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Examples
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"I can't stop now!" she shouted at Elenor, in response to a tear-choked entreaty.
Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000
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Finally she said in a tear-choked voice, "They tried to kill me!"
Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982
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At last he tore himself away, jumped out by the window, and shouted back at her with a tear-choked voice:
Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke
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At last there came out of the folds of the chair the words, faint and tear-choked:
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They paused, waiting for what they expected would be a tear-choked answer, but none came.
The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley Laura Lee Hope
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"Amen" rolled from a hundred tear-choked throats, like the distant murmuring of the sea.
Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912
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He told the Holy Family and the saints, with tear-choked voice, the quandary of his noble master, and begged that, though they should never grant him another request, somehow, somewhere, they find and bring a gallant adventurer who could turn defeat into victory, one more willing and competent than himself, to die!
The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Paul Dickey 1909
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A moment he stood thus, then spoke in a tear-choked voice:
Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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At last there came out of the folds of the chair the words, faint and tear-choked:
Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902
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When she saw my uproarious laughter she stood upright in passion, flashing the lightning of her big dark eyes in mine, and said with a tear-choked voice:
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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