Swallow

What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.

Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.

The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.

The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.

His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean's hungry maw, was never found.

Elsewhere still, they'd managed to find the wreck of a Japanese midget submarine, and so, when the battleships were done being swallowed by the seabed, some efforts were being made to haul this up as well.

My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.

She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.

this humbug was readily swallowed by men who were supposed to be intelligent,

Most newspapers we saw swallowed whole an S.R. estimate that it would cost £20m to equip the Region with point heaters.

Be careful of the Commie Lies / swallow them and freedom dies / The USA must realize / that she's the biggest prize.

Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.

Homer excels […] in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.

to swallow one's opinions

Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole

to swallow an affront or insult

The door burst wide open, and he saw nothing but a gaping jaw extending from the threshold up to the lintel. "There is a mouthful for you," said the youngster, and threw the pauper boy into the swallow; "taste that! But let me see now who you are! Perhaps you are an old acquaintance?" And so it was; it was the devil who was about again.

He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.

She took a swallow of milk and made a face. "This milk is blinky."

In addition, j-lock shackles can pass through the swallow of a modern genoa track even with a sheet in tension already there, and this is very useful when preparing a sail change on the same tack.

Blocks are made in a great variety of patterns. All are designed to be used one way. The rope goes through the swallow.

When specifying blocks, excessive friction is avoided by ensuring (a) that the diameter of the sheave is at least twice the circumference of the rope or six times its diameter (preferably more), and (b) that the 'swallow' of the block is substantially wider than the diameter of the rope, to avoid rubbing against the inside of the cheeks.