"Asphyxiated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... difficult work in practice. The bricks jammed even when they were undermined, and the wall was four bricks thick to its further side. Moreover, every alternate course was cross-pinned, and the workman was rapidly becoming asphyxiated by the terrible reek which came billowing ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... smell!" exclaimed the widow, holding a flimsy lace handkerchief to her nose. "Kind of camphor-sandal-wood charnel-house smell. I wonder you are not asphyxiated. Pouf! ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume |
