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out of breath

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out of breath
breathing with difficulty. Bill was completely out of breath after moving the desk upstairs.
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Again Nikita went stumbling through the snow, again he fell in, again climbed out and trudged about, and at last quite out of breath he sat down beside the sledge.
During the whole process of getting started, the little girl had kept up an uninterrupted stream of comments and questions, until the somewhat dazed Nancy found herself quite out of breath trying to keep up with her.
After a hard race of almost an hour, tired and out of breath, Pinocchio finally reached the door of the cottage and knocked.
 
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