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Meanings of breathe with difficulty in English

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Usage of breathe with difficulty in English
1
They were just a little apart; she seemed to breathe with difficulty.
The Everlasting Whisper
2
Her long face turned white; she seemed to breathe with difficulty.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
3
She subsided into the chair and began to breathe with difficulty.
Sight Unseen
4
Her hand was pressed against her heart, and she seemed to breathe with difficulty.
The Way of an Eagle
5
Grosvenor, unused to such severe exertion of this kind, began to breathe with difficulty.
The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border
6
His hand clutched the wine-glass which he held, and he seemed to breathe with difficulty.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
7
She seemed to breathe with difficulty, sighing and sobbing without being able to utter a word.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 4
8
It has left me; but I have a strange oppression at my chest, and breathe with difficulty.
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
9
She seemed to breathe with difficulty.
The Rocks of Valpré
10
Beltham, I breathe with difficulty.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8
11
Great purple rings had settled around his closed eyelids, his lips were blue, his sweet mouth partly opened, he seemed to breathe with difficulty.
Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos...
12
He rose quickly; the room, it was close; he breathed with difficulty.
The Grey Cloak
13
He breathed with difficulty and she heard him trying hard to speak.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
14
He breathed with difficulty, and uttered her name with a great effort.
A Set of Six
15
Evidently, too, he was suffering great pain, and he breathed with difficulty.
Roger Trewinion
16
He breathed with difficulty; the air in the high altitude made respiration difficult.
The Eternal Maiden
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