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  • She was in a flushed awakening, burgeoning like the full spring all about them, a happier tone in her happy laugh, a richer song in her throat,

    CHAPTER XXVI 2010

  • The thorax of her costume hung from the back of a chair and though my tears I told her, with the marijuana smoke still in the back of my throat,

    What is it about animals? 2010

  • ‘Take me to Inkulu,’ I stammered with a dry throat,

    Prester John 2005

  • ‘I have been trying,’ he said at length, after an attempt to speak which was checked by a huskiness in his throat,

    New Grub Street 2003

  • I don't want no sympathy -- I just cut my good man's throat,

    Electric Chair Blues 2000

  • It was like having a ghost there, hanging over me, pushing his knee between my own, holding me down with the weight of his chest, his chest hard and furred with black hair, his harsh guttural whisper, like a knife at my throat,

    Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

  • It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat,

    MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1989

  • It penetrated slowly and deliciously. sounds that vibrated in his throat,

    Adam's Fall Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1988

  • For an instant after the sculptor had put the collar about her throat,

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

  • These things -- the beads she wore about her throat,

    A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson

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