Crossword-Solution: AGASP 5 letters, 69 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Being fair agasp with astoundment at this new spinning of fate's wheel, I sprang up quickly--and was as quickly glad to fall back upon the pallet.

For voice as of travail I hear, Anguish as hers that beareth, The voice of the Daughter of Ṣion agasp, She spreadeth her hands: “Woe unto me, but it faints, My life to the butchers!” On the other hand here is a metre,(62) for the irregularities of which no remedy is offered by alternative readings in the Versions, but Duhm and others reduce these only by padding the text with particles and other terms.

Thus, armed to the teeth, the Boers awaited the coming war, and now that they were fully prepared, with all their burghers on the borders and within striking distance, they despatched an ultimatum to the British Government, the more audacity of which set the world agasp, and made our countrymen shut their teeth with rage.

Doesn’t God realize that all civilization—all Christendom is tottering? Doesn’t He know what hell threatens it? Why has He done this thing to us! Can He not see France bled white!—England reeling!—Italy agasp!—America only half ready!—Naxos prostrate under the Greek tyrant’s usurping heel!—Tenedos thrown to the Turk! I—I have begun to lose my faith in God!" she cried violently; "the old gods were less cruel—less indifferent.