The priest was breathing raggedly, and real fear haunted his face.

Breathing raggedly, Jenise gazed down at him too spent to do anything else.

A long time he lay still, breathing raggedly, then she saw him rise painfully, as if against his own desire.

He threw himself across it, breathing raggedly, shivering and unable to stop.

She was still breathing raggedly, her lovely hair in disarray.

She was breathing raggedly, as if she had been running.

Outside he breathed raggedly and glanced again at the sky.

Slim lay quiet, breathing raggedly for several minutes, then started to speak.

He didn't answer that, either, just sat there, breathing raggedly.

For several moments he hung mere, breathing raggedly in agony.