Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
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Juror five had just blown this trial right out of the water.
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In the past I've seen him take responsibility when he's blown it.
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Hundreds, thousands strong, our minds blown and expanded by his very presence.
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He said a full-blown system design response in workplaces should be done.
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The dust is blown out in a cloud high in the air.
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In night blackness he heard it while seeing nothing: light panting breaths.
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In the distance, the bells continued to complain unceasingly in panting accents.
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He stopped, getting his wind; watching the men panting and stumbling in.
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The panting of the engine came back to us in savage blasts.
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She spoke in panting gasps, the death-rattle sounding in her skinny throat.
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Imagine gasping for air with every step you take, Mr Green said.
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I heard him come in, gasping for air after the long climb.
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It's all seems to have left the young Canelo gasping for answers.
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The effort of gathering and releasing so much energy left me gasping.
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He got up, unsteady, still gasping and unable to speak or hear.
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We lose our readers' attention when paragraphs are too long-winded and wordy.
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This set him thinking; he knew the deer had not winded him.
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In most cases these were long-winded, pointless, and yawn-provoking attempts at writing.
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Long-winded went to French restaurant & asked for sardines and plain bread.
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The politicians on our screens are renowned for long winded, waffly answers.
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He was out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall.
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They were out of breath; the shower passed away upon the sea.
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The prince was always in a perspiration, and often out of breath.
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He was out of breath and dizzy; his heart beat to suffocation.
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She talked in a jerky way, and was always out of breath.
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She panted a little as she spoke, like a short-winded lap-dog.
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Here Augustus, who was a little short-winded, paused to recover breath.
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The man's strength was prodigious, although he was puffy and short-winded.
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Another of those short-winded, high-arched pops went up in air.
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She sits down, short-winded, and listens to his heavy breathing.
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The generous living of Dawson had made him pursy, almost porcine.
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Unconsciously dull eyes sparkled and pursy lips vibrated into smiles.
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By lavender feet clung a big, pursy, lavender-splotched, yellow body.
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Its big, pursy body was covered with long, furry scales of the purest white imaginable.
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A pursy grocer considers he is much above either.
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He obeyed, leading his pursy bride by a string which he tied around her neck.
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Thither let your good sheep go, your echoes, your wag-tail dogs, your wealthy pursy manufacturers!
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We are not pursy justices or mooning girls.
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Big pursy caterpillars could not be picked from their favourite bushes, when there were no bushes.
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And where dost thou lay the pursy sides?
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The big pursy abdomen and smaller antennae, that now turned forward in position, proved this a female.
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The pursy little passenger snapped an acceptance.
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Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.
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She was three and one-half inches LONG, with a big pursy abdomen, and wings the size of my thumbnail.
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On the bank appeared a short, crummy, pursy kind of man, whose efforts to board the steamer were notably ridiculous.
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My Lord Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy.