In her last months, she would often sit in the doorway of her home, gasping for breath.
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Her chest has over the 3 days prior to admission woken her at night when she was aware of being 'breathy and gasping for breath'.
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As they cannot cough they may be seen gasping and may have mucous around their nostrils.
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I gasped, tried to catch my breath at the weight of such a revelation.
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The visiting doctor gasped in horror and hurriedly asked if there weren't a more private place we could talk.
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Cries, gasps, screeches, whispering, laughing, and other non-speech-like vocalizations were not transcribed.
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His voice is loud, forced, and unpleasantly rasping, at times he gasps out individual words loudly.
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Here she made an important connection between the gasping breath and a perceived need to take in lots of air in order to play the oboe.
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There are these things which are so breathtaking - literally - that you justgasp.
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The universities and 'critical verisimilitude' are treated as the lastgaspof a fossilised world.
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To advocates of the" resolute approach", crime is simply a choice to do wrong; it is never the squalid lastgaspof the outsider.
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All that came was a weakgaspand then a sputter.
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One thing led to another, one step at a time, with each music-related essay seeming to be a lastgasp.
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They are continually coughing and gasping for breath.
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One cannot find any basis for it at all, and one is left gasping at the mentality which can bring it about.
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