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. |
It also happens to be the truth, which is why I plan to have him garroted by Italian thugs. |
Art, now in its very birth in his heart and life, was to be garroted. |
One spring night in 1874, while sleeping at a camp at Little Dry Creek, he was murdered — garroted with a piece of wire. |
The garroted gossipmonger had included several cryptic acknowledgments in her manuscript that tantalize the wily wordsmith. |