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Updated: May 22, 2025
There's range a-plenty, and creeks running through that never go dry; and the country isn't stocked and fenced to death, like this is." "And would we be ordered off soon as we got there?" "Sure not if you paid duty, which would only be about double what you were going to pay for one year's pasture." Eagle Creek breathed deeply, like a man who has narrowly escaped suffocation.
To know where you can get money, to feel that there is some dernier ressort however hateful to you, is one thing; but to know that you have not a cent not a prospect of getting one not a hope of earning one no means of living this is suffocation. This is the stopping of that breath that keeps the world alive.
He hit Gaspar Ruiz, whose movements were slow, over his head and shoulders. Gaspar Ruiz stood still for a moment under the shower of blows, biting his lip thoughtfully as if absorbed by a perplexing mental process then followed the others without haste. The door was locked, and the adjutant carried off the key. By noon the heat of that vaulted place crammed to suffocation had become unbearable.
She suffered from fits of suffocation, sometimes, without apparent cause, an unspeakable agony gripped her bowels, her heart beat madly and she feared that she must be dying. Dr Trublet attended her with watchful prudence. She often saw him at the theatre, and occasionally went to consult him at his old house in the Rue de Seine.
The ardor of his glances reminded her of duty and of danger. Her hand disengaged itself from his her eyes fell to the floor a deep crimson suffused her countenance. They seated themselves she on the sofa, and he on a chair drawn close beside, or rather nearly in front of her. How heavily beat the maiden's heart! What a pressure, almost to suffocation, was on her bosom!
Jasper Very declared he would make this battle between families the subject of his sermon on Sunday evening, and it was this announcement which threw the neighborhood into such a high state of excitement and caused a crowd to attend the meeting which packed the small meeting-house to suffocation and, despite the cold weather, caused it to overflow into the surrounding yard.
The use of the need-fire is particularly attested for the counties of Yorkshire and Northumberland. Thus in Yorkshire down to the middle of the eighteenth century "the favourite remedy of the country people, not only in the way of cure, but of prevention, was an odd one; it was to smoke the cattle almost to suffocation, by kindling straw, litter, and other combustible matter about them.
The sentry was our young Divine. How close it was in the chamber! The heat oppressive to suffocation the gnats hummed and stung unceasingly the "miserabili" without whined and moaned in their sleep. "Travelling would be agreeable enough," said he groaning, "if one only had no body, or could send it to rest while the spirit went on its pilgrimage unhindered, whither the voice within might call it.
The intermediate stages of the starvation life of hunger, chains, and hideous exposure at the barancoon, the stowing away like herrings on board the noisome ship, the suffocation, the deck-sores wrought into the body by the attrition of the bonier parts of the system against the unyielding wood all these, says Mr.
From the deck, the fire mounted to the rigging; thence to the masts and sails; and before the boats could be backed astern to take them out, those who had been left were forced to leap into the sea to save themselves from the devouring element. The pirates had themselves set fire to the vessel. Most of them remained below, submitting to suffocation with sullen indifference.
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