1 She had no breath for speaking.
2 Hareton tried, under his breath, to persuade her to go.
3 I obeyed: and, in passing, I noticed he breathed as fast as a cat.
4 I appeared to feel the warm breath of it displacing the sleet-laden wind.
5 She now put no further restraint on her tears; her breath was stifled by sobs.
6 I remember stopping to kick the breath out of him, and then hurrying up-stairs, to my room and hers.
7 As soon as he heard the other members of the family stirring he retired to his den, and I breathed freer.
8 I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.
9 Her lips were half asunder, as if she meant to speak, and she drew a breath; but it escaped in a sigh instead of a sentence.
10 His attention was roused, I saw, for his eyes rained down tears among the ashes, and he drew his breath in suffocating sighs.
11 It took his breath for a minute; and while he choked, Mr. Linton walked out by the back door into the yard, and from thence to the front entrance.
12 Mr. Linton was not far behind; he opened the gate himself and sauntered slowly up, probably enjoying the lovely afternoon that breathed as soft as summer.
13 He roamed to and fro, meantime, in a state approaching distraction; his heavy sighs succeeding each other so thick as to leave no space for common breathing between.
14 Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her.
15 We deferred our excursion till the afternoon; a golden afternoon of August: every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive.
16 He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath, he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.
17 He drew it nearer, and then rested his arms on the table, and looked at the opposite wall, as I supposed, surveying one particular portion, up and down, with glittering, restless eyes, and with such eager interest that he stopped breathing during half a minute together.
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