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His adam's-apple, at such moments, jumped about in
The Enormous Room 1928
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He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfacaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adam's-apple men of morals; he was washed, fair, flat-skulled, clean-minded, and industrious; and the only noise of any kind he ever made in the world was on Sunday.
The Flirt 1912
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He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfacaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adam's-apple men of morals; he was washed, fair, flat-skulled, clean-minded, and industrious; and the only noise of any kind he ever made in the world was on Sunday.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907
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And then as if he felt it becoming of him, he frowned and his adam's-apple moved up and down with quick, spasmodic jerks.
Stubble George Looms 1906
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When a man's got as good an alibi as he said he had, his adam's-apple don't play 'Yankee Doodle' on his windpipe. "
No Clue A Mystery Story James Hay 1908
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