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Example sentences for "her throat"

  • There was a fluttering, a strangling in her throat.

  • When she slept it was to dream horrible dreams; when she lay awake it was to have her heart leap to her throat at a rustle of leaves near the window, and to be in torture of imagination as to poor Bo's plight.

  • His hands flew to her throat, ready to choke her.

  • Thet orful wail is her breath chokin' in her throat.

  • The touch eased away the oppression over her lungs, the tightness of her throat.

  • Them blue spectacles capped everything, she decided; and what on earth made her tie up her throat in that fashion?

  • Joyce felt a creeping sensation in her veins, the sobs rose in her throat, but she swallowed them down and constrained her voice to calmness.

  • All of emotion was stirred up within her--her temples throbbed, her throat beat, her breath became hysterical.

  • Susan tried to speak; her voice died in her throat.

  • It revealed the smooth, voluptuous yet slender column of her throat.

  • She completed her toilet with a slow washing of her teeth, a long spraying of her throat, and a deliberate, thoroughgoing dripping of boracic acid into each eye to keep and improve its clearness and brilliancy.

  • She had to walk along at snail's pace or her heart would begin to beat as if it were about to burst and the blood would choke up into the veins of her throat to suffocate her.

  • For a second or two she sat up, pointing at the wolf, and there was a strange and horrible gurgling in her throat.

  • She was holding her hand to her throat, as though to protect if from the cold.

  • As he did so the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was dragged a little up, and showed a red mark on her throat.

  • I feared to wake her all at once, so, in order to have my hands free to help her, I fastened the shawl at her throat with a big safety pin.

  • I asked the Professor in a whisper, "What do you make of that mark on her throat?

  • Janet felt the blood beating in her throat, and an impulse to confess everything almost mastered her.

  • Something closed in her throat, preventing her immediate reply.

  • The sash at her waist, the lace mantilla that clung about her throat, the deftly coiled hair with its sheen of the night waters--these in black.

  • She stood in front of the bureau, just as Janet herself had done, her hands at her throat.

  • The china silk blouse was slightly open at the neck, suggesting the fullness of her throat; it clung to the outline of her shoulders.

  • She fumbled among the laces at her throat, and clawed out a pendant that hung to a velvet band around her neck.

  • Clara was on her feet with her hand at her throat.

  • Evidently a nervous creature, I saw the pulse in her throat, strained by her attitude, flutter like a terrified bird.

  • She was dressed for dinner, and at her throat I caught the blue gleam of the great sapphire.

  • Page could not restrain a giggle, and the giggle strangled with the sobs in her throat, so that the little girl was not far from hysterics.

  • And with the words, Page, the tears in her eyes and the sobs in her throat, flung out of the room, shutting the door violently behind her.

  • She was bewildered, and an anxiety cruelly poignant, a dread of something she could not name, gripped suddenly at her throat.

  • The tears sprang to her eyes, the sobs strangled in her throat.

  • Stewart raised the money somehow, and Peter saw her off, palpitant and eager, with the pin he had sent her to Semmering at her throat.

  • Whatever Mrs. Boyer had meant to say by way of protest at the intrusion on the sacred privacy of eleven o'clock and bedtime died in her throat.

  • And finally with a choke in her throat to the little mother back home, so hopeful, so ignorant.

  • As the young man followed Thea out, he glanced back over his shoulder through the crack of the door; the Hun clapped her hands over her stomach, opened her mouth, and made another raucous sound in her throat.

  • Archie about the window, and he told her that a girl who sang must always have plenty of fresh air, or her voice would get husky, and that the cold would harden her throat.

  • She made a sound in her throat, but it was not articulate.

  • Mary, the Hungarian chambermaid, came to the door, stood between the plush portieres, beckoned to Thea, and made an inarticulate sound in her throat.

  • He kept his right hand on the keyboard and put his left to her throat, placing the tips of his delicate fingers over her larynx.

  • Whenever she thought of Nancy Ellen and Robert there was a choking sensation in her throat, a dull ache where she had been taught her heart was located.

  • She wondered why she felt so forlorn and what made the dull ache in her throat.

  • A big sob arose in her throat, while at the same time she began to laugh weakly.

  • Once Nancy Ellen saw Kate throw up her head and twist her neck as if she were choking; then she heard a great gulping sob down in her throat; finally Kate turned and stared at her with dazed, incredulous eyes.

  • Her heart was beating all over her body--in her throat, her limbs, her helpless useless hands.

  • The dread lest he should question her, or keep the bottle back, choked the murmur of acquiescence in her throat; and when at length she emerged safely from the shop she was almost dizzy with the intensity of her relief.

  • But the power of expression failed her suddenly; she felt a tremor in her throat, and two tears gathered and fell slowly from her eyes.

  • She stopped, half choked by a throbbing ache in her throat,--and tottered against him as though about to fall.

  • A small knot of roses nestled among the delicate lace on her bodice, and the diamond dove-pendant Lord Blythe had given her sparkled like a frozen sunbeam against the ivory whiteness of her throat.

  • Lady Blythe put her hand to the pearls at her throat as though she felt them choking her.

  • She suddenly lowered her eyes, the warm flush spreading to her throat, her neck, her ears.

  • The dark lashes drooped lower on her cheeks; he could almost detect the flutter in her throat.

  • The words could not break through the sobs that were in her throat.

  • To her dismay, Beverly saw the point of a sword at her throat.

  • There were tears in her gray eyes and there was a sob in her throat.

  • The roses at her throat came so close that he could bury his face in them.

  • She began to feel the tight place in her throat which, by thinking about hard, she could always turn into tears, and presently her eyes began to water.

  • Betsy stopped short and stood still, her heart seeming to be up in her throat so that she could hardly breathe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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