Example Sentences

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A man can be as naughty as he likes, and there is nobody to whip him unless he is a garrotter.

From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

I am quite merciless towards the bindweed, it is a murderer and a garrotter; but with the materials at my disposal I could not make anything quite so beautiful as its flowers.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

"Nous ne pouvons," runs the Report, "laisser si étroitment enchainer, garrotter, ligotter l'electeur proclamé souverain et qui doit en tout cas être libre."

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by Humphreys, John H.