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with bated breath

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It was one of those long moments that makes a fellow draw his breath sharp when he thinks about it afterward.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!

Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

He caught his breath, he paused, then stepped within on tiptoe, and the hush of four thousand years closed after him.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

He is on the violin what Liszt is on the piano, and is the only artist worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with him.

Having paused a few seconds to recover breath, he brushed his hat with his elbow, and declared himself ready.

Tom thought he felt the hot breath of his pursuer on his neck as he doubled actively round the corner.

The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath.

At this, Hugh's face grew suddenly hot and red, and he muttered something under his breath.

Before the breath could have been well out of his body, they hoisted him up and carried him away to burial.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985