choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
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“And the place is choke-full of ’em, Charity says,” added Temperance.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
“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 Emily Sarah Holt
There are two other tanks not much smaller, all choke-full.
From The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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)
Twenty jars choke-full of gold, all standing one beside the other!” and he handed up to the peasant one of the jars.
From Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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