Taurus Antinor's breath came in short, stertorous gasps, his throat was parched and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
Now his breathing was what doctors call stertorous, heavy and oppressed. From Wordnik.com. [Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea] Reference
His heart pounded; his breathing became stertorous. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
His breathing was so stertorous we had a standing joke. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
His stertorous breathing could be heard through the house. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
For a few moments the breathing continued to be stertorous. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadlocked City] Reference
More distant receded the stertorous nasal bellow on the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Breathing slow and stertorous, pulse weak, countenance livid. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
His voice was becoming fainter and his breath more stertorous. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
The only sound was the stertorous breathing of the unconscious guard. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
She could hear its stertorous breathing, the rush of air past its wings. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Winter Night]
A series of low, stertorous growls followed, growls that made my blood run cold!. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
At the door of the chamber Hugo caught the sound of hoarse, stertorous breathing. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Insensibility, stertorous breathing, lividity of face and body, and death from asphyxia. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
The symptoms of this condition are stupor, loss of consciousness, and stertorous breathing. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Lefevre turned aside a moment to look at a man whose breathing was laboured and stertorous. From Wordnik.com. [Master of His Fate] Reference
From time to time, she drew a heavy stertorous breath, like a person oppressed in sleeping. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Hotel] Reference
He was breathing, but in a heavy stertorous way and he made no response to her urgent voice. From Wordnik.com. [Midsummer Star]
His face was flushed, his breathing stertorous, and in one hand he held a long glass bottle. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Towards midnight his breathing grew more stertorous, the intervals between the breaths longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
Nangi heard the stertorous ticking of an ormolu clock, the creak of timbers above their heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
The child was unconscious, his breathing stertorous, complexion pasty, the lips a little blue. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
The sound of stertorous breathing came from the living who were staring at the scene in horror. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
It had to be Rupert; I could hear him breathing, a stertorous sound with a faint gurgle behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Their horses, ready saddled, stood before their tent; and from it came the sound of stertorous snoring. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
At the entrance a man lay on the ground, his heavy stertorous breathing proclaiming him a victim of some sleeping potion. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
But they were watching everything carefully; they noted Fenwick's anxious face, they could hear his stertorous breathing. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Four Fingers] Reference
When inhaled as vapour, causes slow, prolonged, and stertorous breathing; face becomes pale, lips bluish, surface of body cold. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Her breathing grew stertorous, the mouth opened, and the pale gums, drawn back, made the teeth look longer and sharper than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
The snow still fell, and the old man in the lacquered bed was still unconscious, his stertorous breathing sounding through the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
About two o'clock, after the enemy had been reinforced, the firing, which had temporarily slackened, began again with stertorous uproar. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
This is followed by insensibility, coma, stertorous breathing, abolition of reflex movements, hurried and shallowed respiration, and death. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
The breathing became less stertorous and laboured. From Wordnik.com. [The Pools of Silence] Reference
Two or three stertorous breaths, and the man was a log. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Cracksman] Reference
Minnie came into her room, breathless, Mrs. Benson stertorous in her traces. From Wordnik.com. [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference
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