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Updated: June 6, 2025


It was therefore very natural that the whole company at court awaited with eager attention and bated breath the moment when the master of ceremonies would name these two important personages, whose names had been kept so secret that nobody had yet learned them. That morning, just before he handed the list to the master of ceremonies, the king had written down these two names with his own hand.

In Cape Colony the loyalists waited with bated breath, knowing well that there was nothing to check a Free State invasion, and that if it came no bounds could be placed upon how far it might advance, or what effect it might have upon the Dutch population.

As an illustration of this attitude that leaves the wrong impression with students, it is reported that a good teacher of hygiene recently prefaced a brief talk to college girls as follows: "I shall now consider a process that no cultured woman ever mentions except with bated breath. I refer to menstruation."

"Shame you, Andy? I shame you I who have loved you next best to Sam! Come. Father has gone to bed, there will be time before mother returns. I want you to see Sam." With bated breath the two entered the living-room of the cottage. The place had been made sacred to the young hero who was so early called to his rest.

Up early, and bated at Petersfield, in the room which the King lay in lately at his being there. Here very merry, and played us and our wives at bowls.

The slight stiffening of her face shewed that it had been an effort to say what she had said. "So you think that Lang ought to be approached with 'bated breath and whispering humbleness' just as he is on the point of trampling us and our cause into the dirt?" "No certainly not! But why hasn't he as good a right to his opinion as we to ours without being threatened with personal violence?"

And in time Dowley succeeded to the business and married the daughter. "And now consider what is come to pass," said he, impressively. "Two times in every month there is fresh meat upon my table." He made a pause here, to let that fact sink home, then added "and eight times salt meat." "It is even true," said the wheelwright, with bated breath.

"What! the black ghost?" inquired the other, but with bated breath. "Black! I should think not, I've heard of that; but if ever there was a white ghost in the world I've seen one to-night, flying along over the snow where any human being would have floundered over head and ears, and at last it went over the edge of the fosse, where the fall would have broken any mortal's neck to a certainty.

Not a leaf moved upon the trees, not a cloud crept over the sky. It was all one dim, gray, gloomy stillness overhead. I wondered if they would have rain. They, not I, for I was going to stay at home, and before they came back I should have seen him. I said that over and over to myself with bated breath, and cheeks that burned like flame. Every step that passed my door made me start guiltily.

He spoke as if there could be no question as to his being right as to the law and the facts, and yet, in some subtle way that bated analysis, managed not to antagonize the court. Victory was in the air in that office.

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