1 Scarlett felt that she would strangle at the expression on Captain Butler's swarthy piratical face.
2 She silently watched him go up the stairs, feeling that she would strangle at the pain in her throat.
3 He wished to rush forward and strangle with his fingers.
4 The chair seemed to strangle immediately.
5 Listen to me, who with six words, can strangle Sikes as surely as if I had his bull's throat between my fingers now.
6 Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
7 It was a thing to be driven out of the mind, to be drugged with poppies, to be strangled lest it might strangle one itself.
8 Villefort violently unbuttoned his great-coat, which seemed to strangle him, and passing his livid hand across his forehead, entered his study.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 108. The Judge. 9 He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain.
10 A terrible inclination seized d'Artagnan to grasp the mercer by the throat and strangle him; but, as we have said, he was a very prudent youth, and he restrained himself.
11 Again, many causes may hinder a poisoned draught from proving mortal; as when the murderers of Commodus, on his vomiting the poison given him, had to strangle him.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 12 Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled.
13 Every year--every month, almost--men were strangled in England for what he had done.
14 As he drove back to his own house, he was conscious that the sense of terror he thought he had strangled had come back to him.
15 He had apparently been strangled, for there was no sign of any violence except the black mark of fingers on his neck.