'You see it,' he cried, with the same short-winded chuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Her eyes went round, and she spoke in a rapid, short-winded, staccato voice. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
The Roundtable is fun to participate in and you can be as long or short-winded as you like. From Wordnik.com. [The DVD Trash Roundtable] Reference
The Fat Boy, a rotund, short-winded little fellow, better dressed than the others although his shoes were not matching. From Wordnik.com. [Stan the Killer]
The surface of the ground was hard, and the old man was short-winded; he could hardly gather enough force to drive the spade in. From Wordnik.com. [A Loose End and Other Stories] Reference
Captain Jules had told them that a diver must never go down into the water on a full stomach, as it would make him too short-winded. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Men of that type, he reasoned, were usually short-winded. From Wordnik.com. [El Diablo] Reference
She panted a little as she spoke, like a short-winded lap-dog. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
Typically, movements of protest are short-winded - they come and go. From Wordnik.com. [London Review of Books] Reference
Here Augustus, who was a little short-winded, paused to recover breath. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
"So it would, but I never found myself short-winded, sir," retorted the. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee and Repartee] Reference
But, oh! it was a weary love, and a short-winded love, and a hoarse one. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician] Reference
They conversed in an odd, short-winded fashion, until at last Sören, in. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Two Countries] Reference
By the short-winded standards of the Near and Middle East, the al-Saud are stayers. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
It was, it must be, the short-winded Count himself, whom we all supposed to be in Rome!. From Wordnik.com. [Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman] Reference
Tregeagle was fat, short-winded, had a load on his back, and lost ground at every step. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
Recovering some of her breath, she gazed at her companion with a sort of short-winded archness. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity: sure he means brevity in breath, short-winded. From Wordnik.com. [Act II. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
If he is circumspect and is short-winded and deferential, he runs the risk of being patronizing. From Wordnik.com. [Cincinnati Local News Headlines | WCPO.com] Reference
Indoors and back East he would probably have been a consumptive; out here, he was merely short-winded. From Wordnik.com. [Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life] Reference
A little heavy and -- er -- short-winded perhaps, but never better or more full of fight in my life, sir. From Wordnik.com. [Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land] Reference
I ain't ashamed of nuthin 'neither -- ain't repentin' - ain't axin 'for no one-horse, short-winded pardon. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference
They went their way, but not so fast as went Diana, urging with her her protesting and short-winded mother. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Wilding] Reference
It was Hassan, sure enough, short-winded and afraid, but more afraid of being left behind than of the manhandling. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Trail] Reference
Except the landlord of the little inn, who was too burly and short-winded to move, not a man did he find in the place. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
I opened a fortune cookie today and it said, "Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded."? en Español. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
A soldier don't want to be carrying a lot of unnecessary meat about with him; and as to fat, it only makes 'em short-winded. From Wordnik.com. [The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War] Reference
"Bosh!" growled the Bellows, who was beginning to get a little short-winded with his labors, and, therefore, a trifle out of temper. From Wordnik.com. [Andiron Tales] Reference
It came about that Jasper's Outer Office was frequently coagulated with a Choice Assortment of Pan-Handlers, and all the short-winded. From Wordnik.com. [People You Know] Reference
So in every great movement there are short-winded people who sit down and pant very soon, and their prudence croaks out undeniable facts. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
"All, except old Shakebag the tavernkeeper," said Ned, "and he was short-winded and pursy, and might be excused for preferring his dinner.". From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
I got short-winded and everybody made a big deal of it. ". From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
I'm so short-winded now; I couldn't go too far. From Wordnik.com. [Alive In Truth] Reference
He is eighteen years old, your worship, short-winded and galled. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
"I don't think that would do, for he's too old for long rides, and too short-winded. From Wordnik.com. [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference
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