Word: throating
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...sketched through hastily till I came to Gentle Grafters when I must say I was horrified with these lines: "The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe?it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat...
...what I have said you will find the answer to the question so often asked of our colonial aspirations and desires. One must not describe Italy as though she were lying in hiding behind a hedge, ready to jump at the throat of the first passing nation, to tear a colony from her hands...
...animals or humans, making proper allowance for the beast's normal way of expressing itself. The first usual symptom in a dog is its abnormal affection. It feels something is wrong and tries to tell its master. It is restless, easily irritated, will snap at objects. Later its throat begins to become paralyzed.* The pain of swallowing even water is terrific. So it avoids water, giving reason for the name hydrophobia. It bites at things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from its jaws, but does not always "froth...
...suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose...
What Price Glory (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio). Those who have seen the play remember how Captain Flag and Sergeant Quirt are continually clutching at one another's throat hot-tempered rivals for any wench that happens on their common path, remember also how these fighting men unhesitatingly leave off the bitter wrangling when the bugle sounds the call to their "religion of soldiering." The love of the marines is nothing to make a prop lady sigh...