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  • Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular.  (source)
    jugular = vital blood vein in the neck
  • "We've just inserted catheters into your carotid artery and jugular vein," says the nurse.†  (source)
  • "Yes?" said the barber with his blade held fast at the Count's jugular.†  (source)
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  • The wolf launched himself across the space between me and the vampire, fangs aiming for the jugular.†  (source)
  • Cutting both carotids and jugulars still allows ten to forty seconds before unconsciousness, and nearly a minute before death.†  (source)
  • I put my hand to my jugular, but I was smiling.†  (source)
  • But when the body failed to come alive and scar my mind forever by breaking the glass and going for my jugular, my initial panic subsided.†  (source)
  • His name was Saeed and her name was Nadia and he had a beard, not a full beard, more a studiously maintained stubble, and she was always clad from the tips of her toes to the bottom of her jugular notch in a flowing black robe.†  (source)
  • GUNILLA JABBED HER spear tip against Blitz's jugular.†  (source)
  • A pulsing jugular looped lazily down the length of her neck.†  (source)
  • "Then I—" She pantomimed slicing his jugular.†  (source)
  • Words that went for the jugular.†  (source)
  • A dim light shines from the living room, and I move cautiously up the sidewalk, eyeing the old truck from which I fully expect a saber-toothed junkyard mutt to spring, flashing yellow eyes locked on my jugular.†  (source)
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