759 examples of strangled in sentences

"She has been strangled," quoth Hexford, doggedly.

I had been seen fingering my dead betrothed's throat, and nothing I could now say or do would ever convince people that she was dead before my hands touched her, strangled by another's clutch.

The lady who was strangled by a brute's clutch, was a woman of the highest culture and most estimable character.

"A hardy act for any man, gentleman or otherwise, who had just strangled the life out of a fine woman like that.

It absurdly is a first number of a series, thus strangled in its birth.

His shoulders heaved and short, strangled sobs broke from him.

His tongue hung out, bloody, fluttering with strangled cries.

But as the silent, ruthless men dragged him away he gave vent to terrible, half-strangled cries.

Leaning his white sleeves on the rail, cigar in one fist, Tauchnitz volume in the other, he roared down over the side a passage of prose, from which his visitors caught only the words "Ginger Dick" and "Peter Russet," before mirth strangled him.

The collar of his tunic strangled him.

"You don't know, then, that that ruffian, Alexandre, was one of the murderers of your friend, Madame Angelin, the poor woman who was robbed and strangled one winter afternoon.

Then she strangled Old Heck with a hug that made him gasp.

And a little after that, Peter and Paul went thither, and anon Peter made the sign of the cross and unbound the hound, and the hound was as tame and meek as a lamb, and pursued none but Simon, and went to him and took and cast him to the ground under him, and would have strangled him.

Last night one of the sheep was strangled by getting entangled in the net which formed the sheep-pen.

The first impulse of the man, to act, seemed strangled almost at its birth by the absolute futility of any move he could possibly make.

The smile fled from his face, and his broken English nearly strangled him in his efforts to pour out enough of it to acquaint Holman of the nature of the agreement which he had entered into with Barbara Herndon.

At the last moment Vasantasena, who had been strangled by the king's relative, but has been revived, appears on the scene, and her lover's life is saved, as well as his honor.

"Are they both asleep, or has some one strangled them?

" Nothing would have pleased him better than there and then to have strangled that gentleman, whose taciturnity and equivocal facial expression irritated him.

" "Well, and what of that?" "It proves that they strangled him, while he was taking his boots off.

He hadn't time to take the second boot off when" "There you go!and how do you know they strangled him?"

"That shows he wasn't strangled, if there was blood," said Chubikoff, looking sarcastically at Dukovski.

"They strangled him in the bedroom; and here, fearing he might come round again, they struck him a blow with some sharp-pointed instrument.

"Oh, 'Dolph!how?" The dog strangled down a bark, and ran back to the glass-house, but paused in the doorway a moment to make sure that she was following.

GALSWINTHE, the sister of Brunhilda and the second wife of Chilpéric I.; was strangled to death in 568.

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