stertorous

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His breathing became laboured and stertorous, his skin hot, and his eyes dilated How do you feel now?"

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  1. Characterized by a deep snoring sound, such as characterizes the laborious breathing which frequently accompanies certain diseases, as apoplexy.

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  • The eyes are staring, breathing hurried and stertorous, and the nostrils widely dilated. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Now his breathing was what doctors call stertorous, heavy and oppressed Oh, how I wish he would wake up and open the window!" —  Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
  • That stifled hum of Midnight, when Traffic has lain down to rest; and the chariot-wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to Halls roofed-in, and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only Vice and Misery, to prowl or to moan like nightbirds, are abroad: that hum, I say, like the stertorous, unquiet slumber of sick Life, is heard in Heaven! —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • His breathing became laboured and stertorous, his skin hot, and his eyes dilated How do you feel now?" —  The Eternal City
  • I couldn't hear him breathing--and he's pretty stertorous, as a rule I kept a pretty straight eye on the Professor, somehow, and told him the facts--that you had sent the money ('Yes, I know,' said he: 'I got it before leaving Biarritz'): that you had actually gone to that health-resort in search of him. —  Foe-Farrell
 

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