Pam lay on the porch, sobbing in dry, painful gasps.

His breath was coming in painful gasps, and his arms ached.

Adon forced himself to stand, his breath coming in short, painful gasps.

Desiree's breath was coming in painful gasps, and we had to support her on either side.

One of the men climbed up onto the tail board and sat panting in long painful gasps.

North, who had the wind knocked out of him, spoke in short painful gasps.

She looked up at them both, her breath coming in painful gasps.

He still breathed in painful gasps, but even that short period of rest had done him some good.

Brown's heart was a steel fist, and his breathing came in painful gasps that a doctor might have taken for something they were not.

Haplo said nothing, his breath coming in sharp, painful gasps.