Not for much longer would my
lungs withstand the strain upon them.
My violent struggles had only accelerated my already dangerously accelerated heart, and increased the need for oxygen in my suffocating
lungs.
I can, indeed, hardly doubt that all vertebrate animals having true
lungs have descended by ordinary generation from an ancient prototype, of which we know nothing, furnished with a floating apparatus or swimbladder.
He breathes heavily, taking into his
lungs the frost itself.
I opened my mouth wide, and my
lungs saturated themselves with fresh particles.
Tarzan's
lungs were bursting for a breath of pure fresh air.
The will to live, he thought disdainfully, vainly endeavoring not to breathe the air into his bursting
lungs. Well, he would have to try a new way.
Prostrating myself mentally before my Guide, I cried, "How is it, O divine ideal of consummate loveliness and wisdom that I see thy inside, and yet cannot discern thy heart, thy
lungs, thy arteries, thy liver?" "What you think you see, you see not," he replied; "it is not given to you, nor to any other Being to behold my internal parts.
When he came to himself, he began to cry and shriek at the top of his
lungs, stamping his feet on the ground and wailing all the while:
He would cry for nothing; he would burst into storms of devilish temper without notice, and let go scream after scream and squall after squall, then climax the thing with "holding his breath"-- that frightful specialty of the teething nursling, in the throes of which the creature exhausts its
lungs, then is convulsed with noiseless squirmings and twistings and kickings in the effort to get its breath, while the lips turn blue and the mouth stands wide and rigid, offering for inspection one wee tooth set in the lower rim of a hoop of red gums; and when the appalling stillness has endured until one is sure the lost breath will never return, a nurse comes flying, and dashes water in the child's face, and--presto!
There was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his
lungs. To die of hanging at the bottom of a river!
His pride kept his mouth shut, but the result of the chilling of his
lungs in the cold snap could not be concealed.
His throat and
lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground.
Clausen was yelling his enthusiasm, at the top of his
lungs, into the ear of his nearest neighbor.
That's why they go in so easily if you lace tight and squeeze the
lungs and heart in the let me see, what was that big word oh, I know thoracic cavity," and Rose beamed with pride as she aired her little bit of knowledge.
