Chokey

Agatha Trunchbull, the headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School, likes to toss little girls by their pigtails and punishes her pupils in a torture device known as the Chokey.

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"Chokey," forfeited some of his remission for the offence.

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He generally sold most of his food to other prisoners for tobacco; occasionally he was detected and punished, and I always observed that he came out of 'Chokey' fatter than when he went in.

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Tibetan independence is the ultimate resolution to the problem, says Chokey.

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Tenzin Chokey of the Tibetan Youth Congress says Tibetans should demand more than just autonomy.

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Umbellifera, a Rheoides papillis verrucosum, this is a true Rheum, and when cultivated becomes the _Ruwash_ of the Affghanistans; it is very common on the Candahar face of the pass, particularly about Chokey, where it is in flower.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

No cultivation seen, a pool of water is situated near the hill, and a little is reported as situated half-way between this place and Chokey, this however I did not see.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

When the prisoner came out of 'Chokey,' as the punishment cells are called by the prisoners, he came to me about the Sunday sentence of a hungry man for taking a pint of gruel, which in some proportion belonged to himself.

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The hills around Chokey, and below it are rounded, those towards the pass being more steep.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall (1928) would have to lose Chokey, a black character who is well-meaning but thick.

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