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Breathlessly

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breath·less  (brthls)
adj.
1. Breathing with difficulty; gasping: was breathless from running.
2. Marked by the suspension of regular breathing, as from tension or excitement: a breathless audience.
3. Causing or capable of causing the suspension of regular breathing; tense or exciting: a breathless flight.
4.
a. Not breathing; without breath.
b. Dead.
5. Having no air or breeze; still: a breathless summer day.
breathless·ly adv.
breathless·ness n.
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Adv.1.breathlessly - in a breathless manner; "she spoke breathlessly"
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"Madam," I said, breathlessly springing forward, as a heavenly being was coldly tearing the hook from the gills of the unlucky trout, "though I am a stranger, will you do me a great favour?
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At five minutes before eight, Passepartout, hatless, shoeless, and having in the squabble lost his package of shirts and shoes, rushed breathlessly into the station.
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She talked breathlessly of the floor and the heat and the supper.
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