half-throttled

Updated: May 6, 2025

'Sit down there, she said, pushing the half-throttled preacher with some violence against a broken chair 'sit down there and gather your wind and your senses, ye black barrow-tram o' the kirk that ye are. Are ye fou or fasting?

Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02

Instead of singing birds, the half-throttled note of a cuckoo flying over, the croaking of frogs, and the intenser dream of crickets. But above all, the wonderful trump of the bull-frog, ringing from Maine to Georgia. The potato-vines stand upright, the corn grows apace, the bushes loom, the grain-fields are boundless.

Henry David Thoreau - Excursions

'Swear, said he, 'swear, you mumping villain, take your Bible oath that you will quit and give up the beat altogether, or I'll and then the hard-hearted villain made me swear by the Bible, and my own damnation, half-throttled as I was, to to I can't go on Myself. Take another draught stout liquor Tinker. I can't, young man, my heart's too full, and what's more, the pitcher is empty. Myself.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest