throat-by

Updated: June 16, 2025

He pushed boldly forward, and was suddenly caught under the throat-by the clothes-line with a long night-gown on it. Perhaps it was at the end of a long night of the Dante Club that I heard him tell this story. The evenings were sometimes mornings before the reluctant break-up came, but they were never half long enough for me.

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship

He pushed boldly forward, and was suddenly caught under the throat-by the clothes-line with a long night-gown on it. Perhaps it was at the end of a long night of the Dante Club that I heard him tell this story. The evenings were sometimes mornings before the reluctant break-up came, but they were never half long enough for me.

William Dean Howells - White Mr. Longfellow, the (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)