"Wheezy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into business, looked at him thoughtfully before turning, with a furtive smile, to the papers on the desk? He could hear him now, his nose in the paper before him, dropping astonishing words in the intervals of wheezy breathing. ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... A girl in thick-lensed glasses should not wear tulle evening frocks with a girlish note. Elizabeth had always felt comic in them. Yet there she had sat, shrinking lest the odious Oakley, of the fat white fingers and the wheezy breath, ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber
... my steps and lo! a shadowy throng Of ghosts came fluttering towards me—blown along, Like cockchafers in high autumnal storms, By many a fitful gust that thro' their forms Whistled, as on they came, with wheezy puff, And puft as—tho' ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... Pritchett, with such a look of surprise, with such an awe-struck tone, as might have suited some acquaintance of Aeneas's, on hearing that gentleman tell how he had travelled beyond the Styx. Mr. Pritchett was rather fat and wheezy, and the effort made him sigh gently for ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... when she had patted his head and spoken kindly to him he appeared satisfied, and lay down again with his head between his paws. Then sounds from the dancers below, the shrill laughter of the women mingled with the strum of the banjo and the wheezy accordion seemed to disturb the dog's slumber, and he would again pace up and ...
— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
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