden giddiness.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Young_Girl_s_12876_23490.54Madge's breathing was only slightly quickened, and color was beginning to come in her usually pale face, yet she had lent a helping hand more than once.
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_50730.54The cloud retreated from it as it advanced; the bright lamps grew wan, and flickered restlessly as at the breath of its presence.
Lawrence_Georg_Guy_Livingstone_17084_15040.54Her last motion was to draw his cheek down to hers with her thin, shadowy arm, and her last breath went up to the God who would judge them both in an unselfish prayer.
Kavanagh_Julia_Rachel_Gray_A_36160_2890.54She died, blessing her eldest sister with her last breath, with love for her in the last look of her blue eyes, in the last smile of her wan lips.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_37140.54she involuntarily held her breath for the answer, which, when it came, sent the blood in torrents to her face and neck, while her eyes sparkled with joy.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_Scarlet_Let_33_16650.54More than once he had cleared his throat, and drawn in the long, deep, and tremulous breath, which, when sent forth again, would come burdened with the black secret of his soul.
Evans_Augusta_A_Speckled_Bird_36029_8960.54The truth is -- " He caught his breath, and a sickly smile showed how his mouth trembled, as he swept his hand across his brow.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_22010.54Her beautiful head drooped upon his shoulder, her breath was warm upon his cheek, and the subtle scent of her hair was in his nostrils.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_30430.54The regular breathing still continuing, he put his smooth white hand (such a treacherous hand it looked, as it went creeping from him!)
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_100540.54He looked from man to man, and face to face, and still, with quickened breath and lessening colour, cried firmly, 'I will not!'
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_11150.54The eyelids drooped over the sunken eyes, there was a slight motion of the limbs, and all was still, save for the soft and regular breathing.
Crawford_F_Ma_Corleone_A_Tal_44311_38680.54Her whole body quivered, and then was still, then shook more violently, and then, all at once, she broke into a terrible sobbing, that went on and on as though it would never stop while she had breath and tears left.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_98020.54She was very pale -- her breath came and went quickly, but her eyes were fixed upon him steadily, -- and though her whole heart cried out for his sympathy and tenderness, she did not flinch.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_42780.54His face was deeply flushed, and his straight dark brows were knit frowningly, his breathing was hurried and irregular, .
Collins_Wilkie_The_Woman_in_Wh_583_11270.54The more attentively she watched every movement of my brush, the more closely I was breathing the perfume of her hair, and the warm fragrance of her breath.
Bulfinch_Thoma_The_Age_of_Fabl_4925_16060.54His neck swelled with rage, bloody foam covered his jaws, and the breath of his nostrils poisoned the air around.
Bates_Arlo_The_Puritans_8522_9450.54Her breath was on his cheek as she bent over the book, the perfume of her laces filled faintly the air, now and then her hand touched his.
Ballantyne_R_Freaks_on_the_F_23505_17140.54A little further on was that other bush out of which he had started so many grouse that he now never approached it without a stone in each hand, his eyes and nostrils dilated, and his breath restrained.
Auerbach_Berth_Edelweiss_A_St_33007_42700.54His breath came short as she spoke, and there fell a stone upon his heart, which nevermore departed, but lay there like a dead weight.
Eliot_George_Romola_24020_7980.53While Tito was speaking, some emotion passed, like a breath on the waters, across Bardo's delicate features; he leaned forward, put out his right-hand towards Romola, and turned his head as if about to speak to her; but then, correcting himself, turned away again, and said, in a subdued voice -- "Excuse me; is it not true -- you are young?"
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_84660.53Angela turned very white -- she drew a deep breath -- and the tension on her nerves relaxed, -- her heart gave one indignant bound -- and then resumed its usual quiet beating, as with a strong effort she gathered all her dignity and force together, and replied simply, "Can you ask?"
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_83890.53As he sat on my sofa, with his long knees drawn up under his coffee-cup, his hat and gloves upon the ground close to him, his spoon going softly round and round, his shadowless red eyes, which looked as if they had scorched their lashes off, turned towards me without looking at me, the disagreeable dints I have formerly described in his nostrils coming and going with his breath, and a snaky undulation pervading his frame from his chin to his boots, I decided in my own mind that I disliked him intensely.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_179630.53With the violence of the exertion, her poor breath seemed to rise in loud gasps, shaking her to pieces, and the sweat-drops poured off her brow.
Whyte_Melville_The_Interpreter_40660_29530.53Let us follow the child of fortune as he gallops over the plain, the cool breath of morning fanning his brow and lifting his clustering hair.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Taken_Alive_5320_62570.53His breast heaved with a great sigh; the blood welled afresh from his wound; what seemed a mortal weakness crept over him; and he thought he died.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_113750.53The rosy red of youth yet tinged his cold cheek; his parted lips still beamed with the same -- but the breath that had so sweetly informed them, was flown.
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_74920.53Robespierre waved his hand impatiently; and the old woman, with a sigh, patted his pale cheek, kissed his forehead, and submissively withdrew.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_85100.53Not a breath had hitherto passed his lips -- all had been dumb show -- and his grim silence had imparted a more freezing terror to his unguessed-for apparition.
Ingelow_Jean_Fated_to_Be_Fre_12303_74080.53"There is a singular formality about the narrative;" and before he laid it down he lifted it slightly, and, as it seemed half unconsciously, towards the light, and then his countenance changed, and he said beneath his breath, "Oh, that's it, is it!"
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_39190.53Ephraim turned his poor blue face slowly; his breath came shortly between his parted lips; he clapped one hand to his side.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_29330.53At last, with a shuddering sigh, she broke the seal, and took from folds of tissue paper, a long thick tress of the beautiful black hair.
Dickens_Charle_Bleak_House_1023_10710.53He was short, cadaverous, and withered, with his head sunk sideways between his shoulders and the breath issuing in visible smoke from his mouth as if he were on fire within.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_19030.53Dr. Howe came into the office beating his hands to warm them, his face ruddy and his breath short from a walk in the cold wind.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_43040.53Again she heard a sound of deep-drawn breath -- but it was close to her now, and her own arm moved with it on his chest -- the dead man had moved, he had sighed.
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_6980.53Without stopping to draw my breath, without wiping the cold sweat from my face, I rose instantly on my knees to watch the bed-top.
Alcott_Louisa_Moods_28203_14400.53The supplication of his attitude, the eager beating of his heart, the tender pressure of his hand, dispelled her blindness in the drawing of a breath, and showed her what she had done.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_16640.53Montreal, thus alone, sunk with a deep and heavy sigh upon the ground, covered his face with his hands, and burst into an agony of grief; his chest heaved, his whole frame trembled, and he wept and sobbed aloud, with all the fearful vehemence of a man whose passions are strong and fierce, but to whom the violence of grief alone is novel and unfamiliar.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Days_of_Bru_18387_46870.53His beautiful hair had been arranged with care on either side his face, and still fell in its long, rich curls, about his throat; and so beautiful, so holy was the expression of his perfect features, that the assembled crowds hushed their very breath in admiration and in awe; it seemed as if the heaven, on whose threshold he stood, had already fixed its impress on his brow.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_43400.53The carpet had slipped from under his feet, and he had fallen backwards to his full length, as a man falls on ice, and his head had struck the marble floor so violently that he had lain half an hour almost in a swoon, like a dead man at first, with neither breath nor beating of the heart to give a sign of life, till after Dolores had left him; and then he had sighed back to consciousness by very slow degrees, because no one was there to help him, to raise his head a few inches from the floor, to dash a little cold water into his face.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_294010.53As he felt that breath, and saw the humid flame that darted from the large, swimming eyes of Adrienne, whose half opened lips were becoming of a still deeper and brighter hue, the Indian started -- his young blood boiled in his veins -- he forgot everything -- his despair, and the approach of death, which as yet (as with Adrienne), only showed itself in a kind of feverish ardor.
Sewell_Anna_Black_Beauty_271_20150.53The beautifully arched and glossy neck was now straight, and lank, and fallen in; the clean straight legs and delicate fetlocks were swelled; the joints were grown out of shape with hard work; the face, that was once so full of spirit and life, was now full of suffering, and I could tell by the heaving of her sides, and her frequent cough, how bad her breath was.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_26000.53To-day there was no spot of color in face or dress, save the azure gleam of the large, brilliant ring, on her uplifted hand; and, as Dr. Grey scrutinized her appearance, he found it difficult to realize that blood pulsed in that marble flesh, and warm breath fluttered in that firm, frigid mouth.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_82520.53He reeled against Petronius, put one hand on his shoulder, covering his face with a breath filled with wine, and shouted in a hoarse voice, -- "To the lions with Christians!"
Reade_Charles_A_Woman_Hater_3669_110020.53Uxmoor, on this, caught her in his arms, and kissed her with such fire that she uttered a little stifled cry of alarm; but it was soon followed by a sigh of complacency, and she sunk, resistless, on his manly breast.
Meade_L_T_The_Children_s_6899_1240.53Cecile," suddenly bending forward, and grasping the child's arm almost cruelly, "I can't die at all till you promise me this solemn and grave, as though it were yer very last breath."
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_30270.53The picture vanished into the night that raved about him, and with a long shaken sigh he let his eyes fall from the watery steeps to the face of the woman who lay within his arms.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_36340.53Dr. Grey raised the head, but the breathing was imperceptible and, after a little while, he softly pressed down the lids that were partially lifted from the glazed eyes, and quitted the room.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_9000.53With his long sinewy arms and his wiry frame, he shook himself clear of them again and again, and it was only when his breath had failed him that the two, torn and panting, were able to twist round his wrists, and so secure him.
Davis_Richard_Van_Bibber_and_11019_16810.53He beat his way for a second to the surface and gasped for breath and was drawn down again, striking savagely at the eddies which seemed to twist his limbs into useless, heavy masses of flesh and muscle.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_70900.53But since Keyork had been with her a doubt had assailed her which painfully disturbed her thoughts, so that her brow contracted with anxiety and from time to time she drew a quick hard breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_28450.53It must have been in his face, for Mendoza understood, and he came forward quickly and knelt down upon the floor to listen for the beating of the heart, and to try whether there was any breath to dim the brightness of his polished scabbard.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_67500.53Eau-douce had nearly gasped for breath when he first heard this intelligence; and, though he succeeded in suppressing any other outward signs of agitation, his cheek was blanched nearly to the paleness of death.
Cable_George_W_Old_Creole_Days_10234_32430.53Sob, sob, sob; gasps and sighs and stifled ejaculations, her small right hand clinched and beating on her mother's knee; and the mother weeping over her.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_5590.53It was as if she lay prostrated by some wave of agony which had just passed over her; her breath was faint and rapid, and great drops of sweat stood out upon her young drawn face.
Blackmore_R_D_Perlycross_A_Ta_45038_64490.53Nicie came softly, and put back her hair, and offered her lovely white forehead to be kissed, and sat down with a smile that begged pardon for a sigh.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Women_514_80730.53She only saw his chest rise and fall, with a long breath that might have been a sigh, and the hand that wore the ring nestled down into the grass, as if to hide something too precious or too tender to be spoken of.
Marryat_Freder_Jacob_Faithful_21549_3050.52As I lay with my head upon the table-cloth, regardless of those decencies I had so much feared, and awake only to a deep sense of wounded pride, each sob coming from the very core of my heart, I felt a soft breathing warm upon my cheek, that caused me to look up timidly, and I beheld the glowing and beautiful face of little Sarah, her eyes filled with tears, looking so softly and beseechingly at me, that I felt at once I was of some value, and panted to be of more.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_67880.52Elsie could not even groan; her breath came in quick gasps; her hands tore madly at the carpet, but Elizabeth leaned motionless against the window-sill, watching always with that strained gaze.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Right_of_Wa_6249_42550.52When the arms were bound, I felt the straps on my own; when the cap come down, I gasp for breath; when the bolt is shot, I feel the wrench and the choke, and shudder go through myself -- feel the world jerk out in the dark.
Marryat_Freder_Olla_Podrida_23139_31460.52It smiled sweetly, hung over him, played with his chestnut curls, softly touched his hips with her own, passed her trembling fingers over his cheeks, and its warm breath appeared as if it melted into his.
Jackson_Helen_Ramona_2802_11110.52As the first cloud of the sickening dust came up, enveloping his head, choking his breath, he turned suddenly dizzy, and calling faintly, "Juan, I am ill," sank helpless down in the wool.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Life_and_De_14813_49770.52From the nostrils of Jehane the breath came fluttering and quick; in her splendid bosom stirred a storm that, if she had chosen to let it loose, could have shrivelled this little prickly leaf: but she replied nothing to the Queen's hatred.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_Scarlet_Let_33_28620.52Hester turned again towards Pearl with a crimson blush upon her cheek, a conscious glance aside clergyman, and then a heavy sigh, while, even before she had time to speak, the blush yielded to a deadly pallor.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_50270.52With her cheek resting on her hand, Salome sat looking at them, noting the glossiness of their curling hair, the flush on their round faces, the regular breathing of peaceful childhood's sleep.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_96440.52He saw it with straggling hair, damp and long as reeds, the cheeks pallid and drawn, the eyes like lamps in a mist, the throat bare of the shirt, and the lips kept apart by laboured breathing.
Blackmore_R_D_Dariel_A_Roman_42529_88840.52At such a time is there any man, or even any woman, who notices the tint of cheeks, the curve of lips, and eyebrows, the guidance of the breath, or even the quick and tremulous enquiries, and lingering watches of the eye?
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_5250.52an' it's a shame to see the party darlint lay like that and I'm 'feared, unless the breath's in her yet, she's dead intirely," muttered the good woman, rubbing the little hands in her own, and gently feeling for the beating of the heart.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_80940.52Of a rather turbulent description, it would seem; for her nightcap had been knocked off in the scuffle, and she was on her knees upon the floor, making a strange revelation of blue and yellow curl-papers, straggling locks of hair, tags of staylaces, and strings of it's impossible to say what; panting for breath, clasping her hands, turning her eyes upwards, shedding abundance of tears, and exhibiting various other symptoms of the acutest mental suffering.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_118560.52if it be death 145 To lie without motion, or pulse, or breath, With waxen cheeks, and limbs cold, stiff, and white, And open eyes, whose fixed and glassy light Mocked at the speculation they had owned.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_9800.52The invalid had turned towards the child again, and was staring at her in amazement, with lack-lustre eyes; it seemed as if some unbidden feeling were struggling for utterance from the depths of his moral and physical degradation; his breath came quick, he tried to speak.
Fenn_George_Ma_Mother_Carey_s_21296_33370.52Mark gazed from one countenance to the other, all haggard and troubled, and he was beginning to long to awaken some one when the major stirred slightly, and drawing a long breath rolled the half cigar to and fro between his lips.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_14860.52Sadder grew the look, and some acute pain wrinkled her brow as she threw aside the book, and covered her face with her hands; while a heavy, yet smothered sigh, struggled forth, as if striving to relieve the aching heart.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_43110.52She hardly knew what she said, but the miracle was there, for she heard his breath come again and again, and as she stared into her everlasting night, strange flashes, like light, shot through her brain, her bosom trembled, and her hands stiffened in the spasm of a delirious joy.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_13000.52She stooped and looked for a minute at the gaunt, white face of the half-famished infant pressed against the mother's feverish breast, and an irresistible impulse impelled her to stroke back the rings of black hair that clustered on its sunken temples; then, snatching her music and bundle, she hurried out of the close, untidy room, and, once more upon the grassy common, drew a long, deep breath of pure fresh air.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_18390.52As his foot touched the rag carpet, worn smooth by his light tread, years ago, the breath paused on his lips, and the stern face softened into sadness so deep, that his worst enemy might have pitied him.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_28240.52He waited awhile for an answer; but since it did not come, he bowed his head till he almost touched Krysia's feet, and evident emotion mastered him more and more, for his voice trembled, as if breath were failing his breast, -- "Into your hands I give my happiness and life.
J_kai_M_r_The_Lion_of_Jan_32234_15640.52The convulsive twitching of the muscles of his face betrayed his strong revulsion of feeling, and, lowering his heavy, shaggy eyebrows, he dashed at the sailor a look of deadly rage, while a heavy sigh escaped from his deep chest.
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_14240.52Yet a third round -- a last one -- with quickened breath and heightened colour, and supple curves and feet more nimble, and a summer gown like a silver cloud, now floating in the wake of the pliant form, now clinging tenderly as she swiftly turned.
Green_Anna_Kat_Hand_and_Ring_31681_5710.52She was completely unconscious, and her breath barely lifted the clothes that lay over the slowly laboring breast; but such vitality as there was held its own with scarcely perceptible change, and the doctor thought it might be midnight before the solemn struggle would end.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_2930.52The fair girl made a half step forward, her eyes filling with tears, and one hand was involuntarily raised, as if she would have liked to place it in that of the last speaker; but the three sisters drew themselves up a little more rigidly, and, as if in concert, drew in a long breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_46710.52She fell back upon the Princess's arm and threw out her hands wildly, as if she were fighting for breath, and the lids of her eyes quivered violently and then were quite still, and she uttered a short, unnatural sound that was more like a groan of pain than a cry of happiness.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_16070.52For some time he lay on the shady resting-place which he had chosen, gasping painfully for breath, his frame ever and anon shaken to its centre by sudden spasms, and his lips quivering with an agitation which he vainly endeavoured to suppress.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_65000.52The woman, at first, shrunk from this mute kindness, and, half rising, fixed her great black eyes upon her visitor in sudden and almost fierce astonishment, but she shrunk back from the rosy kindness of that face with a deep breath, and lay motionless again.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_114610.52Dennis stood trembling with his back against the door, and involuntarily raising his arm to defend himself, stared at a man, the only other tenant of the cell, who lay, stretched at his fall length, upon a stone bench, and who paused in his deep breathing as if he were about to wake.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_60370.52Her underlip hung for short breaths; the big drops of her recent anguish still gathered on her brows; her eyes were tearless, lustreless; she looked ancient in youth, and distant by a century, like a tall woman of the vaults, issuing white-ringed, not of our light.
Chambers_Rober_The_Maid_At_Arm_12279_28480.52Quivering from head to heel, now hot, now cold, and strangling with the fierce desire for her whom I was losing more hopelessly every moment, I started aimlessly through the starlight, pacing the stockade like a caged beast, and I thought my swelling heart would choke me if it broke not to ease my breath.
Aguilar_Grace_The_Vale_of_Ced_12725_17340.52Marie knew not the wild entreaty breathing in her words: but the almost severely penetrating gaze which Isabella had fixed upon her, recalled her to herself; a crimson flush mounted to cheek and brow, and, burying her face in the Queen's robe, she continued less wildly -- "Oh, madam, bear with me; I know not what I say.
Dumas_Alexandr_Twenty_Years_Af_1259_67400.51When at last the blade had been entirely withdrawn, a red froth issued from the mouth of the wounded man and a stream of blood spouted afresh from the wound when he at length drew breath; then, fixing his eyes upon Grimaud with a singular expression, the dying man uttered the last death-rattle and expired.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_55640.51Sitting on the side of her cot, from which the gray blanket had been dragged and folded half across her shoulders, where one hand held it, while the other clutched savagely at her throat; with her bare delicate feet beating a tattoo on the white sanded floor, and her thin nostrils dilated in the battle for breath, Iva Le Bougeois moaned in abject terror.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_156650.51In presence of the others Volodyovski was vivacious, full of speech; but now, when he looked on those velvet eyes, sweet and languishing, on the silken lashes, the shade of which fell on the pupils, on the arrowy form, on the bosom lightly moved by the breath, on the bloom of the lips, -- when Volodyovski looked at all this, he simply forgot the tongue in his mouth; and what was worse, he seemed awkward, stupid, and above all diminutive, -- so small as to be ridiculous.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_96660.51-- Constantia turn In thy dark eyes a power like light doth lie Even though the sounds its voice that were 5 Between [thy] lips are laid to sleep: Within thy breath, and on thy hair Like odour, it is [lingering] yet And from thy touch like fire doth leap -- Even while I write, my burning cheeks are wet -- 10 Alas, that the torn heart can bleed but not forget.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_17870.51There was no breath on those lips.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_63560.51Was that a faint breathing?
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_132600.51I am old, and my breath is short.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_121470.51Oh for breath, breath!"
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Knights_of_9473_114020.51"Nothing, but I am short of breath."
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_4670.51She was somewhat out of breath, and flushed.
Scott_Walter_The_Antiquary_7005_40060.51They were panting and out of breath.
Reade_Charles_Hard_Cash_3067_61040.51I'm sure the breath is all out of me, you do tear along so."
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_7830.51Now her breath fanned him.
Meade_L_T_The_Lady_of_the_39705_18260.51he said suddenly under his breath.
Kavanagh_Julia_Rachel_Gray_A_36160_23480.51Your breath seems quite short."
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Life_and_De_14813_25370.51All held their breaths.
Harte_Bret_The_Luck_of_Roa_6373_30720.51N N. gasped for breath.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_80050.51They held their very breaths.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_63920.51At first she could do nothing but gasp for breath.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_26820.51Now, that came back, and seemed to take away her breath.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_11070.51I'm rather thick in my breath.'
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_50540.51Is it anything but the breath of my lips?
Coolidge_Susan_Eyebright_A_St_27223_4900.51All held their breaths.
Auerbach_Berth_Black_Forest_Vi_32517_11550.51Not a breath stirred.
Corelli_Marie_A_Romance_of_Tw_4394_35820.50Her rich dark hair was scattered loosely on the white pillows; her long silky lashes curled softly on the delicately tinted cheeks; her lips, tenderly red, like the colour on budding apple-blossoms in early spring, were slightly parted, showing the glimmer of the small white teeth within; her night-dress was slightly undone, and half displayed and half disguised her neck and daintily rounded bosom, on which the electric jewel she always wore glittered brilliantly as it rose and sank with her regular and quiet breathing.
Weyman_Stanley_Under_the_Red_R_1896_47650.50I whispered, my breath coming quickly.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_24570.50he exclaimed, his breath coming fast.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_82020.50'I resisted -- successfully,' she said with fluttering breath.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_202360.50cried he, pale, and panting for breath.
Stoddard_Eliza_The_Morgesons_12347_42450.50Her breath scarcely stirred her breast.
Steel_Flora_An_Voices_in_the_N_40045_27820.50Grace caught in her breath sharply.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_56550.50Her breath came quickly, her cheeks burned.
Schubin_Ossip_Erlach_Court_35541_14900.50Involuntarily he murmurs below his breath, "Stella!"
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_82420.50He felt the breath from out her parted lips.
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_18210.50He leaned lower and spoke under his breath.
Merriman_Henry_Dross_20243_38520.50My breath was short, and there was clockwork going in my head.
Major_Charles_Dorothy_Vernon_14671_39970.50Again came the sighs, and a few struggling, childish sobs.
MacGrath_Harol_The_Puppet_Crow_3239_37700.50Her breath was like orris, and went to his head like wine.
MacGrath_Harol_Arms_and_the_Wo_17359_29380.50Then his eyes will roll and his breath come in gasps.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_112410.50His breathing was laboured, but there was no further sign of suffering.
Jackson_Helen_Ramona_2802_49530.50she whispered, under her breath, as she turned from the window.
Howells_Willia_The_Lady_of_the_7797_49680.50"Yes," said the girl, with a fluttering breath, "I have thought it out, and I believe him .
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_50480.50The breath came hard through his clenched teeth.
Henty_G_A_G_The_Cornet_of_H_17403_37700.50He bent over Rupert, who ceased breathing.
Green_Anna_Kat_Hand_and_Ring_31681_62430.50"Yes," came like a breath from between Imogene's parted lips.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_118190.50She drew in her breath and tightened her lips.
Eliot_George_Romola_24020_56770.50But now again, the chill breath of that dread stole over her.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_65440.50He looked back and held his breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_28180.50The next breath was drawn with a choking effort.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_19510.50She could feel his breath through her veil when he spoke again.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_43050.50and his warm breath touched her cheek.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_31550.50His breath just fluttered over the sleeper's face.
Coffin_Charles_Winning_His_Way_22913_9840.50Her eyes flashed; she gasped for breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_53490.50Ralph spoke with panting breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_33690.50she cried, faintly, through the breath that came so hard.
Blackmore_R_D_Perlycross_A_Ta_45038_20780.50He kept in the shadow, and spoke as if he were short of breath.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_146110.50She felt his warm breath against her face.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_101940.50Sophy's grasp grew more rigid -- she panted for breath.
Whitney_A_D_Faith_Gartney_s_18896_22880.50Major's big, panting breaths came up, close beside her face.
Weyman_Stanley_The_New_Rector_39215_34070.50The earl caught a quick breath, and his face changed.
Warner_Susan_The_Wide_Wide_18689_97690.50Her breath came short, she hardly breathed at all, she was trembling from head to foot.
Warner_Susan_Queechy_8874_90110.50Fleda sat looking at him and trying to clear her bosom of its thick breathing.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_146730.50At last he gave a long breath; he stooped and kissed her hands.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_51090.50She turned upon him laughing, but also half crying, as he could tell by the flutter of her breath.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_32810.50The quick, panting breath of the boy soon showed that he was asleep.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_80880.50Mrs. Burgoyne was still apparently struggling for breath and composure.
Twain_Mark_Life_on_the_Mis_245_64710.50The animals hide themselves from my breath, and the very ground becomes as hard as flint.'
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_204660.50His countenance was livid, his breathing oppressed, his look fixed and glazed.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_26550.50The old woman drew in her breath, and caught instinctively at her son.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_166140.50They followed one another so closely that the hot breath of those behind was blown on the necks of those in front.
Schubin_Ossip_O_Thou_My_Aus_35454_4570.50I gasped for breath, and threw my arms about her, crying, "Mamma!
Roe_Edward_Pay_Opening_a_Chest_6028_59210.50His grasp on Annie's hand relaxed; without even a sigh he passed away.
Phelps_Elizabe_A_Singular_Life_48443_32830.50The veins stood out on her soft forehead, and her breath came hard.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Seats_of_th_6229_8640.50Then I could feel him stooping over me, and his hot strong breath in my face.
Maartens_Maart_My_Lady_Nobody_49903_64530.50A sobbing, choking noise, as of a man gasping for breath.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_53110.50The body was yet hot with life; but there was neither breath, nor heart beat.
Kingsley_Charl_Westward_Ho_Or_1860_35930.50"So villainous a cut-throat," said Zouch to Raleigh, under his breath.
King_Charles_Cadet_Days_A_St_49320_26310.50He was faint, bleeding at the mouth and ears, speechless, and out of breath.
Hope_Anthony_Simon_Dale_20328_44280.50As she spoke, I felt on my cheek the cold breath of the wind.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_76550.50She gasped for breath, and her words broke forth from her with painful effort.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Life_and_De_14813_60680.50Knife in hand he leaned against the wall to fetch up his breath.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Forest_Love_8934_15250.50Prosper watched him keenly, it was touch-and-go, but never troubled his breath.
Harte_Bret_The_Luck_of_Roa_6373_76990.50Then, as his breath grew feebler, he called impatiently, "Shrive me!
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_9890.50She opened her mouth as if to speak, then shut it with a catch of her breath.
Fothergill_Jes_The_First_Violi_29219_64000.50she asked, and she stretched her arms above her head, as if panting for breath.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_at_Nantuc_14379_2580.50She could not entirely suppress a sigh as she spoke, nor keep the tears from filling her eyes.
Eggleston_Edwa_The_End_of_the_14051_11360.50Julia drew a sharp quick breath, and was just about to become unconscious.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_34750.50Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_154650.50For a moment, he thought the man had been fighting: the rather, as he was much agitated and out of breath.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_144380.50He was not going in the same breath; but he had risen before the girl entered, and she evidently thought he was.
Davis_Richard_Van_Bibber_and_11019_11280.50He had a throbbing feeling in the back of his head, and his breathing was difficult.
Crawford_F_Ma_Corleone_A_Tal_44311_66840.50Orsino said something under his breath, and looked steadily into his brother's eyes.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_106310.50He shuddered as he saw this, and half-closed his eyes with a deep sigh.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Law_and_the_1622_80420.50He kissed my hand once, respectfully -- and dropped it with a heavy sigh.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_22520.50The sound of that sigh fell very sadly on Rosamond's heart.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_32400.50A heavy sigh, which she tried vainly to repress, burst from her lips.
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_70480.50As they closed, a low sigh fluttered feebly from her lips.
Chambers_Rober_The_Maid_At_Arm_12279_7370.50she flashed, then, all in a breath, smiled adorably and shook her head.
Chambers_Rober_The_Maid_At_Arm_12279_57920.50In the deathly silence I heard Redstock's hoarse breathing.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_33860.50I said, and covered his mouth with my hands, and his breath was hot, like fire.
Black_William_In_Silk_Attire_40111_49310.50She pressed his hand and lay back on the cushion with a sigh.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Heir_of_Red_2505_86650.50There was a flush on his face, and almost before he spoke, he leant far out of the window to try to catch a breath of air.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Heir_of_Red_2505_68530.50Guy drew a long breath, and the convulsive grasp of his fingers relaxed.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_193420.50Lionel, his face pale, his breath coming in gasps, turned to Lucy. "
Whyte_Melville_The_Interpreter_40660_3770.50The question alone takes away my breath, and I feel the drops break out on my lips and forehead.
Warren_Samuel_Ten_Thousand_a_31004_15060.50you take my breath away," gasped Huckaback, his eyes fixed intently on his friend's face.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_37220.50The grasp of the fingers relaxed, the labored breath came more gently, and in a few more minutes she slept.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_47110.50Her lids fluttered; she moved in her chair, a deep sigh lifted her breast.
Wallace_Lew_Ben_Hur_a_tale_2145_96270.50He looked away -- into the night, up to the stars; then his eyes met hers, and lingered there; and her breath was on his lips, so near was she.
Voynich_E_L_The_Gadfly_3431_14570.50He sat down by the table, panting heavily for breath, and rested his forehead on both hands.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_84430.50She laid her hand on her breast and drew in her breath, as if to lift a heavy weight.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_45080.50She drew a deep breath tremulous with pleasure and reluctantly opened her eyes.
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_84940.50Mellen came forward, his white lips parted, his breath rising with pain.
Stanton_Henry_Sketches_of_Ref_39104_23860.50All was silence, save the quivering half-stifled breath of the struggling spirit.
Spielhagen_Fri_Hammer_and_Anvi_34868_86480.50I feel her warm breath playing around my cheeks and in my hair, and her kiss upon my brow, and I said to myself: "All must come right yet!
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_148020.50He opened his lips, unable to catch breath, rolled his eyes, and said or rather groaned: "How?"
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_99030.50Here she stopped to get breath in her sick breast, and then raised his hand to her lips, -- "Marcus?"
Schubin_Ossip_Erlach_Court_35541_39900.50"For a moment she sat perfectly quiet: she had grown very pale, and her breath came quick.
Runkle_Bertha_The_Helmet_of_N_14219_53540.50Ah -- " The breath failed him utterly, but his eyes, bloodshot and bulging, rolled toward me.
Robins_Elizabe_The_Open_Questi_37827_74190.50Val held her breath, and the nails of her clinched hands dug into her palms.
Reid_Mayne_The_Death_Shot_23140_75630.50Soon after he feels a hot breath strike against his brow, with something still warmer touching his cheek.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_61590.50Then he turned again and walked on once more toward the landing, his breath coming thick and hot in his throat.
Page_Thomas_Ne_Red_Rock_A_Chro_49648_22230.50Rupert drew nearer to him, his cheeks flushed and his breath coming quickly.
Otis_James_Jack_the_Hunchb_41708_22530.50She nodded her head, and Jack could not but wonder if she thought her breath too valuable to be wasted in words.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_82140.50She was so much startled that she put her hand to her side to relieve the sudden panting of her breath.
Merriman_Henry_The_Grey_Lady_6517_37030.50Then a strange feeling of being drawn upward came to all, and strong men gasped for breath.
Marryat_Freder_The_Privateersm_21576_3200.50At last, being head downwards, I dived deeper, although I was bursting from so long holding my breath under water.
M_hlbach_L_L_Andreas_Hofer_3666_46670.50But then all at once she sprang to her feet, brushed the tears from her eyes, and drew a deep breath.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_77270.50She is motionless, rigid; it is but with a strain of my own sense that I know that the breath still breathes, and the heart still beats.
Kipling_Rudyar_Kim_2226_22220.50Kim stared with all his eyes, his breath coming short and sharp between his teeth.
Kingsley_Charl_Westward_Ho_Or_1860_65320.50And both brothers held their breaths, while Amyas felt whether his sword was loose in the sheath.
Kingsley_Charl_Alton_Locke_Ta_8374_35100.50As it was, I felt that every step forward, every breath of fresh air, gave me new life.
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_54010.50Filled with this new and tangible dread she buried herself deeper in the hay and held her breath.
Harris_Joel_Ch_On_the_Plantati_50701_20740.50I looked at Pruitt, and he was standing up, watching the otter, and whistling a little jig under his breath.
Harben_Will_N_Westerfelt_17178_14980.50As they started to raise him, Westerfelt opened his eyes, took a long breath, and sat up.
Harben_Will_N_Northern_Georgi_50896_16730.50He spat into the fire, wiped his mouth with an unsteady hand, and caught his breath.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_8110.50"I'll say it with my dying breath," returned Madelon, and she caught her breath, as if it were indeed her last, as she spoke.
Ford_Paul_Leic_Janice_Meredith_5719_75980.50"But I have n't," denied the girl, her heart beating wildly and her breath coming quickly.
Finley_Martha_Holidays_at_Ros_14280_9590.50He took her in his arms again, and she nestled close to him, and laid her head down on his breast with a sigh of satisfaction.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_8930.50But I do not love him -- I could, I might wish, I...." She clenched her fists, and gnashed her white teeth, and went on with panting breath: "Where is he?
Du_Chaillu_Pau_Lost_in_the_Jun_36324_10300.50Then the blood poured from its mouth, and stained the ground on which it lay gasping for breath, which it could not get.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_24580.50He was standing by the fireplace, his face buried in his hands, and she could tell by the catch of his breath that he was weeping.
Dodge_Mary_Map_Hans_Brinker_O_764_29670.50hissed Carl under his breath as he began busily to examine his skate straps.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_196830.50He drew his hand across his face, and with a half-suppressed sigh looked up from the fire.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_14780.50The turnkey conducted him -- trembling from head to foot, and constantly crying under his breath, What was he to do!
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_196020.50He drew his hand across his face, and with a half-suppressed sigh looked up from the fire.
De_Mille_James_The_Dodge_Club_27086_75260.50A faint sigh, a gasp, and the young man feebly opened his eyes.
Dante_Alighieri_The_vision_of_h_8789_15780.50Now though the cold had from my face dislodg'd Each feeling, as 't were callous, yet me seem'd Some breath of wind I felt.
Dahn_Felix_Felicitas_A_Ta_32222_24540.50The full lips were half opened; he inhaled the sweet breath of her mouth.
Corelli_Marie_Thelma_3823_122680.50A spasm of pain here interrupted her -- she struggled violently for breath -- and Ulrika supported her.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pathfinder_1880_68020.50His breath was stopped with the lie on his lips, and the spirit might be said to have passed away in the very ardor of wickedness."
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_46610.50She raised her head with a heavy sigh, and opened her eyes once more on the mean and miserable little room.
Carleton_Will_City_Ballads_36954_4520.50How, each o'er-hurried breath I drew, My girl-heart turned and clung to you!
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_56470.50His face was flushed, his breath came quick, and his manner betrayed extreme agitation.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_6260.50Hugh Ritson's pale face flushed a little, and he drew his breath hard.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_22030.50The feeling which stirred her flushed her childish cheek and made her breath come and go faster.
Bolton_Sarah_K_Lives_of_Girls_12081_14380.50He seemed asleep; but something in the tired white face caused me to listen at his lips for a breath.
Blackmore_R_D_Perlycross_A_Ta_45038_85520.50But her white lips, quick breath, and quivering eyelids, were not altogether consistent with that.
Atherton_Gertr_Senator_North_6091_14650.50Betty waited, clinching her hands in her muff, her breath coming shorter.
Alger_Horatio_Paul_Prescott_s_293_35500.50"Well," said the pedler, drawing a long breath, "that's cool, -- denyin' his own flesh and blood.
Verne_Jules_The_Mysterious_1268_11570.50Pencroft knelt in his turn beside the engineer, he also heard a throbbing, and even felt a slight breath on his cheek.
Turnbull_Lawre_A_Golden_Book_o_10455_34930.50ejaculated one under his breath, who had been idly leaning on the balustrade, as he crossed himself and looked furtively around to note whether he had been overheard.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Gentleman_f_9659_20970.50She drew in her breath with a sharp sigh, and covering her face with her hands, sank back upon the bench.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_282770.50They shuddered twice or thrice, their limbs stiffened, a deep sigh struggled from their violet-colored lips.
Stephens_Rober_An_Enemy_to_the_9965_10370.50Her head was moving with the violent coming and going of her breath, and her shoulders were drawn up in an attitude of the greatest fright.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_1270.50Directly, Mary saw two great tears press through the quivering lashes, followed by a faint gasping for breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_71110.50His breath came slowly and his restless eyes sought the door with a species of vague dread in their glance.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_3000.50Up to that moment the young man had lain frozen lifeless, without a beat of the pulse or a flutter of the breath.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_96310.50But he lay still, and, with a cry, she flung herself on her knees beside him, feeling his heart, listening to his breathing, searching for the injury.
Sedgwick_Anne_The_Confounding_41917_23200.50But Camelia took a long breath of recovery; sighed with it, and felt the blood come back gratefully to her heart.
Scott_Walter_The_Betrothed_6490_31600.50A sharper and louder blast was then sent forth, but sunk so suddenly, that it seemed the breath of him who sounded the instrument had failed in the effort.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_48890.50"And with the extinction of that breath, Kirkpatrick," cried Wallace, looking serenely from the head to him, "let your fell revenge perish also.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_9450.50"De Tournay's hair was brown, and mine, you see, is almost a dead black -- fever did that," he added under his breath.
Nye_Bill_A_Guest_at_the_31884_15280.50Their hot breath scorched the back of her neck and swayed the red-flannel pompon on her bonnet.
McCutcheon_Geo_Graustark_5142_44820.50In the dim corridor stood the two men, watching him with bated breath and guilty, quaking nerves.
Maartens_Maart_My_Lady_Nobody_49903_64080.50Gasping for breath, the woman ran along a dim corridor, and then stopped in the dark of an unused room.
Ludlow_James_M_The_Captain_of_40519_7410.50As he let out these words one by one and breath by breath, Milosch worked the knife into such a hold that he could press it into the back of his antagonist.
Kingston_Willi_True_Blue_21481_24670.50He felt the breath almost pressed out of his body with the weight of water rushing above him; and then he fancied that the vessel herself was going down and would never rise again.
Kingsley_Charl_Hypatia_or_Ne_6308_88150.50And his breath failed him, his throat was parched, his face burned as with the simoom wind, his legs were trembling under him.
Keckley_Elizab_Behind_the_Scen_24968_8010.50His mother sat by his bedside a long while, holding his feverish hand in her own, and watching his labored breathing.
Jackson_Helen_Hetty_s_Strange_9311_29200.50A familiar fragrance arrested him; leaning on the paling he looked over into the garden, started, and said, under his breath: "How strange!
Hornung_E_W_The_Amateur_Cra_706_17450.50Then, a tottering step, a hard, short, shallow breathing, and Ewbank's voice in horror -- "'My God!
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_54710.50Unless -- unless -- unless -- What made Elizabeth Ryan clench her drenched cold fingers and draw her breath so hard?
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_38450.50For a moment there was a wavering, and 'Lena held her breath to catch the answer, which came at last, while the eyes shone brighter than ever -- "Willing?
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Lena_Rivers_12835_34890.50With a long-drawn sigh her eyes unclosed, and looking earnestly in 'Lena's face, she said, "Was it a dream, 'Lena?
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_116340.50Every breath that I draw of this new gift of life shall be full of gratitude to you and" -- she looked timidly upwards -- "to God.
Harte_Bret_The_Three_Partn_2560_31300.50But they clouded again, although she didn't cry, and her breath came and went with the action of a sob, and her hands still remained against her flushed face.
Harben_Will_N_Westerfelt_17178_1720.50Mrs. Dawson caught her breath suddenly, so sharp was her own pain, but she still strove to console her daughter.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_8220.50Next moment the eyes were opened, and with pain and agony Beatrice drew a first breath of returning life.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_60630.50He thought that the darkness was closing in again upon him, that it pressed him from above, from right and left, that it crowded back his breath and crushed his body.
Glasgow_Ellen_The_Voice_of_th_16505_36580.50She held the sheaf of goldenrod to her bosom and above it her eyes shone; her breath came quickly between her parted lips.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_33740.50She paused, out of breath, her eyes glittering with tears of indignation, and impatient for an answer, that she might knock it to pieces.
Gaskell_Elizab_Cousin_Phillis_4268_12870.50But Rover's ears were sharper than my breathing was noiseless: he heard me, and sprang out from under Phillis's restraining hand.
Fenn_George_Ma_Yussuf_the_Guid_21378_38320.50Now and then they held their breath as a stronger agitation came, and once this ended with what seemed to be a throb or a sound as if the earth had parted and then closed up again.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_36580.50The Mexican had risen, and softly approaching the motionless form, knelt on the ground beside him, and listened to his breathing.
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Campers_Out_42504_19200.50One lightning-like bound, and his sharp teeth would have closed in the throat of the buck, and there they would have stuck until he gasped his last breath.
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_53410.50She gently lays him back again, and before returning him the instrument he has dropped, revives the fire in it with her own breath; then says to him, coaxingly: 'Sure, sure, sure!
Dickens_Charle_Bleak_House_1023_130680.50At this hour and by this light it changes into threatening hands raised up and menacing the handsome face with every breath that stirs.
Darwin_Charles_The_Expression_1227_31220.50When a person is much ashamed or very shy, and blushes intensely, his heart beats rapidly and his breathing is disturbed.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_59760.50He sank down into a deep chair facing the window, and drew breath, as he sought Veronica's eyes.
Crawford_F_Ma_Doctor_Claudius_15223_44510.50And he came and touched them all over with the clamminess of his deathly hand, and breathed upon them the thick, cold breath of his damp old soul.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_66460.50Her breath came quickly in the anticipation of an emotion greater even than what she had felt already, but her eyes wandered in curiosity from one object to another.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_18220.50She heard his breath and she saw the uncertain shadow of his hand, moving on the black and white squares of the pavement.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_35770.50quoted the Abbe with a strange smile, while his breath came and went quickly, and his face grew paler as he spoke.
Corelli_Marie_A_Romance_of_Tw_4394_23380.50Every talent you have, every breath you draw, every drop of blood flowing in your veins, is lent to you only; you must pay it all back.
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_40510.50His eye, which was contracted with inward anguish, gleamed on the persons of those whose breath was his fame; and the latter emotion for an instant predominated.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_119400.50In a few minutes Noel Vanstone was able to raise himself in the chair without assistance; his color changed again for the better, and his breath came and went more freely.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_92450.50The next instant he started; his breath quickened; he leaned, trembling and flushing, against the unfinished wall at his side.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_24300.50Roma's bosom was swelling under her heavy breathing, her heart was beating violently and her head was dizzy.
Barr_Robert_In_the_Midst_of_9263_46360.50She seemed unable to move or respond, and stood there, with wide eyes and suspended breath, gazing into the darkness.
Alcott_Louisa_Work_A_Story_o_4770_46190.50The answer came so quick that it nearly took the old gentleman's breath away, and he looked at his niece with his mouth open after an involuntary, "Sho!"
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_22040.50Partly stunned, and far more terrified, he had been in a sort of swoon, without breath to cry, till recalled to himself by feeling his mother's arms around him.
Whitney_A_D_Faith_Gartney_s_18896_7600.50One young girl -- she with the short curly hair who hadn't seen the country for six years and more -- caught her breath, convulsively, at the word.
Ward_Humphry_Helbeck_of_Bann_9441_19230.50The girl hesitated, caught her breath -- then was seized with the strangest, most abject desire to propitiate this grim woman with the passionate look.
Townsend_Georg_The_Entailed_Ha_19146_7220.50He held her there a long while, and held her close, and by little fits renewed his embrace, but she felt that his breath was feverish and his arms trembled.
Taylor_Bayard_The_Story_of_Ke_8680_40590.50Her face grew red and her eyes flashed; she shook her fist and swore under her breath, from time to time, while he spoke.
Taylor_Bayard_The_Story_of_Ke_8680_37680.50Bending down his head, he snorted warmly into Gilbert's pale face, and then swelled his sides with a deep breath of satisfaction.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_1490.50Has the spirit of prophecy touched your young life also, that you say these things with a shortened breath and white cheek, like one terrified or inspired?"
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_171410.50The musket-barrels burned the hands of the soldiers; breath failed them; the voices of the commanders died in their throats from shouting.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_7498_37930.50"I don't believe it is as Mrs. Higby said," she thought, drawing a long breath, a faint smile coming to her face as she went gently in.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_5632_34320.50Mrs. Chatterton clutched the window casing in her extremity, not feeling the soft springy air as she gasped for breath.
Schubin_Ossip_Erlach_Court_35541_29930.50In the middle of it she stops short, lays her red hand, covered to the knuckles with a knitted wristlet, upon her heart, and sighs.
Reade_Charles_Hard_Cash_3067_73390.50And I don't think he was ever quite insensible, but he did not know what was going on, for presently he opened his eyes wide, and stared at us so, and then closed them with, oh such a sigh; it swelled my heart almost to bursting.
MacDonald_Geor_Malcolm_7127_13180.50The old man yielded, grasping Malcolm's arm, and quickening his pace, though his breath came hard, as through the gathering folds of asthma.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_87700.50Ere another breath passed his lips, a ghastly and trunkless face was raised on high -- Walter de Montreal was no more!
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_83370.50"And from that moment the fever left her; the breathing became soft, the pulse steady, and the colour stole gradually back to her cheek.
La_Motte_Fouqu_Undine_2825_12450.50He felt, in his failing breath, that this must indeed be; but covering his eyes with his hands, he cried: "Do not in my death-hour, do not make me mad with terror.
Kingsley_Flore_Stephen_A_Sold_41655_17930.50Then stooping, while the lad held his breath with awe, he laid his hand lightly, tenderly, upon the sightless eyes of Anat.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_8540.50said Sylvia, drawing a long breath, after the effort of realizing it all; her cheeks had flushed up, and her eyes had glittered during the progress of the tale.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Kith_an_14488_27070.50He put his hand under her chin, and lifted her face, so that he could look down into her eyes; and she drew a long breath of relief as she perceived that he was smiling at her.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Black_Tor_21298_12380.50Then there was a panting noise, which came up, as it were, out of the darkness, and he was clutched tightly, hot breath came upon his cheek, and a hoarse voice yelled in his ear, -- "Got him!
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_19070.50Now and then, as she turned a leaf, she met his luminous eyes fastened upon her; but after a time the quick breathing attracted her attention, and, looking down, she saw that he, too, was sleeping.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_61050.50He watched the faint quiver of her blue-veined lids, and heard the shuddering sigh that assured him consciousness was returning.
Eastwood_Franc_Geoffrey_the_Lo_48260_18440.50They did perceive his coming; they saw his approaches in the fast glazing eye, in the death-damp on the forehead; they heard him in the gasping breath.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_76990.50Here he pauses, and Cecilia's breath comes quickly; involuntarily her fingers close round his; a question she hardly dares to ask trembles on her lips.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Firm_of_Gir_13152_79960.50Their quivering hands and gasping breath betrayed their exhaustion, yet they glanced around them nervously, as though the least sound would send them off once more upon their wild career.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_96440.50I hoped that some of them might be still lingering among the ruins, and was searching for them when I heard -- ' he drew a long breath, and wiped his forehead with his sleeve -- 'his voice.'
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_92830.50When her eyes flashed angrily, and her ripe lips slightly parted, to give her rapid breathing vent, who could resist it?
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_72210.50As he looked at Carton with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing, Carton -- his hand again in his breast -- looked steadily at him.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Ralstons_49954_80460.50Routh did all that his science could do, trying in turn every known means of breaking the death sleep, trying to hem in the life before it was quite gone out, that the very least breath of it might be imprisoned in the body.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_44880.50Her eyes shone softly, the colour mounted to her pale cheeks, and she breathed one happy sigh of relief and gladness.
Crawford_F_Ma_Mr_Isaacs_A_T_13340_6780.50And while I looked, the breath of her body became condensed, as it were, and took shape and form and colour, so that the image of herself floated up between her body and my watching spirit.
Corelli_Marie_A_Romance_of_Tw_4394_5150.50At this word I start and gasp for breath; I would shriek, but cannot, for a heavy hand seems to close my mouth, and an immense weight presses me down.
Cooper_James_F_The_Red_Rover_11409_43670.50If there be, let him lift a hand, a finger, a hair: Let him speak, look me in the eye, or dare to show that life is in him, by sign, breath, or motion!"
Burnett_France_Vagabondia_25727_48190.50She could think of nothing but Dolly, -- Dolly, white and worn and altered, lying upon her couch, her eyes closed, her breath fluttering faintly.
Blackmore_R_D_Erema_Or_My_F_7112_1980.50Well as I had known it long, a catching of the breath and hollow, helpless pain came through me, to meet in dry words thus the dread which might have been but a hovering dream.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_20340.50He heard her breathing and felt her breath, could just make out the pale face as he gently pushed her to the threshold, then over it, and closed the door behind them.
Weyman_Stanley_The_New_Rector_39215_28600.50He read it through now at his leisure, without interruption, once, twice, thrice, and with a long breath laid it down again, and sat gazing, with knitted brows, into the shadow beyond the lamp's influence.
Steel_Flora_An_Voices_in_the_N_40045_76640.50-- just drops of pink dew hanging from a fine gold chain -- -- ' Her hard blue eyes grew covetous; she drew in her breath.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_11560.50The beating of his heart with unusual throb was evident under his scarlet tunic; his breathing grew short, and the expressions that fell from his lips were broken.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_Told_in_the_Hil_36246_16120.50slipping from out their damp coffins and russet winding-sheets with dauntless heads erect, and eager lips open to the breath of promise.
Porter_Jane_Thaddeus_of_War_6566_16010.50Emerged from the water, Thaddeus stood to regain his breath; and leaning on the shoulder of Butzou, he pointed to his burning palace with a smile of agony.
Melville_Herma_White_Jacket_O_10712_52720.50His eyes were closed, forming two dark-blue pits in his face; his breath was coming and going with a slow, long-drawn, mechanical precision.
MacDonald_Geor_Phantastes_A_F_325_18130.50Here I sat for hours, I suppose; till, returning somewhat to myself, I saw that the red light had paled away, and felt a cool gentle breath gliding over my forehead.
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_42800.50Again she directed her gaze, with a gloomy expression, toward the heavens, and with a violently heaving bosom, with feverishly flitting breath, she began the lament of Sappho.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_72490.50A heavy sigh escaped from the lips of the queen, and, throwing her arms around the dauphin with a convulsive motion, she murmured: "My son, oh, my dear son!
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_14420.50He imagined himself in a dream, and suppressed his breath lest he should wake too soon; the senses, to which he had never yielded as yet, beat in his burning pulse, and confused his dizzy and reeling sight.
Kennan_George_Tent_Life_in_Si_12328_35160.50In an instant eyes and nostrils were completely plastered up with snow, and we gasped for breath as if the stream of a fire-engine had been turned suddenly in our faces.
Gl_mer_Claire_A_Noble_Name_o_36550_15240.50As often as he leaned forward she felt, with a thrill, his breath upon her neck, and sometimes he whispered, so low as to be almost inaudible, a word or two in jest in which there seemed a tone of suppressed passion.
Crawford_F_Ma_Marietta_A_Mai_16100_23290.50The glass grew and swelled, lengthened and contracted with his breath and under his touch, and the men, furtively watching him, were amazed to see how much he could do while the piece was still on the blow-pipe.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_81910.50Not a muscle moved, not a feature was distorted, his breath was regular and slow, for his grief had taken hold upon his soul, and his body was unconscious of time, as though it were already dead.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_31560.50Before the next breath had risen to his lips, Allan suddenly sprang up on his knees -- sprang up, as if the call of a trumpet had rung on his ear, awake in an instant.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_22370.50Dan's eyes flashed; the Deemster tittered audibly; the Bishop looked up at his son from under the rims of his spectacles and drew a long breath.
Burnett_France_A_Fair_Barbaria_9487_8600.50Perhaps the sight of the various articles contained in two of the five trunks had inspired these doubts in the dear old lady's breast: it is certain, at least, that, as she took the best cap up, a faint sigh fluttered upon her lips.
Bennett_John_Master_Skylark_11574_7180.50Carew could hear the faint breath murmuring through the boy's lips as he prayed, and while he stared at the little white figure his mouth twitched in a queer way.
Ballantyne_R_Shifting_Winds_21702_33180.50Here he sat down for a few seconds to recover breath on one of the grey boulder stones with which the whole country was covered, and while wiping the perspiration from his brow his thoughts were busy.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_72690.50He knelt there, restraining his breath lest it should wake her, wrestling piteously with himself, crying for pardon, for faith, feeling himself utterly unworthy to touch even the dear hand that lay so near him.
Tomlinson_Ever_The_Boys_of_Old_34864_36850.50These possibilities were sufficiently strong to increase Little Peter's excitement, and when they turned into the lane which led up to the house his heart was beating rapidly and his breathing was hard and fast.
Pope_Alexander_The_Poetical_Wo_9413_16700.5030 See on these ruby lips the trembling breath, These cheeks, now fading at the blast of death; Cold is that breast which warm'd the world before, And those love-darting eyes must roll no more.
Marryat_Freder_The_Phantom_Shi_12954_5720.50Gradually he became more composed: and out of breath with the rapidity of his motion, he sat down upon a bank, and there he long remained, with his eyes riveted upon the dreaded paper, which he held with both his hands upon his knees.
Kennedy_John_P_Horse_Shoe_Robi_33478_97450.50"I have you there," said Robinson, as at length, with a flushed cheek, quick breath, and blood-shot eye, he rose from the earth and shook the dragoon from him, who fell backwards on his knee.
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_63000.50No gem ever flashed from a rosy ray to a white one more rapidly than changed the young wife's counten- ance whilst this word came from her in a long-drawn breath.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_50010.50At a sudden bend in the narrow, irregular road when she held her breath and leaned forward to see the old house where she was born and reared, a sharp cry of pain escaped her.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_20490.50He gasped, he gurgled, his face grew purple in his attempts to get his breath, while with his long left arm extended and his right thrown across, he tried to screen himself from the attack of his wiry antagonist.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_91230.50He gasped for breath as he sat down in the parlor at North Shingles, and that ominous bluish pallor which always overspread his face in moments of agitation now made its warning appearance again.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_4280.50Now, when I have been two whole days within sight of the roof that covers her, holding down my heart, and fasting with a soul-fast -- the very mention of her name, even by a stranger, sends the breath in quick gushes to my lips, and I tremble like a little child."
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_58670.50It was not many minutes after Irene had left the room, ere, with a long sigh, Adrian opened his eyes -- an altered and another man; the fever was gone, the reviving pulse beat low indeed, but calm.
Haggard_H_Rid_Beatrice_3096_41770.50Face to face, and the faint light fell upon her tender loveliness and died in her deep eyes, and the faint breeze fragrant with the breath of pines gently stirred her hair.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_39400.50"But one," murmured the girl; she passed her hand across her brow, and a faint smile of happy pride dwelt on her lips as she went on: "I shall love you as long as breath animates this crushed and wretched heart."
Crawford_F_Ma_Greifenstein_6446_74320.50With womanly tenderness, she took her handkerchief, and pressed the cool linen to his wet brow, while she could see his broad chest heaving and hear the dull, short sound of his breath between his grinding teeth.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_76880.50Theos, looking, held his breath in wonder and fear, while Sah-luma with a groan turned himself resolutely away, and, pressing his forehead against the great column where he stood, hid his eyes in his clasped hands.
Corelli_Marie_A_Romance_of_Tw_4394_27530.50Perhaps twenty or thirty seconds might have elapsed, when a warm tinge of colour came back to the apparently dead face -- the brows twitched -- the lips quivered and parted in a heavy sigh.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_69450.50I can only -- He struggled fiercely for breath, but suddenly collapsed upon the table, and his head fell forward upon the paper; one cheek lying in the wet ink of his last written words, the other, cold and stark, turned to the window.
Ouida_Bimbi_Stories_5834_8150.50No one ever has fed it with fuel but me since I grew big enough, and it loves me, -- it does indeed; it said so last night; and it said that it had been happier with us than if it were in any palace -- " And then his breath failed him, and, as he lifted his little, eager, pale face to the young king's, great tears were falling down his cheeks.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_53780.50The Venus, blinded with blood, had her hold at last; and never but once in a long life of battles had she let go; Rasper, his breath coming in rattles, had him horribly by the loins; while a dozen other devils with red eyes and wrinkled nostrils clung still.
Morris_Clara_A_Pasteboard_Cr_35055_25490.50Really they were very beautiful, and among those selected strands intended for the throat it was as if color, having life and breath, a rosy pink, had gently breathed across their milky lustre, faintly flushing the swelling round of each great pearl.
Mac_Jean_The_History_of_6970_6310.50You cough and cough till you are torn to pieces, till you grow scarlet, or even blue in the face; till you lose your breath; till your body trembles; till your eyes start out of their sockets.
Field_Eugene_The_Holy_Cross_21807_4650.50But the Death-Angel chilled her with his breath, and overcame her, and prevailed against her; and he reached into the midst of them and took Theodoric in his arms and folded him upon his breast, and Theodoric fell asleep there, and his head dropped upon the Death-Angel's shoulder.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_102430.50Bending a quick scrutinising glance upon her, he saw that her eyes were lowered, and that the violets nestling near her bosom moved restlessly with her quickened breath, and he judged these little signs of agitation as the favourable hints of a weakening and hesitating will.
Cooper_James_F_The_Pilot_A_Ta_7974_15580.50Drawing a long, quivering breath, she fell back on the couch, and her eyes again lighted with their playful expression, as she hummed a low rapid air, with a voice in which even the suppressed tones were liquid melody.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_66980.50Fainter and still fainter grew his breath -- but he felt near his heart for a little crumpled knot of filmy lace which he always carried -- a delicate trifle which had fallen from one of Sylvie's pretty evening gowns once, when he had caught her in his arms and sworn his passion.
Kingsley_Charl_Hypatia_or_Ne_6308_78380.50There she lay, hour after hour, as her eye gradually kindled, her bosom heaved, her breath came fast: but there was no more sign of life in those straight still limbs, and listless feet and hands, than in Pygmalion's ivory bride, before she bloomed into human flesh and blood.
Holmes_Oliver_The_Poetical_Wo_7400_4240.50with their life-blood the young grass is wet Faint is the feeble breath, Murmuring low in death, "Tell to our sons how their fathers have died;" Nerveless the iron hand, Raised for its native land, Lies by the weapon that gleams at its side.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Girlhoo_9963_33270.50Two of them, pitted against each other, and both young, though there must have been several years' difference in their ages, particularly attracted Travilla's attention; and glancing at his friend, he saw that it was the same with him, -- that his eyes were fixed upon the face of the younger of the two, with an expression of keen distress, while he trembled with emotion, and almost gasped for breath, as he leaned toward him, and whispered, "It is he -- my son."
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_40790.50They turned her body gently so that the clear water ran from her parted lips, and laying her down again, they took her arms and drew them over her head, stretched them out, and brought them down to her sides, again and again, so as to make her breathe, and the breath was drawn in and breathed out again with a delicate foam that clung to her lips.
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_81740.50And ever as the winds swept howling along the street, they bore sharp streams of burning dust, and such sickening and poisonous vapors, as took away, for the instant, breath and consciousness, followed by a rapid revulsion of the arrested blood, and a tingling sensation of agony trembling through every nerve and fibre of the frame.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_55400.50Cause and effect were a great puzzle to him, but that swoon was the only thing that brought home to him that he had been guilty of something enormous, and when she owned that his danger had been the occasion, he stood and looked; then, standing bolt upright, with clasped hands, and rosy feet pressed close together, he said, with a long breath, 'I'll never get on Bamfylde again till I'm a big boy.'
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_33340.50Upon her young cheeks the tears were already dried, a faint but happy smile played round her lips -- childlike, indeed, she was sensible only of the joy of the present hour: she was reconciled to Glaucus: he had forgiven her -- she was beside him -- he played caressingly with her silken hair -- his breath fanned her cheek -- Ione, the cruel Ione, was not by -- none other demanded, divided, his care.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_4190.50The animal grew strong within her at the sight; she drew a long breath, and reaching forth her bony hand, clutched them like a bird of prey; her thin lips quivered and worked with a sort of ferocious joy, as she devoured the little morsel, then, as if ashamed of her voracity, she lifted her glowing eyes to her husband, and cast the fragment of food still between her fingers back upon the platter.
Scott_Walter_The_Monastery_6406_15130.50"Ay," said he, gazing on the pallid corpse, from which the spirit had parted so placidly as to leave a smile upon the thin blue lips, which had been so long wasted by decay that they had parted with the last breath of animation without the slightest convulsive tremor -- "Ay," said Father Eustace, "there lies the faded tree, and, as it fell, so it lies -- awful thought for me, should my neglect have left it to descend in an evil direction!"
M_hlbach_L_L_The_Daughter_of_2132_42620.48Her eyes raised to the heavens, her features lighted up with a rosy glow by the red flames, her half-raised right arm resting upon an urn, while her left arm was stretched upward toward heaven, she thus resembled an inspired priestess, just receiving a message from on high, listening with ecstasy, with suppressed breath and parted lips, to the voice of the Deity, and forgetting the world in a blissful intoxication, she seemed about to take her flight to the empyrean!
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_83150.48As he sat on my sofa, with his long knees drawn up under his coffee-cup, his hat and gloves upon the ground close to him, his spoon going softly round and round, his shadowless red eyes, which looked as if they had scorched their lashes off, turned towards me without looking at me, the disagreeable dints I have formerly described in his nostrils coming and going with his breath, and a snaky undulation pervading his frame from his chin to his boots, I decided in my own mind that I disliked him intensely.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_8080.48There was a murmur of discontent, and then one long sigh of patient endurance, and then the Bishop lifted his hands, and down on their knees on the quay the people with famished faces fell around the tall, drooping figure of the man of God, and from parched throats, and hearts wellnigh as dry, sent up a great cry to heaven to grant them succor lest they should die.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_10060.48As he undid the clasps a faint odor like that of long dead rose-leaves came like a breath on the air, ... he opened it, and saw that its pages consisted of twelve moderately thick sheets of ivory, which were covered all over with curious small characters finely engraved thereon by some evidently sharp and well-pointed instrument.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_208760.48Then her head was thrown a little way back, her knees bent insensibly, her rosy lips were half opened, as if to give a passage to her heated breath, for her bosom heaved violently, as thought youth and life had accelerated the pulsations of her heart, and made her blood boil in her veins.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_84940.48Helen's delicate fingers, then, failed even to shake the bars; and at last, thrusting her arms through, she clasped her hands on the other side, and pressed her fevered brow to one of the openings that the soft night air might breathe upon it, and there she remained, alternately praying for help and listening to the Rajah's heavy, stertorous breath.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_78960.48Pausing in the swift torrent of her words, her white breast heaved violently with the rise and fall of her panting breath, -- her dark, brilliant eyes dilated, while the symbolic Jewel she wore, and the crown of serpents' heads in her streaming hair, seemed to glitter about her like so many points of lightning.
Ballantyne_R_Ungava_21707_11760.48The expanded eyes, indeed, spoke volumes; and the parted lips, on which played a fitful, exulting smile, the heightened colour, and thick-coming breath, told eloquently of her anticipated delight in these new regions, which seemed so utterly different from the shores of the bay: but her tongue was mute.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_4000.48Those people never dreamed that the quiet little creature standing before them was possessed of a goal so delicate in its organization, so finely strung, that every breath of contempt that swept across it created a shrill discord, a painful confusion; they only looked with the careless disapproval, which would have been all very well with ordinary children, at the straight, black, dishevelled hair, the sunken cheeks, the wizened, sharp features of the pale face, the deep dark eyes, with their shy, uncertain glances, the lips tightly closed in embarrassment, and last, the emaciated figure in its faded short dress, and the long, narrow feet and hands.
Kingsley_Charl_Westward_Ho_Or_1860_98070.48The death of a whole old life, the birth of a whole new life, was struggling in that beautiful face, choking in that magnificent throat, as she threw back her small head, and drew in her breath, and dashed her locks back from her temples, as if seeking for fresh air.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_91270.48As soon as she was alone she read the patriarch's epistle; at first superficially, then more carefully, and at last in deep attention and growing interest, stirred by it to strange thoughts, till at length her eyes flashed and her breath came fast, as though this paper referred to herself, and could seal her fate for life.
Bullen_Frank_T_The_Cruise_of_t_1356_27420.48One looked at the other inquiringly, but the repetition of that long expiration satisfied us all that it was the placid breathing of the whale we sought somewhere close at hand, The light grew rapidly better, and we strained our eyes in every direction to discover the whereabouts of our friend, but, for some minutes without result.
Alcott_Louisa_Jo_s_Boys_3499_1730.48A pretty colour came into Daisy's cheek, and the folds of muslin on her breast rose and fell with a quick breath; but she answered placidly: 'Uncle Laurie says he has real talent, and after the training he will get abroad he can command a good living here, though he may never be famous.'
Weyman_Stanley_Under_the_Red_R_1896_1350.48The curls clung to his forehead; his breath came and went in gasps; I heard the men behind me and one or two of them drop an oath; and then I slipped -- slipped, and was down in a moment on my right side, my elbow striking the pavement so sharply that the arm grew numb to the wrist.
Phelps_Elizabe_The_Supply_at_S_34256_990.48Already wet through and through his thin coats and worn flannels, weak from the exposure, the watching, and the scene of death, every breath a sword athwart his inflamed lungs, with fire in his brain, and ice at his heart, he staggered against the blizzard.
Craik_Dinah_Ma_Olive_A_Novel_22121_84640.48Through the yawning, blazing windows, she saw the fire within, lighting up in its laughing destruction the little parlour where her mother used to sit, twining round the white-curtained bed whereon her mother's last breath had been sighed away peacefully in her arms.
Corelli_Marie_The_Sorrows_of_42332_62910.48-- then, -- while I yet looked upon him, something seemed to clutch my throat and stop my breathing, -- his dark and beautiful countenance appeared to me to grow suddenly lurid as with fire, -- a coronal of flame seemed to tremble above his brows, -- the moonlight glistened blood-red!
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_51240.48The perspiration stood in beads upon his face, his knees knocked together, his every limb trembled, the power of articulation was quite gone; and there he stood, panting for breath, gazing on them with such livid ashy looks, that they were infected with his fear, though ignorant of its occasion, and, reflecting his dismayed and horror-stricken visage, stared back again without venturing to question him; until old John Willet, in a fit of temporary insanity, made a dive at his cravat, and, seizing him by that portion of his dress, shook him to and fro until his very teeth appeared to rattle in his head.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_9430.47When Ellen came in, and after a short greeting to Betsey Hardman, went up- stairs, she found Alfred lying back on his pillow, deadly white, the beads of dew standing on his brow, and his breath in gasps.
Warner_Susan_Queechy_8874_38560.47Yet even when that sigh of relief was breathed, and while fancy and feeling were weaving their rich embroidery into the very tissue of Fleda's happiness, most persons would have seen merely that the child looked very sober, and have thought probably that she felt very tired and strange.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_56160.47In the midst of this turmoil, Barbara Stafford felt a breath on her cheek, and looking suddenly up, met the glance of those eyes, which, a moment before, had frightened the people with their burning passion, now full of determined purpose.
Smith_Francis_The_Fortunes_of_3417_37030.47Then when the sigh of restful relief that always follows had spent itself, and she had kissed him with his cheek held fast to hers, Oliver loosened his hold and threw his arms about his father's neck, patting him between his shoulder-blades as he kissed him.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_86500.47If it were in his choice to be Padishah and rule half the world, or to take her in his arms, feel with his heart the warmth of her blood, the breath of her face, her lips with his lips, he would prefer her to Tsargrad, to the Bosphorus, to the title of Khalif.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_93000.47For pale with anguish is his cheek, His breath comes fast, his eyes are dim, 20 Thy name is struggling ere he speak, Weak is each trembling limb; In mercy let him not endure The misery of a fatal cure.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_77720.47After he had thus recruited himself, he seemed to acquire an energy that startlingly contrasted his languor the day before; the effort of breathing was scarcely perceptible; the colour came back to his cheeks; his bended frame rose elastic and erect.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_86590.47It was Gloria's wedding ring, and twisted round and round it and in and out of it was a lock of her red auburn hair, serpent-like, flaming in the sunshine, with a hundred little tongues that waved and moved softly under his breath.
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_30100.47My arms wor straightened clean out with holding on; and sometimes I could jest see the green eyes o' the painter, an' feel his hot breath, as he opened his jaws to hiss and spit at me jis' like a big cat.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_9940.47Pale, trembling, motionless with affright, clasping each other in a close embrace, the two sisters held their breath; in their extreme fear, they durst not even cast their eyes in the direction of the window.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_5632_47390.47All this occupied but an instant, and Joel was laid on his bed, and the wound which proved to be only a flesh one, the ball cutting a little furrow as it grazed the shoulder, was dressed, and everybody drew a long breath.
Pidgin_Charles_Quincy_Adams_Sa_16414_53100.47"I kinder thought I wuz a-helpin' yer," said Abner, as he ran his fingers down under his chin and pulled away his shirt collar, which had been drawn back so forcibly that it interfered with his breathing.
May_Sophie_Dotty_Dimple_Ou_16383_4890.47In a very short time the mischief was undone; the child caught its breath, and blinked its little watery eyes, while its face faded from deep magenta to its usual color of dough.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_4880.47The touch of her hand, which I perforce held since I must guide her over the long, narrow, and unrailed trestle, chilled me, and her breathing was hurried, but she moved by my side through the gross darkness unfalteringly enough.
Jackson_Helen_Ramona_2802_99580.47Ramona's head had fallen forward on her breast, her eyes fixed on the shining sands; the waves rose and fell, rose and fell, at her feet gently as sighs.
Howells_Willia_A_Hazard_of_New_4600_67470.47March shook his head, and his wife, with a sigh, felt herself plucked up from the soft circumstance of their lives, which she had sunk back into so quickly, and set beside him on that cold peak of principle again.
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_26190.47She kissed the bough by which she held, and as she saw the young branches breaking here and there beneath her, and the hurricane raged so that it almost took away her breath, she looked up with inspired eyes, and whispered involuntarily, "It is the breath of God!"
Eliot_George_Daniel_Deronda_7469_50720.47But Gwendolen, with whom weeping had always been a painful manifestation to be resisted, if possible, again pressed her handkerchief against her eyes, and, with a deep breath, drew her head backward and looked at her mother, who was pale and tremulous.
Ebers_Georg_Uarda_a_Roman_5449_10480.47A variety of painful sensations raised a hot vehement storm in her bosom, which checked her breath, and at last found relief in a passionate and convulsive weeping that shook her whole body.
Ebers_Georg_An_Egyptian_Pri_5460_73260.47She had lain about an hour in this state, when her breathing became more difficult, a slight cough made her breast heave, and the bright red blood trickled down from her lips on to her white robe.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_6780.47The blood beat more fiercely in the young man's veins, his black eyes gleamed yet more brightly, his pale, high-curved nostrils quivered at every breath he drew.
Collins_Wilkie_After_Dark_1626_64500.47The woman's black eyes seemed to gleam with an evil brightness through the sight-holes of the mask, and the tawny fringe hanging before her mouth fluttered slowly with every breath she drew.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_580.47A church clock struck nine, and he started up with a guilty feeling, but his limbs were stiff and he sank back again, blew two or three breaths on to the squirrel inside his waistcoat, and fell into a doze.
Brady_Cyrus_To_For_Love_of_Cou_20791_44900.47Stifling the beating of his heart, holding his breath even, stepping softly, lest he should affright the airy vision, he staggered to the door and stood gazing; then he whispered one word, -- "Katharine!"
Austin_Jane_G_Standish_of_Sta_22052_39140.47He stood a moment at the point of his promenade furthest from the randevous, his back to the fire, his gaze fixed upon the sea whose lapping waves seemed whispering with sobbing sighs, Rose!
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_48480.47Later on, when Sharpman declared boldly that Ralph's statement on the witness-stand was a carefully concocted falsehood, the bluntness of the charge was like a cruel blow, and the boy's sensitive nerves shrank and quivered beneath it; then his lips grew pale, his breath came in gasps, the room went swimming round him, darkness came before his eyes, and his weak body, enfeebled by prolonged fasting and excitement, slipped down to the floor.
Zangwill_Israe_The_Master_a_N_49795_27620.47When at length Matt felt the great man’s breath on his neck a cold shiver ran down his spine, the brush clove to his paralyzed hand.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_60280.47The knowledge -- for he had lain and felt her breath upon his cheek, he had lain and felt her hand beneath his pillow, he had lain while the impulse to fling his arms about her had been almost more than he could tame!
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_80520.47Then, for the first time, his keepers remarked hew deathly pale was the serene countenance -- how feeble was the breath that scarcely stirred the coarse linen on his bosom.
Scott_Walter_The_Fair_Maid_o_7987_39950.47One or two deep sighs succeeded, and the Fair Maid of Perth opened her eyes, fixed them on her lover, as he kneeled by the bedside, and again sunk back on the pillow.
Otis_James_Toby_Tyler_Or_7478_15170.47With his bundles under his arm and the monkey on his shoulder, with both paws tightly clasped around his neck, Toby made his way out of the tent with beating heart and bated breath.
Musick_John_R_The_Witch_of_Sa_26282_47360.47The great eyes of Parris gleamed with sullen fire; his thin lips parted; his breath came short and quick, and for a few moments he was unable to answer.
Morris_Clara_A_Pasteboard_Cr_35055_20370.47Jim Roberts glanced a moment down the brilliantly lighted, well-filled car, then clenched his hands and, drawing a long, almost sobbing breath -- declined.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_17970.47The young composer sat there, her eyes earnestly riveted upon the notes, so calm and quiet that one could see the jet cross upon her breast rise and fall with each breath.
Kent_Charles_Charles_Dickens_21332_7030.47"He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this Nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again."
Henty_G_A_G_True_to_the_Old_8859_18110.47He raised his gun, but his hands trembled with the exertion that he had undergone, and the beating of his heart and his short, panting breath rendered it impossible for him to take a steady aim.
Hawthorne_Nath_A_Wonder_Book_a_35377_30880.47And Theseus, as he leaned on his sword, taking breath, felt another twitch of the silken cord; for all through the terrible encounter he had held it fast in his left hand.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_8250.47A heavy sigh struggled across Miss Jane's unsteady lips, as, removing her glasses, she wiped her eyes, and said, slowly, -- "Yes; I am a stupid, unsuspecting old dolt; but I see it all now."
Eliot_George_Adam_Bede_507_23670.47Mrs. Poyser, on her way, peeped into the room where her two boys lay; just to see their ruddy round cheeks on the pillow, and to hear for a moment their light regular breathing.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_95770.47The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_58090.47But the breathing did not cease, and the eyes did not open again; on the contrary, at the end of half an hour Lamberti was almost sure that the lids were more tightly closed than before, and that the breath came and went with a fuller sound.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_67940.47He tried to think of what he should do to meet his present difficulties, but when he thought of them they were whirled away, shapeless and unrecognizable, and he felt a sense of irresistible power with each breath of the crisp dry air.
Connor_Ralph_Black_Rock_A_T_3245_1260.47Sandy M'Naughton took his pipe out of his mouth, and sat up straight and stiff, staring into vacancy, and Graeme, beyond the fire, drew a short, sharp breath.
Collins_Wilkie_The_Dead_Secret_43092_71770.47Her mother leaned forward a little, still gasping heavily for breath, and looked with straining eyes into the quiet twilight dimness at the lower end of the room. "
Churchill_Wins_Richard_Carvel_5373_8120.47She grew quickly -- so quickly that I scarce realized -- into a tall slip of a girl, who could be wilful and cruel, laughing or forgiving, shy or impudent, in a breath.
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_39700.47But she drew a long sad sigh, and looked at the ground with the great tears rolling, and pressed one hand upon the trouble of her pure young breast.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_83330.47As we came into the light of day, which, struggling through massy ridges of darkness, burst between the grand and gloomy columns that supported the fabric, I felt as if a great stone were rolling from my breast I raised the veil, which I had drawn closely over my face, to inhale the air that flowed from the world without I was coming out of darkness into light, out of imprisonment into freedom, sunshine, and the breath of heaven.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_Timothy_s_Quest_18531_4640.47At the sound of this happy sigh and the sight of the child's flower face, with the upward curling lashes on the pink cheeks and the moist tendrils of hair on the white forehead, and the helpless, clinging touch of the baby arm about her neck, I cannot tell you the why or wherefore, but old memories and new desires began to stir in Samantha Ann Ripley's heart.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_101900.47Presently Albinia heard a strange sound as of tightened breath, and looking up saw Sophy deathly pale, with her eyes fixed on the window.
Warner_Susan_Queechy_8874_141840.47She raised her head again after a short struggle, with the wonted look of patience sitting upon her brow, and wiping away her tears paused merely for breath and voice.
Voynich_E_L_The_Gadfly_3431_44900.47The Gadfly shrank further back into the shadow, trembling with fear lest he should be seen, lest the very beating of his heart should betray him; then he drew a long breath of relief.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_46100.47They were fast approaching the old butternut tree, when Katharine, whose breath had come quick and short with each step, reeled and fell back against the wall.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_2990.47Then, as if overcome with unaccountable tenderness, she bent down her mouth and kissed it slowly, lingeringly, as the first sigh of returning life had left her bosom.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_80190.47She gave a sigh of relief as -- her hair tickling his cheek as she bent to listen -- up came a chubby unconscious hand to brush the tickle away.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_132620.47She was pale, perhaps ill, and maybe frightened at the recent attack; she walked with downcast eyes as lightly and quietly as if some breath were moving her forward.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Opening_a_Chest_6028_21600.47He wheeled the arm-chair up to the fire for her, and for a while she listened with interest; but at last her lids drooped and soon closed, and her regular breathing showed that she was sleeping.
Reade_Charles_The_Cloister_an_1366_2470.47Lo and behold, his wan, drawn face was seen to light up more and more, till it quite glowed; and as soon as he had drawn a long breath: "Hippocrates and Galen!"
MacGrath_Harol_Arms_and_the_Wo_17359_38700.47The Prince shrugged, a sigh of relief fell from the Count's half-parted lips, while the innkeeper ran toward the fallen man.
Kavanagh_Julia_Rachel_Gray_A_36160_23510.47They were alone; Rachel looked at the young girl; her eyes glittered; her cheeks were red with a hectic flush; her breathing was quick and oppressive.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_46800.47So he got into his place, still making complaints, and the keeper got into the place next him, and the convicts hauled themselves up as well as they could, and the convict I had recognized sat behind me with his breath on the hair of my head.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_114620.47But he rolled over on one side, let his arm fall negligently down, drew a long sigh, and murmuring indistinctly, fell fast asleep again.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_75080.47Then all at once his arms tightened so that she could hardly draw breath for a moment, and his head was bent down and rested for an instant upon her neck as though he himself sought rest and refuge.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_61010.47His nostrils moved spasmodically when he drew breath, and his long thin hands fumbled helplessly at the studs and buttons of his clothes.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_29780.47I untied her little limbs, and restored her to life; and all the time I was busy bringing her back to breath and motion, the singing in the church above me was 'Gloria!'
Connor_Ralph_Black_Rock_A_T_3245_19030.47'We'll have to make a dash for it, I fancy,' he replied cheerfully, though his face was covered with blood and his breath was coming in short gasps.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_73940.47The measured breathing inside the confessional was arrested, and the peaceful face of the priest looked out at the hectic cheeks and blazing eyes.
Bates_Arlo_The_Puritans_8522_20590.47She felt his breath warm on her cheek, and suddenly into her dispassionate musings there came a fresh sense, which made her face grow hot.
Barr_Amelia_E_The_Maid_of_Mai_5757_27080.47As soon as this business was quite out of her hands, she sank with a happy sigh into a large comfortable chair; let her arms drop gently, and closed her eyes to think over what she had done.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Women_514_72710.47Jo drew a long breath and unclasped her hands as she watched the poor fellow trying to outstrip the trouble which he carried in his heart.
Kingsley_Charl_Hypatia_or_Ne_6308_21910.47Meekly, with simpering face and downcast eyes, and now and then a penitent sigh and shake of the head and pressure of her hand on her jewelled bosom, the fair penitent was proceeding up the steps, when she caught sight of the priest and the monk, and turning to them with an obeisance of the deepest humility, entreated to be allowed to kiss the hem of their garments.
Crawford_F_Ma_Don_Orsino_13218_34870.47She was quite another woman to-day, as she bent forward, her tawny eyes growing darker and more mysterious every moment, her auburn hair casting wonderful shadows upon her broad pale forehead, her lips not closed as usual, but slightly parted, her fragrant breath just stirring the quiet air Orsino breathed.
Corelli_Marie_The_Sorrows_of_42332_77960.47So strongly knotted were my bonds that I could not stir either hand or foot, ... and after one or two ineffectual struggles to move I gave up the attempt, and lay submissively resigned to my fate, face upturned and gazing at the infinite azure depths above me, while the heaving breath of the sea rocked me gently to and fro like an infant in its mother's arms.
Wilson_Harry_L_The_Spenders_A_9981_69400.46He held her close and she no longer resisted, but nestled in his arms with quick little sighs, as if relieved from a great strain.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_A_Summer_in_a_C_3147_19490.46Valerio drew his last breath as it parted asunder, and they bore his dead body home in triumph to the Mission.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_66800.46"Well, I'm glad it's over," said Wharton, throwing himself into a chair with a long breath, and at the same time stretching out his hand to ring the bell.
Wallace_Lew_Ben_Hur_a_tale_2145_85420.46Then one might have seen his eyes dilate, his cheeks flush, his breath quicken, effects all of one bright sweeping glance at what lay before him.
Stoddard_Eliza_The_Morgesons_12347_62680.46How white and pellucid was the shallow near me -- no shadow but the shadow of my face bending over it -- nothing to ripple its surface, but my imperceptible breath!
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_85240.46Some kissed his garments; some embraced his knees; others, raising their hands to heaven, cried, -- "We are with you to the last breath, to the last drop of blood!
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_52810.46Only the breathing and panting of the combatants were heard in the silence, with the gnashing of teeth, and the sharp click of the swords striking each other.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Knights_of_9473_83730.46At this he again felt that shortness of breath that had seized him on his way to Jurand, also a weight on his head as of a heavy iron helmet, but this only lasted a second.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_73460.46The decisive moment had come, -- the moment waited for, the moment of greatest happiness for him; but his heart was beating as if breath were failing him.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_9920.46I never passed them without a quick beat of the heart and shortened breathing; and the more I looked at them the keener became the superstitious alarm they excited.
Robertson_Marg_Janet_s_Love_an_23266_121130.46Graeme had been watching them from the porch, and as they passed out of sight, she turned her eyes toward Mrs Snow, with a long breath.
Porter_Jane_Thaddeus_of_War_6566_45630.46She turned round, but could not disengage herself from the spirit that was within her; his half-suppressed sighs seemed yet to thrill in her ear and weigh upon her heart.
Meade_L_T_Good_Luck_28565_29550.46The snow blinded her eyes and took away her breath, it trickled in little pools down into her neck, and seemed to find out all the weak parts of her dress.
McCutcheon_Geo_Graustark_5142_23490.46They strained their ears for a moment and then involuntarily, spasmodically shook hands, each heaving the deep breath of excitement.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_6130.46Her cheeks were glowing red by reason of her run, her bosom heaved violently with her hurried, agitated breathing.
Howard_Edward_Rattlin_the_Ree_21578_59020.46It was so dark, that, to recognise me, he was obliged to place his countenance so close to mine that his hot breath burned against my cheek.
Hornung_E_W_The_Amateur_Cra_706_13320.46There was no reply, but the hard breathing grew harder still, and the muffled feet beat the floor to a quicker measure.
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_44230.46asked Pound, suspiciously, his breath coming quick and rapid with the excitement of the moment -- his moment of victory.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Ethelyn_s_Mista_12104_35270.46His mother met him in the lane, letter in hand, and her face white with excitement as she said below her breath: "John, John, oh!
Herrick_Robert_The_Web_of_Life_7828_28840.46The room was so dark that he could not see her face, as he extended his hand; but he could feel the repressed breathing, the passionate air about her person.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_23970.46While these whispers were passing, the sleeper's heart did not throb, nor his breath become agitated, nor his features betray the least token of interest.
Hammond_Willia_Sleep_and_Its_D_43887_24300.46One arm was by her side, the other above her head, and she slept so quietly, and drew such imperceptible breath, that I scarcely thought her alive.
Gaskell_Elizab_Ruth_4275_80010.46Her sweet lips were parted to sing, even after the breath and the power to do so had left her, and her fingers fell idly on the bed.
Gaskell_Elizab_Mary_Barton_2153_43630.46"But in his pulse there was no throb, Nor on his lips one dying sob; Sigh, nor word, nor struggling breath Heralded his way to death."
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_childre_14875_37670.46He felt her cling to him with a convulsive grasp, he heard her quick coming breath, the whispered words, "Oh, my son!
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Campers_Out_42504_14620.46While holding his breath below, the death-lock of the drowning youth was slightly relaxed, but not sufficiently for his hold to be released.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_82380.46Then he sees her attitude is uncomfortable: her face is very pale, her head is thrown too much back, a little troubled sigh escapes her.
Dickens_Charle_A_Tale_of_Two_C_98_76280.46Thus Miss Pross, with a shake of her head and a flash of her eyes between every rapid sentence, and every rapid sentence a whole breath.
Crockett_S_R_The_Stickit_Min_49342_44260.46He bent his head lower, holding his breath and laying his hand on his own heart as if to still its dull, thick beating.
Crawford_F_Ma_Taquisara_11050_60580.46The Duca had got his breath, and sat open-mouthed, holding his tea-cup low between his knees, in both hands.
Crawford_F_Ma_Saracinesca_13757_23250.46The Duchessa looked away, and fanned herself slowly; but she sighed, and checked the deep-drawn breath as by a great effort.
Crawford_F_Ma_Don_Orsino_13218_30450.46The sight of the tables revived him and he drew a long breath as he sat down with a cigarette in his mouth and a glass at his elbow.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_64220.46His breath came irregularly, his heart fluttered and stood still and fluttered again, and his hands twitched at the fringe on the arms of the chair.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_54890.46white as a marble image she stood, her breath coming between her lips in quick, frightened gasps... "My lord!
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_38610.46exclaimed the veteran, recovering his voice with a long-drawn breath; "think you that figure was made of flesh and blood?"
Coffin_Charles_Winning_His_Way_22913_11880.46He got down on his knees and blew till he was out of breath, got his eyes filled with smoke, which made the tears roll down his cheeks.
Bulfinch_Thoma_The_Age_of_Fabl_4925_18410.46see how his body dips Dead-heavy; arms and shoulders gleam awhile; He's gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath!"
Bennett_John_Master_Skylark_11574_35830.46In his breast his heart was beating like a bell; his breath came hotly, deep and slow; the whole world widened on his gaze.
Austin_Jane_G_Outpost_4676_11830.46A new thought, a sudden plan, had entered his head, and made his breath come quick, and his eyes grow bright.
Altsheler_Jose_In_Hostile_Red_41050_46320.46There was a sickening whit of steel cutting through flesh, the gasp of last and hard-drawn breaths, and the sound of falls.
Alcott_Louisa_An_Old_Fashione_2787_48020.46and Polly caught her breath as if a dash of cold water had fallen on her, for the more in earnest Tom grew, the blunter he became.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_41460.46Not a murmur, not a sigh, came from her lips; and yet, when the dauphin, after four hours of this sad journey, turned with a supplicatory expression to his mother, and said to her with his sweet voice, "Mamma queen, I am hungry," the proud expression withdrew from the features of the queen, and two great tears slowly ran down over her cheeks.
Chambers_Rober_Lorraine_A_Rom_24181_34950.46He was in their midst now, shouldered and shoved across the grass; their hot breath fell on his face, their hands crushed his arms, bent back his elbows, pushed him forward, faster, faster, towards the tree where that thing hung, turning slowly as a squid spins on a swivel.
Alcott_Louisa_Rose_in_Bloom_2804_21670.46The memory of the happy moment when she gave the rose with that new softness in her eyes, the shy color, the sweet "for my sake" came back with sudden vividness, contrasting sharply with the now averted face, the hand outstretched to put him back, the shrinking figure, and in that instant's silence, poor Charlie realized what he had lost, for a girl's first thought of love is as delicate a thing as the rosy morning glory, which a breath of air can shatter.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_5420.46A prayer to "Our Father" spoke in that eloquent eye, a heart-felt, glowing prayer for this man now resting upon his bosom, and who for him was not the all-powerful and commanding sovereign, but the noble, loving, and beloved friend, this poet and philosopher, before whose mighty genius his whole soul bowed in wonder and admiration; but suddenly, in this moment of deep and pious emotion, a cold, an icy chill, seemed to shiver and play like the breath of death over his features, and the hot blood, like liquid metal, rushed madly through his veins; he gave a light, short cough; with a quick, abrupt movement, he released himself from the arms of the king.
Page_Thomas_Ne_Red_Rock_A_Chro_49648_90390.46As her father discussed Captain Allen’s chances earnestly, Ruth sat and listened with bated breath, her eyes, wide with anxiety, fixed on his face, her hands tightly clasped, her color coming and going as hope and fear alternated.
Howard_Edward_Rattlin_the_Ree_21578_45430.46But the bear did not take his tuition kindly, and grew daily more ferocious; till, at length, seizing his opportunity, he caught up the diminutive skipper and nearly hugged the breath out of his body, and almost rubbed his red nose off his yellow face in endeavouring to bite him through his muzzle.
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_14430.46He held his breath and gazed upon the drooping figure and bewitching face; and, in after years, when his dark hair had grown silvery grey, he remembered the lovely sun-lit vision that so entranced him, leaving an indelible image on heart and brain.
Crawford_F_Ma_Saracinesca_13757_23660.46His short rude words were terribly sweet to hear, it was fearful to think that she was alone with him, that one step would bring her to his side, that with one passionate impulse she might throw her white arms about his neck, that one faltering sigh of overwhelming love might bring her queenly head down upon his shoulder.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_27600.46Frances hardly breathed, as she was enabled, by a movement of Isabella, to see that it was the figure of a man in the well-known dress of the Southern horse; but she gasped for breath, and instinctively laid her hand on her heart to quell its throbbings, as she thought she recognized the lineaments that were so deeply seated in her own imagination.
Alcott_Louisa_Work_A_Story_o_4770_44620.46His eyes opened then, and he turned his cheek to hers, whispering with a look that tried to be a smile, but ended in a sigh of satisfaction: "I knew you'd come;" then, as a tearless sob shook her from head to foot, he added steadily, though each breath cost a pang, "'Yes, dear, I must go first, but it won't be hard with you to help me do it bravely."
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_27980.46Both the antagonists were now locked in each other's grasp -- the hand of each seeking the throat of the other -- the face drawn back -- the fierce eyes flashing -- the muscles strained -- the veins swelled -- the lips apart -- the teeth set -- both were strong beyond the ordinary power of men, both animated by relentless wrath; they coiled, they wound, around each other; they rocked to and fro -- they swayed from end to end of their confined arena -- they uttered cries of ire and revenge -- they were now before the altar -- now at the base of the column where the struggle had commenced: they drew back for breath -- Arbaces leaning against the column -- Glaucus a few paces apart.
Wallace_Lew_Ben_Hur_a_tale_2145_47650.46The events of the day were told quietly and in the simplest words, and until he was through there was no interruption; nor did the listener in the chair so much as move a hand during the narration; but for his eyes, wide open and bright, and an occasional long-drawn breath, he might have been accounted an effigy.
Verne_Jules_The_Mysterious_1268_61880.46Arrived at the spot on which grew the first beautiful trees of the forest, their foliage slightly agitated by the breeze, the stranger appeared greedily to drink in the penetrating odor which filled the atmosphere, and a long sigh escaped from his chest.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_87200.46A heavy sigh crossed her lips that were beginning to wear the patient lines of resignation, and turning from the red geranium which had aroused the memory coiled in her heart she stepped upon the terrace, leaned over the marble balustrade, and looked out.
Edmonds_S_Emm_Nurse_and_Spy_i_38497_12630.46With swelling emotion and tender tones the chaplain besought God's grace and presence; then, restraining his sobs, he bowed down and pressed upon the beautiful brow, already chilled with the breath of the coming angel, twice, thrice, a fervent kiss.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_2330.46He therefore sank listlessly into an easy chair near the table, pushing back the short, thick curls from his brow with a wearied movement; he was very pale, -- an uneasy sense of shame was upon him, and he sighed, -- a quick sigh of exhausted passion.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_8900.46And now the end of this poor life has come -- with heart-breaking sorrow of mind and struggle of body, overpowering horror at the writhings of torture in the limbs lashed against his -- and vainly he strives to force his last breath into her hard-clenched mouth.
Ballantyne_R_The_Coral_Islan_21721_12870.46It rubbed its head against Peterkin's cheek, licked his chin, and thrust its head almost violently into his neck, while it purred more loudly than I ever heard a cat purr before, and appeared to be so much overpowered by its feelings that it occasionally mewed and purred almost in the same breath.
Wood_Henry_Mr_East_Lynne_3322_97360.46She leaned her hot head upon her hand, and a rebellious sigh of envy went forth from her aching heart.
Whyte_Melville_Katerfelto_A_S_40883_20740.46Nelly thought it strange that her heart should beat, and her breath come quick, in asking so simple a question.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_72600.46His breath failed him; the book slipped out of his grasp; he sank down upon his chair, his head in his hands.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_132320.46Throwing himself back, his hands behind his head, he drew a long breath and his eyes closed.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_51800.46With a catching breath Eleanor turned and threw her arm round the girl's neck.
Twain_Mark_The_Prince_and_1837_1890.46Tom's breath came quick and short with excitement, and his eyes grew big with wonder and delight.
Twain_Mark_Following_the_E_2895_33730.46Forward, with a heavy sigh of relief, and upward glance of gratitude, came the friends of peace.
Trowbridge_J_Cudjo_s_Cave_31406_83340.46Then, with a deep breath which shook all his frame, and an expression of the most agonizing despair on his face, he took the pen.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Two_Vanreve_3428_1820.46Her breath came faster and deeper, until, between her parted lips it became vocal in a quick sound like a sob.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_42530.46"I rather think I haven't," said Jim, throwing open his broad chest, and taking a deep breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_39660.46When he reached the verge of the water, great drops stood on his forehead, and he panted for breath.
Souvestre_mil_An_Attic_Philos_3999_9340.46She could only press her lips against the forehead of her son, heave a sigh, and close her eyes forever!
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_185060.46He sat down and began to wipe his bloody face with his hands, and then to draw long breaths.
Russell_Willia_A_Marriage_at_S_32516_23780.46She came to my side, and slipped her hand into mine, whispering under her breath, "Such a silly, senseless ceremony!"
Richards_Laura_Mrs_Tree_30439_27170.46She paused, somewhat out of breath, and sat creaking and clinking, and fanning herself with a Chinese hand-screen.
Reid_Mayne_The_Tiger_Hunte_25127_61830.46continued she, with a choking sigh, and throwing her arms round his neck, "in either case you are likely soon to have but one daughter."
Quiller_Couch_The_Westcotes_10548_18870.46Here on the threshold the same warm, acrid atmosphere assailed Dorothea's nostrils, and almost choked her breathing.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_11280.46He felt almost stifled with his hot and labored breathing as he sat watching the other’s busy fingers.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_41640.46she added under her breath, and she rubbed Guida's hands still, and looked frankly, generously into her eyes.
Munroe_Kirk_The_White_Conqu_47810_6410.46Now he could see the dim form of a man speeding forward through the darkness, and hear the panting breath.
Merriman_Henry_Roden_s_Corner_9324_32070.46He lay for a moment or two to regain his breath, and recover from the deadly nausea that follows gas poisoning.
Merriman_Henry_Dross_20243_38130.46Alphonse, who had no breath for words, grasped my arm, and we stood for a moment watching Miste, for it could be no other.
Meade_L_T_The_Children_s_6899_25160.46Cecile felt her very heart standing still; her breath seemed to leave her -- her face felt cold.
Meade_L_T_A_Ring_of_Rubie_43143_41160.46She was lying very still; her hands were peacefully folded by her side; her breathing came gently; there was repose about her attitude.
MacGrath_Harol_The_Puppet_Crow_3239_93540.46Chastity and innocence at the feet of God; yet, not even these can hold back the fleeting breath of life.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_22160.46His cheeks were heated with the quick ride, his eyes glowed, and his breathing was rapid and hard.
King_Charles_Marion_s_Faith_20305_33450.46She began madly walking up and down the little room wringing her hands, shivering, gasping for breath.
Hugo_Victor_Les_Mis_rables_48731_49420.46She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, with her eyes fixed on the door, motionless, and holding her breath.
Howells_Willia_A_Hazard_of_New_4600_88450.46The old man fetched his breath in gasps, which presently smoothed and lengthened into his normal breathing.
Hornung_E_W_Peccavi_36115_58350.46In Gwynneth's eyes burnt wondrous fires, and on her cheeks; and her breath was coming very quickly.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_123050.46Every breath of cold air was cutting her lungs like a knife, but she looked up at me when I took her hand, and smiled.
Garland_Hamlin_The_Eagle_s_Hea_21255_8100.46When she turned to speak Jack was gone, and she walked on, flushed with excitement, her breath shortened and quickened.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_32310.46"I've got all the money I want, father," said Madelon, catching her breath a little, but keeping her face steady.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_18370.46Then he struggled on after his oxen, who plodded along with goat's-beards of their frozen breath hanging from their jaws.
Frederic_Harol_The_Damnation_o_133_9670.46It passed again, leaving him staring fixedly at the pile of books he had taken down from the shelves, and gasping a little, as if for breath.
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Campers_Out_42504_17800.46He compressed his lips and held his breath, with the resolve to calm his agitation or die in the attempt.
Disraeli_Benja_Tancred_Or_Th_20004_49030.46Suddenly Tancred moved, heaved a deep sigh, and opened his dark eyes.
Dickens_Charle_Great_Expectati_1400_46840.46It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict's breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine.
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_56690.46Old Sol looked first at her, then at his nephew, and then rubbed his hands, and rubbed his spectacles, and said below his breath, 'Ah!
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_88250.46Then holding his breath, and stooping down, he stole into the turret, with his drawn sword in his hand, and disappeared.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_71950.46Lois cried, her eyes shining like stars through sudden tears, and her breath quick.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_24310.46They waited to hear more, but she turned and hurried away, her breath quick, and a tightened feeling in her throat.
Davis_Richard_Captain_Macklin_6015_24680.46It was so beautiful that I drew a great breath of wonder, and my throat tightened with the deep delight that rose in me.
Crawford_F_Ma_Cecilia_A_Stor_31723_33980.46She stiffened her arm, as if to resist the force that tried to move it against her will, and she held her breath and then breathed hard again.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Tale_of_a_Lon_13597_51920.46He lay upon his back staring straight upward and mumbling aloud with every breath he drew.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_87460.46All at once a faint sigh parted the sweet lips, -- the bosom heaved with a struggle for breath.
Burnett_France_Little_Lord_Fau_479_29700.46When she saw him enter the room, she turned white, though she flew into a rage at once, and threatened and demanded in one breath."
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_46220.46'Jeremy, Jerry,' was all I could say, being so fearfully short of breath; for I had crossed the ground quicker than any horse could.
Blackmore_R_D_Erema_Or_My_F_7112_48490.46And this man, although his hair was not gray, must be on the slow side of fifty now, and perhaps getting short of his very wicked breath.
Bennett_John_Master_Skylark_11574_13520.46cried Nick, and, catching his breath with a quick gasp, sat speechless, staring.
Ballantyne_R_The_Gorilla_Hun_21736_30190.46said Peterkin with a sigh, pressing his hand to his forehead; "what an intolerable whack I have got on my miserable caput.
Alger_Horatio_The_Young_Explo_5623_24130.46With a deep breath of relief, Ben opened the door, passed out, and closed it softly after him.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_16720.45The air came in from the river struggling through a forest of tall masts, and, as it flowed over his face, Chester drew almost a deep breath, not quite, for a sharp pain followed the effort -- a cough that cut through his lungs like a knife -- and then gushed from his mouth and nostrils a torrent of blood, frothy, vividly red, that fell upon his hands and garments in waves of crimson foam.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_61830.45Pale grew the elect Diviner's alter'd brows; 51 Swell'd the large veins, and writhed the foaming lips; And as some swart and fateful planet glows Athwart the disc to which it brings eclipse; So that strange Pythian madness, whose control Seems half to light and half efface the soul, Broke from the horror of his glazing look; 52 His breath that died in hollow gusts away, Seized by the grasp of unseen tempests, shook To its rack'd base the spirit-house of clay; Till the dark Power made firm the crushing spell, And from the man burst forth the voice of hell.
Weyman_Stanley_The_Castle_Inn_11918_43610.45As she thought over the avowal she would make to him, and conned the words she would speak to him, the girl's cheeks, though she believed herself alone, burned with happy blushes; her breath came more quickly, her body swayed involuntarily in the direction whence he, who had chosen and honoured her, would come!
Stephens_Ann_S_A_Noble_Woman_30111_15680.45One arm, from which the muslin sleeve had fallen back, lay under her head, half-buried in a tangle of curls; sobs broke at intervals through her parted lips, ending in long, troubled sighs.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_76310.45In the death-chamber for a moment Death, Shamed by the presence of that living Might, Blushed to annihilation, and the breath Revisited those lips, and Life's pale light 220 Flashed through those limbs, so late her dear delight.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_Told_in_the_Hil_36246_37440.45Her eyes widened ever so little, as if at some revelation born to her by that magnetism, and then -- "My boy, I trust -- " The words again died in a whisper; and raising his head with a long breath of relief, he saw his father drop on his knees by the younger son.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_44640.45She saw a tear tremble beneath the invalid’s eyelid at the thoughtless toast as she bit her lip in indignant pain; for her, existence was a rack of torture,—for her, the delights of life were purchased by suffering with every breath she drew.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_26320.45He paused for a moment upon the threshold, and drew a long breath, passing his hand across his brow; he was as unconscious as his aunt had been of the presence, behind the leafy screen at the window, of a human heart throbbing in mortal agitation.
Holmes_Mary_Ja_Tempest_and_Sun_17260_48670.45For herself she had no fears, though slowly but surely through her veins the fever flame was creeping, scorching her blood, poisoning her breath and burning her cheek, until her father, alarmed at her altered and languid appearance, inquired for the cause of the change.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Girlhoo_9963_35240.45Then, in broken words, and with many a little half-sobbing sigh and one or two scalding tears, hastily brushed away, Elsie told the whole painful story, secure of warm sympathy from the kind heart to which she was so tenderly folded.
Collins_Wilkie_Man_and_Wife_1586_11520.45She sat by you and talked to you -- and behold, a sensitive something passed into that little twist at the corner of the mouth, and into that nervous uncertainty in the soft gray eye, which turned defect into beauty -- which enchained your senses -- which made your nerves thrill if she touched you by accident, and set your heart beating if you looked at the same book with her, and felt her breath on your face.
Bront_Anne_The_Tenant_of_W_969_35610.45Let me once get clear of Grassdale, and I shall consider myself safe.’ Mr. Hargrave advanced one step towards me, looked me in the face, and drew in his breath to speak; but that look, that heightened colour, that sudden sparkle of the eye, made my blood rise in wrath: I abruptly turned away, and, snatching up my brush, began to dash away at my canvas with rather too much energy for the good of the picture.
Burnett_France_Little_Lord_Fau_479_8440.45He was puzzled; but, after all, it was not the reason he cared about so much; and after many talks with his mother, in which she comforted him and placed before him the bright side of the picture, the dark side of it gradually began to fade out, though now and then Mr. Havisham saw him sitting in some queer little old-fashioned attitude, watching the sea, with a very grave face, and more than once he heard an unchildish sigh rise to his lips.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_163530.45when raptures move, Say what it is to love, When passion's tear stands on the cheek, 105 When bursts the unconscious sigh; And the tremulous lips dare not speak What is told by the soul-felt eye.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_The_Bondwoman_29581_60430.45He had never really seen her until now, and he caught his breath sharply and was conscious that one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen in his life was looking at him with a strange smile touching her perfect mouth, and a strange haunting resemblance to some one once known, shining in her dark eyes.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_47730.45As she ended, and when the voice of Marie Antoinette was choked in a sigh, the dauphin flew with, extended arms across the hall to his mother, "Mamma queen," cried he, beaming with joy, "are you singing again?
Lamartine_Alph_History_of_the_18094_48750.45"When as I read behind the screen which closed up my chamber from my father's apartment," she writes, "my breathing was at all loud, I felt a burning blush overspread my cheek, and my altered voice would have betrayed my agitation.
Hawthorne_Nath_The_Marble_Faun_2181_21220.45She must have had cause to dread some unspeakable evil from this strange persecutor, and to know that this was the very crisis of her calamity; for as he drew near, such a cold, sick despair crept over her that it impeded her breath, and benumbed her natural promptitude of thought.
Harte_Bret_The_Three_Partn_2560_12570.45The passengers drew a long breath, the reader closed his book, the lady lifted the edge of her veil and delicately wiped her forehead, over which a few damp tendrils of hair were clinging.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Kith_an_14488_7470.45The words had scarcely left his lips when Edward drew a sighing breath, and opened his eyes, glancing up into Zoe's face bending over Mm in deepest, tenderest solicitude.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_New_Mistres_32924_36360.45The door was thrust open, and the breath that Hazel had been holding back till she felt that she must suffocate escaped with a loud sigh, and mother and daughter stood gazing across the table at each other.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_62670.45Saxe's lips parted, and he drew in his breath in the excitement and relief of feeling that help was so close at hand; but no sound would come save a low, hoarse gasp, and then a giddy sensation came over him, and once more all was darkness.
Corelli_Marie_Ziska_The_Prob_5079_33950.45As this thought crossed his brain, he ceased his struggles abruptly, and stood still, panting for breath, when suddenly a sound of singing floated towards him: "Oh, for the pure cold heart of the Lotus-Lily!
Alexander_Mrs_A_Crooked_Path_18418_46710.45His lips, slightly apart, emitted the softly drawn regular breath of profound slumber, and the smile which some pleasant thought had conjured up before he closed his eyes still lingered round his mouth.
Whitney_A_D_The_Other_Girls_16329_74750.45Sylvie caught her breath, more than once; but she did it behind shut lips, with only a dilatation of her nostrils.
Werner_E_The_Alpine_Fay_35229_7320.45He leaned heavily upon the table again and struggled for breath, while speech seemed denied him.
Ward_Humphry_Marcella_13728_137520.45she said trembling, lost in the thought of Hallin, her quick breath coming and going.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_93950.45he implored her, as she allowed him to press his old limbs for a moment on his stick, and take breath.
Verne_Jules_Twenty_Thousand_164_28760.45His breathing was slow, and some spasmodic movements of the muscles agitated his face.
Twain_Mark_A_Connecticut_Y_86_50930.45All the multitude caught their breath, and an eager curiosity flashed into every face.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Gentleman_f_9659_6300.45The girl gave a low cry with a sharp intake of breath.
Stephens_Ann_S_Silent_Struggle_36027_13960.45The little girl lay in her concealment, passive and mute, holding her breath.
Smith_Francis_Caleb_West_Mas_42362_13960.45She saw only the bruised, pale face before her as she listened to the heavy breathing of the sufferer.
Seton_Ernest_T_Wild_Animals_I_3031_18580.45Wully slowly came near and sniffed and breathed his doggy breath in her face.
Sage_William_Robert_Tournay_34846_11920.45Here they paused for a moment to recover breath and wipe the perspiration from their brows.
Reade_Charles_The_Cloister_an_1366_191290.45And when he had prayed a long time with his head averted, not to see her last breath, all seemed unnaturally still.
Pyle_Howard_The_Story_of_Ja_49985_47220.45oh!” Jack panted, his breath coming hot in his dry mouth.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_36350.45She gasped for breath, and again seating herself, reclined her beating temples against the couch.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Battle_of_t_6236_58710.45His breath failed him, he fell back, and lay quiet for several minutes.
Merriman_Henry_Dross_20243_30970.45I rose and shook hands with John Turner, who had not yet recovered his breath.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_49400.45He drew a long breath to say a short farewell, and he and Diana parted.
Melville_Herma_White_Jacket_O_10712_61890.45An utterable nausea oppressed me; I was conscious of gasping; there seemed no breath in my body.
McCutcheon_Geo_Graustark_5142_28920.45She stood before him, looking down with an anxiety in her eyes that would have repaid him had death been there to claim his next breath.
MacDonald_Geor_David_Elginbrod_2291_98070.45"Forgive me, Margaret," sighed he, as if with his last breath, and burst into an agony of tears.
Lytton_Edward_Zanoni_2664_35340.45He felt her heart throbbing beneath his own; her breath came warm upon his cheek.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_69670.45There he rested a few minutes, with closed eyes and painful gasps for breath.
Lyall_Edna_We_Two_A_Novel_2007_63800.45he said, with a sigh, "if I can but keep a cool head and a broad heart through the years of trouble before us!"
Kingsley_Charl_Hypatia_or_Ne_6308_37280.45Who knows that the breath of man goes upward, and that the breath of the beast goes downward to the earth?
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_38100.45His breath came short, the sweat stood upon his forehead, and still I deferred my attack.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_63260.45She drew a long tremulous sigh, and dashed the tears from her eyes.
Gregory_Eliot_The_Ways_of_Men_319_1660.45His breath was coming quick and his eyes aglow with the memory of that evening.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_47570.45I heard his breath coming quick, and at one time I thought he were sobbing.
Evans_Augusta_St_Elmo_4553_73840.45With a smothered sigh he passed his arm around her, and drew her closer to his side.
Evans_Augusta_Inez_A_Tale_of_15470_41290.45She gasped for breath, yet ghastly was the mocking smile which lit up the face.
Eliot_George_The_Mill_on_the_6688_76510.45Her breath was on his face, his lips were very near hers, but there was a great dread dwelling in his love for her.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_67770.45When I am riding madly like this, I feel again almost happy -- almost," with a quickly suppressed sigh.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_63030.45The lady sat with parted lips, and her breath came quick and fast.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_13580.45Their breath came quick and hoarse, and their beautiful coats were matted with moisture.
Dickens_Charle_The_Mystery_of_564_44050.45Her panting breathing comes and goes as if it would choke her; but with a repressive hand upon her bosom, she remains.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_188390.45As he stopped to fetch his breath, he waved them off, in a solemn manner, with his hand.
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_38960.45When I had recovered my breath, and had got rid of a stifling sensation in my throat, I rose up and went on.
Crawford_F_Ma_Corleone_A_Tal_44311_15280.45The man was more than ever irritated at the sound; and as she bent over to him, he could almost feel her breath on his cheek.
Corelli_Marie_The_Sorrows_of_42332_35600.45I smothered a slight sigh, and was about to speak, when she came up to me and laid her two hands on my shoulders.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_56840.45Gherardi's breath came and went quickly, -- but he kept up the outward appearance of cold composure.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_94560.45Her eyes softened, and she drew her breath more freely as she received the handkerchief from him.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_5050.45Her breath came and went quickly; her hand stole up and took his; she bowed her head in silence.
Chambers_Rober_The_Maid_At_Arm_12279_5430.45In her eagerness her lips almost touched my ear, and her breath warmed my cheek.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Manxman_A_N_25570_89400.45Her breathing was short, her sight was weak, her temples were beating audibly.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_108740.45His breathing became laboured and stertorous, his skin hot, and his eyes dilated.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_54380.45It was Paul, with a livid face, murmuring his name in a voice almost as faint as a breath.
Bulfinch_Thoma_The_Age_of_Fabl_4925_3990.45The pursuer is the more rapid, however, and gains upon her, and his panting breath blows upon her hair.
Blackmore_R_D_Perlycross_A_Ta_45038_47750.45All present held their breath to watch, and saw a strange and moving sight.
Blackmore_R_D_Lorna_Doone_A_840_75870.45I asked, as I saw her breath come fast; for the smallest emotion moved her form.
Bennett_John_Master_Skylark_11574_35280.45Nick stopped dismayed, and looked about, His forehead was wet and his breath was gone.
Alcott_Louisa_Little_Women_514_4020.45It quite took their breath away, and they stared first at the table and then at their mother, who looked as if she enjoyed it immensely.
Kingsley_Charl_Westward_Ho_Or_1860_5720.45The face was somewhat long and thin; the nose aquiline; and the languid mouth showed, perhaps, too much of the ivory upper teeth; but the most striking point of the speaker's appearance was the extraordinary brilliancy of his complexion, which shamed with its whiteness that of all fair ladies round, save where open on each cheek a bright red spot gave warning, as did the long thin neck and the taper hands, of sad possibilities, perhaps not far off; possibilities which all saw with an inward sigh, except she whose doting glances, as well as her resemblance to the fair youth, proclaimed her at once his mother, Mrs. Leigh herself.
Spencer_Herber_Essays_on_Educa_16510_28090.45An alarming sound or sigh, besides the impressions on the organs of sense and the nerves, may produce a start, a scream, a distortion of the face, a trembling consequent upon a general muscular relaxation, a burst of perspiration, an excited action of the heart, a rush of blood to the brain, followed possibly by arrest of the heart's action and by syncope: and if the system be feeble, an indisposition with its long train of complicated symptoms may set in.
Scott_Walter_Marmion_A_Tale_4010_3040.45When thus her face was given to view— Although so pallid was her hue, It did a ghastly contrast bear To those bright ringlets glistering fair— Her look composed, and steady eye, Bespoke a matchless constancy; And there she stood so calm and pale, That, but her breathing did not fail, And motion slight of eye and head, And of her bosom, warranted That neither sense nor pulse she lacks, You might have thought a form of wax, Wrought to the very life, was there; So still she was, so pale, so fair.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Gentleman_f_9659_52260.45His cheeks were reddened with an angry, healthy glow, and his teeth were clenched till the line of his jaw stood out like that of an embattled athlete in sculpture; his brow was dark; his chest was thrown out, and he took deep, quick breaths; his shoulders were squared, and in spite of his thinness they looked massy.
MacDonald_Geor_Phantastes_A_F_325_15300.45The eyelids yet shrouded the eyes, as a costly case the jewels within; the troubled expression gradually faded from the countenance, leaving only a faint sorrow behind; the features settled into an unchanging expression of rest; and by these signs, and the slow regular motion of her breathing, Cosmo knew that she slept.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_132410.45His friend had barely had time to recall the unprecedented gleam of determination with which he had spoken of finding this girl, and which had faded out of him with the breath of the spoken words, when Eugene came back, ushering in a most disgraceful shadow of a man, shaking from head to foot, and clothed in shabby grease and smear.
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_94510.45Then she babbled over the little one, and lisped, and stammered, and nodded her head in his face, and blew little puffs of breath into his hair, and tickled him until he laughed and crowed and rolled and threw up his legs; and then she kissed his limbs and extremities in a way that mothers have, and finally imprisoned one of his feet by putting it ankle deep into her mouth.
Woolson_Consta_Anne_A_Novel_32707_35820.44And there was no surface sparkle about Anne, none of the usual girlish wish to attract attention, which makes the eyes brighten, the color rise, and the breath quicken when entering a new circle.
Whitney_A_D_Faith_Gartney_s_18896_42610.44But the truth, mighty, and holy in its might, came up from heart to lip, and the crimson paled, and the breath grew calm, and she stood firm with her pure resolve, even in her maidenly shame, before him.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_154200.44The swollen eyelids fell, leaving just a thread of white visible underneath, the clenched hands slowly relaxed; the loud breathing seemed to be the breathing of death.
Musick_John_R_Sustained_honor_10370_44740.44Her face grew deathly pale for a moment, and she almost ceased breathing; but she gained her self-control, and, in a tone as commonplace and cool as his own, hoped he was well and that he would not be killed in the coming struggle.
Melville_Herma_Omoo_Adventure_4045_28720.44But before the deed could be done, the face became natural; -- a sigh was heaved; -- the eyelids quivered, opened, closed; and Long Ghost, twitching all over, rolled on his side, and breathed audibly.
M_hlbach_L_L_Andreas_Hofer_3666_42990.44Ulrich von Hohenberg still sat, as Schroepfel had seen him, at the table, leaning his head on his hand; only he had now covered his eyes with his hands, and long sighs issued from his breast.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_46860.44Then Gawaine felt as if he skirr'd the air, 115 His brain grew dizzy, and his breath was gone; He stopp'd at last, and such inviting fare Never plump monk set lustful eyes upon.
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_96510.44I felt my breath come thick, and a mist passed before my eyes as Lord Castleton led me through the crowd, and the radiant vision of Fanny Trevanion -- how altered, and how dazzling!
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_38550.44Involuntarily I seized his hand; my father pressed it convulsively, and said with a deep breath: "It was too late; Trevanion was Lady Ellinor's accepted, plighted, happy lover.
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_20000.44He continued to gaze on me a moment or so, his eye glaring, his breath panting; and then, as if mastering himself with an involuntary effort, his arm dropped to his side, and he said quite humbly, "I beg your pardon; indeed I do.
Kavanagh_Julia_Rachel_Gray_A_36160_23890.44The young girl came in; and, for the first time, her father seemed to see the bright red spot that burned on her cheek, the unnatural brilliancy of her blue eyes, the painful shortness of her breath.
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_53870.44She let her head fall on my shoulder and lay trustfully, I could almost say luxuriously, back in my arms; a little happy sigh of relief and peace came from her lips, her eyes closed, she was content.
Grimm_Jacob_Grimms_Fairy_T_2591_21390.44Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snowdrop's breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead.
Graham_Isabell_The_Power_of_Fa_16276_31420.44In a short time her breathing became short and low; she shut her eyes and gently breathed weaker and weaker, till her God delivered her without motion or groan.
Evans_Augusta_Infelice_17718_14350.44Was the avenging lash of conscience uncoiled at last in Cuthbert Laurance's hardened soul that the blood so suddenly ebbed from his lips, and he drew his breath like one overshadowed by a vampire?
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_143580.44If she so much as rustled the folds of her hood, he could hear the ill-looking man clap his hand upon his sword, and could tell by the other's breathing (it was so dark he couldn't see his face) that he was looking as big as if he were going to devour her at a mouthful.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_4600.44When my mother is out of breath and rests herself in an elbow-chair, I watch her winding her bright curls round her fingers, and straitening her waist, and nobody knows better than I do that she likes to look so well, and is proud of being so pretty.
Dickens_Charle_David_Copperfie_766_3880.44When my mother is out of breath and rests herself in an elbow-chair, I watch her winding her bright curls round her fingers, and straitening her waist, and nobody knows better than I do that she likes to look so well, and is proud of being so pretty.
Altsheler_Jose_In_Hostile_Red_41050_41440.44His sword became a beam of light, and he thrust so straight at Marcel's breast that I held my breath in fear; but my comrade was quick, and the blade, caught on his own, flashed harmlessly by.
Goss_Charles_F_The_Redemption_14730_55750.44Quietly, gently, briefly as he could, he narrated the events of the past few months, and as he did so she drew in short breaths or long inspirations as the story shifted from phase to phase, and when at last he had finished, she clasped her hands and gazed up into the depths of the sky with eyes that were swimming in tears.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_84780.44Then all at once she seemed to hear, coming, as it were, out of the mental mist wherein she wandered, a dull, low, long-drawn breathing, and she rose to her elbow, to see there, lying with his face turned to the lamp, and not two yards away, Murad, apparently watching her, for his eyes were widely opened and staring in her direction.
Eliot_George_Daniel_Deronda_7469_89320.44I counted this heart, and this breath, and this right hand" -- Mordecai had pathetically pressed his hand upon his breast, and then stretched its wasted fingers out before him -- "I counted my sleep and my waking, and the work I fed my body with, and the sights that fed my eyes -- I counted them but as fuel to the divine flame.
Ebers_Georg_Uarda_a_Roman_5449_8660.44And when he noticed how the woman, in whose lap the girl's head was resting, bent over the injured bosom of the child to catch her breathing, which she feared had come to a stand-still -- with the anguish of a dove that is struck down by a hawk -- he remembered a moment in his own childhood, when he had lain trembling with fever on his little bed.
Alcott_Louisa_Moods_28203_6630.44But before this new friendship was many minutes old, Sylvia's heavy lids fell together, her head dropped lower and lower, her hand lay still on the dappled neck, and with a long sigh of weariness she dropped back upon the hay, leaving little Alderney to watch over her much more tranquilly than she had watched over it.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_11160.44I had slept fairly warm, and awoke with no sensation of cramp; but the keen air had caused the steam of my breath to freeze upon my mouth in such a manner that, when feeling the sticky inconvenience I put my finger to it, it fell like a little mask; and I likewise felt the pain of cold in my face to such an extent that had I been blistered there my cheeks, nose, and brow could not have smarted more.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Two_Vanreve_3428_9180.44He choked upon the words; a racking cough shook him from head to foot; he staggered back and dropped upon her overturned chair, his arms beating the table in front of him, his head jerking spasmodically backward and forward as he gasped for breath.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_76260.44The years which had flown over the fair brow of the girl of sixteen -- then animated by, yet trembling beneath, the first wild breath of Love; -- youth in every vein -- passion and childish tenderness in every thought, had not marred, but they had changed, the character of Irene's beauty.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_37290.44When a breath of indignation swept across his spirit, the blood flushed his withered visage even to the roots of his white hair, and he shook his clinched fist at the trio of peaceful auditors, seeming to fancy enemies in those who felt very kindly toward the desolate old soul.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_18460.44Inez started involuntarily and drew her breath quickly, but Dona Ana thought it natural that Dolores should give some expression to the disappointment she must have felt at being shut up a prisoner on such an occasion, when all the court was assembled to greet the man she loved.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Heir_of_Red_2505_71790.44If I could but have got up ever so small an alarm, I would have conjured my father to send for Guy, entreated pathetically that the reconciliation might be effected, and have drawn my last breath clasping their hands, thus!
Whyte_Melville_The_Interpreter_40660_13570.44No; it grew and stole upon me by degrees, I drank it in with every breath I breathed -- I fought against it till every moment of my life was a struggle; and yet I cherished and pressed it to my heart when all was done.
Whitney_A_D_Real_Folks_13997_22010.44Desire Ledwith laid the book down again, with a great swelling breath coming up slowly out of her bosom, and with a warmth of tears in her earnest little eyes.
Ward_Humphry_Helbeck_of_Bann_9441_37170.44She did not offer her hand, and after an instant's pause, during which his eyes tried to search her face in the darkness, he took off his hat and drew his hand across his brow with a deep breath.
Verne_Jules_The_Mysterious_1268_9210.44He held his breath, and Pencroft, his eyes staring, his mouth open, his lips advanced, as if about to taste a piece of grouse, scarcely breathed.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_91070.44Here the prince stretched his hands, as if wishing to seize some unseen crown, and gleamed up altogether, like a torch; from emotion the breath failed in his throat again.
Robertson_Marg_Janet_s_Love_an_23266_71550.44And yet, as she looked at Fanny's pouting lips and frowning brow, her doubts as to the propriety of interference grew stronger, and she could only say to herself, with a sigh, -- "We must have patience and wait."
Page_Thomas_Ne_Red_Rock_A_Chro_49648_45750.44Ruth, impressed by the expression of her father’s face, and intensely struck by the picture, pressed forward to her father’s side, almost holding her breath.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_43550.44Tammas was cursing silently; Kirby was white to the lips; and in the stillness you could plainly hear the Dalesmen's sobbing breath, as it fluttered in their throats.
MacDonald_Geor_Robert_Falconer_2561_64520.44Such an east wind was the right breath to issue from such a pale mouth of hopeless revelation as that which opened with dead lips across the troubled sea on the far horizon.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_83110.44And Doctor Naudin stooped down again to the boy, examined his eyes, his chest, his whole form, listened to his breathing, the action of his heart, and felt his pulse.
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_26710.44'Beautiful Ione,' said Arbaces, as he bent to touch her hand, 'it is you that have eclipsed the day -- it is your eyes that light up the halls -- it is your breath which fills them with perfumes.'
Hillern_Wilhel_Only_a_Girl_or_36709_50480.44The smoke from the freshly-lighted cigar issued in a cloud from her half-opened lips, and she looked like a beautiful fiend breathing fire.
Hawthorne_Nath_Twice_Told_Tale_13707_24170.44This good deed accomplished, with quickened breath and a deeper blush she stole a glance at the youthful stranger for whom she had been battling with a dragon in the air.
Grand_Sarah_The_Heavenly_Tw_8676_67590.44He was a muscular man, but it was hard work, requiring his full strength; and those present held their breath, and anxiously watched him straining every sinew.
Garland_Hamlin_Rose_of_Dutcher_35805_1920.44Rose stood there, dizzy, out of breath, with her hair blown across her cheek and looked away, at the curving valley and its river gleaming here and there through the willows and elders.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_27430.44Philippus, quite out of breath, explained to the slaves how they were to act, and when he opened his medicine-chest Paula noticed that his swollen, purple fingers were trembling.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Refugees_A_11413_55780.44Since they had been picked up he had lain amid the scurvy-stricken soldiers with hardly a sign of life save for his thin breathing and the twitching of his scraggy throat.
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_1300.44She started, and held her breath, shivered a little, and snatched at the rose bush beside her, so that the thorns struck through the soft green gauntlet and pricked her, though she felt nothing.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_6170.44The golden crucifix he wore moved restlessly with a certain agitated quickness in his breathing, and he did not raise his eyes, when, after a little pause, he said -- "I tell you, as I told you before, that you think too much; you are altogether too sensitive.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_54620.44A rich, warm blush crimsoned the maiden's cheeks at these dulcet words, -- she drew a quick, uneasy breath, and then went on, -- "I love Niphrata!"
Cooper_James_F_The_Last_of_the_940_52620.44Not a limb was moved, nor was a breath drawn louder and longer than common, until the closing syllable of this final decree had passed the lips of Tamenund.
Blackmore_R_D_Erema_Or_My_F_7112_48270.44No effort would compose or hush the heavy beating of my heart; my lips were stiffened with dread of loud breath, and all power of motion left me.
Zangwill_Israe_Dreamers_of_the_29875_6560.44Her breath stirred the black lock on his forehead.
Warner_Susan_Daisy_18687_11010.44I would have said yes; I did say yes, I believe; but I did not know how or why, at this question there seemed a coming together of gladness and pain which took away my breath.
Ward_Humphry_Robert_Elsmere_8737_37180.44There was a faint breathing from the lips, she stooped, and caught it.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_97490.44'You have taken my breath away -- lifted me from Hell to Purgatory anyway,' he said, at last, trying for composure.
Van_Dyke_Henry_The_Ruling_Pass_1048_11980.44He could feel her warm breath on his neck as she laughed.
Twain_Mark_The_Tragedy_of_102_17020.44Roxana caught her breath with a spasm, and said: "Chile!
Taylor_Bayard_The_Story_of_Ke_8680_54170.44I'm hot and out o' breath, and yet I feel mortal cold.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_17860.44He drew his breath short, and stood in silence.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_40410.44Julia stood motionless, holding her breath.
Steel_Flora_An_Voices_in_the_N_40045_18530.44Quite a breath of anxiety ran through it as a fall came, but came sideways.
Spielhagen_Fri_What_the_Swallo_34599_9810.44Its fresh breath will cool my hot brow.
Savage_Richard_A_Fascinating_T_5972_19220.44the half-subjugated woman whispered under her breath.
Savage_Richard_A_Fascinating_T_5972_18530.44"I hope that no one will observe us," she said, speaking rapidly and under her breath.
Russell_Willia_The_Frozen_Pira_22215_12570.44I drew my breath more easily and stopped to glance around.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Barriers_Burned_6627_1400.44His face was ashen in color, and he was gasping for breath.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Day_of_Fate_6113_45620.44she repeated, with a sudden and deep breath; and she became very pale.
Roe_Edward_Pay_A_Day_of_Fate_6113_23470.44I bent over and held my breath in my eager scrutiny.
Richards_Laura_Geoffrey_Strong_8877_20150.44Of course he would watch her, keep note of her colour and breathing, see that she did not overdo it.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_113340.44Without venturing to draw a breath, they approached the threshold.
Porter_Jane_Thaddeus_of_War_6566_68120.44A sigh from the depths of his soul closed this soliloquy.
Meade_L_T_The_Palace_Beau_15149_25990.44she said, under her breath, and then she went to her desk again, and filled in a cheque for the amount.
MacDonald_Geor_Sir_Gibbie_2370_7870.44At last he observed that, although his mouth was wide open, the breath did not come from it.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_18100.44He gasp'd for breath, the fever on his brow -- "Was it too late?
Lytton_Edward_A_Strange_Story_7701_11290.44There was a struggle for breath, and a low hollow cough.
Lever_Charles_Charles_O_Malle_8577_36400.44said Sparks, throwing himself into a chair, and panting for breath.
Isham_Frederic_The_Strollers_29726_71300.44Saint-Prosper drew his breath sharply.
Howells_Willia_The_Minister_s_7410_53620.44Lemuel's eyes dimmed and his breath thickened.
Hope_Anthony_The_Indiscretio_13909_6350.44She clasped her hands, and drew in her breath in a long "Oh!"
Hope_Anthony_Phroso_A_Roman_41822_53220.44With a heavy sigh she opened her eyes and shuddered.
Hewlett_Mauric_The_Forest_Love_8934_40900.44He stood glaring blankly at them, fetching his breath.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_66230.44"I do not like that fluctuating color, or that quick, irregular breathing."
Hardy_Thomas_Far_from_the_Ma_27_59980.44During the effort each breath of the woman went into the air as if never to return again.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_6920.44The child lay back with a sigh of relief.
Gl_mer_Claire_A_Noble_Name_o_36550_61830.44With a sigh he passed his hand over his forehead and eyes.
Gaskell_Elizab_North_and_South_4276_26730.44She clenched her hands tight, and held her breath.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_4890.44Suddenly there was a quick sigh in her ear -- "Oh, Madelon!"
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_62050.44He set his breath and clenched his hand at the thought.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Womanho_14874_12470.44And releasing her, he was gone ere she could recover breath to speak.
Ewing_Juliana_Melchior_s_Drea_16540_10920.44Then a voice fell on Friedrich's ear, which nearly took away his breath.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_44440.44His head went down on her pillow, and Salome held her breath.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_25640.44"Not as mine does," he said with a sigh, laying her little hand on his heart.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_Firm_of_Gir_13152_61010.44As it was, she was badly bruised and the breath shaken out of her body.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_45210.44She pressed her lips together again, and took a long deep breath.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_32560.44said Hugh, stooping over her so that she could feel his breath upon her forehead.
Custer_Elizabe_Boots_and_Saddl_48972_23470.44He then went to him and with his stone mallet beat out the last breath left.
Crawford_F_Ma_The_Witch_of_Pr_3816_8210.44Unorna could hear his quick breathing just above her shoulder.
Crawford_F_Ma_Sant_Ilario_5227_76820.44Simply by squeezing the breath out of an old man's throat.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_96490.44In the dark she could hear his breath drawn through his nostrils.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_28220.44When they parted, no breath came, and the fingers only moved once more, for the very last time.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_17780.44The normal regular breathing began again, and the crisis was over.
Crane_Stephen_The_Red_Badge_o_73_26980.44They were reeking with perspiration, and their breaths came hard and wheezing.
Collins_Wilkie_No_Name_1438_94520.44"I'll try," she answered, struggling for breath, but looking at him less wildly.
Castlemon_Harr_Frank_in_the_Wo_42307_14760.44"That's so," answered the others, in a breath, their cheeks blanching at the very thought.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Not_Like_Other_28463_60360.44he muttered under his breath; but then for the moment words seemed to fail him.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_9730.44Monsey turned livid; every one held his breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_28490.44Her lips were set, and her breath was coming through them in gusts.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_23150.44For a few seconds the child regarded him with bated breath.
Blackmore_R_D_Erema_Or_My_F_7112_21930.44Mrs. Hockin had scarcely any breath to tell us, as she came in through the window.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_50760.44Her cheeks glowed, she drew a deep breath.
Auerbach_Berth_On_the_Heights_33294_13120.44"Breath of my breath, it lies here, sleeping by my side.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_78090.44So vividly did the scene recall that black, stormy night in February, when Mr. Dunbar had seen the lantern of the gaoler flash through the penitentiary gates closing on the young convict, that he drew his breath now through clinched teeth, and quickly laid his hand upon that of his wife, which grasped the bridle resting upon the neck of her mule.
Davis_Richard_Van_Bibber_and_11019_3640.44She raised her head and stared around the unfamiliar room doubtfully, then turned to where her father stood, looking at him a moment, and passed him by; and then, looking up into Van Bibber's face, recognized him, and gave a gentle, sleepy smile, and, with a sigh of content and confidence, drew her arm up closer around his neck, and let her head fall back upon his breast.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_66080.43When the Tartar embraced, that sweet figure with his arm, when he felt the warmth coming from her and her breath on his face, his pupils went up almost into his skull, and the whole world turned before his eyes; in his soul he gave up paradise, eternity, and for all the houris he wanted only this one.
Scott_Walter_The_Monastery_6406_19870.43Halbert stood silent and gasped for breath, his hairs erecting themselves on his head -- -his mouth open -- his eyes fixed, and, as the sole remaining sign of his late determined purpose, his sword pointed towards the apparition.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_25110.43He watched her now, and held his breath, and traced her at all the turnings of the road, now by a puff of her black and white muslin dress, and then by a long streaming ribbon catching among the branches -- for Winnie was fond of long ribbons wherever she could introduce them.
Lytton_Edward_The_Poetical_Wo_34298_55100.43on its hair The ice-barbs bristled: like a coming storm The breath smote lifeless every wind in air; Dread form deform'd, as ere the birth of Light, Some son of Chaos and the Antique Night!
Irving_Washing_Bracebridge_Hal_13515_23550.43Inez, encouraged, made fresh efforts to get forward, but her weary limbs were unequal to the eagerness of her mind; her mouth and throat were parched by agony and terror: she gasped for breath, and leaned for support against a rock.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_94360.43A one-armed man, with his head and face tied up with a bloody cloth, as though he had been severely beaten, his clothes torn, and his remaining hand grasping a thick stick, rushed in among them, and panting for breath, demanded which was Hugh.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_83730.43The look of mingled astonishment and anger which had appeared in his face when he turned towards them, faded from it as the words passed from his memory, like breath from a polished mirror; and grasping the weapon which Hugh forced upon him, he proudly took his station at the door, beyond their hearing.
Burnett_France_Vagabondia_25727_29850.43He told it all in a burst, clenching his hand and scarcely stopping for breath; but when he ended he dashed the letter down, pushed his chair round, and dropped his head on his folded arms on the table, with a wild, tearing sob.
Bj_rnson_Bj_rn_In_God_s_Way_A_37726_54410.43he whispered in French to Kallem who did not answer, but drew nearer, felt the boy's faint, weak pulse, tapped him lightly here and there, listened to the quick short breathing, looked at the temperature list and at what he had last coughed up.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_30260.43Paul was sitting up in his bed -- they had not let him get up -- but his eyes were wide open with distress, as he plainly heard the loud sob that each breath had become.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_172850.43"Lucy, let me say a word to you," he whispered, his tones impeded, his breath coming thick and fast from his hot and crimsoned lips.
Weyman_Stanley_Shrewsbury_A_R_39137_38360.43Had he come without a light I might still have controlled myself and kept quiet; and holding my breath though I were suffocated, and silencing my heart though I died, might have lain and let him pass in the darkness.
Vaile_Charlott_Wheat_and_Huckl_41515_21270.43Then Esther said, leaning toward the other, her heart in her eyes, and her breath coming quick, "Aunt Katharine, wouldn't you have women marry at all?"
Trowbridge_J_Cudjo_s_Cave_31406_71330.43or, in listening to the syllables of divine nonsense, feel the warm breath and light touch of the magnetic thrilling mouth?
Tomlinson_Ever_The_Boys_of_Old_34864_19040.43The occasional breeze was like the hot breath from an oven, and, in spite of the fact that he was riding, Tom's face was wet with perspiration.
Thompson_Mauri_Alice_of_Old_Vi_4097_51460.43His heart almost ceased to beat and his breath had the rustling sound we hear when a strong man dies of a sudden wound.
Tarkington_Boo_The_Two_Vanreve_3428_29230.43After a little while, he closed his eyes with a sigh; the doctor bent over him quickly, and Miss Betty started forward unconsciously and cried out.
Stuart_Ruth_Mc_Moriah_s_Mourni_20438_2210.43This was hard work, and before many minutes great drops of perspiration were falling upon the carpet and the old man's breath came in quick gasps.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_48650.43A faint shiver and an irregular breath were perceptibly ruffling, as it were, the plumage of her fan, but the proud woman only bent her head.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_45810.43And that moment breath failed in her breast, presence of mind left her, a certain quiver of ecstasy rushed over her from head to feet.
Sidney_Margare_Five_Little_Pep_7498_24630.43Phronsie drew a long breath, then threw herself convulsively into his arms, her face working hard in her efforts not to cry.
Sedgwick_Anne_The_Confounding_41917_38460.43Camelia's gray eyes kindled as she read, and her lips parted involuntarily; she drew quick, shallow little breaths.
Ryan_Marah_Ell_The_Bondwoman_29581_40250.43and his eyes searched her face for reply, but she slowly shook her head and he caught his breath in a sob, as he whispered: "Daid!
Russell_Willia_A_Marriage_at_S_32516_14380.43At every plunge of the bows she would tremulously suck in her breath and bite upon her under-lip with nervous twitchings of her fingers, and a recoil of her whole figure against me.
Roe_Edward_Pay_Nature_s_Serial_6412_1310.43On a day like this the most ardent lover of Nature could scarcely fail to shrink from her cold, pallid face and colder breath.
Moore_George_Evelyn_Innes_13201_56940.43She had nearly thrown herself into his arms, seemed regardless of those around; she seemed to have only eyes for him; he heard her say under her breath," That music maddens me," then with sudden composure, but looking at him intently, she asked him to come upstairs with her.
M_hlbach_L_L_Berlin_and_Sans_4205_25830.43But the princess could not see the rapturous expression which illuminated his face; she could not know that his breath almost failed him; she could not hear the stormy, tumultuous beating of his heart.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_83440.43"I take thy blue eyes and low broad brow," said Montreal, with a slight sigh, "in pledge of thy truth.
Johnston_Mary_To_Have_and_to_2807_62960.43The Governor sprang to his feet; through the Treasurer's lips came a long, sighing breath; West's dark face was ashen.
Heimburg_W_Gertrude_s_Marr_32442_23590.43But this lie had spread itself like a heavy mist over her young happiness, bringing so much vague alarm that her breath came thick and fast.
Hay_John_The_Bread_winne_16321_46830.43Surely this could never happen to him on the earth; the girl who had always been so cold and proud to him was in his arms, her head on his shoulder, her warm breath on his cheek.
Gregory_Eliot_The_Ways_of_Men_319_13460.43As she moves and speaks one almost expects to hear the quick breath coming and going through her quivering nostrils, and see foam on her full lips.
Goss_Charles_F_The_Redemption_14730_7100.43She drew a long, deep breath, sighed and sank back in her seat, exhausted by the nervous tension to which she had been subjected.
Goss_Charles_F_The_Redemption_14730_5510.43Those half-suppressed sobs and hardly restrained sighs would have softened a harder heart than that of this young man of thirty years.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_12410.43Now and then he glanced at his wife and child with a scowling brow; but, as his eyes fell on their emaciated faces, something like a sigh seemed to heave his chest.
Evans_Augusta_Macaria_27811_8220.43She heard his deep, laboured breathing, and saw the working of the muscles in his pale face; when he spoke his voice was husky -- "You are right; you need me, and I want you always with me; we must not be parted.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_69820.43Her heart beat with short, quick, painful jerks; an invisible burthen weighed upon her and prevented her breathing freely.
Doyle_Arthur_C_Rodney_Stone_5148_3450.43He instantly fell, resigned his breath, And closed his languid eyes in death.” There was more of it, and I dare say it is all still to be read in Patcham Churchyard.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_191730.43'But if ever John Harmon drew the breath of life on earth, that is certainly John Harmon's arm round your waist now, my pretty.
Davis_Richard_Van_Bibber_and_11019_16850.43And then he dived again and beat his way along the bottom, clutching with his hands at the soft, thick mud, and rising only to gasp for breath and sink again.
Corelli_Marie_Temporal_Power_6921_24900.43She fixed her bright eyes upon him as she spoke, and an involuntary sigh escaped her, as she noted the touch of pallor that came on his face at her words.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_14280.43His pale and ghastly countenance, sunken eye, and difficult breathing, gave her a glimpse of death in its most fearful form.
Collins_Wilkie_Armadale_1895_54120.43He leaned against a tree, sobbing and gasping for breath, and stretched out his hand in mute entreaty to Allan to give him time.
Chambers_Rober_Lorraine_A_Rom_24181_35920.43After a while his breath and legs gave out together, and he leaned against a beech-tree, his hands pressed to his mouth, where the breath struggled for expulsion.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_75030.43Then each drew a long breath, dislodged a heavy burden from his throat, glanced significantly up at Mona, and looked into the other's face. "
Caine_Hall_Si_A_Son_of_Hagar_26088_63170.43A moment's silence, a breaking sigh, a rising sob, a last lingering touch of the inlaced fingers, and then the door closed behind him.
Buckley_Arabel_The_Fairy_Land_5726_5950.43then you feel the air strongly enough; how it beats against your face and chest, and blows down your throat so as to take your breath away; and what hard work it is to struggle against it!
Blackmore_R_D_Perlycross_A_Ta_45038_65020.43And then I fall away, and cry, and sob, and there comes such a pain -- such a pain in my heart, that I have no breath left, and can only lie down, and pray that God would take me to my father.
Bacheller_Irvi_Eben_Holden_A_2799_13590.43The little box of light he carried was soon sheathed in snow, and I remember how he stopped, half out of breath, often, and brushed it with his mittens to let out the light.
Auerbach_Berth_Edelweiss_A_St_33007_55040.43Under the influence of that determination she drew in her breath and moistened her lips, as the postilion Gregory might when he was about to blow one of his elaborate pieces on the horn.
Yonge_Charlott_The_Young_Step_5843_40520.43I do not wish to make any one uneasy about me, and I may have made light of the cold I caught a month since; but I cannot conceal from myself that I have much painful cough, an inclination to shortness of breath, and pain in the back and shoulders, especially after long reading or writing.
Stephens_Rober_Captain_Ravensh_47738_8490.43Jerningham was pacing the terrace, frowning upon the ground at his feet, his look more moody than ever, and with something distraught in it; now and then he drew in his breath audibly between his lips, or allowed some restless movement of the hands to belie his customary self-control.
Sienkiewicz_He_With_Fire_and_S_37027_163100.43Murmurs rose and fell; still all hands rested above the eyes; all eyes were turned, strained with effort, into the distance; hearts were throbbing; and all, holding the breath in their breasts, were suspended between hope and fear.
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_20500.43Between the dances she spoke little to her partner, but filled her lungs with new breath, and waited impatiently for the striking of a new note; and when the new note sounded she turned to that partner with eyes that may have meant to fill with gratitude, yet seemed to him to glow with something else.
Finley_Martha_Grandmother_Els_14883_24890.43The words came low and faintly from the lips already growing cold in death, a gasp for breath followed, and all was still, no sound in the room but Zoe's wild weeping, while with silent caresses Edward held her to his heart.
Evans_Augusta_At_the_Mercy_of_4209_2650.43Intensity of emotion arrested her breath, as she gazed at the silvered head, piercing black eyes, and spare wasted framp of the handsome man, who had always reigned as a brutal ogre in her imagination.
Dickinson_Anna_What_Answer_15402_32030.43Where his breath blew across her hair it waved, and her bosom moved above the slow and labored beating of his heart; but, save for this, she was as quiet as the peaceful dead within their graves, -- and, like them, done with the noise and strife of time forever.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_143820.43As the young lady brushed past, she dropped one of her gloves into my uncle's hand, and softly whispered, with her lips so close to his face that he felt her warm breath on his nose, the single word "Help!"
Crockett_S_R_The_Stickit_Min_49342_43490.43The next moment he was smitten down, and Yabel McQuhirr stood over him with his riding-whip clubbed in his hand, the fierce irascible eyebrows twitching, and wide nostrils blown out with the breath of the man's wrath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_45270.43There was a moment of suspense, and then, breathing rapid, audible breath, the Deemster stooped beside the body, stretched out a half-palsied hand, and drew aside the loose canvas, and saw the face of his own son Ewan.
Wister_Schillingscourt.txt_3880.43Outside, the clock in the tower of the Benedictine chapel struck eleven, and before the last sound had died away the dying boy’s slender limbs suddenly straightened, and when the Rath, with a cry, sprang up and put his ear to the child’s open mouth, Veit’s last breath had died away on the air.
Spielhagen_Fri_Hammer_and_Anvi_34868_60730.43I drew a long breath as the door closed behind him, and the next moment I saw, in the black mirror of the corpulent inkstand on the office-table, my tall figure reflected in grotesque distortion, and performing, with arms and legs, movements which apparently represented a joyous dance of victory.
Eliot_George_Daniel_Deronda_7469_109240.43-- THE MOTHER AND THE SON CHAPTER L. "If some mortal, born too soon, Were laid away in some great trance -- the ages Coming and going all the while -- till dawned His true time's advent; and could then record The words they spoke who kept watch by his bed, Then I might tell more of the breath so light Upon my eyelids, and the fingers warm Among my hair.
Ebers_Georg_The_Bride_of_th_5529_1930.43The old man's heart beat high as he gazed at the scene; he drew a deep breath, and laying his slender hand on the Persian's mighty arm he said: "Your prophet, Masdak, taught that it was God's will that no one should think himself more or less chosen than another, and that there should be neither rich nor poor on earth, but that every possession should belong to all in common.
Ballantyne_R_Shifting_Winds_21702_4610.43why the household of the Bingleys, to be sure -- all speaking at once, and each louder than the other, with the exception of my pretty coz, by the way, who did not speak at all until the others were out of breath, and then she gave me such a graphic account of the affair that I would certainly have forgotten where I was, and been transported to the scene of action, had not her pretty flushed face and blazing black eyes riveted me to the spot where I sat.
Pansy_Ester_Ried_Yet_9091_21700.43But Stephen Crowley stooped before a lovely carnation, and smelled, and smelled , drawing in long breaths, as though he meant to take its fragrance all away with him; and Nimble Dick picked up the straying end of an ivy, and restored it to its support again, in a way that was not to be lost sight of by one who was looking for hearts; and Dirk Colson brushed back his matted hair and stood long before a great, pure lily, and looked down into its heart with an expression on his face that his teacher never forgot.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Knights_of_9473_78230.42Every one of the onlookers then held his breath, every one thought, that very soon two souls would escape to the threshold of the Divine Court and two dead bodies remain on the snow, and the lips, as well as the cheeks of the women turned pale and livid at that thought; the eyes of the men again gazed steadfastly at the opponents as at a rainbow, because every one was trying to forecast, from their postures and armament alone, which side would be victorious.
Cable_George_W_John_March_Sou_31470_80750.42Moreover, the flush of the orchards and breath of the meadows through which they had gone and come again were on her cheek and in her parted lips, the red-brown depths of the stream were in her hair and lashes, and above them a cunningly disordered thing of fine straw and loose ribbons matched the head and face it shaded, as though all were parts together of some flower unspoiled by the garden's captivity and escaped again into the woods.
Shelley_Percy_The_Complete_Po_4800_96560.42My brain is wild, my breath comes quick -- 25 The blood is listening in my frame, And thronging shadows, fast and thick, Fall on my overflowing eyes; My heart is quivering like a flame; As morning dew, that in the sunbeam dies, 30 I am dissolved in these consuming ecstasies.
Greene_Homer_Burnham_Breaker_10449_38730.42The sound of the man's footsteps had not yet died away as the boy ran after him along the street, but half-way down the block his breath grew short, his heart began to pound against his breast, he pressed his hand to his side as if in pain, and staggered up to a lamp-post for support.
Davis_Richard_Soldiers_of_For_403_14140.42Miss Langham drew in her breath and raised her head and shoulders quickly, like a deer that hears a footstep in the forest, and when Hope presently stepped out upon the porch, she turned quickly toward her, and regarded her steadily, as though she were a stranger to her, and as though she were trying to see her with the eyes of one who looked at her for the first time.
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_10450.42Again she paused, and almost gasped for breath; her color changed rapidly from red to white, until the blood rushed into her face, covering her features with the brightest vermilion; and she added hastily, in an undertone, "I have promised, Dunwoodie, when peace shall be restored to our country, to become your wife.
Collins_Wilkie_Antonina_Or_T_3606_30580.42At one moment his deep, sobbing, stifled respirations, syllabled horrible and half-formed curses -- at another, his panting breaths suddenly died away within him; and then he could hear the blood dripping slowly from his shoulder, with dismal regularity, into a little pool that it had formed already by his side.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_19150.42The ghostly smile with which he had witnessed the penance that had brought tears to the eyes of others was still on the Deemster's lip, and a chuckle was in his throat when at the gate of the churchyard he met Hommy-beg, whose face was livid from a long run, and who stood for an instant panting for breath.
Yonge_Charlott_Friarswood_Post_4296_9320.42He felt it within himself -- he knew now the meaning of the pain and sinking, the shortness of breath and choking of throat that had been growing on him through the long summer days; he was being 'cut off with pining sickness,' and his sentence had gone forth.
Wood_Henry_Mr_Verner_s_Pride_15627_99460.42Snorting, moaning, sobbing, his breath coming in gasps, his hair standing up on end, his eyes starting, and his face ghastly, there burst in upon them Master Dan Duff.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_Timothy_s_Quest_18531_1810.42She half opened her eyes, and seeing that she was safe on her beloved Timothy's shoulder, clasped her dimpled arms tight about his neck, and with a long sigh drifted off again into the land of dreams.
Townsend_Georg_The_Entailed_Ha_19146_69210.42He again essayed, in a dramatic way, to fan out the candles, but his breath failed him; his hands became limp, and then hastily covered his eyes, and he sank to the table with a groan, and put his head upon it convulsively.
Stevenson_Robe_The_Merry_Men_344_22650.42I saw the golden coin hover on her breaths; I saw her eyes darken and brighter, and still speak no language but that of an unfathomable kindness; I saw the faultless face, and, through the robe, the lines of the faultless body.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Old_Homeste_8078_18760.42It rolled slowly up Broadway and turned into Chambers street -- along the whole length of the old Alms House buildings it went, and still the little girl followed, trembling in every limb and scarcely drawing a full breath.
Russell_Willia_A_Marriage_at_S_32516_8370.42The fresh wind flashed into the face damp with the night and the spray-cold breath of the sea, and the planks of the deck showed dark with the moisture to the dim starlight.
Reade_Charles_The_Cloister_an_1366_176300.42On this eminence he swelled and contracted again, with ebb and flow of feathers; but Clement lost this, for he quite closed his eyes and scarce drew his breath in fear of frightening and losing his visitor.
Ollivant_Alfre_Bob_Son_of_Bat_2795_18150.42The boy was lolling indolently against the mantelpiece, his fair head shoved right into the Cup, his breath dimming its lustre, and his two hands, big and dirty, slowly revolving it before his eyes.
Moore_George_Evelyn_Innes_13201_68880.42She felt that it was her duty to explore the dark, but to get out of bed to stand in that grey room and look into the passage was more than she dared; she could only lie still and endure the sensation of hands at her throat and breath above her face.
Marlitt_E_Eu_At_the_Councill_43393_25390.42He paused for breath, never for an instant averting his indignant gaze from the beautiful woman, who looked mean and pitiable enough as she strove in vain to retain her usual arrogant demeanour and carriage.
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_28250.42Then, as if the queen regretted the words which the mother had spoken with sighs, Marie Antoinette rose from her knees and turned to the priest, who was sprinkling the corpse of the dauphin with holy water.
Howard_Edward_Rattlin_the_Ree_21578_42340.42Feeling her hot tears trickling through my fingers called me back from my dark reverie: and, as I became aware of the present, a sigh so deep and so long burst forth, that it seemed to rend my bosom.
Hope_Anthony_The_Chronicles_40570_4930.42And thus Tommasino and Martolo watched them go till the winding of the path hid them from view, when Martolo fell on his knees, and Tommasino drew a breath as though a load had rested on his chest.
Fleming_May_Ag_A_Changed_Heart_41672_85780.42If they had wanted moral conviction before of his guilt, they wanted it no longer -- it was written in every line of his bloodless face, in every quiver of his trembling lips, in every choking gasp of breath he drew.
Ebers_Georg_Uarda_a_Roman_5449_8420.42From time to time one or the other laid his hand over the heart of the sufferer, or listened to her breathing, or opened his case of medicaments, and moistened the compress on her wounded breast with a white ointment.
Dickens_Charle_The_Personal_Hi_43111_61470.42His chin was cocked over the coachman's shoulder, so near to me, that his breath quite tickled the back of my head; and as I looked round at him, he leered at the leaders with the eye with which he didn't squint, in a very knowing manner.
Dickens_Charle_Bleak_House_1023_95470.42All this, so quickly, that her exclamation and her dead condition seem to have passed away like the features of those long-preserved dead bodies sometimes opened up in tombs, which, struck by the air like lightning, vanish in a breath.
Burnett_France_Vagabondia_25727_51400.42That was all, -- only this single rapturous cry, and Dolly, who had before seemed not to have the strength of a child, was sitting up, a white, tremulous figure, with outstretched arms and fluttering breath, and Grif was standing upon the threshold.
Weyman_Stanley_Count_Hannibal_15763_27590.42The man's face was wet with the dews of death, his lungs seemed cracking, his breath hissed from him as he ran.
Warner_Susan_The_Wide_Wide_18689_54550.42"I am so glad we have got here at last," said Ellen, looking up with another sigh, and removing her hand for an instant from its grasp on the cloak to Alice's arm.
Thompson_Mauri_Alice_of_Old_Vi_4097_39060.42Long-Hair faced him and leaned toward him, until his breathing was audible and his massive features were dimly outlined.
Sue_Eug_ne_The_Wandering_J_3350_289440.42Pausing suddenly, Faringhea hid his face in his hands, and heaved a deep drawn sigh.
Stephens_Ann_S_The_Gold_Brick_34500_9920.42When he saw Thrasher, fear made him shrink together and hold his breath as if some wild beast were creeping along his path.
Stephens_Ann_S_Fashion_and_Fam_40114_22640.42Her eyes were thus shrouded, and, though she did not appear to be weeping, one deep sigh after another heaved the black neckerchief folded over her bosom.
Sienkiewicz_He_Quo_Vadis_A_Na_2853_11050.42Darkness was in her eyes, and a roaring in her ears from internal emotion; the beating of her heart stopped her breath.
Saint_Pierre_B_Paul_and_Virgin_10859_11710.42I arose, and had just dressed myself when Paul, half wild, and panting for breath, sprung on my neck, crying, 'Come along, come along.
Phillpotts_Ede_Sons_of_the_Mor_46857_54420.42Upon the first heather ridges the cold breath of the Moor touched the man to patience and brought him nearer himself.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_52220.42And the next moment all three rushed at Mary, and spoke to her in the same breath, in their agitation; for at least they were agitated by the bold coup they had made.
Mitchell_S_We_The_Adventures_43241_36950.42He fell on his knees beside her, and stayed motionless, watching the sweat on the brow, the breath quicken and then stop as if it would not come again.
Melville_Herma_White_Jacket_O_10712_18600.42Though there was not a breath of wind, it was not a great while before the strange sail was descried from our bulwarks; gradually, it drew still nearer.
Glasgow_Ellen_The_Voice_of_th_16505_44400.42Above it she heard the laboured breathing from the hearth rug, and in the firelight she saw the regular inflation of the swollen cheeks.
Garland_Hamlin_The_Eagle_s_Hea_21255_38540.42Those who happened to be standing in the room held their breath, for in that menacing, steady glare they recognized battle.
Frederic_Harol_The_Damnation_o_133_27840.42She set them all laughing; and then, with a twist of the eyes and a change of voice, lo, and behold, she had them nearly crying in the same breath.
Fenn_George_Ma_The_Crystal_Hun_24516_41370.42The sensation was almost suffocating; he held his breath, and every nerve and muscle was on the strain for the words which seemed as if they would never reach his ears.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_66430.42Mr. Granville cleared his throat several times, and loosened his neck-tie, which seemed to impede his breathing.
Ellis_Edward_S_The_Campers_Out_42504_23980.42Poor Katie, who had been gasping for breath, now began crying, and the sound was welcome to the parent, for it proved that she was alive.
Eckstein_Ernst_Quintus_Claudiu_47221_33380.42Cocceius Nerva leaned forward eagerly in his chair; his breath came quicker and deeper as he listened.
Duchess_Airy_Fairy_Lili_35228_83920.42Again he feels the light pressure of her little tired head upon his shoulder, hears her soft regular breathing.
Dickens_Charle_The_Pickwick_Pa_580_61200.42Gasping for breath, the miserable father pointed to the spot where the young man was struggling for life.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_5880.42That done, he extinguished the light, and turning his face away with a heavy sigh, drew the coverlet about his head, and lay quite still.
Dickens_Charle_Little_Dorrit_963_73020.42Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps.
Dickens_Charle_Barnaby_Rudge_917_114880.42cried Hugh, clutching him by the collar with both hands, and shaking him as though he were bent on stopping his breath by that means.
Davis_Richard_Soldiers_of_For_403_25070.42Clay drew a quick, deep breath, and started to his feet, as though he had thrown off the restraint under which he had held himself.
Crawford_F_Ma_Via_Crucis_A_R_6350_34730.42With the instinct of the soldier, Gilbert started, and listened, holding his breath, but still pressing the girl close to him.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_24500.42Dolores' heart almost stood still, as she held her breath, and heard the clumsy footfall coming nearer.
Crawford_F_Ma_Casa_Braccio_V_26327_86760.42Silent and terrible, they wrestled in fight, arm to arm, bone to bone, breath to breath.
Churchill_Wins_The_Crisis_Co_5396_116870.42Amid profound silence he leaned back on the pillows from which he had risen, his breath coming fast.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_64220.42She caught her breath, and clapped her hands to her lips to choke down the wild scream of fear that rose to them.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_51860.42"No," said Molly, defiantly, when twice or thrice his laboured breath had marked the passing of the horrible moment, "I am not Madeleine."
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_47140.42She read with lips and nostrils expanded by her quick breathing; then crumpled up the sheet and cast it at his feet.
Carey_Rosa_Nou_Not_Like_Other_28463_57400.42But he said the words gasping for breath, and looked so deadly pale that Phillis felt quite frightened as she stood beside him.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Deemster_35781_53170.42The spectators held their breath at the Deemster's words and looked aghast at the livid face on the bench.
Burnett_France_Little_Saint_El_10466_1670.42Her heart was beating so fast that she put her little hand to her side and waited a moment to regain her breath.
Bront_Anne_The_Tenant_of_W_969_45530.42I sat beside him all night, with my hand fast looked in his, watching the changes of his features and listening to his failing breath.
Andersen_H_C_The_Sand_Hills_26491_5370.42He heard Clara sigh, and perceived that a kind of convulsive shuddering had seized her; and he held her the tighter.
Andersen_H_C_Andersen_s_Fair_1597_3730.42The Councillor supported his head on his hand, drew a long breath, and thought over all the wondrous things he saw around him.
Allen_James_La_Flute_and_Violi_50597_37370.42Never, never have I drawn near it in any visible form without almost holding my breath as though I were looking deep, deep into God's opened eyes.
Alcott_Louisa_Moods_28203_36720.42Nearer and nearer came the flood, till its breath blew on my cheeks, and I, too, leaned to meet it, longing to be taken.
Crawford_F_Ma_Greifenstein_6446_24410.42It would have been contrary to custom and etiquette for the Swabians to manifest any noisy satisfaction at the result of the affair, but as Rex drew back he was surrounded and hemmed in by Greif's comrades, who tore the rapier from his grasp, pressed his gloved hands, untied the strings and loosed the buckles of his jerkin, wiped the slight perspiration from his face, and divested him of all his defensive accoutrements almost before he had breath to speak.
Russell_Willia_The_Wreck_of_th_44497_4470.42The sail was hoisted, the rope that held the boat let go, and her head was shoved off; when the "Portugee," in the excitement and fury of his feelings, drew in his breath and his cheeks, and spat with tremendous energy at Duckling, who was watching him: but the missile fell short; in a word, he spat full in the face of one of the old hands, who instantly knocked him down.
Lytton_Edward_Rienzi_the_Las_1396_36110.42Amidst all these evidences of comfort and security to the people -- some dark and discontented countenances might be seen mingled in the crowd, and whenever one who wore the livery of the Colonna or the Orsini felt himself jostled by the throng, a fierce hand moved involuntarily to the sword-belt, and a half-suppressed oath was ended with an indignant sigh.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_5870.42As the dazzling effulgence streamed through the window and flooded the couch where Alwyn lay, a faint tinge of color returned to his face, -- his lips moved, -- his broad chest heaved with struggling sighs, -- his eyelids quivered, -- and his before rigid hands relaxed and folded themselves together in an attitude of peace and prayer.
Whyte_Melville_Katerfelto_A_S_40883_33680.42His russet hide is blackened now with sweat and mire, his eye starts wild and blood-shot from his reeking head; he stops more than once to take breath and listen, but toiling on again labours heavily in his gait, and sways from side to side.
Roe_Edward_Pay_From_Jest_to_Ea_6102_55550.42At times her eyes would sparkle with mirth as she lived over scenes in which the student was ever the chief actor; and again she would grow pale, and her breath come quick and short, as her fancy portrayed him -- when in the darkness he could not have been seen by human eyes -- far out amid the ice upon the river.
Lytton_Edward_The_Caxtons_A_7605_8040.42Slowly recovering his breath, my father gently turned his eyes from one to the other; and then, laying his left hand on my head, while with the right he held up Erasmus rebukingly to Uncle Jack, said, -- "See how easily you can sow covetousness and avidity in the youthful mind.
Hentz_Caroline_Ernest_Linwood_20462_10400.42As he lay thus prone, looking up, ever upwards, he saw a circular knife, slowly descending, swinging like a pendulum, swinging nearer and nearer; and he knew that every breath he drew it came nearer and nearer, and that he must feel anon the cold, sharp edge.
Zangwill_Israe_The_Master_a_N_49795_80910.41Olive struggled for breath.
Warner_Susan_The_Wide_Wide_18689_73860.41The thick breath came and went very fast.
Ward_Humphry_Eleanor_9087_35510.41he said under his breath, half to himself, half to her.
Stratemeyer_Ed_Fighting_in_Cub_34306_26010.41He was gone but a moment, and came back all out of breath.
Stephens_Rober_Captain_Ravensh_47738_47110.41At last, out of breath, he stopped in despair.
Steel_Flora_An_On_the_Face_of_40140_9570.41"Let me come," she murmured, her breath gone with the effort.
Sienkiewicz_He_The_Deluge_An_37198_11590.41I can barely draw breath."
Scott_Walter_Redgauntlet_A_2516_65060.41AFFLATUS, breath, inspiration.
Parker_Gilbert_The_Right_of_Wa_6249_9470.41His breath scorched his throat.
Oliphant_Mrs_Madonna_Mary_44080_33960.41under his breath, and was otherwise speechless for the moment.
Merriman_Henry_Roden_s_Corner_9324_51080.41His own breath came whistling through his teeth.
Meredith_Georg_Diana_of_the_Cr_4470_84340.41They were cold; even the breath between them cold.
Meade_L_T_A_Sweet_Girl_Gr_4989_1920.41A quick sigh came from her lips.
Maclaren_Ian_Kate_Carnegie_a_20399_36060.41He drew two or three long breaths and was still.
Lytton_Edward_The_Last_Days_o_1565_73370.41He stops -- he gasps for breath.
Kipling_Rudyar_Kim_2226_72010.41'I can finish that in a breath,' he went on quickly.
Johnston_Mary_Prisoners_of_Ho_21886_33290.41"You stood still and caught your breath.
Jacobs_W_W_A_Master_Of_Cra_21929_2490.41The breathing stopped suddenly.
Hornung_E_W_At_Large_35684_46870.41Accordingly they all drew breath on the moor.
Hope_Anthony_Tristram_of_Ble_20981_60070.41"No," she said; she was calm but her breath came quick.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_47960.41No more tears, no more trembling, almost no more breathing.
Freeman_Mary_E_Pembroke_A_Nov_17428_7690.41Sarah caught her breath.
Finley_Martha_Elsie_s_Vacatio_18058_14950.41"Mother, you are actually panting for breath!"
Eckstein_Ernst_Quintus_Claudiu_47221_40900.41She groaned and struggled for breath.
Doyle_Arthur_C_The_White_Compa_903_9870.41I have seen a man gasp out his last breath for less.
Dickinson_Anna_What_Answer_15402_17090.41"It was frightful," -- holding her breath.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_50250.41"I wonder" -- he said, and then stopped, laying it down again, with a little sigh.
Deland_Margare_John_Ward_Prea_18478_12610.41he said, with a quick indrawn breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_Marion_Darche_33924_21380.41exclaimed Brett under his breath.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_46930.41"We are both flesh and blood, and breathing.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_66660.41He broke off, struggling for breath.
Corelli_Marie_Ardath_The_Sto_5114_79390.41... No tremulous stir of breath!
Corelli_Marie_A_Romance_of_Tw_4394_26850.41No breath -- no pulsation of the heart.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Shadow_of_a_14262_7750.41Yet I kept close, I did, I almost felt their breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_25640.41She could hear the breath in her nostrils.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Eternal_Cit_19732_25610.41She was staring at him and holding her breath.
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Christian_8407_66990.41She caught her breath, and her arms came down.
Burnett_France_In_Connection_w_25810_67030.41His breath came short and fast.
Blackmore_R_D_Alice_Lorraine_49075_20970.41I am quite out of breath with my long translation, and I am not quite sure of all of it.
Barnes_James_Yankee_Ships_an_36136_30600.41Then he drew a thankful breath.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_Marm_Lisa_3149_7090.41Her newfound wit seemed temporarily to have deserted her, and she was a pitiable thing as she wandered about, her breath coming in long-drawn sighs, with now and then a half-stifled sob.
Warner_Susan_The_Wide_Wide_18689_57460.41Many and many were the silent tears that rolled down and wet her pillow; many a long- drawn sigh came from the very bottom of Ellen's heart: she was too weak and subdued now for violent weeping.
Townsend_Georg_The_Entailed_Ha_19146_47630.41Dave listened to this recital with such a deep interest that his breath, strong with apple whiskey, came short and hot, and his hands trembled as he guided the horses.
Stowe_Harriet_Uncle_Tom_s_Cab_203_67510.41In a moment they dropped again; and, as St. Clare raised his head, he saw a spasm of mortal agony pass over the face, -- she struggled for breath, and threw up her little hands.
Sienkiewicz_He_Pan_Michael_An_37361_109120.41Volodyovski pierced the man with a threatening glance, and said, "The mine is not ready; and even if it were, only the left side of the castle could be blown up by it, and we will defend ourselves in the ruins while there is breath in our nostrils.
Savage_Richard_A_Fascinating_T_5972_24440.41The burning eyes of Berthe Louison were steadily fixed upon the relator's face, and she was coldly noncommittal when Hawke paused for breath and a mental recapitulation.
Porter_Jane_The_Scottish_Ch_6086_17850.41The heightened color gradually faded from the face of Helen, and low sighs were her only responses to the observations the good priest made on the difficulty of the enterprise.
Marion_Fulgenc_Wonderful_Ballo_899_18620.41My pulse and my breathing were very quick; breathing very frequently in an extremely dry atmosphere, I should not have been surprised if my throat had been so dry as to make it painful to swallow bread."
M_hlbach_L_L_Marie_Antoinett_3451_14280.41Reaching that place, and now sure that no one could observe her, Marie Antoinette sank with a deep sigh into an arm-chair, and the long-restrained tears started from her eyes.
Laut_Agnes_C_Lords_of_the_No_20418_68570.41This was no way to prepare a man for a shock that might unhinge reason; but my mind had become a vacuum and the warm breath of the child nestling about my neck brought a mist before my eyes.
Hope_Anthony_Simon_Dale_20328_50760.41I cried; and letting my legs fall and raising my hands over my head, I inhaled a full breath and sank like a stone, far out of sight beneath the water.
Gaskell_Elizab_Sylvia_s_Lovers_4537_63030.41Sylvia took her mother's head and laid it fondly on her breast, speaking to her and trying to rouse her; but it was of no avail: the hard, stertorous breathing grew worse and worse.
Freeman_Mary_E_Madelon_A_Nove_17885_37090.41"Oh, Madelon, I wish -- " he began, and then he caught his breath, and his cheek against hers was wet, and Madelon turned and comforted him, as a woman will turn and comfort a man for even his pity for her sorrow.
Eliot_George_Daniel_Deronda_7469_3710.41"Oh, my dear, any nose will do to be miserable with in this world," said Mrs. Davilow, with a deep, weary sigh, throwing her black bonnet on the table, and resting her elbow near it.
Dickens_Charle_Our_Mutual_Frie_883_67760.41He toiled out at that low door so bent and worn, and then he took his breath and stood upright, and looked all round him at the sky, and the wind blew upon him, and his life down in the dark was over!
Dickens_Charle_Dombey_and_Son_821_12330.41Involuntarily holding his breath as he opened this document, and 'bating in the stealthy action something of his arrogant demeanour, he sat down, resting his head upon one hand, and read it through.
Crockett_S_R_The_Men_of_the_32137_15130.41Wat thrust me behind him, and, throwing down his cloak, cleared his sword arm with a long sobbing intake of breath, which, having a certain great content in it, was curious to hear.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_28470.41Like many an old soldier Mendoza had some little skill, but he saw the bright spot on the white doublet, and the still face and the hands relaxed, and there was neither breath nor beating of the heart to give hope.
Crawford_F_Ma_A_Rose_of_Yeste_41009_27970.41One more restful sigh, her sweet breath came slower and more evenly, one hand fell upon her knee with upward palm and loosened fingers that did not move again; she was asleep.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_87380.41The sobbing servants held their breath -- and all stared as if fascinated at the young boy, as after a pause, he took Angela's hand that hung so inertly down, in one of his own, and with the other felt her heart.
Corelli_Marie_The_Master_Chri_4285_46850.41The Comtesse drew her breath quickly, -- her blood began to tingle and her heart to beat -- but she repressed these feelings and said, "You mean that her passionless nature will be her safety in all temptation?"
Cooper_James_F_The_Spy_9845_49680.41On this bosom she poured out her last breath; these hands closed her eyes; these very hands, that are now clasped in prayer, did those offices for her that you condemn my poor, poor brother, to require."
Caine_Hall_Si_The_Scapegoat_1303_9150.41So, with a sigh, he would arise and light his lamp and lead her back to her bed, and more scalding than the tears that would be standing in Naomi's eyes would be the hot drops that would gush into his own.
Barr_Amelia_E_The_Maid_of_Mai_5757_38370.41Filling her eyes with the beauty of the splendid looking youth still standing bareheaded watching her, seeing even such trivial things as his long cloak thrown backward over his shoulder, his white hand holding his lifted hat, and the wind-tossed curls of his handsome head, she turned away with a sigh.
Wiggin_Kate_Do_Timothy_s_Quest_18531_10540.41But the incantation was more soothing than the breath of Miss Vilda's scarlet poppies, and before the magical verse had fallen upon the drowsy air for the third time, Timothy was fast asleep, with a smile of hope on his parted lips.
Steel_Flora_An_Voices_in_the_N_40045_16110.41The straining of the long brown fingers, tense in their effort to keep back tears, the long-drawn breath trying to keep back sobs, made Jack Raymond's pity fly before impatient contempt.
Reid_Mayne_The_Plant_Hunte_27981_36770.41Then Fritz leaped upon his upturned breast, seized the white throat between his jaws, and choked and worried at it till the last breath was squeezed out of poor Bruin's body, that the next moment lay quite limp and motionless.
Dickens_Charle_Martin_Chuzzlew_968_65920.41He had fallen from his chair in a fit, and lay there, battling for each gasp of breath, with every shrivelled vein and sinew starting in its place, as if it were bent on bearing witness to his age, and sternly pleading with Nature against his recovery.
Crawford_F_Ma_In_the_Palace_o_13243_47180.41She knew at last what a kiss might be, and that was much; but she knew also what it was to kneel by her dead love and to feel his life come back, breath by breath and beat by beat, till he was all alive; and few women have felt that or can guess how great it is to feel.
Castle_Egerton_The_Light_of_Sc_26045_54930.41In reality her heart was beating fast, her breath came short; and the gaze she flung from the faint outline of coast upon one side to the vast monotony of sparkling sea upon the other conveyed no impression to her troubled mind.
Cable_George_W_Old_Creole_Days_10234_34660.41Not only sobs and sighs, but moaning and beating of little fists together, and outcries of soul-felt agony stifled against the bedside, and temples pressed into knitted palms, because of one who "sought not to be acquainted," but offered money -- money!
Baring_Gould_S_The_Pennycomequ_48161_2390.41Her complexion was very delicate, and perhaps the principal charm of her face consisted in the transparency not of the skin only, but of the entire face, that showed every change of thought and feeling by a corresponding dance of blood and shift of colour in it—and not colour only, for as a mirror takes the lightest breath and becomes clouded by it, so was it with her countenance; bright with an inner light, the slightest breath of trouble, discouragement, alarm, brought a cloud over it, dimming its usual brilliancy.
Fenn_George_Ma_One_Maid_s_Misc_36723_69590.41Just as she let her aching arms fall to her side and a weary sigh of disappointment escaped her breast, she felt herself caught tightly by the wrist, and with a sensation of horror so great as to threaten the overthrow of her reason, she snatched herself away, and clung to the bars of the window with all her remaining strength.
Evans_Augusta_Vashti_Or_Unt_31620_4910.41Kneeling there beside the motherless girl, Salome noted the changes that time and suffering had wrought on the delicate features; and, as she listened to the quick, irregular breathing, the fountain of tenderness was suddenly unsealed in her own nature, and she put out her arms, yearning to clasp Jessie to her heart.
Wolf_Emma_Other_Things_Be_1839_12510.41'Oh,' replied the visitor, with a long sigh, 'he's well enough in body, but he's blue, terribly blue; everybody is so well, you know.'"