They must have contracted as mortal a hatred of the whites from their sufferings on board ship by fetters, whips, and suffocation in the hold, as the West Indian from those severities which are attached to their bondage upon shore.

On the Elizabethan stage, the murder of Agamemnon would no doubt have been "subjected to our faithful eyes" like the blinding of Gloucester or the suffocation of Edward II; but who shall say that there is less "specifically dramatic effect" in Aeschylus's method of mirroring the scene in the clairvoyant ecstasy of Cassandra?

Supper was awaiting them and Katherine for the moment alone, near an open window,the room appeared close to suffocation with humid heatwaited for Sir Julian to take his seat at her side.

He omitteth no occasion of obtruding his services, from a case of common surfeit-suffocation to the ignobler obstructions, sometimes induced by a too wilful application of the plant Cannabis outwardly.

This place was crowded to suffocation on the day when John Porteous, captain of the City Guard, was to be hanged, sentenced to death for firing on the crowd on the occasion of the execution of a popular smuggler.

The immediate cause of death was suffocation from the effects of suppuration, as so often occurs in rapid consumption.

'Twill be all over in six or seven weeks; and there are dismal weeks enow after to endure suffocation by a brimstone fireside."

It was suffocation at the doors of the Bank, changing small notes, the only ones now payable in specie.

The beautiful surface and keeping which connected them with the old tradition, together with the modern spirit, the trenchant simplicity of their portraiture, had sent him backeager and palpitatingto his own work on the picture of Madame de Pastourelles, or on the last stages of the 'Genius Loci.' He looked into them now, sharply, intently, his heart beating to suffocation under the stress of that startling phrase of Watson's.