Word: chokingly
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...receive him. Spying her one day, he waved a friendly hand. She did not return the greeting but merely "muttered comments which I did not hear." On Mar. 5, 1905, he ordered a whiskey, lifted high his glass. "If I ever take another drink," he declaimed, "I hope to choke, so help me God." The rabble guffawed. Sullivan poured the drink into the spittoon-a conversion which constituted the chief prop of the Temperance Party for years thereafter. In 1915, on a small Massachusetts farm, John L. Sullivan died...
...gasp, I choke...
This outbreak of rationalism is not to be interpreted too literally. Perhaps it is another protest of the revivified Oriental mind against the same and unreligious institutions which seem inevitably to choke religion. This fresh violence of belief may be the painful force which will free the living core of faith from the incrustations which the centuries attach to it. This protest against authority in the name of intellectual self-assertion may dissolve the effluxes, which stagnate about the fountain of primitive creed...
...Moscow, it was announced that one Victor, aged four years, ten months, son of a Vladivostok doctor, 'has a full beard, can throw a man in a wrestling match, can choke his small companions black in the face, puzzles professors...
Victor, aged four. "He can choke his small companions black in the face...