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Updated: May 22, 2025
It was the house of darkness, the house of dumbness, the house of suffocation. Osmond's beautiful mind gave it neither light nor air; Osmond's beautiful mind indeed seemed to peep down from a small high window and mock at her. Of course it had not been physical suffering; for physical suffering there might have been a remedy.
"I am quite ready," he said, "to give Monsieur le Vicomte full satisfaction." The room was by this time crowded to suffocation. I forced my way through, and laid my hand on Dalrymple's arm. "You have provoked this quarrel," I said, reproachfully. "That, my dear fellow, is precisely what I came here to do," he replied. "You will have to be my second in this affair."
The corral was packed to suffocation with cattle, threatening the health of the animals; Deveny had sent no word from the Cache regarding the disposal of the stock, and Haydon's whereabouts were unknown. Rogers had moved stock on his own initiative in former days for he had been an able assistant to both leaders.
Ours was a garret room, well finished, abounding in odd closets and corners, with curious dormer windows that were reached by long little corridors. I should have slept well; but I lay awake all night. Mother and I occupied a narrow single bed, with a bar of the thickest, heaviest material imaginable. Suffocation awaited me inside, gnats and mosquitoes outside.
Where the death of the foetus has been induced with criminal intent, it may be due to punctured wounds of the fontanelles, orbits, heart, or spinal marrow; dislocation of the neck; separation of the head from the body; fracture of the bones of the head and face; strangulation; suffocation; drowning in the closet pan or privy, or from being thrown into water.
If you had not come, the roof would have gone long before this." "The silence is horrible," said Alexander. It was, indeed, earsplitting. Not a sound arose from that devastated land. Birds and beasts must lie dead by the thousand; not a horseman ventured abroad; not a whisper came from the cellar, where two hundred Africans might be dead from fright or suffocation. Mrs.
A hut was specially built for the occasion: the king was led into it and lay down with his head resting on the lap of a nubile virgin: the door of the hut was then walled up; and the couple were left without food, water, or fire to die of hunger and suffocation.
On that hot September evening, the air was like a furnace. Before long the streets were full of blazing débris. Two persons who had hidden themselves in their cellars died of suffocation; yet to appear in the streets was to risk death at the hands of some drunk or maddened soldier.
He slept in a sitting or crouching position, with his hands clasped over his legs, and his head on his knees. If he lay down flat, the heavy head showed a tendency to fall back and produce a sense of suffocation.
I only hope that brute of a Cringer won't put her out of countenance." He need not have feared, though in truth Erica was tried to the utmost. To begin with, it was one of the very hottest of the dog-days, and the court was crowded to suffocation.
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