half-choked

“She loved you, Umber,” Balfour said in a half-choked voice.

End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

“She loved you, Umber,” Balfour said in a half-choked voice.

End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

Slowly he let go of the man, who shook his head dizzily, half-choked.

Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

Boneless and liquid as the water around us, contained only by the frame of his hands, I cried out, the soft, bubbling half-choked cry of a sailor sucked beneath the waves.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

The parent birds soared off in sallies of flight accompanied by crescendos of cawing, returning with breakfast for the fledglings, who expressed their satisfaction in half-choked high-pitched mewling.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The parent birds soared off in sallies of flight accompanied by crescendos of cawing, returning with breakfast for the fledglings, who expressed their satisfaction in half-choked high-pitched mewling.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I am half-choked with the effort of foregoing my own fixed resolution —

Anne of Geierstein 2008

“Were these my last accents,” said the reformer, “and were they uttered at the stake, half-choked with smoke, and as the fagots kindled into a blaze around me, with that last utterance I would testify against the superstitious devices of Rome.”

The Monastery 2008

The boat is swaying off and on against the steep pebble-bank: he clutches at it — misses — falls headlong — rises half-choked with water: but Frank is still in his arms.

Westward Ho! 2007

Yet even so it was the hands at the pumps who were the least harassed; although they had to work until they could hardly stand, often up to their middles in water, often half-choked with flying spray or still more rain, immeasurable quantities of rain, at least they knew exactly what to do.

Heavy Weather Bruce Schauble 2006