She could not break forth herself, but to escape suffocation she must and would procure an outburst somewhere.

This pain rises gradually until it reaches the throat, and then gives the patient a sensation as if she had a pellet there, which prevents her from breathing properly, and, in fact, seems to threaten actual suffocation.

The disease is called "gapes," because they try to open their bills for more air until a red worm in the trachea causes suffocation.

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

He is too lazy to shift his position; the fumes of pungent smoke half smother him; tears run from his eyes; he splutters and coughs, and abuses the smoke, and its grandfather, and maternal uncle, and all its other known relatives; but he prefers semi-suffocation to the trouble of budging an inch.