And I listened, and grew fat and short-breathed, and in the long nights, unsleeping, worried that the men of the stranger tribe brought me meat for my wisdom and honour, but laughed at my fatness and undesire for the hunting and fighting. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But his short-breathed, clumsily phrased, interpretively blank and often pinched and strained singing makes his Don Jose a tough listen. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Binchois's songs are his most attractive compositions: typical features include the use of under-3rd cadences, rather short-breathed phrases, triple rhythm the only song in duple time is Seule esgaree, and the apparent repetition of material. ❋ Lu (2009)
Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and pursy ❋ Unknown (2008)
They would have persuaded me I was in purgatory, but I knew too well the pursy short-breathed voice of the ❋ Unknown (2004)
When the youngster rolled over on the floor and cried she put both hands under his arms and dragged him into a sitting posture, chattering with short-breathed volubility. ❋ Unknown (1999)
For an instant it loomed our way, and I found myself silent, short-breathed, desperately hoping it wouldn't spot us. ❋ Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- (1992)
"You hold it, boy …" A sort of greasy, short-breathed excitement got him by the balls when he realized the black kid wasn't going to stop and Tud said, "Hey, now, Billy Lee …" Billy Lee pulled the trigger, and a burst of nine-millimeter slugs went downrange, and the black kid tumbled ass over teakettle into the weeds. ❋ Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- (1991)
England's troubles have not yet endured above half the odd years of those reformers 'task; yet, good God! how short-breathed are men! ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
It was not the sustained crying of a child who had had a year or so to practice, but the short-breathed "ah-la, ah-la, ah-la," of a newborn infant. ❋ Blish, James (1957)
Probably it is required more by cruder natures, who must be stimulated by coarse differences and whose short-breathed lives favor violent contrasts. ❋ Georg Simmel (1956)
The naughty little eyes twinkled; the naughty little mouth opened to emit his short-breathed pants; and the naughty little tongue hung out as he pranced and leaped, rolled and gamboled over the cast-down and dejected peas. ❋ Elizabeth Strong Worthington (N/A)
"Is it _I_ ride in yer boat!" exclaimed Mary Ann, who was stout and short-breathed. ❋ Mary Catherine Crowley (N/A)
She cried loudly after them with a short-breathed Gaelic halloo, too much like an animal's cry to attract their attention. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
And without making any one else lose the thread or grow short-breathed or accuse us passionately of reading ahead, we would, on the slightest provocation, out-Fletcher Fletcher chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy. ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)
There was no serene confidence about him this time, no snatching her into a short-breathed embrace; he was rather pathetically humble before her new poise and achievements, pleading, desperate. ❋ Ruth Comfort Mitchell (1918)
And so, young gentleman, he added, after a few moments further rubbing of his chin, that you may not consider me longwinded as well as short-breathed, I believe thats all about it. ❋ Unknown (1917)
*[Chalmers] is panting and stops [running laps] during his workout*
Gavin: Yo Chalmers are you ok?
Chalmers: Yeah I just got some [shortness of breath]
Gavin: Do you have asthma or something?
Charmers: no I just have shortness of breath ❋ Circy4 (2016)
[I’m] having [trouble] [breathing] I feel short of breath ❋ Itunesgirl (2018)
