If they cannot enjoy you and your lung-power exhibit, they should stay at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Silly Syclopedia] Reference
Apparently, with the wind to move them, the tran had not developed their lung-power overmuch. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
When Antoinette Roberts spoke, however, her voice was big enough to fill the room on lung-power alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
For his voice was soft, full, organ-like, flexible, easy with illimitable lung-power and ineffable grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
While not possessed of a particularly deep voice, Marcus MacRannoch had enough lung-power for three ordinary-sized men. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
She could hear Kapera breathing, quick and shallow, like trying to extract oxygen from carbon dioxide by sheer lung-power. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference
When on the trek one of the transport waggons stuck fast hopelessly in an ugly drift, and no amount of whip-leather or lung-power sufficed to move it. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
People with little scientific knowledge but a lot of lung-power and scary science fiction made it into the news after President Obama announced the change in the government policy. From Wordnik.com. [The Hyper Bowl] Reference
Wherever an Afro-American is found supporting, by his lung-power and ballot, a party which denies him participation in its primary (basis of party) government, then you have found a man who does not know what his attitude in politics should be; and, whether he should be pitied or despised, must remain a question for each individual to decide. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Turnbull, by virtue of his lung-power, was the most audible of the four. From Wordnik.com. [The Jervaise Comedy] Reference
A momentary failure of lung-power forced her to a pause in which she perceived. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
Instantly all sprang up and woke the echoes with their loudest possible lung-power. From Wordnik.com. [Monitress Merle] Reference
He was one of the bowed and stunted men, but in this emergency he developed sudden lung-power. From Wordnik.com. [King Coal : a Novel] Reference
The ferryman lived on the far side; and, although in addition to hallooing with all my lung-power. From Wordnik.com. [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference
Besides this, the open-air exercise developed their lung-power and stimulated their circulatory system. From Wordnik.com. [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference
"Oh, my!" vociferated the "man of bone and muscle," who was certainly, too, a man of extraordinary lung-power. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Mountaineers Short Stories] Reference
When they tried to put me into the mustard-pot, I yelled lustily and showed more lung-power than aptitude for the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life]
She was famous through Germany: the domestic creature sang Brünnhilde Kundry at Dresden and Bayreuth with undoubted lung-power. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
I bellowed at the top of my lung-power, never before had I had the opportunity of thus distinguishing myself, and I felt a bit sore about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
The rest of the girls made a fine exhibition of the lung-power acquired in climbing their precipitous mountains, when they came in on the chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 1] Reference
When they thought they were near the clearing, they shouted with all their lung-power, and the welcome sound of answering calls soon greeted their ears. From Wordnik.com. [Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks] Reference
Box after box of matches was quickly used, and our collective lung-power severely drawn upon in blowing the unwilling sparks into a flame a few inches high. From Wordnik.com. [An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet] Reference
Few who dare to challenge that network's hosts in debate have the lung-power let alone the intelligence to out-debate these moderators who have been trained first in radio. From Wordnik.com. Reference
As for Mr. Harrington, he meant well, and had splendid lung-power, but his theology was too sectarian to suit a mixed body of listeners embracing all shades of thought and no-thought. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
Members of Parliament were raised he should have seriously to consider the question of returning to his old trade of a coal-hewer, at which I gathered he could make much more money with an infinitely smaller exertion of lung-power. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25] Reference
He had at last made some money, had gained a reputation for ` ` smartness, '' and, what probably pleased him best of all, had revenged himself upon the Rev.Mr. Turk of Ackley, Iowa, who by lung-power had worsted him in the argument as to the giants mentioned in Scripture. From Wordnik.com. [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference
Therefore, though the meet is small, the neighbourhood as a body expect to see plenty of the hounds, and turn up expectant, the farmers on their cobs, the young ladies on ponies and in dog-carts, and all the village who can be spared for an hour on foot, while the small boys regard each other with rapturous grins, and practise "holloaing" to improve their lung-power when the fox breaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
12-year-old cricketer for Yorkshire, and his lung-power and will-power carried him up and down Wembley's atrocious pitch, barring the pause when checking whether his knee still worked. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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