Here she lay breathless watching the lion; but the beast gave no indication that he had heard aught to arouse his suspicions.
I lay motionless and breathless, whilst the great dark mass whisked by me and was swallowed up in the night.
He lay breathless, the wind knocked from him, all his senses jolted.
Then my hurtling body hit a boulder, checked, lay breathless and half-stunned against it for the two long moments it took to let me hear the second murderer coming after me.
At the open window, the night lay breathless.
He ;,lay breathless in the rain, listening to what was going on.
Again and again the companions returned to their labors until they lay breathless and exhausted.
Tyler and Worf both lay breathless on the floor of the shuttle, surrounded by their crewmates as the life-support system in the small vessel pumped in air to breathe.
They dropped back behind the bank and lay breathless.
The night lay breathless, stirring not one whisper from the stationed evergreens that stood sentinel over generations of bones.