Short Winded

The Roundtable is fun to participate in and you can be as long or short-winded as you like. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His last valet was a big, foundered, short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him ❋ Unknown (2008)

In tertian fever, the morbific cause seeking the heart in the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, renders the patient short-winded, disposed to sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle is oppressed and the blood forced into the lungs and rendered thick. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The brewer was large, raw-boned, and round as a butt of beer, but very fat, unwieldy, short-winded, and phlegmatic. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[Reads] ‘I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity:’ he sure means brevity in breath, short-winded. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It has ended as would end the experiment of a man seeking to raise a breed of winning race-horses out of unexercised, short-winded, knock-kneed mares. ❋ Unknown (2003)

No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The friends stopped again -- poor, short-winded bodies -- on the crest of the low hill and turned to look at the wide landscape, bewildered by the marvelous beauty and the sudden flood of golden sunset light that poured out of the western sky. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Her eyes went round, and she spoke in a rapid, short-winded, staccato voice. ❋ Brown, Sandra, 1948- (1989)

The Fat Boy, a rotund, short-winded little fellow, better dressed than the others although his shoes were not matching. ❋ Simenon, Georges (1977)

The Sow Thistle (_Sonchus oleraceus_), named _sonchus_ because of its soft spikes instead of prickles, grows commonly as a weed in gardens, and having milky stalks which are reputed good for wheezy and short-winded folk, whilst the milk may be used as a wash for the face. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Captain Jules had told them that a diver must never go down into the water on a full stomach, as it would make him too short-winded. ❋ Amy D. V. Chalmers (N/A)

Thousands of short-winded, asthmatic people who are tired all the time and take cold at every change of the wind and think they are overworked because they find it so hard to work, are victims of acidosis from a heavy meat diet. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Stokes, our chief engineer, who had now reached the bridge, panting and puffing at every step, as Mr Fosset had said, he being corpulent of habit and short-winded, stopped any further controversy on the point as to whether I had seen, or had not seen, the mysterious ship. ❋ Henry [Illustrator] Austin (N/A)

'You see it,' he cried, with the same short-winded chuckle. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

The next morning a puff came up from the south in a very blustering manner, as though it had an immense capital to back it, but proved very short-winded. ❋ Various (N/A)

The surface of the ground was hard, and the old man was short-winded; he could hardly gather enough force to drive the spade in. ❋ S. Elizabeth Hall (N/A)

Do not make it a point of honour not to retreat; on the contrary, keep him moving; he is short-winded; exhaust his breath, and, when you find your opportunity, one good thrust in the breast and your man is down. ' ❋ Various (N/A)

Recovering some of her breath, she gazed at her companion with a sort of short-winded archness. ❋ Unknown (1928)