Usage examples for lump:

• Several times a lump rose in her throat and she was obliged to stop to rest. "Sara Crewe" – Frances Hodgson Burnett

• But it happened that, at this time, I did not take sugar in my tea; whence it followed that the lump had not been put in by me. "The Mystery of 31 New Inn" – R. Austin Freeman

• All the same, my impression remained- like a lump of ice I'd swallowed by mistake- until Mrs. Murray so eagerly offered her blood for her husband. "The Brightener" – C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson

• At last she said, wistfully, trying to speak plainly for there seemed to be a lump in her throat: 'And what about tomorrow? "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" – Robert Tressell