Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
1 She panted a little as she spoke, like a short - winded lap-dog.
2 Here Augustus, who was a little short - winded , paused to recover breath.
3 The man's strength was prodigious, although he was puffy and short - winded .
4 Another of those short - winded , high-arched pops went up in air.
5 She sits down, short - winded , and listens to his heavy breathing.
6 He is eighteen years old, your worship, short - winded and galled.
7 It was a simple, effective and very short - winded system.
8 She loved the Green Mountains, but as sunset approached she found herself short - winded and anxious.
9 Is a poet of small wares, whose Muse is short - winded and quickly out of breath.
10 Just a little short - winded when I climb the stairs.
11 He was fat and short - winded and would suffer from the effort of laying on the blows.
12 Recovering some of her breath, she gazed at her companion with a sort of short - winded archness.
13 The man, wheezing like a broken-down locomotive, was too short - winded to talk when he was eating.
14 He was in the center, and short - winded .
15 The additional meal made them sluggish and short - winded , and they did not seem to thrive so well.
16 It was, it must be, the short - winded Count himself, whom we all supposed to be in Rome!
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