I'll resk the lion," she said with a tremulousbated voice.
Not a sound broke the stillness when Allan a Dale had done, but all sat gazing at the handsome singer, for so sweet was his voice and the music that each man sat with bated breath, lest one drop more should come and he should lose it.
At this all stopped and listened with bated breath, albeit for a time they could hear nothing, their ears being duller than Stutely's.
The entire city of Miami Beach is awaiting your arrival with bated breath.
Here again he stopped short, and waited with bated breath and scarcely-beating heart.
They have done so: and sit with bated breath, eyes strained, ears listening, and lips mute, as if all had been suddenly and simultaneously struck dumb.
They stand watching him, speechless, and with bated breath, their solemn purpose for the time forgotten.
None of his old-time comrades and fellow-roysterers could have believed it of the Dark Squire, as the villagers then named him, with lowered tones and bated breath.
His name, once spoken with bated breath, now a by-word for success, would be in all men's mouths.
Certainly they make a spirited and exciting finish to a round, for they need good play and--this with bated breath--good luck.
She sat there with bated breath, feeling as if transported into another world.
Then he listened with bated breath, thinking that if Irma were anywhere in the neighborhood, she would hear the shots and give some sign of her whereabouts; but not a sound was heard.
She walked round and round, ran to and fro with hasty step and bated breath.
He stood before the bed and, with bated breath, watched the sleeping one.
In the presence of the conquerors, they walk softly and speak with bated breath.
She heard her heart-beats, and bated her breath while Morgiana continued: "You wish to be free.
A great stillness was around; the sun was sinking in unclouded brightness; the Egyptians, cowering behind their battlements, bated their prayers to Allah as they gazed; the Christians forgot to invoke Our Lady.
The Abbot gazed at Cedric with parted lips and batedbreath while one might have told two score.
This seemed not to reach the ears of the sentry on the other side of the battlements, for though we listened with bated breath, there was no sound of his returning footsteps.
So are the horses of the enemy, In general journey-bated and brought low.
Such stoical philosophy, my master," said the Greek with bated breath, "neither Zeno nor Seneca ever taught.
Henceforth it befits us to stand aside, with doffed beaver andbated breath, as the Countess of Clydesdale passes by.
Therefore, they proceeded to preen their dampened feathers at distances of four or five feet, while the bird-man sat with bated breath and glowing eyes.
But why should a bird of such inconspicuous color steal silently thru our forests and slink along our streams with bated breath as if in mortal dread of the human eye?
Suddenly he paused and stood listening withbated breath.
Basil turned to the dark-robed form in bated whispers.
He watched her withbated breath, not daring to speak.
And the strangers listened wide-eyed and with bated breath.
When he came at last to make his speech for the defence, men and women listened with bated breath.
They sat with bated breath while the hunt spread round their hiding-place.
But still pursuing, row with bated breath, You clasp her to your bosom and--embrace a death!
The awestruck chief is conquered, And tells, with bated breath, Where last he saw him drifting, Into the jaws of death!
Treacherous alike in peace and war, The Seminole obeyed no law Save one he spake with bated breath: "Traitors shall die a coward's death!
Their garments all are wrapt in living flame, Their quivering bodies tortured to the bone, Their parched lips in vain assay a moan, Their eyes still pleading with each bated breath Not for forgiveness, but for instant death!
From time to time one of our rich acquaintances would disappear, his family be broken up, his wives and houses shared among the elders of the church, and his memory only recalled with batedbreath and dreadful head-shakings.
A purely Neradol D tanned leather may be produced by immersing a bated pelt, free from lime, in a 2° Bé.
N/10 NaOH and a piece of bated calf skin was then introduced into a solution measuring about 2° Bé.
A piece of bated pelt is suspended in the liquor in such a way that the pelt is completely surrounded by liquor, without, however, being creased or touching the bottom.
She loved to hear of Patty and my years at Gordon's, and would listen with bated breath to the stories of the Ranger and the Bonhomme Richard, and of that strange man whom we both loved, whose genius had made those cruises famous.
To my bated questions he replied at length, when he had got his breath, that Captain Clapsaddle had come to town but the day before, and was even then in the coffee-room at his dinner.
One fifteenth of June two children sat with bated breath in the pinnace,--Dorothy Manners and myself.
If the singular repetition does take place, people will speak of it with bated breath, as of a fate or doom hanging over the family, and therefore bound to repeat itself again and again on the old lines.
As for Dora and May they were long of ceasing to talk with bated breath and the height of loving enthusiasm of how Annie had mastered herself, and what a stay she had been in the hour of need to the lad.
So we stood with bated breath In a silence deep as death.
And there we stood, in frozen fear, Whiter than death, With bated breath; And lo!
