Word: throating
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...something which can always be worsted by appeals to passion. Working himself by degrees up to a whirlwind climax, he pointed an accusing pudgy forefinger at M. Briand, shouted defiantly: "You cannot and you shall not force France to debate the debt settlement with a knife at her throat...
When he sees Louis and Teena approach, Jencic hides in a dark doorway. Sharp-eyed Louie yanks him out by the collar. At last Jencic awakes. He grabs Louie by the throat, smashes his face. Down goes Louie, then up with a knife. Mighty Jencic just advances slowly, arms out seeking to crush, face murderous. Louie retreats. Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade...
...small carload of cigarets (coarse, loose-rolled Macedonias) in the past year,* King Zog developed such a cough that his Italian physician announced that he had completely lost his voice. King Zog was dumb. Alarming news that the dumb Zog's ailment might be cancer of the throat caused European chancelleries to turn anxious eyes on Albania. Despite its bachelor king, Albania is already an Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that the death of King Zog, the disturbances that are almost certain to ensue, would be just the excuse needed for official Italian intervention. With...
...Then he went to get a drink. His six-year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water. Ion Gerghuta...
Example of Author Bedel's style (description of a fat lady in distress): "The gelatine of her neck quivered, and her hand, describing a vast detour, arrived at her throat...