garotte

Example Sentences

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The London Daily News says that the garotte panic is very widespread in that great city, and is driving the citizens to very ridiculous measures for protection.

From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2013

They are always used fin'lly in th' makin' iv a good citizen, th' garotte sildom.

From Observations By Mr. Dooley by Dunne, Finley Peter

His face was purple with anger; the stock that ran in many folds about his neck seemed like a garotte.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

Arrived at the gymnasium, we stripped; the finger-wrench, the garotte, the standing- grip, each had its votaries; one oiled and suppled his joints; another punched the bladder; a third heaved and swung the dumb-bells.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)