| 单词 | to gasp one's life away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gasp one's life (also breath) away P3. to gasp one's life (also breath) away and variants: to breathe one's last; to die. ΚΠ 1605 R. Buckland tr. St. Victor Memorable Hist. Persecution in Africke ii. vii. 66 Life was gasped out, euen betweene the hands of them which haled them. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 480 He staggers round, his Eyeballs rowl in Death, And with short sobs he gasps away his Breath. 1723 R. Blackmore Alfred ix. 317 From Groans of Warriours gasping out their Breath, From neighing Coursers, and the ringing Blows Of Swords on Helms and Shields, such Clamour rose. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. iv. 621 He..lay gasping life away. 1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. vii. 63 While thus enjoying the varied sweets of solitude, he became the prey of sickness and gasped his life away. 1860 Ladies' Repository Aug. 91/2 Marian's nightdress and the bed-clothing were dabbled with blood, while she, propped with pillows, was gasping her life away. 1921 St. Nicholas Feb. 313/2 It ceased its floundering, and lay on the bank quietly gasping its life away. 1989 Independent (Nexis) 31 July The crooked financier..drank a cup of coffee in his Italian prison cell and gasped his life away in the ecstasy of strychnine poisoning. < as lemmas |
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