One especially of white satin with much gold lace and bullion quite took my breath away.
Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution, almost takes one's breath away.
She quite took my breath away, but I only said, 'Clotilde, you will oblige me by seeing as little as possible of Yorke on the remainder of the trip.
You have no idea what a talent she has for organisation--she almost takes my breath away some-times.
And so it was that one day he made a proposition that nearly took Caleb's breath away.
But when I turned about--why, it nearly took my breath away.
I waited for her to speak again, because she had spoken so sadly that it took my breath away.
But I was now so dazed and frightened, that it took my breath away, and I could not answer, feeling sure that I was robbed and some one else had won her.
That last thought was a dreadful blow, and took my breath away from me.
The snow nearly blinded me, the wind took my breath away, forced me backward, and beat me to the earth again and again.
I did hear from him, and what I heard was of a nature so surprising as nearly to take my breath away.
The speed took my breath away; the motion make me sick.
What can you expect, when you take one's breath away, creeping in like a burglar, and letting cats out of bags like that?
Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irresistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
It nearly took my breath away, though I thought I might possibly have misunderstood.
Nasby was fond of Clemens too, but doubtful about the trip-doubtful about his lecture: Your proposition takes my breath away.
Tiff--was the sort of definition to take one's breath away, having regard to the fact that both the word convict and the word pauper had been used a moment before Flora de Barral ran away from the quarrel about the lace trimmings.
And when the thought flashed upon me that these were the premises of the Marine Board and that this fellow must be connected in some way with ships and sailors and the sea, my astonishment took my breath away.
One night in February, 1874, when seated in my editor's room, I received over the private wire a telegram that took my breath away.
The sight of a reporter for one of the London dailies was awe-inspiring, and the notion of being called upon to work in the company of so august a being almost took one's breath away.
It quite took mybreath away when I heard it—that any one should have such assurance.
My uncle was fond of saying this; but it always took my breath away, from the sublimity of his self-ignorance.
The answer came so quick that it nearly took the old gentleman's breath away, and he looked at his niece with his mouth open after an involuntary, "Sho!
Deary me, it all comes back so livin' real it kinder takes my breath away.
But the knowledge that he had consoled himself so quickly by taking an interest in some other girl almost took her breath away.
There was a time, I suppose, when the thought of such a thing would have taken my breath away, would have chilled me to the bone.
But the excitement of the plowing-match has been eclipsed by a bit of news which has rather taken my breath away.
It rather takes my breath away, at times, and I shy away from it the same as Pauline Augusta shies away from the sight of blood.
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