Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorts and conditions of craft, migrating to Dayton's fifth international air meet.* By the opening day the swarm numbered about 350 commercial, military and amateur or "gypsy" fliers. Thousands of groundlings flocked also, for there were to be exhibits to stare at, races to gasp at, "stunts" to make one marvel...
...been around in printed form for some little time, several editions of it. There is within it an undeniable quality of beauty which it seemed that no stage production could stifle; but if Hassan was not stifled by the present production, at least it was made to gasp audibly...
...make us mortals gasp a little...
...forgotten to look about him and learn. The last section of the book, in which he tells of the fabled "King of the World", and sets forth Buddhistic prophecies and miracles, is undoubtedly a more than unique thing. Strangest of all--the passage that causes the Christian reader to gasp as he suddenly and without warning runs his eye over it--is the first recorded appearance of the "King of the World". A Buddhist legend, a myth if you will; this King appeared in India and Siam over two thousand years ago. And "he blessed the people with a golden...
...Gasp as we may at the childish recklessness of the girl, Miss Hartley never allows us to lose sympathy with her, Willful, selfish, materialistic, yet essentially honest and good at heart. Anne is a constant delight one of those airy creatures that make us rejoice in the eternal unreasonableness of the other...