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• s  of breathing having a heavy snoring sound

• A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth.
• From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb.
• The door was burst in time for a doctor and two others to hear a stertorous voice say: "I am--am--John Wilkes-- Booth.