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  • After post prandial, ostentatious bows they swimm, glimmering, down the roji dewy path along the cascading waterfall and breathless,

    Sakana 2008

  • During the few seconds which I had spent staring and breathless,

    The Ghost Pirates 2007

  • She landed heavily, grunting as she hit the slope together with Caraline, who snapped a breathless,

    A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996

  • As he worked down the slide stop, ramming both Detonics pistols into his belt, empty, taking one of the M-16s from her, he rasped, breathless,

    The End Is Coming Ahern, Jerry 1984

  • D. in the jaw and had broken out of the jug and was running, breathless,

    Three Soldiers 1921

  • Blaze forth bright in the heavens on nights when the welkin is breathless,

    The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • "Higher up the lane," he said, descending triumphant and breathless,

    Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

  • It was early morning, before breakfast; still and warm and breathless,

    The Voice in the Fog Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Where the dead sweet roses fade not of lips long breathless,

    Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • Malcolm, as they reached the summit -- the marquis breathless,

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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