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The artist led the way to a large room, comfortably but plainly furnished, and heated to a pitch of suffocation by a stove. There was a bed in a curtained alcove at the end of the apartment; an easel stood near the large window; and the proprietor of the chamber sat in a cushioned arm-chair close to the suffocating stove. Michael Kerstall was an old man, who looked even older than he was.
Swancourt made some friendly remarks among others things upon the heat. 'Yes, said Lord Luxellian, 'we were driving by a furrier's window this afternoon, and the sight filled us all with such a sense of suffocation that we were glad to get away. Ha-ha! He turned to Elfride. 'Miss Swancourt, I have hardly seen or spoken to you since your literary feat was made public.
There had been overmuch of the party platform, and an absence of the wit which is the soul of political speaking; and, though the average Virginia Convention is able to breast triumphantly the most encompassing wave of oratory, the present one had shown unmistakable signs of suffocation. At the end of the third speech, metaphor had failed to move it, and alliteration had ceased to evoke applause.
"Marry, THIS is no Hendon nor ever was!" "Right! Thy old eyes are sound yet. An' I were Sir Hugh, I would take the shabby carle and " The jailer finished by lifting himself a-tip-toe with an imaginary halter, at the same time making a gurgling noise in his throat suggestive of suffocation. The old man said, vindictively "Let him bless God an' he fare no worse.
Barbara, preparing for the event, suffered her hair to be brushed, choked with strange half-sweet, half-terrible suffocation that comes from anticipated glories: half-sweet because things will, at their worst, be wonderful; half-terrible because we know that they will not be so good as we hope. Barbara, washed paler than ever, in a white frock with pink bows, was conducted by Miss Letts.
So fate rather Providence would have it. Every day, until I reached Ghadames, there was a sort of point of halting between life and suffocation or death in my poor frame, when the European nature struggled boldly and successfully with the African sun, and all his accumulated force darting down fires and flames upon my devoted head.
Despite that, he stepped forward boldly, though his heart beat to suffocation. For Kumran's face was cruel indeed. Still, for one second, the latter's attention was distracted. He had wanted no witnesses to what he meant to do. "How camest thou hither, slave?" he asked fiercely. And Roy gave him back the simple truth, no more, no less; but it was sufficient.
There was a long interval when the noise of the rain was interrupted by little groans and exclamations from Phebe, while she tugged and shoved and pried at the man in the road. He was so very big, so very unconscious, so very determined to lie with his face buried in the mud and meet his end by suffocation.
I think the best plan will be to try to get hold of a small bundle of rushes or straw, or something of that sort, to keep our heads above it, otherwise we shall risk suffocation." "It is beastly," Stapleton said emphatically. "Look at the men; what a change in them since we marched along this road yesterday. Then they were full of fun and spirits, now they look washed out and miserable.
I am doubtful, whether this is to be ascribed to the mere nature of suffocation, or was not rather owing to the preternatural action of a desperate spirit. After having been for a considerable time insensible, she was recovered by the exertions of those by whom the body was found.
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