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1  He caught his breath once or twice and sobbed.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  I turned aside, caught my breath, and looked again.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  I gasped, caught my breath painfully, and opened my eyes.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  He shook his head, and with a deep sign as of awakening, caught his breath.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  The breath was leaving his lungs and his chest was collapsing under my weight.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  I could scarcely catch my breath, so fiercely was I impelled through the heavens.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
7  I had never before seen him stripped, and the sight of his body quite took my breath away.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  "I am so tired," she said, with a quick intake of the breath and a sigh, drooping her head wearily.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  I had come up on deck for a breath of fresh air and to try to get some repose for my overwrought nerves.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  It seemed the breath of his nostrils, this carrying his life in his hands and struggling for it against tremendous odds.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  There was just the faintest wind from the westward; but it breathed its last by the time we managed to get to leeward of the last lee boat.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Johnson's breath, suddenly expelled, shot from his mouth and as suddenly checked, with the forced, audible expiration of a man wielding an axe.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  Whether it was merely the expelled breath, or his consciousness of his growing impotence, I know not, but his throat vibrated with a deep groan.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  His eyes were closed, and he was apparently unconscious; but his mouth was wide open, his breast, heaving as though from suffocation as he laboured noisily for breath.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
15  My body struck and pounded as it was dashed helplessly along and turned over and over, and when I could hold my breath no longer, I breathed the stinging salt water into my lungs.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
16  Without pausing for breath, though my heart was beating like a trip-hammer from my exertions, I sprang to the topsails, and before the wind had become too strong we had them fairly set and were coiling down.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
17  But I was learning the sweet lesson for myself that the soul transmuted itself, expressed itself, through the flesh; that the sight and sense and touch of the loved one's hair was as much breath and voice and essence of the spirit as the light that shone from the eyes and the thoughts that fell from the lips.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
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