In a voice just slightly thickened, he said: "You're in wonderful spirits tonight, Dolly."

As Grag spoke, his voice thickened with suppressed emotion.

"Sure, he'll take it," mumbled Sidney, his voice thickened by another drink.

"You crazy fool," she declared in a voice thickened with emotion.

"I am your prisoner, monsieur," he said in a voice thickened by shame and anger.

In spite of himself his voice thickened in his throat as he answered.

In a voice thickened by shame Lawler said, 'All right.

He raised his hands palms upward in a gesture of despair as his voice thickened with emotion.

"Maybe - someday," came the voice, thickened with tears.

"Two stars," Matthew said in a voice thickened with pride.