The words forced themselves out of her mouth and she gazed up at him with bated breath.
The ancient Indian ritual for the sacrifice to the Fathers required the officiating priest to turn away with bated breath that he might not see the spirits engaged upon the rice-balls laid out for them.
Since the 2001 release of Peter Molyneux's PC hit, Black & White, the gaming community has waited with bated breath to see what revolutionary steps he would take with his jump to console gaming.
With bated breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was known).
She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery.
