stertorously

adv

1. With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.

   “The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.”

   “Mr Lumby said, "Oh well, now the doctor's here you don't want me', and lumbered off, glad to get back to bed. Rita said, "She's in here, doctor', and led the way to the foot of the stairs where Mrs Dibble lay breathing stertorously under the dim shop light, still an abhorrent spectacle to Sadie, who edged gingerly round her and escaped upstairs, having no compunction whatever for Mrs Dibble's injuries”

   “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.”

   “Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.”