"Breathlessness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... breathlessness in the shrieking wind, while the storm-driven spray cut and lashed and ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... was in the church and the seats were all filled. It gratified him, at the same time that it hopelessly abased him to observe all this evidence of her power. As he waited for her to appear that tremor came into his hands again, and that breathlessness, and curiously enough he felt that horrible familiar sinking of the heart which he always felt just before ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... cried with the breathlessness of a new idea, "if I should give in and agree to take the land, would you go up there with me and turn ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... not unfrequently buried alive, how is it that we never hear of a revival in a dissecting-room? Then, on another point of physiology, M. Payerne states, with regard to the distress experienced by many persons in the ascent of a high mountain, 'that the lassitude and breathlessness felt in elevated places appear to proceed, not from an insufficiency of oxygen, but rather from the rupture of the equilibrium between the tension of the fluids contained in our organs and that of the ambient air, whatever be the way in which the rupture is produced.' And, to close these ...
— Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Volume XVII., No 422, New Series, January 31, 1852 • Various
... every reason to believe, on the Pitt Place evidence, combined with the making of his will, that Lord Lyttelton had really, for some time, suffered from alarming attacks of breathlessness, due to what cause physicians may conjecture. Any one of these fits, probably, might cause death, if the obvious precaution of freeing the head and throat from encumbrances were neglected; and the Pitt Place document asserts that the ...
— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang
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