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When they were indoors at last, Eleanor Prentice had fainted, and the squire had forced brandy down her throat with such an uncertain hand that he had half-asphyxiated her. — Overture to Death - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 08: 1939
Miss him, miss him, miss him./ He comes underwater, unable to breathe, an asphyxiated orgasm that sends his body into convulsions, into fabulations, that sends him floating to the surface, lying flat on his back with his pants lost somewhere in the murky water. — GUDMagazineIssue1::Autumn2007
That left people cowering in basements where many were asphyxiated or buried by collapsing buildings. — msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Preliminary autopsy results indicate that the man who died in Tuesday's fire at a downtown Boone building was asphyxiated, City Administrator Luke Nelson said. — DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS
If such chokepoint is indeed asphyxiated, that would dramatically increase the price of oil, this a very threatening retaliation because it will bring intense financial and economic havoc upon the West, which is already facing significant trouble in those respects. — Palestine Blogs aggregator