They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat.

The detour meant that we had to go on a twenty-mile Cook's tour to get home.

The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, …

The men went out hunting a stinkcat.