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"He was not suffocating, as you can see.— Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle
There was no perceptible shock attending the blow, but the crash was terrific, while the smell of burning was almost suffocating--which is not to be wondered at, since the mass was blazing so fiercely that it set the ship on fire merely by passing through her.— The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
Summer is scarcely less frightful in their quarters, with the heat at once stifling, suffocating, almost intolerable; heat which acting on the myriad germs of disease produces fever, often ending in death, or, what is still more dreaded, chronic invalidism.— The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
That evening the air was quite suffocating, and it was as hot as an oven.— The American Baron
The heat down here was suffocating, and their weary feet moved on slowly through the village--a collection of a few white flat-roofed houses, which are all that now mark the spot where stood once the rich, mighty city of Jericho.— Six Women

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