"I was but lately rained down into this dire gullet," said the man, "amidst a shower of Tuscans.

They sucked their hisses back down their frightened gullets so swiftly that the exertion well-nigh choked them, and shrank flat against the wall; and, for all the sound that came from them until he had holstered his hardware and trotted on, they might have been dead men and women.

Train after train fled downwards with its freight towards the hidden city, and the torrent still surged, more rapid than ever, through the narrow gullet of the station.

How shall one know whether the sound comes up a wrathful gullet or whether the dog bays at him impersonally, as at the distant moon?