Short Windedness

What with short-windedness, stones, nits, and a pervading sense of the wisdom of rest and be thankful, most of us have little enough sense of the beautiful under these circumstances. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Symptoms which may frequently denote disease of the heart are difficult breathing or short-windedness, dropsies of the limbs, habitual coldness of the extremities, giddiness or fainting attacks, inability to stand work, although the general appearance would indicate strength and ability, etc. MYOCARDITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE MUSCULAR STRUCTURE OF THE HEART. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

What with short-windedness, stones, ruts, and a pervading sense of the wisdom of rest and be thankful, most of us have little enough sense of the beautiful under these circumstances. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

Pay attention to verbiage, long - or short-windedness, and how well they’ve researched the topic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a youthful, eager haste that took no thought for the corpulence and short-windedness of the following Seneschal. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)