Example Sentences

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Had they been caught in a calm the heat would have been suffocating; but Providence 60 favored them, and they sped along like a seagull toward their destination.

From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

It was penetrating, and a little more of it would have been suffocating.

From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane