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    1. “I know, and to receive such a chock of the blue, just when I was


    2. Who was he trying to impress? Was it good gas? Or was it chock full of water and dirt?


    3. Even if you're not thinking of teaching in Japan this is still a great book to read because it is chock full of valuable information


    4. the aisles of the store, which were chock full of Oddbot related


    5. I had my back pack of deals chock to the brim and sitting on the passenger seat so as I rolled up to stop I took the chance to grab the back pack that should have been in the stash spot and slid it under my seat


    6. with yellowed pages chock full of ancient thoughts


    7. chock full of perverted kid-‐fucking deviates


    8. into buildings chock full of resources for those who are following their


    9. The grounds of the church were chock ful of ornate


    10. whereas Eve is chock full of ideas

    11. — in the wilds of New Mexico, to be exact— a short, slightly round, just-beginning-to-gray lady with enough tan aiding her olive skin so she’d pass for a member of any tribe, pulled the last chock from under a double wheel and tossed it aside


    12. “Doesn’t even Trevain have a limp? Land-dwelling humans are chock full of interesting imperfections


    13. In fact, these admissions were chock


    14. No, the mother of his child had to have fish, which was chock full of omega fatty acids


    15. His stall was chock full of all manner of jewellery


    16. are then chock both rear wheels


    17. are then chock both front wheels as there will be no hand brake applied


    18. Morel could hear the chock of the ball, and the voices of men suddenly roused; could see the white forms of men shifting silently over the green, upon which already the under shadows were smouldering


    19. He explained that they were on Chock Ridge, a long steep hill that was thick with coal and owned by people who would never sell


    20. She might hear him in the kitchen chopping vegetables, the chock of his knife on a cutting board of space-age polymer, while her mother lay on a straw mat by the coffeetable with a washcloth over her eyes, as if dead

    21. I hadn't been there long when a face appeared at a gap in the boards, and a voice said: "Do yer fink y're safe there, mate, cos we're chock full o' bombs in 'ere


    1. And back at our lines our reserve trenches were also chocked with dead and wounded from the Turkish artillery barrage


    2. We chocked the wheels


    3. Her hand was on my shoulder as if trying to support herself from falling backwards, tears streamed down her face “Oh my God, Jesse” she chocked out


    4. “You didn’t” I chocked out, utterly shocked


    5. ” I chocked out, the thought making me sick


    6. “Jesse and Bianca…” I chocked out unable to say it aloud; Carmen reached for my left hand and seeing that my ring was missing remorse and realization lit her dark eyes


    7. “Are you some kind of supernatural?” I chocked out and he shook his head “No, I’m as human as can be, the only supernatural thing here is my ring, it contains the power not me, I just control it in some sort of telekinesis


    8. ' He watched her as she chocked and her eyes were getting closed


    9. With a slightly chocked tone he told, "that in the early hours of the morning certain parties of an unknown number had forced their entrance into the house


    10. Joey chocked on his spit, clutched his throat and staggered back

    11. � Sanders nearly chocked as the happy airman left with her duffel bag


    12. ” My voice chocked; and my eyes welled with tears


    13. The sub-humans simply revered the supposed mystical powers of the glowing, greenish goop, and chocked up their origin to whoever it was that made everything for the human being


    14. As the pain in his sides eased with the laughter dying from his breath, he chocked up some of the blood from the tears


    15. the wheels should be chocked, and the steering turned off-


    16. In case of chocked covered drain he shall not deploy men


    17. “You OK there Professor?” Ward frowns at the Professor's nervous chocked coughs


    18. Like its smaller brethren, its wheels had been chocked onto long, broad runners to help it glide across the snow, but those wheels were much bigger than most and set farther back on its carriage


    1. chocking on his first sip of tea


    2. The burning feeling in her stomach was gone, but it was quickly replaced by a chocking feeling in her throat


    3. But it was also chocking the citizens


    4. Chocking to death can occur quite quickly; calling 911 and the


    5. chocking with emotions, his eyes moist, his whole body quaking in


    6. ” She adds matter of fact, and the poor Professor explodes into another round of chocking coughs


    1. Parker did that and managed credible but wobbly taxiing all the way up to the chocks by Travers's trailer on a remote parking revetment at the northern perimeter of the base


    2. The High Priest Wedon then made his way down towards the boat, first blessing the crew and then blessing the vessel, after a speech on the different forms of bravery he gave the signal to the builders who knocked away the chocks and the vessel gracefully slid towards the water down the greased slipway


    3. actuated the magnetic chocks on the undercarriage which were used when the


    4. Stillwell pulled the chocks on the port side and then ran around to the starboard


    5. , I sat on a window seat aboard a Pakistani International Airlines flight, watching a pair of uniformed airline workers remove the wheel chocks


    6. Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end of the line is taken aft from the tub, and passing round the loggerhead there, is again carried forward the entire length of the boat, resting crosswise upon the loom or handle of every man's oar, so that it jogs against his wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks or grooves in the extreme pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden pin or skewer the size of a common quill, prevents it from slipping out


    7. From the chocks it hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being coiled upon the box in the bows, it continues its way to the gunwale still a little further aft, and is then attached to the short-warp—the rope which is immediately connected with the harpoon; but previous to that connexion, the short-warp goes through sundry mystifications too tedious to detail


    8. With a grating rush, the three lines flew round the loggerheads with such a force as to gouge deep grooves in them; while so fearful were the harpooneers that this rapid sounding would soon exhaust the lines, that using all their dexterous might, they caught repeated smoking turns with the rope to hold on; till at last—owing to the perpendicular strain from the lead-lined chocks of the boats, whence the three ropes went straight down into the blue—the gunwales of the bows were almost even with the water, while the three sterns tilted high in the air


    9. That instant the stricken whale started on a fierce run, the line swiftly straightened; and presto! poor Pip came all foaming up to the chocks of the boat, remorselessly dragged there by the line, which had taken several turns around his chest and neck


    10. Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab's boat

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    Synonyms for "chock"

    chock wedge chock-a-block

    "chock" definitions

    a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object


    secure with chocks


    support on chocks


    as completely as possible