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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Get on," the captain said to the horses, as he cracked his whip, while our three men quietly smoked their pipes. I was half-suffocated in my box, which only admitted the air through those holes in front, while at the same time I was nearly frozen, for it was terribly cold. "Get on," the captain said again, and the wagon loaded with Gruyère cheese entered France.
Then she drew three or four deep breaths, and all at once I saw that she was dead, and I called the doctor from the next room. 'I suppose that might be heart failure, said Griggs thoughtfully. 'You are quite sure that you thought it was only that, are you not? 'Only what? Margaret asked with growing surprise. 'Only fright, or the result of having been half-suffocated in the crowd.
One advantage Pougues possesses over its rivals, is position. At Aix-les-Bains, Plombieres, Salins, and how many other inland spas, you are literally wedged in between shelving hills. If you want to enjoy wide horizons, and anything like a breeze, you must get well outside the town. Never in hot, dusty, crowded cities have I felt so half-suffocated as at the two first named places.
Were it the mere dint of the count's sword, your brother will be little the worse." "Ebbo! Ebbo mine, look up!" cried Friedel, leaping from his horse, and unclasping his brother's helmet. "Friedel!" groaned a half-suffocated voice. "O take away the horse."
The first ascent, made in June from the Paris Observatory, though a lofty one, was attended with so much danger and confusion as to be barren of results. The departure, owing to stormy weather, was hurried and illordered, so that the velocity in rising was excessive, the net constricted the rapidly-swelling globe, and the volumes of out-rushing gas half-suffocated the voyagers.
Conseil was already trying to loosen the harpooner's hands from his half-suffocated victim, and I had gone to join in the rescue, when I was abruptly nailed to the spot by these words pronounced in French: "Calm down, Mr. Land! And you, professor, kindly listen to me!" The Man of the Waters At these words Ned Land stood up quickly.
Archie was making for the door, when steps and voices were heard, and the Resident hurried in, closely followed by Dr Morley. "You have heard this news, Knowle?" "Yes; everything." "And you will send a party of men at once?" said the Resident in a half-suffocated voice. "Directly we can man the boats." "Ah!" exclaimed the Resident, sinking into a chair, with his hand to his breast.
But those who had witnessed the fire from the beginning knew that these men had toiled, with every nerve and muscle strained, for upwards of an hour in the face of almost unbearable heat, half-suffocated by smoke, and drenched by hot water. They were resting now, and they had much need of rest, for some of them had come out of the burning house almost fainting from exposure to heat and smoke.
And, in contemplating the spectacle, I seemed actually to be able to hear the cruel, hissing din of combat between red and black, and to see pale, frightened rabbits scudding from underneath the roots of trees amid showers of sparks, and panting, half-suffocated birds fluttering wildly amid the branches as further and further afield, and more and more triumphantly, the scarlet dragon unfurled its wings, and consumed the darkness, and devoured the rain-soaked timber.
The unhappy woman crossed herself three times and, in a dry, half-suffocated voice exclaimed: "Don't bury me, Neddy, little Emma won't cry!" The lad uttered a cry like the scream of a wild bird when it is shot through the heart then he drew a long deep sigh and was quite still.
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