Jones slept, the stertorous sleep of delirium.

" "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.

Suddenly he began to cry, shockingly, with deep stertorous suspirations.

At one side of the forge you will see the great dusty bellows and you will hear its stertorous breathing.

Both were occupied in peaceful and stertorous repose.

sounding; soniferous^; sonorous, sonorific^; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic^. Phr.

Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous; euphonious &c (melodious) 413.

And then she heard an awful stertorous breathing, and knew that her grandmother was lying there, stricken and helpless.

The horror of that dreadful moment in which she found her grandmother lying senseless on the ground, the terror of that distorted countenance, those starting eyes, that stertorous breathing, was not easily banished from a vivid girlish imagination; seeing how few distractions there were to divert Mary's thoughts, and how the sun sank and rose again upon the same inevitable surroundings, to the same monotonous routine.

" She smiled at the prostrate Cleofonte, whose stertorous breathing shattered the silences.

That stifled hum of Midnight, when Traffic has lain down to rest; and the chariot-wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to Halls roofed-in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only Vice and Misery, to prowl or to moan like night-birds, are abroad: that hum, I say, like the stertorous, unquiet slumber of sick Life, is heard in Heaven!

" "If I could only feel that it was!" I turned in amazement, to see her leaning a little forward, her hands still tightly clasped in her lap, and her eyes fixed upon the distant horizon where the red spark of Lakalatcha's stertorous breathing flamed and died away.

I waited a minute or two listening to the breathing of the two murderers as it grew moment by moment more stertorous and irregular, and then, having filled up the stove, went down to the first floor and sat awhile by the open window to breathe the relatively fresh air.

No reply; but calm stertorous music from Duncan's bed.

At the end of a month the stertorous breathing of the victim proclaims the time of sacrifice to Apicius.

Then a round and ruddy face rose like a harvest moon above the tailboard, and a stertorous voice replied respectfully "Sir?" "Let down this tailboard; load this officer's platoon into the lorry; issue them with a Maconochie and a tot of rum apiece; and don't forget to put Smee under arrest for dangerous driving when we get back to billets.

'Tis the stertorous breath Of a slumbering man,and it smacks of death!

For a few moments the doctor's eyes were closed in expectant rapture; his breathing grew so stertorous that his callers were becoming alarmed; but he spoke at last, reluctantly, resentfully.

And yet this silence was presently broken by a recurring sound like breathing, interrupted occasionally by inarticulate and stertorous gasps.

So I ran, Sir, as I had never run before; the beads of perspiration poured down from my forehead; the breath came stertorous and hot from my heaving breast.

Theodore's stertorous breathing assured me that he was still insentient.