garrotter

When he found that Mr Kennedy was a member of Parliament, and that he was designated as Right Honourable, his respect for the garrotter became more great, and he began to feel that the night was indeed a night of great importance.

Phineas Finn 2004

_Punch_ became, it was said, "anti-Irish;" or, as he himself declared, he could not confound Irish misdeeds with Irish wrongs; and it was with that view that he was wont to picture the Irish political outrage-mongering peasant as a cross between a garrotter and a gorilla.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

"Nous ne pouvons," runs the Report, "laisser si étroitment enchainer, garrotter, ligotter l'electeur proclamé souverain et qui doit en tout cas être libre."

Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

A man can be as naughty as he likes, and there is nobody to whip him unless he is a garrotter.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

An execution, with the violent thrusting of a human soul into the unknown, moved me deeply; but the physical punishment of a ruffian who had himself inflicted atrocious suffering upon some innocent person seemed to be such well-deserved retribution that even the coward's shrieks for mercy made no impression upon my nerves; and yet I have seen reporters who could laugh and joke at an execution faint at the flogging of a garrotter.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Reid, Stuart J 1905

The garrotter had long nails, and was pretty smart at swinging himself over walls.

Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894

The garrotter had long nails, and was pretty smart at swinging himself over walls.

Round the Red Lamp 1894

The garrotter had long nails, and was pretty smart at swinging himself over walls.

Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

An execution, with the violent thrusting of a human soul into the unknown, moved me deeply; but the physical punishment of a ruffian who had himself inflicted atrocious suffering upon some innocent person seemed to be such well-deserved retribution that even the coward's shrieks for mercy made no impression upon my nerves; and yet I have seen reporters who could laugh and joke at an execution faint at the flogging of a garrotter.

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 1887

When he found that Mr. Kennedy was a member of Parliament, and that he was designated as Right Honourable, his respect for the garrotter became more great, and he began to feel that the night was indeed a night of great importance.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869