Word: throating
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Fredricus held his eyes unmoved, and with hard struggles suppressed the anxious care in his throat, and said: "Ta ta, Mary Ann, I'll see you later"; and then he sought the seclusion that his cabin afforded...
...Parian whiteness of her throat...
From many a hidden hermit's throat...
...becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only...
...oriole's honeyed throat...