had panted

• past perfect

  past perfect

  Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.

  of pant.
  pant

  verb (used without object)

  to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.

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had panted

"A shaggy mountain of malice had panted, heaved and labored," an early Johnson biographer fulminated, "and this small and very scaly mouse was the result!"

From Time Magazine Archive

All his life long John had panted for that; his hope was to make men better.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

There he lay, trampled over by either party, while that great fight for which his fiery soul had panted was swaying back and forward above his unconscious form.

From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This was blow for blow, and ever since then Dr. Gowdy had panted to open the second round.

From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller

Amy Bates, still inhabiting the cave, had seen the cab-wheels through the grating of her window and had panted up the kitchen stairs to open the door ere Constance had climbed the steps.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

Related Words

• breathe heavily