Mr. Ross came back to his plate, breathing heavily, fist, with a knife upright in it, coming down again on the table, his mouth open, to facilitate labored breathing.

" "But"obliquely Lanyard struck again at the heart of the mystery which he found so baffling"you seem so well satisfied with the bona fides of your informant?" There was a sound of stertorous breathing as the intelligence behind the mutter grappled with this utterance.

Are they not prone to perpetual colds in the head, accompanied by loud and labored breathing, and rarely mitigated by the judicious use of pocket-handkerchiefs?

He could hear the wheezing, laboured breathing of Bill Lainey, the hotel proprietor.

Now, glancing up, scarce breathing, Beltane beheld the nun who crouched down against the wall, her staring eyes turned towards the door, her cheeks ashen, her lips a-quiver with deadly fear.

Cold skin; weak pulse; almost total insensibility; slow, weak breathing; pupil of eye sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, than natural; inability to move; unwillingness to answer when spoken to.

"To tell the truth, I'll be glad to go, not only because of" He hitched his shoulders towards the corner whence came the hoarse and muffled breathing of the Denver clerk.

The unfavourable symptoms in measles are a high degree of fever, the excessive heat and dryness of the skin, hurried and short breathing, and a particularly hard pulse.

But she remained silent; he only heard the rapid breathing of the young girl, and the storm which raged in his own heart.

Mac picked the body up and held it head downwards; laid it flat again, and, stripping off the great sodden jacket, already beginning to freeze, fell to putting Kaviak through the action of artificial breathing.

She kneeled againlowered her headheard the faint but steady breathing.

" Then Benedict lifted his head, and like father and son they kissed each other, and together went forth into the sweet, cool-breathing morn.

Sound N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness &c adj.; audibility; resonance &c 408; voice &c 580; aspirate; ideophone^; rough breathing.

Mr. Godwin makes no response, but turns his eyes upon Moll, who stands before him with bowed head and clasped hands, wrung to her innermost fibre with shame, remorse, and awful dread, and for a terrible space I heard nothing but the deep, painful breathing of this poor, overwrought man.

For a few seconds he lay perfectly still, with quickened breathing and drawn brows.

Coolies, flung asleep on the burnt grass, might have been corpses, but for the sound of their troubled breathing.

The night-wind began to blow soon after dark; at first only a gentle breathing, but increasing toward midnight to a rough gale that fell upon my leafy roof in ragged surges like a cascade, bearing wild sounds from the crags overhead.

I seemed to listen to his constrained yet audible breathings.

She could hear his light breathing, she could discern his profile, then the nape of his neck.

She could hear the horse's sharp breathing, the creak of leather.

The hunter would hear a sound like the crash of falling trees, which would be nothing else than the mighty breathings of the giant form of the god on his nocturnal rambles.

She kneeled againlowered her headheard the faint but steady breathing.

It is pleasant to hear the pretty Rogues talk of Virtue and Vice among each other: She is the laziest Creature in the World, but I must confess strictly Virtuous: The peevishest Hussy breathing, but as to her Virtue she is without Blemish: She has not the least Charity for any of her Acquaintance, but I must allow rigidly Virtuous.

" With her hand light upon her daughter's hair, Mrs. Coblenz leaned forward, her bosom rising to faster breathing.

The wild gleaming of his eye, the fresh wounds which covered his body, the convulsive thick breathing, the fierce clutching of his tomahawk and rifle, showed that he fled for his life, while the sound of many voices below the crag betokened how near his pursuers were to him.