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  • "I can't stop now!" she shouted at Elenor, in response to a tear-choked entreaty.

    Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • Finally she said in a tear-choked voice, "They tried to kill me!"

    Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982

  • At last he tore himself away, jumped out by the window, and shouted back at her with a tear-choked voice:

    Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

  • At last there came out of the folds of the chair the words, faint and tear-choked:

    Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

  • They paused, waiting for what they expected would be a tear-choked answer, but none came.

    The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley Laura Lee Hope

  • "Amen" rolled from a hundred tear-choked throats, like the distant murmuring of the sea.

    Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • He told the Holy Family and the saints, with tear-choked voice, the quandary of his noble master, and begged that, though they should never grant him another request, somehow, somewhere, they find and bring a gallant adventurer who could turn defeat into victory, one more willing and competent than himself, to die!

    The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Paul Dickey 1909

  • A moment he stood thus, then spoke in a tear-choked voice:

    Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • At last there came out of the folds of the chair the words, faint and tear-choked:

    Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902

  • When she saw my uproarious laughter she stood upright in passion, flashing the lightning of her big dark eyes in mine, and said with a tear-choked voice:

    The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore 1901

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