strangulation

After the councilor had died -- whether by strangulation or naturally is of no consequence -- the house had been sold, then abandoned, and lastly isolated from the other houses of the street.

I may spare myself the details; it was my poor mother, dead of strangulation by human hands!

The mother writhed in uneasy slumber, her chest wheezing as if she were in the agonies of strangulation. Out at the window a florid moon was peering over dark roofs, and in the distance the waters of a river glimmered pallidly.

This spectacle of gradual strangulation made the youth writhe, and once as his friend rolled his eyes, he saw something in them that made him sink wailing to the ground.

There was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs.

Here the examining magistrate readily confirmed the decision of the doctor that, if the murderer had pressed her throat a few seconds longer, Mademoiselle Stangerson would have died of strangulation.

Then, again, if not poison, what had caused the man's death, since there was neither wound nor marks of strangulation? But, on the other hand, whose blood was that which lay so thickly upon the floor?

He had lived in India and acquired an incredible skill in the art of strangulation. He would make them lock him into a courtyard to which they brought a warrior--usually, a man condemned to death-- armed with a long pike and broadsword.

This execution quieted the ill- disposed, who resolved to allow themselves to die of hunger--this death always appearing to them more slow and less sure than strangulation.

Gasping as though in the throes of strangulation the fellow pitched forward at Tarzan's feet.

Then came pain and strangulation. This hurt was not death, was the thought that oscillated through his reeling consciousness.

But these, too, soon ceased, and a semi-silence settled down, broken by groans and sobs and sounds of strangulation.