He woke gasping for breath.

I woke gasping for air, hands clutching at the sheets like a lifeline.

He woke gasping, lost in darkness, and saw a vast shadow looming over him.

But he woke gasping, and remembered that in his dream he had been crying.

JANNY WURTS Shadowfane Prologue The seeress of the well in Gaire's Main woke gasping in the straw of the stables where she sheltered.

Their presence had been too strong, even after she woke gasping, to have been only a dream; she couldn't reassure herself that way.

She woke gasping and retching, and that day she had no strength to leave her bed.

He woke gasping for breath himself from these dreams.

He woke gasping, the heavy bedclothes twisted round his legs.

She woke gasping for air, the taste of blood lingering on her lips.