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 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.
14 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.
15 I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine, and began to grow very snappish.
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 I did remark, to be sure, that mounting the stairs made her breathe very quick; that the least sudden noise set her all in a quiver, and that she coughed troublesomely sometimes: but I knew nothing of what these symptoms portended, and had no impulse to sympathise with her.
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