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Examples
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"chokiness," and I'll be damned if that isn't exactly why Orlando is trailing 3-1 in this series.
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A wild beast show with its inevitable accompaniment of dust and chokiness and noise would give her no pleasure at all, and the slight interest which had lain in the escort of the Vines with the amorous Stacey was now removed.
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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Some chokiness in my throat made me look at the oxygen cylinders, and I was startled at what I saw.
The Poison Belt Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1913
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Some chokiness in my throat made me look at the oxygen cylinders, and I was startled at what I saw.
The Poison Belt Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1913
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Some chokiness in my throat made me look at the oxygen cylinders, and I was startled at what I saw.
The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger 1913
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As though the thought of freezing had been a cue to Nature he noted a tickling in his nose and a chokiness in his throat, and somewhere in his system, a long way off, so to speak, he felt a sneeze forming and approaching the surface.
The Life of the Party James M. Preston 1910
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Book, she managed to conceal the fact from the neighbours on either side of her in the pew; and if her eyes looked suspiciously red, and there was a slight tendency to chokiness in her voice as she walked home after service, Lettice Talbot, at any rate, was tactful enough to take no notice, though she seized the opportunity of explaining the school code of decorum, and was severe in her censure.
The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907
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The huskiness and general chokiness of the tone were unmistakable.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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She sat stroking the dear hand she held and smiling to herself, notwithstanding a chokiness in her throat, for she had a comfortable belief the situation was saved.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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Stupidness, chokiness, call it whatever you want to call it.
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