Example Sentences

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"Your dignity I have the respect for," replied the Duke, laboredly; "but you grow old and foolish."

From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

I stood a moment, legs apart, my chest heaving laboredly, for I felt the hard chase.

From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile