The term heaves is applied almost wholly to an emphysematous condition of the lungs. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The current is turned on at a signal from the Warden, and the assassin heaves heavily as though the straps would break. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Assassin Celebrated in Song] Reference
September stopped, his breath coming in short heaves. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
It will bring out the characteristic symptoms of "heaves" if he has been "doped.". From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
Your "heaves" are at best misguided, but more likely I suspect just disingenuous. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate] Reference
Horses affected with "heaves" show a double contraction of the muscles in the region of the flank during expiration. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Lung trouble, such as bronchitis and "heaves," often follows their use. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Still another had the "heaves" so badly that its breathing could be heard twenty rods away. From Wordnik.com. [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference
For example, horses get heaves, which is just like asthma in kids, and dogs get the same cancers that people do. ". From Wordnik.com. [TheHorse.com News] Reference
"heaves" had long since singled him out as a victim. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler'] Reference
Though Commerce heaves no more the pond'rous load. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Aghast she looks, and heaves her breast for breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
He heaves himself off the bed with great effort. From Wordnik.com. [Post] Reference
Looks longingly back, while the breast heaves a sigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
He pulls his one arm back and heaves it like a football. From Wordnik.com. [DEER] Reference
Eleanor's breast heaves, she staggers forward in a frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
This will actually cure the heaves unless, they are very bad. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
But it 'ud turn out to be only the heaves an' easily cured. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Sir Asinus heaves a sigh, and contemplates a declaration immediately. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Half-a-dozen more heaves and the anchor-stock showed above the water. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
He was lying on his side taking in his breath in short sporadic heaves. From Wordnik.com. [Nunc Stans] Reference
He cocks the vase back in his palm and heaves it in a wide arc into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Film] Reference
Rob weighted eight million pounds, and thestink — they all got the dry-heaves. From Wordnik.com. [Rob's Send-off] Reference
In doing so a kind of humorous disjointed scientism of the mind heaves into view. From Wordnik.com. [Cherie Louise Turner: Review: Dave Eggers and David Byrne, 'It Is Right to Draw Their Fur,' at SF Electric Works] Reference
The frequent passage of gas is a prominent symptom in well-established cases of heaves. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
I could see the remaining mast of the cruiser stagger; it made two or three heaves, like. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Tangong Pagar coaling wharf, heaves in sight, and alongside which we are rapidly secured. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
A beefy sergeant picks her up by the collar like a piece of luggage and heaves her forward. From Wordnik.com. [Boot Camp For Gonzos] Reference
Her brown eyes are swimming in tears, her little breast heaves, her voice is broken by sobs. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
This is the most common structural change met with in the lungs of horses affected with heaves. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Two more heaves at the rail and the current caught the forward end, swinging it around slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
Chrysantheme heaves great sighs like a tired child, and stops on every step, leaning on our arms. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Feathers puff about and plume in great heaves all about the place and by the industrialist's feet and against their talons. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
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