gasp,

When he had lain there for some minutes he said, with a gasp,

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

She could hardly wait until school was dismissed to race home to her mother, to whom she managed to gasp,

A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett

The fluid in it splashed into Mrs. Vandemeyer's face, and during her momentary gasp,

The Secret Adversary CHRISTIE, Agatha, Dame 1922

Have you a friend who cannot tell you from one to three melodramatic tales, lying quite within his experience, at which you will gasp,

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

When the awakened one saw nothing, John tried to scream, but could only gasp,

A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906

And the poor girl was so stiff and numb that she could just gasp,

The Yellow Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1900

Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

Next to M. Buffon, to whom M.dame had vowed a sort of cult, and who was still writing to this faithful friend when he was near his last gasp,

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

It was one evening, when being brought, as I may say, to the last gasp,

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1696

Basketball must stay on the uptick after Donnie Jones left for, gasp,

The Charleston Gazette - 2010