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suffocating

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With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

Then he started, and suffered five suffocating minutes in the public sitting-room of the Beau Soleil.

In the train he slept but little; the heat was suffocating; there was a Khamsîn blowing and the fine sand crept in everywhere.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

He threw back his head with an impulse of pride as he savoured the odour of truffles diffused through the suffocating atmosphere.

THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET

The banker, bewildered and frightened, opened wide his round owl's eyes in presence of this suffocating emotion.

THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET

Whenever the breeze left us the heat was almost suffocating; there was no escape for it.

She looked at this man, and a suffocating band seemed to encircle her throat.

The snow was suffocating him, and his legs were atremble with the effort he had put forth.

The place was intolerably dirty, and the smell of tobacco smoke perfectly suffocating.

The heat was suffocating, the atmosphere heavy; without a breath of air, the trees trembled from root to summit.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985