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comparative more stertorously, superlative most stertorously
With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner. quotations examples
The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.
1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 28, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library
He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind
Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.
2000, Mark Gatiss, chapter 20, in Last of the Gaderene