"Garotte" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... people prig in the lanes or park? Or even at times, when days are dark, Garotte? Oh, the ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... conversing, all our company departed. Arrived at the gymnasium, we stripped; the finger-wrench, the garotte, the standing- grip, each had its votaries; one oiled and suppled his joints; another punched the bladder; a third heaved and swung the dumb-bells. Then, when we had rubbed ourselves, and ridden pick-a-back, ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... terrae, that is to say, at the gallows, or garotte, which to the thief is the end of the earth ...
— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... this object, therefore the burglar is a public benefactor and the police are ignorant sentimentalists. No highway robber has yet harrowed us with denunciations of the puling moralist who allows his child to suffer all the evils of poverty because certain faddists think it dishonest to garotte an alderman. Thieves and assassins understand quite well that there are paths of acquisition, even of the best things, that are barred to all men of honor. Again, has the silliest burglar ever pretended that to put a stop to burglary is to put a stop to industry? All the ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw |
