Upon receiving the evidence of al-Ala's defeat in al-Andalus, al-Mansur is said to have gasped, “ God be praised for placing a sea between us ”!

He had arrived carrying a billiard cue and leading a pair of Russian wolfhounds, and had to have the helmet unscrewed as he gasped for breath.

" Billy gasped for air, and someone else heard him say, " Go away and let me die.

Recognizing McCarty's voice, Garrett drew his own pistol and fired twice, the first bullet striking McCarty in the chest just above his heart, although the second one missed and struck the mantle behind him ; McCarty fell to the floor and gasped for a minute and died.

Moments after drinking the liquid, Peter begged for water, gasped for breath and became red, he then fell into a deep sleep where he snored heavily while holding his wife's hand.

Sir John Betjeman, however, a man not noted for his enthusiasm for brutalist architecture, was effusive in his praise and wrote to Lasdun stating that he " gasped with delight at the cube of your theatre in the pale blue sky and a glimpse of St. Paul's to the south of it.

" Livingstone, whom many thought dead as no news had been heard of him for several years and who had only arrived back in Ujiji the day before, wrote " When my spirits were at their lowest ebb, the good Samaritan was close at hand, for one morning servant Susi came running at the top of his speed and gasped out, ' An Englishman!

For example, in countries as diverse as Canada, Sweden, Turkey, and Togo, a pulmonic ingressive (" gasped " or " inhaled ") vowel is used for back-channeling or to express agreement, and in France a lingual egressive ( a " spurt ") is used to express dismissal.

The first shot hit the Kid in the chest just above the heart, although the second one missed and struck the mantle behind him ; the Kid fell to the floor and gasped for a minute before dying.

On seeing Wang Hui's landscapes for the first time, Yun felt overawed and gasped, saying " In this art, your learning and talent surpass all.

About the time television first gasped and sucked air, mass popular U. S. culture seemed to become High-Art-viable as a collection of symbols and myth.

Powell gasped.

Southern California gasped and blinked under an autumn hot spell, drier, more enervating, more laden with man's contrived impurities than the worst days of the summer past.

The figure halted, and Watson gasped.

" When the curtain opened on La rondine at Covent Garden, the audience gasped and applauded.

Legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage.

The stadium crowd gasped as Bauer momentarily lost the ball in the crowd's white shirts and the shadows.

When the Dr's removed the bandages after surgery they gasped and stepped back.

" gasped half a dozen in my ear.

His last moments were recorded by the camera he had been reporting into, including his dying words as he gasped to his cameraman.

Cody suddenly gasped in pain and stumbled back to the shore.

Boston audiences of 1890 gasped when this photograph was projected as a magic lantern slide.

The astounded crowd gasped and aahhed in unison.

The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Proposals were in the air for a year's armistice.

Watson ran up the ladder and stood for a second sucking in the cool air that smelled of mud and river weeds.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

This air of disengagement carried over to his apparent attitude toward his things, and people often mistook it for boredom in him or a surrender to repetitious routine.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

Use nuclear propulsions to keep our long-range military aircraft in the air for the majority of their useful life.

When air travel was in its infancy, the sky was considered big enough and high enough for all.

Make slight, smooth grooves rather than cuts for the texture ( cuts could cause air pockets under the glaze creating pinholes or craters in the glaze during firing ).

Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.

The cleaner air means less time spent pushing a vacuum, fewer trips to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing machine.

Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.

Use the air hose for this job.

the air was thick with smoke, empty bottles were in evidence, and several of the guests were somewhat the worse for liquor.

There was an air of revolt about the children -- even irreverence for their own principles.

For example, bright sunlight is rapidly destructive for living microorganisms suspended in air.

Surface forces have been used to provide defense zones around naval and merchant ship formations, air to furnish area surveillance, and mines for protection of limited areas.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

Plane radios were not yet available, and once in the air, Fogg flew his ship by compass, a good memory for landmarks as seen from above, and a capacity for dead reckoning and quick computation.

The fragrance and taste of any white wine will die a lingering death when it is allowed to warm or is exposed for long to the air.