"Choke down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so!" she faltered. She felt strangely lost and forlorn, releasing her hold on Wolf, and yet not able to claim Christopher's support. It was contemptible—it was weak in her, she felt, but she could not quite choke down her hunger for one reassuring word from Chris. "I ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris
... the outlaws' rendezvous at New Providence, and had told their comrades of the revelry and ease in which the sea robbers spent their days. And so it happened that one day, as Phipps stood on the quarter-deck vainly trying to choke down the nameless fear that had begun to oppress him,—the fear that his life's venture had proved a failure,—his crew came crowding aft, armed to the teeth, and loudly demanded that the captain should abandon his foolish search, and lead them on a fearless ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... days after the events mentioned in the last chapter. Dora sat by her father's bedside, her head buried in the pillows, vainly striving to choke down her tears and sobs. It seemed as if her heart must break. The Major lay back on his pillow, white and still, with a peaceful smile on his calm face. Dora could not understand it, could not take it in, but she knew it. Her father was gone to ...
— Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country • Johanna Spyri
... his beating he used to run out trembling onto the heath in shame and pain, and while he made faces and drummed with his fists, to choke down ...
— Dame Care • Hermann Sudermann
... himself beside Doctor Wilhelm and acted as if the shout of greeting and the unknown man's question had not referred to him. Doctor Wilhelm proposed a game of chess. Frederick accepted, and while playing, he had time to choke down his humiliation and resentment. He glanced about ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann
... hands were shaking as they did at the beginning of his rages, but Tira, embarked on a course she had long been coming to, was the more calm. "Yes, I changed, didn't I? An' when d' I change? When that"—he paused and seemed to choke down the word he would have given the child—"when that creatur' in there turned into the livin' pictur' of the man that drew up here this day. Can you deny he's the ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... hard to have to choke down her grief like this, and not burst out in reproach and tear this secret from her husband, which he in his misery still interposed so stubbornly between himself and his one support. And it was hard to simulate happiness and take part in the airy conversation; hard always to have to force ...
— Men in War • Andreas Latzko |
