Yet he stood at his wife's side; and the sight tightened Linden's throat.

Then scraping sounds from behind the trees tightened my throat.

As he leaned over her, love tightened his throat.

But fear and anger tightened her throat almost to choking-point.

The thought tightened her throat, and she breathed carefully to calm back down.

This was followed immediately by a nostalgia which tightened his throat.

The pain beneath her words tightened his throat too much.

A piece of wire had been tightened round his throat.

Something of pain and loss so raw that it tightened my throat.

The tears she had managed to fight off until now tightened her throat.