Nor does it despise smaller venison, for it can batten upon dead kittens, too, and fatten upon asphyxiated pup.

Would you suppose that he should show the same sort of attachment as exists between a poor yokel and his one wifethat he would asphyxiate himself in some sewer, leaving no one the wiser?" Kung-shuh Wan's steward, who became the high officer Sien, went up accompanied by Wan to the prince's hall of audience.

It was charged by the Allies that in the fighting in Flanders late in April the Germans used asphyxiating gases, which placed thousands of the allied troops hors de combat, including many of the Canadian division.

That levelled at you by my neighbour would have sent to ten times your distance a small ball, which, bursting, would have asphyxiated every living thing for several yards around.

The method of systematic lying has been shown to the life in connection with the use of asphyxiating gas.

Defensive reprisals (asphyxiating gas, liquid fire, etc.) are sometimes indispensable.

The favourite actress of Paris will be asphyxiated by the poisonous fumes; and you, though I hope no worse harm may come to you, will mourn for the misfortunes of others.

In that cry the asphyxiated not only in old times but in our days also find refreshment; the tormented by doubt, peace.

And I can see her again, after she had asphyxiated herself; dead in the midst of her flowers; very white, sleeping with folded hands, and a smile on her lips, on her couch of hyacinths and tuberoses.

At Liege particularly many of the garrison were caught and penned up in underground casements, and there we found them afterward dead, but with no marks of wounds upon themthey had been asphyxiated.

The fire of the trenches and the asphyxiating gases that blind you come as much from agitators in the rear as from the enemy; you must strive to see clearly, to see where the real fight lies.

With unexpectedly powerful artillery suddenly concentrated, with high explosives, with asphyxiating gas, with a well-organised system of grenade throwing and mining, with attacks of flaming gas, and above all with a vast munition-making plant to keep them going, they had a very reasonable chance of hacking their way through.

"In fact, it is these cigars that have given rise to the legend (a pure fiction, I need hardly say) that our armies are using asphyxiating gas.

and I should have been asphyxiated in that narrow compartment of the Sword at the bottom of the lagoon.

Asphyxiating gas is no worse than a storm of shells, or if worse then the more effective.

What with the new war deviltry, asphyxiating gaswith which the battle began, and which beat back the line for miles by the terror of its surpriseand the destruction of the Lusitania on the 7th, it has been a hard month.

I frankly acknowledge that, considering the kind of warfare the world is seeing today, I doubt very much if it is worse to be asphyxiated than to be blown to pieces by an obus.

It was just nine o'clock when the officers ordered us into line, ready to advance,sac au dos, bayonets fixed, musettes full of grenades and asphyxiating bombs.

They did have asphyxiating bombs.

To the leather belt about his waist, supported by two straps over his shoulders, were attached his revolver, in its case with twenty rounds of cartridges; his field glasses; his map-case; his bidonfor his wine; square document case; his mask against asphyxiating gas; and, if you please, his kodak!

Many racial hates the war has developed; but that of the German is a seventeen-inch-howitzer, asphyxiating-gas hate.

You struggle against it; you make spasmodic efforts to be lively; but none of your sallies or your good stories do more than raise a simper or a forced laugh: intellect and feeling are alike asphyxiated.

A chastened client of Mr. Fowler's once observed that a half-hour's encounter with him resulted in a rueful of asphyxiated topics.

As we were not to be frozen by exposure or immediately attacked by Bolshies, we might reasonably have expected to be asphyxiated by the Russian stove; but even this consolation was denied us, since Madame, convinced that the English are mad in their love of fresh air, consented to leave it unlit.

The odour which impregnated the whole surrounding atmosphere from these heaps was decidedly the worst and most asphyxiating I ever experienced.