Word: gaspeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek athlete, Pheildippides, ran from the field of Marathon to Athens, to gasp, before falling dead, that the Greeks had been victorious over the Persians. Distance...
...hear the winding of aerial horns Thicken the air I gasp to breathe . . . I clinch twin burdens to my fading cinder breast...
...keeping pace with these modern conceptions of education. Rules, regulations, and restrictions would make impossible such an innovation with such a purpose as is envisaged by the creation of the Harvard Student Vagabond. The student Vagabonds are with us but their excuse for existence is quite different. We gasp when we think of the utter hopelessness of attempting at Cornell to stimulate visiting by students to courses in which they were not regularly enrolled. The professor's attendance record might be upset! --The Cornell...
...papers to read the article that followed. In anticipation of the obituary, which they knew would be capably, decently written, they perhaps poured out their coffee or lit a cigaret, before their eyes again returned to the page. But the first sentence of General Rogers' obituary made them gasp and hold the paper closer; the second and third sentences made them cry out with laughter or scowl with well-bred disapproval, according to their temperaments. For the article under the headline began as follows...
...smother the fish. They breathe and must have plenty of oxygen. . . . When the fish come to the surface and gasp, this indicates that the oxygen in the water has been exhausted and the water should be changed...