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Source: Webster's dictionaryRest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” "You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked. "What is that?” she asked. Jim Butcher
So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" croaked Artemis. "And a T-shirt. Eoin Colfer
When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked. Diana Wynne Jones
Evil's last voice croaked to me, "How did you know I was only bluffing?" Because he wept. Because he wept. Vanna Bonta
Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been. James Patterson
He blinked, and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height. "My God," he croaked. " Diana Gabaldon