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At Tommie's bar, we learn that "Ceiling fans whirred noirishly against the night, and were stoical, somehow, like the old uncles of the place, all raspy and emphysemic."
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New to American theaters is "Harry Brown," a movie in which Michael Caine plays an emphysemic codger living out his days in a London housing project terrorized by feral youth.
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She's the emphysemic mother of an Iraq war veteran in the upcoming "The Dry Land," which she accompanied to town a few days ago to show senators and military officials, including the Army chief of staff, Gen. George Casey.
Actress Melissa Leo, of 'Treme' and 'Frozen River,' talks about her career 2010
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However, it was unlikely that his thugs would accost a sick old emphysemic on a busy street.
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Lee had been heavily unconscious for almost 10 minutes by then, but he was breathing like an emphysemic wildebeast and he definitely still had a pulse because the blood was still pumping out of him.
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I go downstairs to hear the emphysemic coffee pot struggle to produce the morning batch I think it needs cleaning; it takes forever to make a pot, turns half the water into steam, makes noise like a sea otter with bronchitis.
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Eddie sat there smiling, the real Eddie Robles who lived inside the imposter, inside the haunted likeness, arthritic, emphysemic, with ulcerated veins in his legs, retired more or less from everything.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Eddie sat there smiling, the real Eddie Robles who lived inside the imposter, inside the haunted likeness, arthritic, emphysemic, with ulcerated veins in his legs, retired more or less from everything.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Eddie sat there smiling, the real Eddie Robles who lived inside the imposter, inside the haunted likeness, arthritic, emphysemic, with ulcerated veins in his legs, retired more or less from everything.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He looked befuddled before grinning gummily, sticking out his tongue and giving us a thumbs down accompanied by an emphysemic raspberry.
Shaun Gatter: Campaign Journal: Canvassing for Mandela and Obama in Bristol, PA 2008
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