Word: throatedly
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...bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit his quarry's throat, and discovered that he had done in his own horse...
...tears in her eyes, and kept saying she was "madly happy." Mlle. de Beauvoir smoked three cigarettes in a row. The taste "was sharp and none too agreeable." Longing for the happiness of the dark woman, she smoked away, but nothing happened. She simply went away with a burning throat...
...tottered into the improvised courtroom at Saltanatabad barracks, seven miles outside Teheran. Pallid, his bony frame trembling beneath two overcoats and a pair of wool pajamas he lurched dramatically to the defendant's bench and lay there on his side, gasping for air, his throat fluttering. He croaked feebly for Coramine (a stimulant) and sipped it from a cup, each lip movement seeming his last...
...saddle up his songs and ride them for all they're worth-which, in this case, is not much. Songstress Day, as Calamity, is clearly aiming at the Ethel Merman manner. But where husky Ethel, with her large-bore bellow, can roar out a song until her throat fairly smokes, dainty Doris is more like a Girl Scout with a shiny new Daisy: she's loaded, but hardly for bear...
...others in a dismal, rainswept chateau in southwestern France, adds murder to his long catalogue of sins. As the rain pours down, he intercepts the blackmailing Aline, now plotting with Symphorien to drive him from the chateau, and "without haste or passion, [performs] that act of squeezing her throat of which he had so often dreamed...