The river bed literally was choked by the mass of dead Germans.

"You've no idea 'ow I'm suffering; I've got a headache, I'm arf choked, and there's a feeling about my waist as though I'm being cuddled by somebody I don't like.

We do not know how badly the shaft is choked up; we do not know the condition of the air in the mine.

Rudolph, desperately choked, continued leaping upward against an insufferable power of gravity, or straining to run against the force of paralysis.

She felt her way onward, still cautiously, then she choked back a scream and dropped her burden with a clatter to the ground.

" "I'll be doubly and eternally" Deever's wrath and surprise choked him.

When I had finished she took my hand by the wrist and gripped it as if she would choke a snake ere

But she must firmly choke back all the sweetness of the memories which sprang to her with kind eyes, as the familiar little room that had not changed opened its arms to her, alas!

The man's face was purple, his limbs limp and lifeless and he choked gaspingly.

The bear, shot through the lungs, was breathing heavily and rapidly choking.

As Harriet walked slowly down the street, a more courageously dressed woman than she had been for years, her chin quivered and she shook with sobs heroically choked back.

One rose upon a knee, choking horribly, shaken with the last throes of his flooded heart, and reeled over.

An autumn morning: the rays of the sun shining upon the silvery mists swathing the trees outside, upon the wet and many-colored leaves; a little frost on the dark grass here and there; the first fires lighted within; the carriage already waiting at the door; the breakfast hurriedly choked downin silence; the mournful noise of his trunk being brought downstairshis first trunk.

Carolyn June choked hysterically.

This wood, impenetrably choked, stifled with thorny bushes, briars and vines, and which he had delivered over to the flames, was undoubtedly a garden planted by them, on a sheltered declivity of the mountain; the garden which surrounded their habitation, as he had himself designed his own to do.

But no one who has read the history of the Reform Bill of 1832 or of the Chartist movement or who remembers the passions stirred up by the Franchise agitation and the Home Rule struggle of the eighties will swallow that explanation without mentally choking.

The river changed hands five times in one day, and at nightfall the stream was completely choked with the bodies of thousands of dead, so that a plank roadway for artillery was laid by the Russians across a solid bridge of bodies.

When the tubes are small in diameter they are apt to become partially choked with pieces of coke; but an internal diameter of 1-5/8ths may be employed without inconvenience if the draught be of medium intensity.

Where a few moments before there had been the leaden grip of something that seemed to be physically choking him, there was now again the strange buoyancy with which he had gone to the Otto tent.

And sadly and in a voice choked in sorrow, know, O Yudhishthira, he said words"O warrior, Ahuka, the lord of Dwaraka, hath said these words unto thee!

Once in the room, the two attendants threw me on the bed and one choked me so severely that I could feel my eyes starting from their sockets.

They seemed making for the Tiber, which they would have speedily choked; but ere they could arrive there a huge rift opened in the earth, down which they madly precipitated themselves.

She managed to smile at them, choking back quite unwonted tearsSally was no baby, to cry at a touch of fatigue.

She's going to marry thatthat' He choked and muttered, unintelligibly: 'I've reasoned, I've pleaded, I've commanded.

Many of them, perhaps, were provincials, caught in Paris by the declaration of war and desperately anxious to get back to their homes before the lines were utterly choked by troop trains.