short-windedly

Updated: May 6, 2025

Her interposition being aided on the other side by little Tom, who seized Ned's coat-tails and strove to pull him away from injuring Philip, the two combatants, their boyish belligerence perhaps having had enough for the time, separated, both panting. "I'll have it out with you yet!" said Master Ned, short-windedly, adjusting his coat, and glaring savagely.

Robert Neilson Stephens - Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

And at the same moment the Major shouted exultingly. 'They're done! he bellowed down the megaphone; 'they're beat! The attack and he fell back on the Forward Officer's own words 'the attack is blotted out. Whereat the panting gunners cheered faintly and short-windedly, and took contentedly the following string of orders to lengthen the range and slacken the rate of fire.

Boyd Cable - Between the Lines