The girl's voice trembled, her breath came so hard Morgan could hear its suspiration where he stood. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The severity of the sentence occasioned general surprise; a general suspiration and low murmur were heard through the court. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference
Janet took a deep breath which was hardly a sigh; it was rather a big drink of air and the final suspiration of all her worries. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
Infinitely reassuring was the unresting, unhurried suspiration of the air-pumps, driving the man-made trade winds of this tiny planet. From Wordnik.com. [The Sands of Mars]
Its melancholy whinny upon the appearance of the woman was a sigh for freedom; a sad suspiration to the memory of radiant clover fields or poppy-starred meadows. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Prelude, "Ah, there is a blessing in the gentle breeze," which is closer in spirit — and suspiration — to the Faustian "ach" in Kittler's epoch of the organic muse. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
It was a sly suspiration, a sound that played beguilingly around the outer ear without ever really intruding, yet they heard it anyway, a laugh that froze only random drops of blood within their veins. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
But the death-frost creeps on -- his eyes darken -- and the suspiration which finally wafts the soul from the body, beseeches the favour of her, only to earn whose favour he lived, and with earning whose favour he dies. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
I once went to a quiz where they asked which team was currently bottom of the Football League, and there was a rustling suspiration through the room as every single human leaned in and scribbled on their pads while I, who'd been invited along purely for my supposedly up-to-the-minute sporting knowledge, looked on like a startled haddock. From Wordnik.com. [How I acquired my pub quiz technique | Emma John] Reference
When I at last concluded with a loud note of joy, a long, involuntary suspiration in the darkening room told me that I had been listened to with profound interest; and, although no word was spoken, though I was still a stranger and under a cloud, it was plain that the experiment had succeeded, and that for the present the danger was averted. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
The unheard rhythmical suspiration of the Universe. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of the Elements] Reference
Finally comes a last suspiration, usually in the advertising pages. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
The ordinarily calm Thornton gave a great suspiration and his face was livid. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Rocked the Earth] Reference
For the monarch suddenly sank back into his chair, and a long, loud suspiration of relief came from him. From Wordnik.com. [Man of Many Minds] Reference
Ere it could die away it was taken up by another cabin, and another -- a vast suspiration of human misery. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Bellew] Reference
Suddenly Allie was arrested by a loud, long suspiration -- a heave of heavy breaths in the room of the gamblers. From Wordnik.com. [The U. P. Trail] Reference
"Miss Tracy," said Ned, after a long pause, with a feeble, tremulous utterance, accompanied by a heavy suspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
Interpreters, sent up his little messenger, without any pomp or ceremony, or 'windy suspiration of forced breath,' and fetched it. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference
With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and reentered. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Lastly, the footsteps receded; something dropped, not heavily, but rather in a manner gently subsiding, and a groan (or was it a moan, a tired suspiration?) wakened in Hugo's spinal column a curious, strange thrill. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
The last taunt struck home, and Mr. Gardner of Wellsville, making a mighty suspiration, drank so long and deep that the world wavered when he handed the flask back to Prescott, and a most generous fire leaped up and sparkled in his veins. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond] Reference
That impasse, the way things are even by his own concession, renders his plea for greater engagement hollow and, finally, self satisfyingly shrill, however nicely worded and clever it seems-that seems, perhaps, and rather, ". windy suspiration of forced breath". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Drew suspiration < 28 >. From Wordnik.com. [The Noble Spanish Soldier] Reference
And with doleful suspiration kept. From Wordnik.com. [Toward the Gulf] Reference
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet] Reference
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
Nor windy suspiration of forcd breath. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark] Reference
'Eh, mem!' said Robert, with a deep suspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
260: Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
Pale, emaciated, and apparently languid, her face afforded no apprehension of life, except when, once or twice in a minute, her lip trembled with suspiration; her right arm, which rivalled alabaster in whiteness, hung over the nurse’s shoulder, her left had fallen by her own side, so that the profile of her countenance was completely open to their view, and exhibited a regularity and symmetry of features, unaltered by the injuries of grief or the ravages of disease. From Wordnik.com. [Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale] Reference
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