Example Sentences

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He ended with a sob, and when next he spoke it was more labouredly, as though that sob had robbed him of the half of what vitality remained.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

At once from the older boy came the sounds of one who breathes labouredly in deep sleep after a hard day.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon