garotting

In a corner, young Curry Shepherd, his blazer looking slightly the worse for wear, sat meditating on the relative merits of death by garotting or a slow boiling in oil, both of which he contemplated with BMW in mind, the DCSS having called him from a warm bed, next to a warm and loving woman at the dawn's early light.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

He's a completely loathsome and utterly shallow creep and I look forward to a swift garotting moment in the very near future.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

In those days there had been much garotting in the streets, and writers in the

Phineas Redux 2004

A good executioner could draw a garotting out for an hour, sometimes relaxing the pressure of the thread to give the victim false hope, before finally turning the screw and breaking the neck as the doomed man's head snapped backwards.

Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985

It would have been attractive if every time she spoke I didn't expect her to tell the Prussian to pull up and get in the back with us and bring his garotting tools.

The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

A country bumpkin who had stolen a bag of potatoes, perhaps, soon learned the theory of picking pockets and the art of garotting in these places, and being unequal to the former he would adopt the latter as a means of earning a livelihood.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

Another cause of the increase in the number of garotting cases, was the conduct of the directors who visited the prisoners and punished the prisoners.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

I do not wonder that they took to garotting when I reflect upon their character and the treatment they received in prison.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

In those days there had been much garotting in the streets, and writers in the Press had advised those who walked about at night to go armed with sticks.

Phineas Redux 1873

In those days there had been much garotting in the streets, and writers in the Press had advised those who walked about at night to go armed with sticks.

Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848