There was breathless silence among the persons who had gathered round the girl.
Then there followed a moment of almost breathless silence.
In the yard there was an abrupt and breathless silence.
The breathless silence, broken, perhaps, by a far sweet bird call, was not reassuring in itself and soon they would stop to listen again.
For a space there was breathless silence in the room.
The people below them kept breathless silence for the play before the throne had not passed un-noticed.
There was a waiting, breathless silence for a very long time.
"Reverse power, sir," he said, his voice loud in what was now an almost breathless silence.
Reddie got to his feet amid a rather breathless silence.
A breathless silence, while everyone waited for the Chairman's next comment.