In Wharton's world, other people and the rigid expectations of stratified society conspire to strangle individual happiness. |
We now had each other in mutual strangle holds, right arms cocked to punch at full force. |
I growled and turned to strangle his scrawny neck, but I quickly remembered I was pinned against the wall. |
The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength. |
Then he grasped the greasy neck of the flinching little monarch and proceeded to strangle him. |
In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali. |