An' d' patient can be cold sober, still d' garrote goes all right.
Spanish executioners are said to possess such dexterity in manipulating the garrote that they can prolong the death-agony for hours when they are not bribed to give a speedy release.
She pardoned them and made a most exemplary end, invoking Christ with her last breath as the garrote was applied.
The dead-fall and Garrote traps are very successful in trapping the martin.
The dead-fall or garrotewill also do good service.
We have seen how very small was the proportion of impenitents who persevered to the last and refused to earn the garrote by professing conversion.
The garrote is a mode of execution by means of a noose drawn round the criminal's neck, to the back part of which a stick is attached.
I nicknamed him the hyena in my own mind; but I could not conceive him laughing anywhere save in front of a garrote with a Royalist neck in the rundel, and then his laugh at best would be but the inward chuckle of a Modoc.
The Carlists averred they would slay him; the Republicans vowed they would garrote him for a Madrid holiday; the French Government declared its intention of putting him under lock and key if it caught him within its jurisdiction.
After saying which I turned to Juan to ask him if he agreed with me, and saw that Señor Jaime's ghastly description of the garrote had made him as pale as death.
Are you saying that name so that they may garrote you tomorrow on Bagumbayan?
What a splendid specimen of the powers of the garrotewe have lost!
If the rascal does recover, what a beautiful subject for the garrote he will make.
She was told to tell the truth, or they would order the garrote to be applied again to the left arm.
She was told to tell the truth, or they would command the garrote to be applied again to the right arm.
There she lay, the Fleming staring at her, with the garrote in his hand.
Espartero, who, though he had a stout garrote in his hand, and knew what kind of conditioned creature she was, forbore to strike her, to his own mighty cost and damage.
