It was just as if Nature were half stifled, and could no longer breathe; her lungs, that is to say those gloomy, dense clouds, not being able to perform their functions.

Britannica seems to suggest that turtles can breathe through both their lungs, and their bottoms - AND through tissues at the back of their throat.

He could barely breathe, his lungs wanting to reject the charged, heated air.

No longer able to breathe, her lungs afire, Docksey surmised that the oxygen in the bay was igniting along with the Neyel incendiary device.

"I am happy to be breathing air less impregnated with the miasmas of high civilization; my lungs are better and my work, too," he wrote in the autumn of 1831, the year after returning from Egypt.

The Lizard flattened himself against the wall, and if he breathed his lungs gave forth no sound.

This medication can dry up and thicken mucus in your lungs, making it more difficult to breathe and clear your lungs.