gasping

Anne gave one gasping little scream which nobody ever heard; she was white to the lips, but she did not lose her self-possession.

Wright’s lane they were very apt to arrive there, breathless and gasping, some three minutes too late.

Phillips’s brief reforming energy was over; he didn’t want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance.

“It was Aunt Josephine,” said Diana, gasping with laughter.