Citations:last-gasp

English citations of last-gasp

Adjective quotations

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• 1851 — The Candles, Moby-Dick

  I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.

• 1955 — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  ... the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.