If it catches hold, it never quits it but with the loss of its life; but the dog generally seizes it from behind, and strangles it.
Strangles occurs in the young principally and is not a frequent cause of synovitis or arthritis in the adult animal.
The condition is bilateral in many instances, and in such cases the subjects have a predisposition to this condition or it follows attacks of strangles or other debilitating ailments.
Metastatic arthritis is seen more frequently in colts or young animals than in mature horses and we here take the liberty of classifying with the arthritis of omphalophlebitis and strangles the so-called rheumatic variety.
Strangles or distemper is, according to most pathologists, due to the Streptococcus equi.
Abscess formation, the result of strangles or other infection in the prescapular glands, may be observed at times.
It is necessary, for Jasper strangles Edwin Drood with it.
She throws her arms, as she speaks, around Miss Penelope's neck, and nearly strangles that dear old lady in her remorseful agitation, to say nothing of the deadly havoc she makes of her frills and laces.
Strangles is an infectious disease of the horse, mule, and ass, seen most frequently in young animals, and usually leaving them immune from future trouble of the same kind.
Thoroughbred colts are very susceptible, and frequently contract strangles at a somewhat earlier age than those of more humble origin.
If in castration the cord is left too long, so as to hang out of the wound, the skin wound in contracting grasps and strangles it, preventing the free return of blood and causing a steadily advancing swelling.
The cause of strangles is infection by direct contact with an animal suffering from the disease, or indirectly through contact with the discharges from an infected animal, or by means of the atmosphere in which an infected animal has been.
He returned her gaze steadily: "Anything is possible of your daughter--the thought of it strangles me!
An oblique-leaved fig climbs the other trees, and generally strangles them: two epiphytal Orchideae also occur on the latter, Vanda Roxburghii and an Oberonia.
But nobody could climb through that pattern--it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads.
They get through, and then the pattern stranglesthem off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white!
Whatever paralyzes itstrangles the initiative, kills the ability to do things.
But for doubt, which strangles the very beginning of things, initiative instead of being so rare would be a common virtue among all classes.
The man who tries to keep his education, his superior advantages for himself, who is always looking out for the main chance, only shrivels, and strangles the very faculties he would develop.
Fear strangles originality, daring, boldness; it kills individuality, and weakens all the mental processes.
Thus it appears that the "iron ring" which strangles the income of labor, strangles equally the income of capital.
THE IRON RING 148 Analyzes further the profit system, which strangles production, and makes true prosperity impossible.
Among the Samoyedes it happens that a young girl who is sold to an old man strangles herself in the hope of getting a more suitable bridegroom in the other world.
Christina, who stabs Monaldeschi; Catherine, who strangles Peter; Isabella, who slays Moors and Jews by the thousand.
Modern she is, not because of her petty traits, but simply because Mr. Moore has painted a young woman of the day, rich, and so selfish that at the end her selfishness strangles the little soul she possesses.
He has a Hamletic soul, this attractive young man, born with a metaphysical caul, which eventually strangles him.
The Sparrow Hawk strangles and crushes with its warty toes the birds on which it preys.
At a Court festival a door opens and Princess Maleine is seen in white bridal garments; the queen pretends to be kind to her, makes an attempt to poison her which is only half successful, and finallystrangles her.
Tis precedent they call it; and it strangles justice like dogmastrangles religion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strangles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
