Timid by nature and fearing to rise for breath, the narwhal plunges along until nearly strangled.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
He felt the blood rush to his brain so that her face was blurred before him; he was conscious of white arms gliding above his shoulders, then with a low, strangled curse of anger he had pushed her from him, and was in the hall.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
Bobby switched on the light and as he did so Peter in a strangled breathless mutter whispered- The rain!
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole