breathless vs weary

breathless

adj
  • That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.). 

  • Having no wind; still, calm or airless. 

  • Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language. 

  • Not breathing; dead or apparently so. 

  • Having difficulty breathing; gasping. 

weary

adj
  • Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. 

  • Expressive of fatigue. 

  • Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. 

  • Causing weariness; tiresome. 

verb
  • To make or to become weary. 

How often have the words breathless and weary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )