Jones pressed his thumbs into the neck of the sufferer, as he called to an assistant-supervisor to run to the hospital for Dr. Almeida, hoping to be able to close the severed jugular from which welled an appalling stream of blood.

I've seen him tear out another dog's jugular in one leap.

Just as he had held to the jugular of his first buck on that moonlight night a long time ago, so he held to the old bull now.

The question being pressed, the stranger drily said, "Sheep," and then he accompanied the ominous word by delicately and significantly pointing to the jugular under his ear.