Sentence examples for great draught of from inspiring English sources

He felt his head emerge; his eyes were blinded by the sunlight; his chest expanded convulsively, and with a supreme and crowning agony his lungs engulfed a great draught of air, which instantly he expelled in a shriek!

She took in great draughts of air as laughter, tears, and the joy of being rippled through her small body.

And he took on for the disorganized Clinton the management of big, complex, unglamorous tasks, the kind that involve great draughts of bureaucratic work without much political payoff.

Washed down with a big draught of engaging palaver.

Created ex nihilo prior to independence (1958), Nouakchott is both a city of uncontrolled urban growth (especially given the combined influence of the end of nomadic life and the great draughts) and the seat of all trappings of power, designed to symbolise the State, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

Even when you slightly see the twist coming, even when the author pokes his nose in with those quotations from The Waste Land, even when the ending is a bit rushed and you wonder if he has been keeping count of those canisters, as a reader you still inhale this novel like a great glorious draught of steam.

She seems to be taking great exhilarating draughts of literature and life.

With great care he filters a small draught of dark liquid and, no, he doesn't offer us a drop.

"This whole book is but a draught — nay, but the draught of a draught.

Draught of Port Royal or Kingston Harbour in Jamaica.

I'm giving them all a revitalising draught of delicious, refreshing Coca-Cola.