wheezings

The soundtrack, which until then had been a series of mumbles, grunts and wheezings, picked up his question.

Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004

The main public room was silent except for various snores and phlegmy wheezings.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

The faint wheezings from his open mouth deepened into a shallow panting, and I relaxed in relief; he'd only had his wind knocked out.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

There were only Jive's pleas and wheezings, and the hiss of dust as it ran away down the stairs from the emptying sack of his body.

The Thief of Always Barker, Clive, 1952- 1992

Gerswin repressed a sigh as the strange musical wheezings continued.

The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987

Amidst the clankings, groanings and wheezings emitted by the organ I thought I detected an excerpt from La Boheme, although heaven knew that Puccini never made the dying Mimi suffer the way she would have suffered had she been in the Rembrandtplein that night.

Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969

Her hair hung in a soft wing across one cheek, her face was fuller, more matronly and the child in her lap fed with a red face and small wheezings.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

Ellen, red of face with little eyes and a flat nose upon which flies used to settle, a fat, short neck, the wheezings and the pantings, the stumping walk, the great broad back.

The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912

His breath came with peculiar wheezings, and every now and again he would cough.

Tono Bungay 1906

If so, let them not turn the deaf ear to the gentle wheezings of their

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895