Also, Bwikov has an aunt who is at her
last gasp through old age, and may die before our departure.
Satisfied with their work, they sat on the grass waiting for Pinocchio to give his
last gasp. But after three hours the Marionette's eyes were still open, his mouth still shut and his legs kicked harder than ever.
To finish the whole, she selects from among her blankets of various dyes one of some glowing color, and throwing it over her shoulders with a native grace, vaults into the saddle of her gay, prancing steed, and is ready to follow her mountaineer 'to the
last gasp with love and loyalty.' "
He had sunk down on the snow in the circle of his blood and was plainly in the
last gasp.
She was almost at the
last gasp, but began kicking once more.
I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the
last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
It would be impossible to explain to Eleanor the suspicions, from which the other had, in all likelihood, been hitherto happily exempt; nor could she therefore, in her presence, search for those proofs of the general's cruelty, which however they might yet have escaped discovery, she felt confident of somewhere drawing forth, in the shape of some fragmented journal, continued to the
last gasp. Of the way to the apartment she was now perfectly mistress; and as she wished to get it over before Henry's return, who was expected on the morrow, there was no time to be lost.
In its turn natural courage would sometimes take its place, and then I would be talking myself up to vigorous resolutions; that I would not be taken to be barbarously used by a parcel of merciless wretches in cold blood; that it were much better to have fallen into the hands of the savages, though I were sure they would feast upon me when they had taken me, than those who would perhaps glut their rage upon me by inhuman tortures and barbarities; that in the case of the savages, I always resolved to die fighting to the
last gasp, and why should I not do so now?
My surprise and perplexity were great on discovering, by touch more than vision, Miss Isabella's springer, Fanny, suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its
last gasp. I quickly released the animal, and lifted it into the garden.
The empire of Britain in this ancient province is at its
last gasp to-night;--almost while I speak it is a dead corpse;--and methinks the shadows of the old governors are fit mourners at its funeral!"
He wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been gripped tight by that nameless, incomprehensible pride of the trail and trace--that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the
last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if they are cut out of the harness.