indrawing

noun 2

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ADJ.

deep, fierce, sharp

VERB + INDRAWING

hissing

INDRAWING + NOUN

breath, speaker's

PREP.

with

Definitions

noun

An inhalation of breath; an inspiration.

But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"

The words came with a fierce hissing indrawing of the speaker's breath.

The drawing inward of anything.

Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.

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But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"

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The words came with a fierce hissing indrawing of the speaker's breath.

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But the only outward expression they gained was a throwing back of the head, and a deep indrawing of the breath, followed by the quite uninspired exclamation, "Holloa, there's the ocean!"

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