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
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
But Saddam's belligerence has only driven his foes to tighten their garrote around Iraq.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pantaloons fall easily and naturally over legs that have known unlimited freedom and bagginess, and even garrote collars meet correctly around sun-tanned throats.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot
It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533.
From Time Magazine Archive
On either side the road lay swamps, their gaunt trees festooned, or rather garroted, with vines, and draped with gray moss; while all about and among them lay their comrades already prostrate and decaying.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
"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
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
But the religious asserted that they would not obey, and that, if they were garroted by the soldiers, they would be martyrs.
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
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
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
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
