Word: chokingly
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...modernization of a great body of archaic statutes, enacted as the "Law of Property Act of 1922" ; 2) the Constitution of the Irish Free State which he worked out with Michael Collins and to which he contributed the ingenious "Oath of Fealty," having discovered that Irish Parliamen tarians would choke rather than swear an oath of allegiance to George V. Matter of fact fealty implies a lower grovel than allegiance...
...Skinners last week denounced this story as an absolute lie. They said Argo held Mrs. Skinner for 30 minutes, started to choke the 10-month-old Skinner child when it cried out. All Chickasha's officials and white citizens believe the Skinners...
...Perry, his own second, was the man who threw the towel, that Perry had threatened to kill him if he did not "lie down" for Camera. Bombo further said that Camera's crowd had bribed Bombo's seconds to rub irritants into Bombo's eyes and choke him between rounds. The California Commission revoked Camera's license-to-fight indefinitely. New York revoked it permanently...
...eyes except the big yellow eyes of the foxes, whom the two men managed to knife or choke in silence, witnessed the bloody scene...
...kind is likely to happen. The archives of the Empire bulge with records of such so-called "English Frauds," most of them successful-for example an "Oath of Fealty" to King George has been adroitly palmed off on the Irish Free State Parliament, members of which would choke before taking the House of Commons' regular "Oath of Allegiance," though everyone knows that "Fealty" is if anything more degrading than "Allegiance...