While he lay dying, literally gasping for breath, Messerli's wife was also insisting that shenotbe written out of her husband's will.

Tournefort literally gasped at sight of him, and Grosjean uttered a kind of croak, intended, no doubt, for complete surprise.

I got home, opened the book - and twenty minutes later I was laughing so hard that I was literally gasping for breath.

And the Nets were literally gasping for air.

I found myself literally gasping for air.

We literally gasped.

A shock of electricity runs through me, leaving me literally gasping.

He literally gasped, and seemed so overwhelmed with amazement as to be bereft of the power of speech.

You literally gasp for your last breath.

This suggestion of an apology was no doubt in accordance with the customs of the middle-classes, but the Colonel literally gasped at the unworthiness of the proceeding.