Word: breathlessly
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...fire. "Sometimes he sets and thinks and sometimes he just sets." And "just setting" has been the prevailing activity of the Council for the past few years. Of late it is true there has been a faint sound of cackling suggestive of coming events, and the University awaits breathless and open-eyed for whatever results may come from tomorrow's meeting of the representative body...
John Barrymore has just completed in California, a celluloid Beau Brummel. Lenore Ulric's return to the screen will be signalized when Tiger Rose is presented to a breathless world at Christmas time...
John Corbin: "An audience exceptionally intelligent and cultivated in the art of the drama followed his performance with rapt attention and breathless interest...
...even the barriers of an unfamiliar tongue are broken by the uncanny force of Duse's personality. She might have been reciting passages from an Italian dictionary for all the audience cared. She held them breathless through four long acts of conversation unrelieved...
...deep grew up between them, its bonds so strong that it even forced Meromic to fight against his countrymen during the last campaign against Vercingetorix. But at last the claims of his people proved too strong for him; he went back to them (too late for victory) and, after breathless adventures that lost him his right hand, returned to Rome, a freeman, thinking to live with Titus the rest of his days. He did not, because-but we must not spoil the ending...