Chokingly

Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.

Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.

In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.

His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.