| 单词 | chokey |
| 例句 | Often the cost of installing the video equipment has to be recovered first, meaning that some chokeys will see no cash from video calls for years to come. Screening visitors 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Nirad: "I was buying chutney in the bazaar when a thug who had escaped from the chokey ran amok and killed a box-wallah for his loot, creating a hullabaloo and landing himself in the mulligatawny." Thirty words English got from India 2012-07-11T23:36:35Z And Honor grimly, with grimness spoilt by chokey utterance: "Ah, handsome is as handsome don't make fine birds!" The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z But dashed if this imported freak didn't suddenly nod with a sort of chokey snuffle and reach out her hand for mine. The Haunted Pajamas I fear, Mr Cutts," said Mandeville, in a deep and chokey voice, "that you have had too little experience of the vicissitudes of the world to appreciate our situation. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 Berlin offers you tea nowadays, but it is never good, and instead of freshly cut bread and butter they have horrid little chokey biscuits flavoured with vanilla. Home Life in Germany Very nearly landed me in chokey, that did. A Poor Man's House “Now, don’t you try on any of your jokes with me, my man, or you’ll find yourself in the wrong box, which is the strong box on board ship, and vulgarly called chokey!” Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant That's the worst of being too happy—it makes people chokey. The Squire An Original Comedy in Three Acts In this case the prisoner was decidedly to blame, and his punishment, in technical language, was "six months in chokey with the black dress and slangs." Six Years in the Prisons of England "That would make me feel chokey," answered he. The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories "So he must have been kidnapped or something after all, sir, or he would be in chokey now." Romance No. They would want to bundle me neck and crop into chokey. One Day More A Play In One Act The descent from Buxa is gradual at first and not unpicturesque: after passing a small chokey about half a mile from Buxa, sandstone of a coarse nature commences. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The place was very hot and chokey, and I only stayed long enough to hear that the discourse abounded in the cloudy metaphors and vague technicalities of Calvinistic theology. California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts "Makes a fellow feel kinda chokey, don't it, chum?" stammered Ted as he and Jack finally grabbed their bags and edged out through the campus gate. The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet He's ugly and huffy, and smoky, and stuffy, And pokey, and chokey, and black as my hat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 He could break the door in, certainly; but they would perhaps bundle him into chokey for that without asking questions—no great matter, only he was confoundedly afraid of being locked up, even in mistake. To-morrow It's like the Unwritten Law, don't you know, which you plead in America if you've done anything they want to send you to chokey for and you don't want to go. My Man Jeeves The conclusion: Three of the ring-leaders of the mob had been pounced upon, and were safe in chokey. The Eureka Stockade Course, by the time my three months was up, things was at the slackest; an' I could n't go straight back to a decent place, an' me fresh out o' chokey. Such Is Life Well, gentlemen, I weary you with my long story, and I know that my friend Mr. Jones is impatient to get me safely stowed in chokey. The Sign of the Four |
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