I withdrew my ear, and waited in a tensebreathlessness of amazement.
But his struggle against breathlessness and weakness, and all the other symptoms of his state during these last days, was heroic.
The two friends were admitted by a housemaid who happened to be busy in the hall, and whose red cheeks and general breathlessness bore witness to the energy of the storm of preparation now sweeping through the house.
The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.
The night was not bad, in spite of breathlessness and some fits of coughing.
He ate better at lunch than he had done lately; but already at two o'clock the breathlessness increased.
His breathlessness increased; he said, "Give me your hand; stay near me!
On the 12th, about five o'clock in the morning, he had a bad fit of breathlessness followed by coughing, and brought up large clots of very red blood.
Breathlessness is, perhaps, the most common effect of undue exertion.
I went to a circus once," she said with the eager breathlessness of a child.
He was aware of a breathlessness in the atmosphere, and he knew that he and Sylvia were shortly going to clash.
Mrs. Gainsborough shouted upstairs to Lily as loudly as her breathlessness would permit: "I've brought you back that surprise packet I promised.
And they darted between the planets in a divine rhythm on a vast orbit, until at last a breathlessness of soul and body compelled Persis to end the occult rite.
But everybody was fascinated by the breathlessness of the gallopade, the escapes from disaster.
However, he improved and went to France in May, 1915, where he again had symptoms; namely, precordial pain and breathlessness on severe exertion.
Two days later he was admitted to hospital, where slight breathlessness but no pain and no enlargement of cardiac dulness could be found.
And, safe on her eminence, recovered from the breathlessness of her rather unbecoming vigorous ascent, she found her old serenity, her old benignity, safely enfolded her once more.
Therefore arise; o'ercome thy breathlessness By force of will, victor in every fight When not subservient to the body base.
Before she had opened the door her breathlessness became audible.
Indeed, the place seemed to be drowsing off through very breathlessness amid that faint murmur which the stage gives forth when the whole troupe are raising the deafening uproar of some grand finale.
During the ascent, she owed it to her father's breathlessness that they did not talk, and in the silence that was only broken by his panting Theresa could realize the hills.
The palpitation and breathlessness which follows upon trivial exertion, such as climbing a flight of stairs, is a good example of visceral fatigue.
Well, so far as the breathlessness was concerned they proved perfectly right.
For the first time he began to notice a strange breathlessnessin the air.
He would turn to go, but always a singular quiet and breathlessness remained in the homes after his departure.
Phil had got into a habit of not even telling his mother of those queer attacks of weakness and breathlessness which came over him.
Yet as, with a breathlessness that had not been in that midnight flight of forty years ago, he headed straight as a die for the Garden Mound, he prattled cheerfully of the future as he might have done then.
She rose, as it were, from the depths of the sea, from great darkness and breathlessness and exhaustion.
Emily, whose ugly bony countenance now wore a look of excited breathlessness as though she were playing a new kind of game, discovered a piece of dark sad cloth somewhere in the lower region and this was pinned up over the window.
Breathlessness can be cured, but insensibility is dangerous without an alarm clock.
Higher than any point in the United States, the top of the Browne Tower probably on a level with the top of Mount Blanc, it is yet not so high as to induce the acute breathlessness from which the writer suffered, later, upon any exertion.
And breathlessness was naturally at its worst; I remember that even the exertion of rising from the prone position it was necessary to assume to read the barometer brought on a fit of panting.
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