( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I hope not,' said Mr. Pott, actuated, as he spoke, by a wish that hisvisitor would choke himself with the morsel of dry toast which hewas raising to his lips at the moment, and so terminate his stayeffectually.
Here Mr. Weller was seized with a paroxysm of chuckles, which graduallyterminated in as near an approach to a choke as an elderly gentlemancan, with safety, sustain.