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After swallowing several copious draughts now sneezing, and then wheezing he plunged his broad snout, horn and all, into the water, tossed it till it foamed, and then lying down in it, commenced wallowing like a hog. The place was shallow, and most of his huge body was above the surface though there was deep enough water in the lake to have given him a bath had he desired it.
But she exclaimed, 'Hush! and saying thus went forward to the foot of the passage, and Boolp was there, following Ukleet, both of them under a weight of bags and boxes. So she welcomed the broker, and led him to the feast, he coughing and wheezing and blinking, unwitting the vexation of the Vizier, nor that one other than himself was there.
Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs!
They were just about to take their seats at table when the innkeeper appeared in person. He was a former horse dealer a large, asthmatic individual, always wheezing, coughing, and clearing his throat. Follenvie was his patronymic. He called: "Mademoiselle Elisabeth Rousset?" Boule de Suif started, and turned round. "That is my name."
Here's to them!" and he emptied his glass and fell back into his chair, wheezing and sucking at his unlighted cigar. "I want to say," began Plank, speaking the more slowly because he was deeply in earnest, "that all this you are doing for me is very handsome of you, Mortimer. I'd like to say to convey to you something of how I feel about the way you and Mrs. Mortimer "
But she exclaimed, 'Hush! and saying thus went forward to the foot of the passage, and Boolp was there, following Ukleet, both of them under a weight of bags and boxes. So she welcomed the broker, and led him to the feast, he coughing and wheezing and blinking, unwitting the vexation of the Vizier, nor that one other than himself was there.
As for the nine and one wind bags that begin their wheezing and squeaking before breakfast, my thoughts are unfit for publication! This morning I was awakened by the strains "Shall we meet beyond the River?" Well if we do, the keys will fly that's all there is about it! Once in a while they side-track it to "Oh! to be nothing, nothing!"
"Washee-washee quick fella," he commanded. The ancient obediently dipped his paddle and started pottering an erratic course in the general direction of the cluster of lights that marked the Makambo. But he was too feeble, panting and wheezing continually from the exertion and pausing to rest off strokes between strokes. The steward impatiently took the paddle away from him and bent to the work.
People snivel over the deaths of babies; I see nothing to grieve about. If a child dies, why, the probabilities are it ought to die; if it lives, it lives, and you get survival of the fittest. We don't want to choke the world with people, most of them rickety and wheezing; let us be healthy, and have breathing space. 'I believe in that, said Carnaby. 'You're going away, then. Where to?
The venerable butler stood wheezing at his elbow. I had not hitherto observed that the man was an asthmatic. "I beg your lordship's pardon, but I think your lordship must have forgotten." The voice came in rude gasps, but words of reproach could scarcely have achieved a finer delicacy. "Forgotten, Leggett! Forgotten what, may I ask?"
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