What he called stertorous breathing was rather oppressed breathing—snoring and stertorous breathing were the same thing.
Julia stood listening, and with her eyes strained towards where a light shone beneath the ill-fitting study-door from which, in the stillness, the heavy stertorousbreathing of Hallam could be heard.
A quarter of an hour passed, and they were listening to the heavy, stertorous breathing, when a soft tap came at their door, the handle was turned, and Thisbe appeared.
Shortly after the operation she became quite sensible, but again sunk into a state of stupor, with slightlystertorous breathing and contracted pupils.
There was no need to think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition.
Each instant he seemed as though he would open his eyes and speak, but then would follow a prolonged stertorous breath, and he would relapse into a more fixed insensibility.
It was certainly odd that whenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her, but that when she waked she clutched them close.
And then Lucy's breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it ceased.
As Mrs. Lincoln sat on a chair by the side of the bed with her face to her husband's his breathing became very stertorous and the loud, unnatural noise frightened her in her exhausted, agonized condition.
In about ten minutes a stertoroussleep ensued, and in five minutes more she passed into a sleep-waking state, and began to talk incoherently.
In apoplexy with a red face and stertorous breathing, put the feet in mustard bath and dash much cold water on the head from above.
The fixed eye and terrible stertorous breathing on the one hand, and the promise of relief on the other, overpowered Mrs. Dodd's reluctance.
They were followed immediately by a loud groan, and the stertorous breathing recommenced, and the face was no longer pale, but flushed and turgid.
His breath was coming in short stertorous gasps, his hands were clinched, the purplish color was mounting to his brows, but he still went through the motions of a courteous leave-taking.
The symptoms of this condition are stupor, loss of consciousness, and stertorous breathing.
Insensibility, stertorous breathing, lividity of face and body, and death from asphyxia.
This is followed by insensibility, coma, stertorous breathing, abolition of reflex movements, hurried and shallowed respiration, and death.
The stertorous blasts of their nostrils testified to this.
Then he turned over, and his stertorous inhalations soon suggested that the great man slept.
Many nights did it happen that the stertorous melody of Webster's all too odourous slumbers drove Cameron to find a bed upon the floor.
So I ran, Sir, as I had never run before; the beads of perspiration poured down from my forehead; the breath came stertorous and hot from my heaving breast.
Theodore's stertorous breathing assured me that he was still insentient.
The pupils were contracted, and there were epileptiform convulsions, succeeded by stertorous breathing.
He subsequently fell into a state of coma, with dilated pupils, stertorous breathing, and imperceptible pulse.
Both vomited somewhat, then lying down, stertorous breathing at once came on, and they quickly died.
There was a dead silence for a few moments, broken only by the stertorous breathing of the man upon the couch.
His shoulders rested from long travail; the stertorous gasping died away to a quick but natural respiration; and in the sudden cessation of the cruel contest, an uncanny stillness fell upon the scene.
A sharp word of command carried to Carney's ear; he heard the clanging clamp of the air brakes; the stertorous breath of the Mogul ceased; the train stood still, all behind the express car still on the trestle.
His bunk had creaked; but listening, no sound reached his ears from the other room, except certain stertorous breathings.
He lay in deep coma, limbs a-sprawl, unpleasant glints of white between his half-closed eyelids, his breathing stertorous through parted lips.
On a meagre bed of damp and mouldy straw, against the farther wall, several men, orderlies and subalterns, rested in stertorous slumbers.
To the riot of its internal strife was added the remonstrance of waters sliced by the stem and flung back by the sides, a prolonged and stertorous hiss like the rending of an endless sheet of canvas.
He listened in the passage, and could hear hard stertorous breathing.
He did not move, feigning unconsciousness, even though he felt rather than saw that hideous Rateau stooping over him, heard his stertorous breathing, the wheezing in his throat.
His face looked congested and sunken about the eyes; he appeared to be asleep, for stertorous breathing came at intervals from between his parted lips, whilst every now and then a racking cough seemed to tear at his broad chest.
Their stertorous breathing woke the echoes of the bare, stone walls.
She did not know who it was, only guessed it was Rateau, for she heard a raucous, stertorous wheeze.
Only maman continued to pray, and we could hear papa's rapid and stertorous breathing as he watched what was going on at that window above.
Nor did he stir again; only there came the sound of his stertorous breathing to indicate that he slept.
They talked on for a few moments longer, then Ralph's stertorous breathing told of sleep.
It seemed as though his breath were as stertorous as that breathing from above, and that the Wolf must hear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stertorous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
