| 单词 | garrotter |
| 例句 | When the "Cat" was laid about the brute garrotter— Cur garrotter, He soon found it inadvisable to choke— 'Ble to choke. Punch, or the London Charivari, November 4th 1893 2012-04-07T02:00:30.293Z It steals on you like a garrotter, throttles you, chokes your lungs, clogs your fancy, clouds your good-humour, and sets your drunken landlady stealing your coal by the scuttle and your gin by the quartern. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z “Ah!” said Ulenspiegel, “I had rather a smoky chimney in the land of Flanders than a damp prison in the land of Spain; for garrotters grow between damp walls.” The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z No one was stabbed, no one was kidnapped and no one took a wrong turn into the clutches of a gang of garrotters. Sceptics drowned out by another miracle 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z 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. The New Gulliver and Other Stories A man can be as naughty as he likes, and there is nobody to whip him unless he is a garrotter. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Any man might have formed Dickens’s opinion about flogging for garrotters, and altered it afterwards. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Yes," said the Colonel slowly, "but this does not mean common garrotters. Jack Haydon's Quest The Duke shook hands with him, and made a little bow, and said something about the garrotters, which Phineas, in his confusion, did not quite understand. Phineas Finn The Irish Member The chief weapon was a stone fastened to a rather short stick something like the things gentlemen used to carry about and call life-preservers in the days of the garrotters. The Story of the Amulet After dinner at the Birds' one evening we fell to talking of garrotters. Tracks of a Rolling Stone There's the highway—Mark would have made a capital garrotter.' Wylder's Hand No common garrotter could have overcome such a fine, powerful young fellow in that fashion. Jack Haydon's Quest No one must know that there was any reason why Phineas should not come to his house; especially as all the world knew that Phineas had protected him from the garrotters. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Another unpleasant sight which reporters are now spared is the flogging of garrotters. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 The machine was one of those electric contrivances that do their work noiselessly and efficiently, like a garrotter or the guillotine. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days Many a man had they seen with his throat in the hands of the public garrotter; and all had begun with denials who ended thus. Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Phineas could not help thinking of Lord Chiltern's opinion that it would have been wise to have left Mr. Kennedy in the hands of the garrotters. Phineas Finn The Irish Member |
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