The master spent his last day of life wrapped in a quilt stitched by his wife, his rasping, irregular breaths filling the small bedroom.
He could hear the rasping wild undertone in her voice.
Well before she arrived, she'd call out a friendly word with what little voice she had left, which was shrill and rasping.
Any of various primitive elongated freshwater or anadromous fishes of the family Petromyzontidae, characteristically having a jawless sucking mouth with rasping teeth.
The "dead McCarty... threw back his head once more [and gave] a dreadful rasping whoop that sounded like the hounds of hell were barking."