garrote
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Outside, I take in the scene: street preachers denouncing Gnosticism, a lone banker trying to garrote himself with ticket tape, and the Bull – that gold, beautiful bull – running through the streets like Zeus.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2015
“Forgive me” was a favorite Wallace phrase, the caress before the garrote.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2012
It was a gag bill, with a touch of the garrote.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Author Fleming is guilty of using the old school tie as a cultural garrote, it is, fittingly enough, his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I am exceedingly sorry I overlooked Whiteside when I escaped from Crenshaw's garrote in the Chateau," Harleston remarked.
From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by Scott, John Reed
It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon the town, garroted as it were, seemed to be asleep, and safe from robbers and evil-doers, except through the roofs.
From Maitre Cornelius by Balzac, Honoré de
"Say nothing to me," returned Lawyer Perkins, hastily thrusting a handful of loose papers into the open throat of the green bag, which he garroted an instant afterwards with a thick black cord.
From The Stillwater Tragedy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
But the religious asserted that they would not obey, and that, if they were garroted by the soldiers, they would be martyrs.
Some of these robbers were arrested, but the Virgin had compassion on them for leaving the proceeds of their raid, so none was garroted or even sentenced.
From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery)
Cakes and rain perpetually, the strings for a throat, garroting the night...the rain, it raineth every night.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
No male impersonators garroting a mandolin—not any in mine!
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
Yes; but there won't be much left of me if you continue garroting me; and would you mind my picking up my hat?
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles
Felix had therefore attached himself to his young wife by every bond without any appearance of garroting her,—relying for his happiness on the charms of habit.
From A Daughter of Eve by Balzac, Honoré de
