1 After the fever had left his veins, the youth thought that at last he was going to suffocate.
2 A sorrowful sight I saw: dark night coming down prematurely, and sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow.
3 His attention was roused, I saw, for his eyes rained down tears among the ashes, and he drew his breath in suffocating sighs.
4 He was immediately seized by a suffocating cough that soon ended his triumph.
5 By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill.
6 Villefort, suffocating, pressed the doctor's arm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 80. The Accusation. 7 The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
8 On the morning of the first of September, Scarlett awoke with a suffocating sense of dread upon her, a dread she had taken to her pillow the night before.
9 From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.
10 She felt simply dismayed, with a sort of cold and suffocating dismay; the thought that she would not have felt like that if she had really loved him flashed instantaneously through her brain.
11 Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY 12 Ethan was suffocated with the sense of well-being.
13 The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 14 When he gets home it is suffocated.
15 He half suffocated himself with laughing here.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY