Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness; --yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old, crutch-like, antediluvian,
wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah's ark.
But he was too feeble, panting and
wheezing continually from the exertion and pausing to rest off strokes between strokes.
A crazy hand-rail ran up one wall, so I carefully flattened myself against the other, and he passed within six inches of me, puffing and
wheezing like a brass band.
But at the window there was pause enough, filled only by the uncanny
wheezing of the man I could not see.
Sometimes the languid sea rose over him and he dreamed long dreams; but ever through it all, waking and dreaming, he waited for the
wheezing breath and the harsh caress of the tongue.
...Somewhere behind a screen a clock began
wheezing, as though oppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it.
There sat the long-legged pauper, on his bed, in a very short shirt, and nothing more; he was dangling his legs contentedly back and forth, and
wheezing the music of "Camptown Races" out of a paper-overlaid comb which he was pressing against his mouth; by him lay a new jewsharp, a new top, and solid india-rubber ball, a handful of painted marbles, five pounds of "store" candy, and a well-gnawed slab of gingerbread as big and as thick as a volume of sheet-music.
Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners,
wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck.
The clock, after a hoarse
wheezing warning, struck seven.
The intermittent sounds--now a cough, now a horrible
wheezing or throat-clearing, now a little patter of conversation--were just, he declared, what you hear if you stand in the lion-house when the bones are being mauled.
His laborious
wheezing stopped, then, after a gasp or two, he added:
He sprang to his feet, waving his fists and
wheezing like an asthmatic.
wheezing - relating to breathing with a whistling sound