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plural indrawings
An inhalation of breath; an inspiration. quotations examples
But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"
1910, Myrtle Reed, Master of the Vineyard
The words came with a fierce hissing indrawing of the speaker's breath.
1906, Fred M. White, The Slave of Silence
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!"
1897, Maud Wilder Goodwin, Flint
The drawing inward of anything. quotations examples
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.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press