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  • He'd stop chasing me because he had asthma, and by the time he caught his breath I would be miles away.   (source)
  • Two older men, one with a cast on his leg, the other wheezing with asthma, and a young man of fifteen or sixteen who'd had appendix surgery.†   (source)
  • I can barely breathe already—and I got asthma, too.†   (source)
  • This one cured asthma.†   (source)
  • Sure, if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.†   (source)
  • His family maintained that he was beaten by police and jail officials who then denied him his asthma inhaler and medication despite his begging for it.†   (source)
  • What bugged me about it was that anyone who bothered to look would know that it wasn't asthma or weak ankles or her being "delicate" that was stopping her.†   (source)
  • He developed asthma in his sixties.†   (source)
  • I couldn't get my breath, it was like asthma.†   (source)
  • Rachelle wants desperately to smoke, but she has asthma.†   (source)
  • An Yi had severe asthma.†   (source)
  • Not only have you struck him, you have provoked his asthma!†   (source)
  • I feel sorry for the boys with flat feet or severe asthma or partial deafness who I see in the store after their buddies are gone, aimlessly wandering the aisles.†   (source)
  • 'tis a rare cure for asthma, he says.†   (source)
  • As of 2005—the most recent year figures were available—the U.S. government had issued patents relating to the use of about 20 percent of known human genes, including genes for Alzheimer's, asthma, colon cancer, and, most famously, breast cancer.†   (source)
  • I must be staring, because Mrs. Scharff explains, "Brian has asthma."†   (source)
  • I painstakingly formed the alphabet just as Grandma had taught me to do in order to distract me from my asthma cough.†   (source)
  • "Just a bad case of asthma," Henri tells him, and walks past.†   (source)
  • Not because she was wet, or dozing or had what sounded like asthma, but because amid all that she was smiling.†   (source)
  • "Is it his asthma?" he says.†   (source)
  • Rhea's laugh reminded me of a piglet with asthma.†   (source)
  • Who came back to Ayemenem with asthma and a rattle in her chest that sounded like a faraway man shouting.†   (source)
  • "No, because the owner got asthma," the waitress said.†   (source)
  • He'd been born three months prematurely, and he suffered from asthma, poor vision, and a lack of fine-motor coordination.†   (source)
  • He came out as a young man for his asthma and he never could get used to the dry.†   (source)
  • Fat kid asthma attack.†   (source)
  • The child's name and age were printed under each angel, sometimes with cause of death or personal comments by the family, and as the van drew closer Edgar could see entries for TB, AIDS, beatings, drive-by shootings, measles, asthma, abandonment at birth—left in dumpster, forgot in car, left in Glad Bag stormy night.†   (source)
  • The Valley's hot, damp climate had her red-eyed and runny-nosed from asthma and hay fever all the time, and the work at the milking stool hurt her back.†   (source)
  • Nana suggested cutting off his tail to make him more refined, but Clara had a tantrum that degenerated into an asthma attack and no one ever mentioned it again.†   (source)
  • One of the prisoners, an old and frail minister, had had an asthma attack, and so Ghosh had been summoned to the Crown Prince's residence in the early morning.†   (source)
  • She had asthma pretty bad.†   (source)
  • He also suffered from occasional attacks of asthma.†   (source)
  • One did not sweat there and only those who had asthma tried to avoid these vacations.†   (source)
  • Manuela usually handles grocery store duty, but she had an asthma attack and wound up in the hospital.†   (source)
  • Currently director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his research focuses on HIV/AIDS, asthma, allergies, and other ailments.†   (source)
  • Dr. Weil had warned that I might experience very brief episodes of asthma-like attacks, but the sensation was sharper than that, not like a constriction but a pointed, burning ache deep in the square of my chest, like a rifle shot passing cleanly through.†   (source)
  • The end came on Christmas Eve 1869; at the age of fifty-five, Stanton died from a sudden and very severe asthma attack.†   (source)
  • I had had an asthma attack that had almost closed my throat.†   (source)
  • During this time the wet climate did not agree with my younger son, Cazimir, who was twice hospitalized for acute asthma.†   (source)
  • It creaked and lurched up to the dock like an arthritic old man, wheezing and coughing a diesel asthma that appeared incurable.†   (source)
  • Little spell of asthma this last few weeks.†   (source)
  • One of my neighbors had a terrible asthma that lasted till his twenty-sixth birthday.†   (source)
  • Mostly Emily had asthma, and her breathing, harsh and labored, would fill the house with a curiously tranquil sound.†   (source)
  • "My asthma—" The response was mechanical.   (source)
  • He pants harder than I do, and I'm the one who used to have asthma.   (source)
  • Momma reminds me to breathe, the same way she did before I outgrew asthma.   (source)
  • Look, I'm goin' to say, you're stronger than I am and you haven't got asthma.   (source)
  • My auntie wouldn't let me blow on account of my asthma.   (source)
  • "I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride.   (source)
  • Piggy kept still for a moment, then he had his asthma.   (source)
  • Daddy smoked. Our neighbors above us and next to us smoked. I had so many asthma attacks, it ain't funny.   (source)
  • I thought I was going to have asthma.   (source)
  • You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.   (source)
  • If I pull logs, I get my asthma bad.   (source)
  • My asthma—   (source)
  • My son had asthma—he responded very well to Xolair.†   (source)
  • An Yi had an asthma attack and was out of school for a week.†   (source)
  • Then, smiling, he looked up at her father and said, "She has asthma.†   (source)
  • With Benny's asthma and Sugar still in school and Kindra and…we was tight on money already.†   (source)
  • It was like a miracle, Todd's asthma was gone and he turned into a real chatterbox.†   (source)
  • My lungs, because of my asthma, can't handle the disease.†   (source)
  • Mate sobbed out her story, her breath wheezy with the asthma she always got whenever she was upset.†   (source)
  • I could have an asthma attack in here and die!†   (source)
  • My bad headaches and asthma attacks worried her.†   (source)
  • When An Yi had an asthma attack, Grandma often had to take her to the hospital for oxygen.†   (source)
  • Mate's asthma was worse than ever and Mama had transferred her to a closer school in San Francisco.†   (source)
  • Then, of course, I'd get one of my asthma attacks and could barely breathe to talk.†   (source)
  • It could only make things worse, and Mate's asthma had just begun to calm down.†   (source)
  • After all, migraines and asthma attacks weren't against the law, were they?†   (source)
  • They've ruled out pulmonary problems and asthma.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, I was pretty sure this wasn't an asthma attack.†   (source)
  • He passed the time remembering and fighting against asthma.†   (source)
  • Ever since my bad asthma days when I was little, I'd always been on the scrawny side.†   (source)
  • "Real (breath) fat (breath) kid (breath) asthma (breath) attack," he finally said.†   (source)
  • I leaned against a post, trying to become invisible, because I had started to have an asthma attack.†   (source)
  • Cunfar would often have severe coughs and asthma when we were growing up.†   (source)
  • He just wanted to know if I'd recovered from the shock and my asthma attack and everything.†   (source)
  • An asthma patient walks in without an appointment and needs respiratory treatments and close monitoring of his peak flows and oxygen saturation.†   (source)
  • After four hours, he says, a woman with asthma begged for water, then slumped to the floor, unconscious.†   (source)
  • When he arrived at the city jail badly bruised and bleeding, Mr. Ruffin told the other inmates that he had been beaten terribly and was desperately in need of his inhaler and asthma medication.†   (source)
  • I have asthma, sir," I say, my usual excuse to avoid any situation that might betray my strength and speed.†   (source)
  • Benny…might get the asthma again.†   (source)
  • The table held more pill bottles than ever—Selestone for his asthma, Ativan to help him sleep, naproxen for infections— along with a powdered milk mix and laxatives.†   (source)
  • "I—have—asthma," I say.†   (source)
  • He had congenital high blood pressure and mild asthma, which developed after he'd recovered from a possible case of tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • The lawyers defending the Gadsden City Jail finally acknowledged that Mr. Ruffin's rights had been violated and that he had been illegally denied his asthma medicine.†   (source)
  • "Like I said, the lung's got asthma.†   (source)
  • What about your asthma?†   (source)
  • An Yi's asthma prevented her from being sent to the countryside, and all these years she has been working in a small factory.†   (source)
  • Benny's asthma has gotten a little better but Leroy came home last night smelling like Old Crow again.†   (source)
  • I'm standing in Miss Celia's kitchen thinking about last night, what with Kindra and her mouth, Benny and his asthma, my husband Leroy coming home drunk two times last week.†   (source)
  • I have really bad asthma.†   (source)
  • "Asthma," Emby says between wheezes.†   (source)
  • "—when my asthma wasn't so had—"†   (source)
  • Benny got the asthma.†   (source)
  • "How Benny's asthma?"†   (source)
  • He catches that boy who insists on calling himself Emby milling around at the edge of the garden by himself, wheezing less now that he's finally been put on the proper asthma medication.†   (source)
  • Minerva just held my hands like she used to when I was a little girl and was having an asthma attack.†   (source)
  • I cried myself to sleep in my dormitory cot every night, and of course, that only made my asthma worse.†   (source)
  • Ephedrine—the asthma was acting up.†   (source)
  • It makes my asthma worse.†   (source)
  • But, of course, La Romana has already been spoken for by Tia Flor's little goddaughter, who suffers from asthma and shouldn't be contradicted.†   (source)
  • Nancy's asthma began to worry him.†   (source)
  • 'I had gym third period, but my asthma was pretty bad, so I had a doctor's note to excuse me from class.†   (source)
  • She said it was her asthma, but Alba noticed that she no longer rang the little silver bell so she would come and cure her with prolonged hugs.†   (source)
  • In fact he'd played only sporadically as a child, being bedridden at times, that awful word, and treated for asthma, for recurring colds and sore throats and whooping cough.†   (source)
  • A lot of those people were suffering from asthma, because Chicago has one of the worst asthma problems in the United States.†   (source)
  • So Reilly worked with his staff to develop specific protocols for efficiently treating asthma patients, and another set of programs for treating the homeless.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether it was the toad or the rooster that worked, but a month later his asthma had gone.†   (source)
  • He was done in, with an attack of asthma that lasted for several days and that gave him the look of a man on his deathbed.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she had asthma attacks and would summon her granddaughter with a tiny silver bell she always carried on her person.†   (source)
  • She hopped off TOC's lap, turned around, grabbed her first-aid box, and started looking through it in vain for asthma coeds.†   (source)
  • Maybe you're wondering why my mom would take me camping and climbing mountains if I had asthma, but being outside always helped.†   (source)
  • All my life I've had allergies and asthma and respiratory problems, and I'll gladly have them when I get home, but please, please, not here, not now!†   (source)
  • During the crushing insomnia brought on by his asthma he would measure and remeasure the depth of his misfortune as he went through the shadowy house where the senile fussing of Ursula had instilled a fear of the world in him.†   (source)
  • Alba would come running to embrace her with consoling whispers, since they both knew from long experience that the only cure for asthma is the prolonged embrace of a loved one.†   (source)
  • Hollis came out then and the first thing she said was, "Please don't interrupt me during working hours," and then Lindsey said Hassan had an asthma attack and forgot his inhaler, and then Hollis took off running up the stairs.†   (source)
  • I hadn't had an asthma attack in years, but I remembered all the nights my mom had held me while I wheezed, feeling like an invisible belt was tightening around my chest.†   (source)
  • He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out into the sleeping street.†   (source)
  • Collin confided in me that he had a sister, Betsy Mae, who had asthma also; that's how he'd known what to do.†   (source)
  • Esteban was as madly in love as an adolescent, despite the fact that the movement of the ship made Clara uncontrollably ill and the tight quarters gave her asthma.†   (source)
  • Fat kid asthma attack.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, her new husband fluttered among the diners attributing his mother-in-law's absence to a sudden attack of asthma and his bride's tears to the emotions of the occasion.†   (source)
  • Asthma.†   (source)
  • Nicolas insisted he could walk barefoot on a bed of coals, but each time he announced a demonstration, Clara had an asthma attack and he was forced to stop.†   (source)
  • We opened a bottle of champagne, I had fresh flowers put in all the vases, ordered camellias, her favorite flower, and carpeted her room with them until they began to give her asthma and we had to remove them in a hurry.†   (source)
  • While she worked, fighting off her asthma, she told her about Blanca, who was a young lady now, about the twins, about the big house on the corner, and about the country, "and if you only knew how much we missed you.†   (source)
  • Ferula stopped three feet from the table, looked at everyone with her empty, indifferent eyes, and advanced toward Clara, who stood up but made no effort to go any closer, and only closing her eyes and breathing rapidly as if she were about to have one of her asthma attacks.†   (source)
  • When Clara had emerged from her mother's womb, Nana had cradled and washed her, and from that time on she had felt a desperate love for this fragile creature whose lungs were always full of phlegm, who was always on the verge of losing her breath and turning purple, and whom she had had to revive so many times with the warmth of her huge breasts because she knew that this was the only cure for asthma, much more effective than Dr. Cuevas's fortified syrups.†   (source)
  • Dr. Cuevas, that kind, sweet, wonderful old man with the thick beard and ample paunch, who had helped her into this world and attended her through all the usual childhood illnesses and all her asthma attacks, had been transformed into a dark, fat vampire just like the ones in her Uncle Marcos's books.†   (source)
  • He talked about her asthma, told one of his stories, shook his head as if he too could barely believe it.†   (source)
  • I read somewhere about a man who lived on a high mountain, because of asthma, the choking, killing land, while his wife lived on the coast below him, because of heart trouble that could not stand altitude.†   (source)
  • He suffered from asthma and would snort at unex-pected intervals.†   (source)
  • The old woman suffered from asthma and heart-disease.†   (source)
  • He has also a good deal to say about Rieux's asthma patient.†   (source)
  • We've got to defeat the Fascists," he said, snorting from asthma, switching his line of thought.†   (source)
  • He found his first patient, an asthma case of long standing, in bed, in a room that served as both dining-room and bedroom and overlooked the street.†   (source)
  • Originally strong, her voice was crippled by weeping and asthma, and the whites of her eyes coppery from the same causes, a burning, morose face, piteous, and her spirit untamed by thoughts or the remote considerations that can reconcile people to awfuler luck than she had.†   (source)
  • You sit there among the elder gods, disturbed by no sound except the slight rale of the one who has asthma, and wait for them to lean from the Olympian and sunlit detachment and comment, with their unenvious and foreknowing irony, on the goings-on of the folks who are still snared in the toils of mortal compulsions.†   (source)
  • Miss Newton, a wrenny and neurotic old maid, with asthma, who had gradually become Eliza's unofficial assistant in the management of the house, was there.†   (source)
  • The old asthma patient was bubbling over with excitement when Rieux and Tarrou visited him at the end of the week.†   (source)
  • Tarrou turned toward the house and Rieux did not see his face again until they were in the old asthma patient's TOOTH.†   (source)
  • He took to his bed and never left it again-but not because of his asthma, which would not have prevented his getting about.†   (source)
  • Only the old Spaniard whom Dr. Rieux was treating for asthma went on rubbing his hands and chuckling: "They're coming out, they're coming out," with senile glee.†   (source)
  • And when, at ten that evening, he parked his car outside the home of his old asthma patient-his last visit of the day-it was an effort for Rieux to drag himself from his seat.†   (source)
  • But Rieux was thinking of Cottard, and the dull thud of fists belaboring the wretched man's face haunted him as he went to visit his old asthma patient.†   (source)
  • After a particularly tiring day, about ten o'clock Tarrou proposed to the doctor that they should go together for the evening visit to Rieux's old asthma patient.†   (source)
  • Just the thing for asthma.†   (source)
  • Say, Doctor, do you find you can do much with asthma?†   (source)
  • Her excitement brought on an attack of asthma, to which she was subject.†   (source)
  • 'Oh yes, sir, he is at home,' said Minnie; 'the weather don't suit his asthma out of doors.†   (source)
  • In it was a good-natured-looking old woman with a dropsy, or an asthma, or perhaps both.†   (source)
  • Whenever you do, you say that Physician Vilbert is the only proprietor of those celebrated pills that infallibly cure all disorders of the alimentary system, as well as asthma and shortness of breath.†   (source)
  • But she was panting hot and hard because of her asthma, and all the while he coughed and held his saltcellar-spoon fingernail to his lips.†   (source)
  • Fortunately he was willing and able to talk between the choking fits of asthma, and his racked body writhed with malicious exultation at the bare thought of Jim.†   (source)
  • It was a terrible thing—unlike pure heat it held no promise of rural escape but suggested only roads choked with the same foul asthma.†   (source)
  • Many years later we discovered that, if we had been fed on asparagus day after day throughout that whole season, it was because the smell of the plants gave the poor kitchen-maid, who had to prepare them, such violent attacks of asthma that she was finally obliged to leave my aunt's service.†   (source)
  • Well now, Doctor, just in confidence, I'm going to tell you something that may strike you as funny, but I believe that foxes' lungs are fine for asthma, and T.B. too.†   (source)
  • …both with heads of thick hair and high-buttoned black blouses without a trace of collar or cuff; a Dutch married couple, who were assigned places at Settembrini's table; a hunchbacked Mexican, who terrified his tablemates with horrible asthma attacks, when he suddenly could not get his breath and would then grab his neighbor, man or woman, in the iron grip of one of his long hands, hold on tight as a vise, and drag his struggling, panicky victim, now shouting for help, down into…†   (source)
  • "He can't be long for this world, my dear; I wouldn't hasten his end, but what with asthma and that inward complaint, let us hope there is something better for him in another.†   (source)
  • Both the lodge and the lower story were overcrowded, but the old man kept the upper floor to himself, and would not even let the daughter live there with him, though she waited upon him, and in spite of her asthma was obliged at certain fixed hours, and at any time he might call her, to run upstairs to him from below.†   (source)
  • 'Thquire!' said Mr. Sleary, who was troubled with asthma, and whose breath came far too thick and heavy for the letter s, 'Your thervant!†   (source)
  • Thish-yer Smiley had a mare--the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because of course she was faster than that--and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind.†   (source)
  • Their religion was of a simple, semi-pagan kind, but there was no heresy in it,—if heresy properly means choice,—for they didn't know there was any other religion, except that of chapel-goers, which appeared to run in families, like asthma.†   (source)
  • Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and bustling; always out of breath,—in the first place, because of her activity, and in the next, because of her asthma.†   (source)
  • I smoke, myself, for the asthma.'†   (source)
  • She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious.†   (source)
  • The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes.†   (source)
  • He was as radiant, as if his chair, his asthma, and the failure of his limbs, were the various branches of a great invention for enhancing the luxury of a pipe.†   (source)
  • And old Barlow the macebearer laid up with asthma, no mace on the table, nothing in order, no quorum even, and Hutchinson, the lord mayor, in Llandudno and little Lorcan Sherlock doing locum tenens for him.†   (source)
  • She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her just to move about the home, every other day would be spent struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window.†   (source)
  • Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed; wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased; all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colick-pangs, Demoniack phrenzy, moaping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.†   (source)
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