choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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I have," valiantly: "she has too much of the goddess about her for my fancy: choke-full of dignity and airs, you know, and all that sort of rubbish.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
“Good lack! how shall he ever win through this world, that is choke-full of geese?” asked Rachel cuttingly.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
Well, the main Boer army, under Joubert, blocks the country between this and the River Tugela, and that country is choke-full of rocky hills and kopjes.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
The ambassador's bag is filled not with protocols and treaties, but with fish-sauce or pickled walnuts; the little sack—marked "most important"—being choke-full of Russian cigarettes.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day—not an empty chamber in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David
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