Matron herself was short and stout, pink-faced, with rimless glasses and heavy breathing.

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Over the following nine minutes, air traffic controllers frantically tried to make contact with the cockpit, from which only heavy breathing and electronic noises could be heard before the microphone finally went dead.

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Ms. LITHWICK: Well, what he says is he's very concerned, and it's important to bear in mind he has rejected such claims before, he's saying that recent accounts of death row inmates who suffer episodes of very heavy breathing, of heaving chests, long, long periods of time when it's clear that they are not yet anesthetized, concerns him, and he cited specifically the Stanley Tookie Williams execution.

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Still, the idea of the child-vampire remains a staunch rebuke to the heavy teen-age breathing.

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Mrs Jackson said Joan has been checked over by a vet and is fine apart from her breathing being "a little heavy" because of bruising on her ribs from the birth.

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There are a variety of reasons why someone might not be breathing, ranging from spinal damage, to being trapped underneath something heavy which is stopping the chest rising.

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He was breathing heavily from the climb and his hand rested on one of the two heavy packs they had been carrying.

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