"Chokey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with my long story, and I know that my friend Mr. Jones is impatient to get me safely stowed in chokey. I'll make it as short as I can. The villain Sholto went off to India, but he never came back again. Captain Morstan showed me his name among a list of passengers in one of the mail-boats very shortly ...
— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle
... sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure &c 232; isolation (exclusion) 893; penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod [Lat.]; calaboose, chauki^, choky^, thana^; workhouse [U.S.]. Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's Bench, Queen's Bench. bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... to his mother made Tom feel rather choky, and he would have liked to have hugged his father well, if it hadn't ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes
... pull up to take breath, Helena was redder and hotter than she had ever been before in her life. Indeed, for a moment or two, she was almost frightened—her heart beat so fast, and there was such a "choky" feeling in her throat. She could not speak, but ...
— The Christmas Fairy - and Other Stories • John Strange Winter
... Rubbing the caked dirt from my eyes, I looked down to see two mounds like those of graves, out of which projected legs that had been white. Just then one pair of legs, the longer pair, stirred, the sand heaved up convulsively, and, uttering wandering words in a choky voice, there arose the ...
— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard
... children; but there is a nest-egg in a little packet in the right-hand drawer of my bureau. You must always keep it—always until you really want it.' I felt so bursting all round my heart, and so choky in my throat, that I thought I'd scream there and then; but I kept all my feelings in, and went away, and pretended to dearest auntie that I didn't feel it a bit. Then, ...
— Betty Vivian - A Story of Haddo Court School • L. T. Meade
... gits choky, An' a lump keeps tryin' to rise Lak it wan'ed to ketch de water Dat was flowin' to my eyes; An' I feel dat I could sorter Knock de socks clean off o' sin Ez I hyeah my po' ol' granny Wif huh tremblin' voice ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... are you?" we shouted, in terrified distress. To our intense relief an answer came back in a choky voice. ...
— King Solomon's Mines • H. Rider Haggard |
