stutter

A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation.

This family, sir, is called Dalton, and not even a stutter can make that Dawkins.

Have you ever heard a light-yellow, lean, sad, earnest Chinaman stutter in Pidgin-English?

We had no warning, you see,” said Stutter, “that things were changed.

One happy word from you would save me a relapse into stutter.

Considered I was like Lamb—on the strength of the stutter, I believe.

II he could do nothing but stutter and seemed overcome with embarrassment.

Dick couldn't spell his own name—couldn't answer a question without a stutter.

In this supreme moment he was not going to have his dignity impaired by a stutter.

He shut off the receiver just as it started to stutter a shocked reply.