choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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He was choke-full, of course, of local Bismarck anecdotes and began to reel them off.
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
Mali-bran was frightened at this enthusiasm, and took refuge in a church, which speedily became choke-full of people, and a passage had to be opened for her exit to her hotel.
From Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
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
Why, at his age I was choke-full of maxims.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Reade, Charles
So now he begs you to lend him a corn-measure, he must measure his silver money; his corn-measures are all choke-full of gold.”
From Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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