chokingly
Adverb
While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
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Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.
Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.
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In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.
His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.
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