chokin

So I sings out to him, and comes out from behind the lumber-stack, but, Lord bless ye! he jest peeped round over his shoulder oncet, gave a kind of chokin 'scream like, and put out up the road as if the Devil was after him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

He had it in his mouth to kape us from knowin 'his voice, an' by th 'same tokin, I calls to mind th' chokin 'in his throat, the scand'lous owld woman he was.'

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

He run back only when the dog was in dire need an 'chokin' to death.

Frank of Freedom Hill 1901

Jes 'chokin' full o 'hothouse plants and pinies and perfume;

Songs of Friendship James Whitcomb Riley 1882

I smelt somethin 'plaguy sour, but I couldn't see nothin'; at last I got hold of her and lifted her up, for she didn't scream, but made a strange kind of chokin 'noise, and by this time up came Marm Blake with a light.

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

In any case there's no use in dopin 'chokin' mopin 'and sobbin'

Knox 2009

"Let us tak a minute's thocht, and see if we can get a way o 'chokin' up that stuff fear fallin 'doon.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

You go home and ask your husbands what smoke puts in their pockets out o 'the pay-roll -- and you'll come around next time to get me to turn out more smoke instead o' chokin 'it off! "

The Turmoil 1915

Do ye see nae differ atween chokin 'an ill-faured tyke an' chokin 'a puir widow's lum? "

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

 I wanted to take that back because she started crying then — almost chokin 'and carrying on and when she gets like that, you can't help but to cry right along with her.

Please 2010