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As to Dale, his gaspings and wild cries of delight proved that the final joys were almost too great for him to bear.
It is hard to get one's breath at such a time, such lumps come into one's throat, and such gaspings; but as soon as I could speak, I said: "But this is a mistake the execution is to-morrow." "Order changed; been set forward a day. Haste thee!" I was lost. There was no help for me.
Then it disappeared from public view. A few copies still kept their place on the shelves of friends, presentation copies, of course, as there is no evidence that any were disposed of by sale; and now, one might as well ask for the lost books of Livy as inquire at a bookstore for "Gaspings for Immortality."
Oh, the gaspings, the chokings and stranglings, which occurred when she mounted a rock by the edge of the pool, and after calling in tones of thunder, 'Brush, brothers, brush with care! Brush in the presence of the commandaire!
The voice rose to a higher pitch than usual, and assumed a tremolo. Then, if the other person was also endowed with sensibility, he or she would rotate and quake in somewhat the same manner. Their cups of tea would be considerably agitated. They would move about in as unnatural a manner as possible; and when they left the room, they would do so with gaspings and much waste of breath.
Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings. It takes only a minute and a half to tell that in its comic-story form; and isn't worth the telling, after all.
"She dies and I cannot see her! and you are permitted that last glimpse of human perfectness; you who never loved her as I did; you hated and detested! you " Cesarini paused, and his voice died away, choked in his own convulsive gaspings for breath.
"She dies and I cannot see her! and you are permitted that last glimpse of human perfectness; you who never loved her as I did; you hated and detested! you " Cesarini paused, and his voice died away, choked in his own convulsive gaspings for breath.
Frank's father, with a taper in his hand, immediately went, with a pale face and trembling steps, to the place appointed for him beside the corpse, where he took his stand. When young M'Kenna heard Darby's last question he seemed as if seized by an inward spasm: the start which he gave, and his gaspings for breath, were visible to all present.
The jailers in the mean time held lights at the bars and shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. "At length the tumult died away in low gaspings and moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened.
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