Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
1The generous living of Dawson had made him pursy, almost porcine.
2Unconsciously dull eyes sparkled and pursy lips vibrated into smiles.
3By lavender feet clung a big, pursy, lavender-splotched, yellow body.
4Its big, pursy body was covered with long, furry scales of the purest white imaginable.
5A pursy grocer considers he is much above either.
6He obeyed, leading his pursy bride by a string which he tied around her neck.
7Thither let your good sheep go, your echoes, your wag-tail dogs, your wealthy pursy manufacturers!
8We are not pursy justices or mooning girls.
9Big pursy caterpillars could not be picked from their favourite bushes, when there were no bushes.
10And where dost thou lay the pursy sides?
11The big pursy abdomen and smaller antennae, that now turned forward in position, proved this a female.
12The pursy little passenger snapped an acceptance.
13Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.
14She was three and one-half inches LONG, with a big pursy abdomen, and wings the size of my thumbnail.
15On the bank appeared a short, crummy, pursy kind of man, whose efforts to board the steamer were notably ridiculous.
16My Lord Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy.