garrotting

So he was still larding his conversation with Latin tags - he'd been a mighty scholar, you see, before they rode him out of Oxford on a rail, for garrotting the Vice-chancellor or running guns into Wadham, likely, tho 'he always claimed it was academic jealousy.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Memorable to read again of her lassooing demonstration on the staircase which of course went wrong many times over before it finally went right, but unfortunately half garrotting an unsuspecting Mademoiselle in the process,

Heroines Part Five:Pixie O'Shaughnessy 2006

Memorable to read again of her lassooing demonstration on the staircase which of course went wrong many times over before it finally went right, but unfortunately half garrotting an unsuspecting Mademoiselle in the process,

Heroines Part Five:Pixie O'Shaughnessy 2006

The skin abrasions from the garrotting are really appalling.

Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

The skin abrasions from the garrotting are really appalling.

Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

So he was still larding his conversation with Latin tags - he'd been a mighty scholar, you see, before they rode him out of Oxford on a rail, for garrotting the Vice-chancellor or running guns into Wadham, likely, tho 'he always claimed it was academic jealousy.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

So he was still larding his conversation with Latin tags - he'd been a mighty scholar, you see, before they rode him out of Oxford on a rail, for garrotting the Vice-chancellor or running guns into Wadham, likely, tho 'he always claimed it was academic jealousy.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

If he chose to take up "gun-throwing" or garrotting, there was always a score or two of hefty servants to deal with him; but in a man's home, with wives and daughters present, well ----!

Colorado Jim George Goodchild

Came in a gentleman with a deep bass voice consciously indicated in the carriage of his head -- the voice garrotting him, as it were, rather high up in the collar.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

Apparently it was not understood that in most cases of garrotting, the ligature - in this case a cord - is pulled tightly around the neck and compresses the carotid arteries or jugular veins, cutting off the blood supply to the brain.

Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930