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stertorously

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ster·tor  (stûrtr)
n.
A heavy snoring sound in respiration.

[New Latin, from Latin stertere, to snore.]

sterto·rous adj.
sterto·rous·ly adv.
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Adv.1.stertorously - in a noisy and stertorous manner; "he was breathing stertorously"


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He sat and breathed a little stertorously, and there came to him that conviction that comes to all of us now and then, that we are at a crisis of our careers and that the moment through which we are living is a moment big with fate.
Jobling repair to the rag and bottle shop, where they find Krook still sleeping like one o'clock, that is to say, breathing stertorously with his chin upon his breast and quite insensible to any external sounds or even to gentle shaking.
In the corner a very fat man was lying all a-sprawl upon a truss, snoring stertorously, and evidently in the last stage of drunkenness.
 
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