2. Verb. (third-person singular of gasp) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gasps
1. gasp [v] - See also: gasp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gasps
| gasoscopes gasotransmitter gasotransmitters gasp gasped gasper gaspereau gaspereaux gaspers gaspier | gaspiest gasping gasping disease gaspingly gaspings gasps (current term) gaspt gaspy |
Literary usage of Gasps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Sga- narelle gasps, "My wages, my wages!" and adds a moral. Thus Moliere fixed
the type for the Don Juans of Mozart and Merimee, of Mussel and of Byron. ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"I pray that, if there be " Any just gods of power, thou mayest drink down "Death
on the raid-sea rocks, and often call " With dying gasps on Dido's name ..."
3. Down the Yellowstone by Lewis Ransome Freeman (1922)
"... weakened to convulsive gasps and died rattling in his throat, till brain and
body reeled under the strain and he sank into a quivering heap at our feet. ..."
4. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"he cries— The gushing streams roll back the unfinished sound ; He gasps !
and sinks amid the vast profound. ROBERT LLOYD. ROBERT LLOYD, the friend of Cowper ..."
5. Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Comprising the Characteristic by William Boericke, Oscar E. Boericke (1906)
"... patient gasps for breath. Pain in oesophagus on breathing deeply. Scraping and
burning in throat and oesophagus. Uvula covered with white mucus. ..."
6. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1901)
"It has had a checkered life, and, as some one well put it, was MISSION FIELDS.
just in its last gasps when I came. I found nine boys and two native teachers ..."
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