"Injuns!" gasps Mord, and starts on the run for the house--to get his gun.
The Phoenix was breathing in hoarse gasps; its wings were pounding the air frantically.
It was purely human, it was a kecking sound in the throat, such as one makes who gasps for breath.
Throwing herself into her aunt's outstretched arms, she began to sob out her story between great, trembling gasps.
My breath was coming in quick, short gasps, cold sweat stood out from every pore of my body, and the ancient experiment of pinching revealed the fact that I was anything other than a wraith.
The otter hastily gasps for breath, and tightens his hold with his fore-claws; but when they are on their way down to the depths, and air-bubbles, like silver beads, roll through the water behind him, he has only to hold on and let himself go.
And even as ploughing oxen toil as they cleave the moist earth, and sweat streams in abundance from flank and neck; and from beneath the yoke their eyes roll askance, while the breath ever rushes from their mouths in hot gasps; and all day long they toil, planting their hoofs deep in the ground; like them the heroes kept dragging their oars through the sea.