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Sentences ending with gasp

And the next remark made him gasp. [9]
Loosening it, she read two or three sentences with a gasp. [11]
I took my pipe and lit it, and was just sitting down before the fire, when-down went the pipe out of my nerveless fingers, the blood forsook my cheeks, and my placid breathing was cut short with a gasp! [5]
Then he reached over, caught up a brandy-bottle from the shelf, knocked off the neck with a knife, and, pouring a tumblerful, drank it off at a gasp. [11]
I'll take care not to tell you next time, when I think I am looking specially old and ugly; as if people could not have that privilege, without being supposed to be at the last gasp! [14]
Howells, who was near me, tried to say a comforting word, but couldn't get beyond a gasp. [5]
Jacques started to his feet, gazed around searchingly, painfully, and presently gave a great gasp. [11]
He raised his hands with a gasp. [11]
He heard her gasp. [11]

More example sentences with the word gasp in them

With a tongue which made men gasp with laughter, with as comic a gift as ever woman had, and as equally comic a face, she had been a good-natured little tyrant in her way. [11]
When 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. [11]
And when he was done, you could hear them gasp and sigh, all over the house, and look at one another the same as to say, "Ain't it perfectly terrible--ain't it awful! [5]
At last, when Tom was describing one of the roughest and raggedest ones, he gave a shiver and a gasp and says: "Oh, lordy, that's one of them! [5]
For a long time he did not utter one word; but, after a considerable interval, during which Mrs Quilp was almost paralysed with the alarm his looks engendered, he contrived to gasp out, 'If I had him here. [12]
Suddenly something happened: the young officer gave a gasp and bending double sat down on the ground like a bird shot on the wing. [2]
He called himself the victim of a cruel, inexorable fate, and felt like a bunted animal driven to its last gasp and hearing the dogs and sportsmen fast coming nearer. [10]
The flame touched the sticks at last, took gradual hold upon them--hesitated--took a stronger hold --hesitated again--held its breath five heart-breaking seconds, then gave a sort of human gasp and went out. [5]
Had he known that Detricand was behind it all he would have fought on to the last gasp of power and died on the battle-field. [11]
With a little smothered gasp, she made a move forward as though to lock the door; then she remembered that it had no lock. [11]
Such an awful sinking at the heart--such a sudden gasp for breath! [5]
With a pained, shuddering little gasp she caught her handkerchief from her bosom, and, running one hand round his shoulder, quickly and gently caught away the spot of blood, and crumpled the handkerchief in her hand to hide it from him. [11]
When the chilly rag touches one's warm flesh, it makes him start with sudden violence, and gasp for breath just as men do in the death-agony. [5]
He had a quaint sense of humour, and at his last gasp would have noted the ridiculous thing. [11]
Drawing forth two packets with a gasp of relief, he put them in his pocket, and, with extreme care, proceeded to close the panel. [11]
Carmen sighed too, or rather she gave a gasp of agitation and annoyance. [11]
With a gasp of satisfaction, the old man fumbled in the inside of his coat and drew out layers of ten, fifty, and hundred-dollar bills. [11]
With a gasp of relief, he got to his feet, the money in his hand. [11]
With a gasp of relief he stepped out into the night, closing the door behind him. [11]
His tall figure now towered far above the throng, and he set his teeth as he heard the old woman, almost speechless with delight, gasp out: "Lovely! [10]
But"--and here the man drew himself up with a flush--"but there's none of us that wouldn't fight to the last gasp of breath for the navy that since the days of Elizabeth has sailed at the head of all the world. [11]
She gave a little gasp, and I saw her bosom heave. [11]
He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spirit at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur. [5]
Almost at their last gasp the two were rescued. [11]
I could only just gasp along the way you do in a dream when there's a ghost gaining on you. [5]
The widow tottered into the parlor and sank into a chair with a gasp, and Rowena followed, tongue-tied and dazed. [5]
The doctor murmured inarticulately, gave a long gasp or two and was still. [5]
Lifting the dish, he drained it at a gasp, though the milk almost choked him, and, to the apprehension of his hostess, set the bowl spinning on the table like a top. [11]
When things had got about to the worst Richards was delivered of a sudden gasp and his wife asked: "Oh, what is it?--what is it? [5]
At that he gave a sort of gasp, and stared at me the more. [9]
She gave a gasp, and stood transfixed, as though she had seen a ghost, and then in an instant she was in my arms, sobs shaking her. [11]
I recall a gasp when they told me they played for rouleaux of ten pounds each, but I took out my pocket-book as boldly as tho' I had never played for less, and laid my stake upon the board. [9]
With his latest gasp he said, "Alas, the books deceived me; they do not tell the whole story. [5]
A very faint gasp came from her lips. [11]
He began to gag and gasp, and his eyes to stand out, and his forelegs to spread, and in about a quarter of a minute he fell over as stiff as a carpenter's work-bench, and died a death of indescribable agony. [5]
He squeezed, till from Barouche's lips came a gasp of agony, and then he let go. [11]
I had a feeling that as it was to be my first novel, it should be judged as a whole and taken at a gasp, as it were. [11]
Venters's strangely acute faculties grasped the meaning of that limp arm, of the swaying hulk, of the gasp and heave, of the quivering beard. [13]
Then 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. [6]
He said of course it was a dangerous life, and--He give a kind of gasp, and set his head like a person that's listening. [5]
We gasp, we close up together, and wait. [5]
I threw myself back, deftly avoided the lunge, and he came plump on my upstretched sword, gave a long gasp, and sank down. [11]
And now what a trick of fate it is that he has Johnston before him again, in what we hope will prove the last gasp of the war! [9]
At last, with a strain and a gasp, he drew himself up, and found himself on a shelf of rock with all the great valley spread out beneath him. [11]
I never made a gasp before that came so near suffocating me. [5]
Sheila Llyn was a champion who would fight to the last gasp for any cause she loved. [11]

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