| It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted. |
| On returning that evening from the theatre he is garroted and robbed of all he has with him. |
| Most of them was garroted, and a few was condemned to work on the roads for life. |
| The garroted gossipmonger had included several cryptic acknowledgments in her manuscript that tantalize the wily wordsmith. |
| It also happens to be the truth, which is why I plan to have him garroted by Italian thugs. |
| One spring night in 1874, while sleeping at a camp at Little Dry Creek, he was murdered — garroted with a piece of wire. |
