He explained offensively that 'some cuckoo had tried the old wheeze of stuffing pepper in his trunk to put off the Customs,' and that the intended deterrent had untimely emerged.
I could see the little chap, sitting here every evening by the windmill, nursing his pipe and listening to the silence; the wheeze of the pump, the grunting of the pigs, an occasional squawking when the hens were disturbed by a rat.
All afternoon, wherever one went in the house, one could hear the panting wheeze of the saw or the pleasant purring of the plane.
She could hear herself wheeze in her throat; and her petal-like skin, unrelieved by moisture, was alternately hot and cold.
She could hear him wheeze out the moany, long-drawn breaths that characterized his sleepless nights, his face the color of old ivory, wry and etched in the agony of carrying his trembling palm closer, closer to his mouth.
When I entered the room where Elizabeth lay, 'twas to the grateful discovery that she had rallied: her breath came without wheeze or gasp; the labored, spasmodic beating of her heart no longer shook the bed.
I heard the wheezeand tread of my uncle in the kitchen.
One o' my lads," he said in his mysterious wheeze to the big young man at his side.
To which the invariable answer in the familiar wheeze was, "He died reign o' William the Fo'th, my son.
Rose's interest had just the proper amount of congratulatory warmth and a faint wheeze escaped the listener outside as he choked back a laugh of admiration.
Finally a strangled wheeze burst from his throat and explained the crinkle about his eyes: he was laughing.
One merry little wheeze escaped and earned a glare from Anthony, another followed it--and after that Johnson Boller sat back and haw-hawed frankly until Anthony spoke.
If that little wheeze had the pep of a dead mosquito," said Johnson Boller disgustedly, "he'd take that big stiff when his hands are up like that and slip him an uppercut that would freeze him solid!
At the firstwheeze and accompanying shuffle of a hand on the smooth wooden stair-rail, out went the "mitron's" candle.
Forward we went, however, stumbling now and then with sleep, our feet blistered, and the rattle and wheeze of the ammunition wagons coming back to us mixed with a jingle of mules' gear through the dark.
You wheeze like a vaudeville performer on small time," growled Evan.
At the end of each stroke of her piston she seemed to stop for an instant and then with a wheeze and a clank from below, and a violent tremor from stem to stern, started all over.
From his hiding place he watched the long line of sleepers roll by, slower and slower, until with a wheeze they came to a full stop.
He tried to speak, but a strange, unnaturalwheeze came from his lips.
I was awakened by the whistle of the locomotive, and then came the slow wheeze of the cylinder head, and we were off.
The voice was scarcely raised above a faint, dry wheeze that sighed dirge-like above the lifeless valley.
You see, I can't write because I haven't any hands, but I can wheeze out a tale to a stenographer once in a while which any magazine would be glad to publish if it could get hold of it.
Excuse me," he said hesitatingly, as the Bellows began to wheeze away at the cloud, "do you really write?
And while I wore him down until he began to wheeze as I had predicted, Pasquini, head on hand and watching, coughed and spat out his life.
I shall take my time with you until your fat melts and your lungs pant and wheeze like leaky bellows.
And then he reads from paper and book, In a low and husky asthmatic tone, With the stolid sameness of posture and look Of one who reads to himself alone; And hour after hour on my senses come That husky wheeze and that dolorous hum.
Like a visible nightmare he sits by me,-- The exorcism has lost its skill; And I hear again in my haunted room The huskywheeze and the dolorous hum!
I could have worked a wheeze I've been reading about in the magazine advertisements.
So I cabled to my uncle telling him that I had dropped into a good business wheeze in the city and wanted to chuck the ranch idea.
The more I looked at it in that way, the sounder this prison wheeze seemed to me.
For a moment after they found their places there was silence there in the cellar, save for the rustling of bodies and the wheeze of forced breathing.
That, though, might have been the wheeze of the afflicted bedsprings as the old judge let his weight down in the bed.
