And the third night, I woke up in the middle of my sleep with the feeling something was sitting on my chest; but since I'd taken to sleeping with the light on, I saw that it was just the stuffiness that was bothering me.
In two more days, we began to notice the stuffiness more.
Stuffiness of nostrils, with mucus in nares and pharynx.
He thrust a tightly-folded copy of the Evening Wire upon Sherbrand and vanished into the rum-flavoured stuffiness of the cabin, with the pallid telegraph clerk close upon his heels.
Then her mother had not unreasonably declared herself unable to bear the stuffiness of a carriage full of people.
They went out into the fierce noontide glare, but even it was an improvement after the stuffiness within.
Indeed, that stuffiness is by no means its worst feature.
I am thinking of the play as we moderns know it, with a sense of stuffiness as an integral part.
They are less affected by the weather, and the stuffiness of the place, and all those little things that make so much difference to some people at an examination.
The stuffiness of the place was poisonous, and I ventured to lower one of the windows a few inches.
I dare say the stuffiness made him cross (as the nasty smells used to make us in Uncle Henry's office), for he used a good deal of bad language, and seemed very unwilling to let us have the hammocks and blankets.
There was a hot stuffiness in the still, yellow, moonlit air, which was depressing.
Yesterday the well-known stuffiness of St. Ursula's, combined with the kind hospitality of some suburban friends, drove me to spend my Sunday about ten miles from Stucco Square.
The way was absolutely lonely, and itsstuffiness dreadful.
Jack made himself as comfortable as he could in a corner, and prepared to sleep if the close proximity of his fellow-passengers and the stuffiness of the air allowed.
Then all sorts of dangerous draughts will blow the altar hangings about, dissipate the smell of incense and dying flowers, even disturb the heavy stuffiness of centuries of ordered piety.
