Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nature's waiting in a breathless fear...
Till it leaves you panting, breathless...
...Boscos. That village has particular charms for me just at present, and perhaps you can guess why I lingered and lingered until the last train had gone and my only hope was to catch the express as it stops for a moment at Boscos bridge. It was a breathless and stilly night, the tide at its flood but as calm as a lake, reflecting myriads of stars, that seemed arrayed in full force to act as proxy for the moon, who was on duty at the antipodes. I had nothing to say to the gawky youth that pulled me across...
...Brown Glee Club assisted at the Telephone exhibition, May 7. After an introductory lecture, the audience listened in breathless silence to "the bulldog on the bank," as he was transmitted via telephone by the club at an office about half a mile distant...
...Breathless I gazed upon the heavenly sight...