When two of the peasants dare to speak their minds about this state of unjust affairs in his presence, the ruthless prince orders them garroted. |
The chevalier was thus overpowered, garroted and captured in less time than it has taken to write these words. |
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. |
One spring night in 1874, while sleeping at a camp at Little Dry Creek, he was murdered — garroted with a piece of wire. |
On returning that evening from the theatre he is garroted and robbed of all he has with him. |
Before he was garroted, Atahualpa begged that his remains might be preserved at Quito with those of his mother's people. |