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I find I am swallowing good and hard, and several of the others look sick, especially Lennie.

From The Lost Kafoozalum by Ashwell, Pauline

The doctor comes while I am swallowing my egg, miserably yet with a certain gusto, and I dry my eyes hastily as I hear him bounding up the stairs.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 by Various

I am swallowing by gasps that cauldrony beverage of selfish passion and morbid taste, the letters of Lespinasse.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

What is it I am "swallowing"? "the whole" what? the evidence? or the miracles?

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry