20 examples of garrote in sentences

The universal use of both cold and hot external and internal remedies in various inflammatory states puts the garrote at once on the babbling throat of the senseless assertion of the homaeopathists, and stultifies for all time the nickname "allopathy.

" At a loss, Monk muttered: "Don't get you...." "When you find yourself, some fine morning, with your throat cut in your sleep, like poor de Lorgnesor garroted, as I might have been.

it looks almost like an old-fashioned case of garroting.'

"They'll call you a filibuster and garrote you.

The timorous and pessimistic were not satisfied with this but even talked about executions and courts-martialJanuary was a fatal month; in January the Cavite affair had occurred, and they even though curates, had been garroted, so a poor Basilio without protectors or friends "I told him so!" sighed the Justice of the Peace, as if he had at some time given advice to Basilio.

The "liberal" demonstrations in Manila, and the mutiny in the Cavite Arsenal, resulting in the garroting of the three native priests to whom this work was dedicated: the first of a series of fatal mistakes, culminating in the execution of the author, that cost Spain the loyalty of the Filipinos.Tr.

"If I was not certain that I would need you later I'd garrote you where you sit.

Llegaron los mozos que venían en su seguimiento, y la cumbre se coronó de gentes, éstos con piedras en las manos, aquellos con garrotes, los de más allá con cuchillos.

Firme en esta idea, había decidido no volver á decir palabra sobre el asunto á nadie, ni por nada; pero lo haré hoy por satisfacer vuestra curiosidad, y á fe á fe que después de todo, si el diablo me lo toma en cuenta, y torna á molestarme en castigo de mi indiscreción, buenos Evangelios llevo cosidos á la pellica, y con su ayuda creo que, como otras veces no me será inútil el garrote.

garrote, m., cudgel, stick, staff.

All residents should be compelled, on pain of being instantly garroted, to surrender their valuables, and even their invaluables, to the Property Clerk, Comic Headquarters, PUNCHINELLO Office, who should be held strictly irresponsible and be well paid for it.

to urge upon the turnkeys the use of the Spanish garrote in place of the present distressing gallows; to find the proportion of Orthodox and Unitarian prisoners to those of other persuasions."

He was taken to Havana, and died by garrote in the little fortress La Punta.

Mrs. H. gave us the history of a conflict in Chicago between her husband and a desperate burglar armed with a dirk, who wanted, but did not get a large sum of money under his pillow; also, of his being garroted and robbed, and having next day sent him a purse of $150, two pistols, a slug, a loaded cane, and a watchman's rattle.

" "Who was the person you sentenced?" "He was a young fellow that undertook to garrote a man who had won his money at cards.

Turning next to the matter of the women's wards, I said: "A patient in this warda man in his right mind, who leaves here on Tuesday nexttold me that a woman patient told him that she had seen many a helpless woman dragged along the floor by her hair, and had also seen them choked by attendants who used a wet towel as a sort of garrote.

It wouldn't be safe for ye to git up and go out, for they'll folly ye and garrote ye afore ye could raich a safe place.

For the robber, garrote him!

A captain of a company, who will let his men march with such shoes as I have seen on the feet of some poor fellows in this war, ought to be garroted with shoestrings, or at least compelled to play Pope and wash the feet of the whole army of the Apostles of Liberty.

And the reader need not fear an introduction to them, unless he should find himself garroted in some dark street or suburb, or his home rifled some dark and windy night.

20 examples of  garrote  in sentences