A knife or a garotte were the more likely options.

It was a waste of time to try to pull the garotte away.

A garotte was a little too up-and-close even for me.

Carroll's heart felt like it had been caught by a wire garotte.

But in that case, I don't think he'd be using a silly weapon like a garotte.

He used the end of the garotte to make an incision in the flesh.

It has been described as the belt, braces and garotte approach.

This was a new one on me: an efficient, camouflaged garotte.

The Chinese was blind with his own sticky blood, but still he refused to let go of the garotte.

They knew you were coming, Garotte told them so."

He'd dropped the garotte into the lap of the seated sheriff, among the other weapons.

I knew there was a garotte hidden in the stiff white collar of his shirt.

"I said I hoped the rack and the garotte were doing their job."

But it hadn't been hard to improvise a garotte.

He was executed by garotte in the nearby town of Vergara.

We bothknow it must be the garotte of the executioner.

The garotte is often depicted as the common weapon of the Thuggee.

As a result, the garotte tightened against him so hard that he gurgled in agony.

The fists, white with effort and strain, remained pulling at the ends of the garotte.

He had been trained to forget the garotte entirely and concentrate on the assailant.

He looped a garotte around Gilbert's skinny neck, leaned back.

In Florida, he'd added another maneuver, strangulation by garotte.

Disable him, and the garotte would come away.

Is he not the cunningest hand with dagger, garotte, and subtle poison?

It is described as a noose but employed like a garotte to strangle victims.

He did, managing to nearly garrote himself on a hammock in the process.

Perhaps he had attempted to garrote one of them.

One showed the wooden stick and white nylon cord apparently used to garrote the little girl.

It happened so suddenly that he thought the man meant to garrote him, and sighed when the cloth was positioned over his eyes.

The only thing she wanted to do with super string theory right now was use it to garrote Romulans.

Upon her arrival, she attacks the three and attempts to garrote Bliffil.

"He used his clay cutter to garrote her," Stoddard said.

Why had Charata deemed it necessary to garrote a harmless old lady?

From the expression on the sergeant's face, it appears that he would be happy to garrote the sweating captain in a second.

Sometimes I would be able to sneak up behind a thug lurking in an alley and garrote him.

Guide her with my beliefs and experiences, sure, but I will not garrote her with them.

He hung back, crouched to the side of the doorjamb, watching to see if any figure jumped from the shadows, garrote in hand.

Of what were you thinking-poison, garrote, sharp steel?

To a firing squad, or a gulag, or garrote in an alleyway?

Garrote with a single 't' is US English spelling.

If they really did garrote or electrocute fire engines, as he fears, a lot of cities using them would long since have burned to the ground.

There was a deep, hard-edged red crease across the expanse of fat pale flesh, as though someone had tried unsuccessfully to garrote the man.

When I didn't tell him to stop, he squeezed tighter, tighter until it felt like he was trying to garrote my breast with his fingers.

He uses his chains to garrote the officer, then uses the officer's sidearm to shoot the "cleaner" to death.

If your Pointers try anything, Tristan is under orders to garrote your beloved dancer.

"Garrote the thought.

In one typical moment, Scott attempts to garrote Luc while Luc is driving a car.

Ishido must be mad, he told himself, all his senses teetering, expecting a spear or arrow or garrote any moment.

"Trying to garrote Shakespeare, but it's no use, I am simply no good at all at strangulation.

The Wolf wanted to garrote Teptev and Dobushkin.