I swallowed against the tears that threatened to close my throat.

There was a numbness in his fingers as they closed around her throat.

She closed her throat, shutting off the flow of clean water.

Judith only nodded since fear had already closed her throat.

All that registered on Jeff, and closed his throat, was the face itself.

She wanted to reply at once, but his distress closed her throat.

All she had to do was say the words and yet the thought of it closed her throat entirely.

A black fear stole over her heart and closed her throat.

But the look in his eyes, haunted and raging, closed her throat.

But his pain was vivid in the morning light, and its sharpness closed her throat.