half-suffocated

His horny eye had lost the power of speculation; his limbs possessed imperfectly that of motion, and it was with a half-suffocated voice that he muttered, “Only fatigue — want of rest and of food.”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Not that their loads are light; for the smallest of them has at least six people inside, four in front, four or five more hanging on behind, and two or three more, in a net or bag below the axle-tree, where they lie half-suffocated with mud and dust.

Pictures from Italy 2007

‘Is no short time necessary for reflection; no weeks or days?’ he asked, in the same half-suffocated way.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

He awoke late, and with the disagreeable feeling of a man who has been half-suffocated with coal-gas: his head ached painfully.

The Mysterious Portrait 2003

Before he had time to think of further resistance he was bound, gagged, and carried, half-suffocated, to the corner of the Rue de la Chaise.

Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

Blinding clouds of coarse, gritty dust swept house-high through the streets: half-suffocated, Mahony fought his way along, his veil lowered, his handkerchief at his mouth.

Australia Felix 2003

"Go back beyond the Chaos War!" he said, half-suffocated with fear.

Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

For twenty minutes or so Major Gordon remained, overpowered, half-suffocated.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

"Uncle Tas," said Palin in a nervous, half-suffocated, smoth­ered kind of voice, "I don't mean to be rude, especially to some­one your age, but would you please shut up!"

Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

Joanna, in her hiding place and half-suffocated by the heat trapped between the fireplace wall and the crimson velvet draperies, remembered the young Prince's slavish adherence to anything Antryg had said, too, and wondered how she could possibly have considered that kind of unthinking championship anything but moronic.

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988