scant-of-breath

Updated: May 12, 2025

He was not long blindfold, and had not had many bumps against the trees before he impounded the person of a fat and scant-of-breath scholar, a girl whose hard breathing would have betrayed her neighbourhood to the dullest ear. "That's Polly Sims, I know," said the Vicar.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Vixen, Volume I.