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adjective

Breathless adj.

Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.

Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. "But breathless, as we grow when feeling most."

Dead; as, a breathless body.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Breathless" Quotes from Famous Books

... safe—oh thank God!" cried Mrs. Gwynne. "And you, too, my dear son—my brave Harold!" And she turned to him as he stood, leaning breathless against the wall. ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

... score of voices called for silence; a breathless hush fell on the crowd. A moment the fiercest listened, with parted lips and starting eyes. Then, "It was the bell!" cried one, "let us out!" "It was not!" cried another. "It was a pistol shot!" "Anyhow let us out!" the crowd roared in chorus; "let us ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... through the crowd in front of the prison, and stepping on a small erection to the left of the door, gained a momentary glimpse of a portion of the immense multitude, who, uncovered, and in breathless silence, gazed on the operations of the executioners. I retreated just as the third halter had been adjusted. The finisher of the law was in the act of descending, when the ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 10, No. 271, Saturday, September 1, 1827. • Various

... down stairs! Everybody so breathless! Everybody so happy! Every face wearing a smile! Every tongue rippling with laughter! The big grey mansion which used to seem so chill and cold felt for the first time ...

— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

... hied him to the fatal place Where Margaret's body lay; And stretched him on the green-grass turf, That wrapped her breathless clay. ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

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