Strangled

Examples

• You have refused to marry me, he cried in a strangled voice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She could not bear it, she wanted to have the woman taken out at once and strangled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I would sooner have strangled him than had no return. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You know as well as I that he would have strangled the suit if he could. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If a look could have strangled Tartar, he would have breathed no more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I never was more nearly strangled in my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And then I strangled a new-born agony--a deformed thing which I could not persuade myself to own and rear--and ran on. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But Rawdon Crawley springing out, seized him by the neckcloth, until Steyne, almost strangled, writhed and bent under his arm. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Supposing he had been strangled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had apparently been strangled; for there was no sign of any violence, except the black mark of fingers on his neck. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And even now that Commodious is strangled, I don't see a way to our bettering ourselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typed by Dido