Word: throating
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...Cool slitted eyes. Calm-looking throat. Cold grey pallor...
...parents took it to Atlantic City, and all the people on the boardwalk crowded around to pat it on the head. Its reception was only exceeded by that accorded George White's Scandals, which seems to prove that next to legs the American public likes lumps in its throat...
...made possible her murdered husband's churchly and social eminence; Willie Stevens, her grinning, giggling brother, who, older than she, looks upon her as a mother, wears heavy spectacles and a prodigious growth of mustache and hair, loves fire-engines and faced the accusation that he cut the throat of Mrs. Mills; Henry Stevens, another brother, tight-mouthed, an expert marksman, said to have fired the fatal shots. The curiosity existed also because of the ghastly disposition of the bodies, in the dismal field, under the spectre tree. Curiosity was awake because of the time that had elapsed since...
...have excited throughout the U. S., souvenir hunters long since rooted it up, tore it apart, carried it away. The bodies of Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, his mistress, were found side by side under the crabapple tree. A bullet had killed the amorous Episcopalian. The woman's throat was cut and there were three bullets in her head...
...country. As it must, under even the most liberal credit system, there comes a day of reckoning. 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. Katharine Alexander makes it more interesting than it deserves...