last gasp

“Their attack was seen as the last gasp of the old order trying to bring down Veelox.”

Simon & Schuster: Raven Rise

“Malleal screeched, not like a falcon riding the winds, but like the last gasp of a cornered creature, the sound of the fear of death.”

Simon & Schuster: The Welkening

“If Leighton were to declare that Hornblower had fought at Rosas contrary to the spirit of his orders; if the court martial were to decide that the Sutherland had not been fought to the last gasp — and courts martial were chancy affairs; if — if — if.”

Flying Colours

“My son, Jeffery James, struggled and drew his last gasp of breath and his little body went limp.”

Simon & Schuster: A Book of Miracles

“In a kind of last gasp of the golfing day, I reached the fringe of the eighteenth in two shots, chipped on, but then missed a two-footer for par.”

Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

“The dance consumed them, took every last gasp from their bodies, cindered every last sense.”

A Lady of His Own

“With his last gasp he will make a phrase to flabbergast a dolt.”

Prejudices : first series,

“I loaded all my cannon, as I called them-that is to say, my muskets, which were mounted upon my new fortification-and all my pistols, and resolved to defend myself to the last gasp - not forgetting seriously to commend myself to the Divine protection, and earnestly to pray to God to deliver me out of the hands of the barbarians.”

Robinson Crusoe